Mercedita Airport (IATA: PSE, ICAO: TJPS, FAA LID: PSE) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The airport covers 270 cuerdas (approx. 262.2 acres) of land and has one runway. It was inaugurated as an international airport on November 1, 1990. Mercedita is Puerto Rico's largest airport in terms of military personnel volume and the second largest in terms of military freight.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 110,159 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 90,267 enplanements in 2009, and 97,660 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). As of 4 July 2012, there was a bill in the Puerto Rico Legislature seeking to transfer of ownership and management of the airport from the Commonwealth Government to the Municipal Government.
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