DUTCH QUEEN OPENS REVAMPED SINT MAARTEN PRINCESS JULIANA AIRPORT
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL, in Sint MaartenA NEW Caribbean airport terminal has been opened to secure Sint Maarten's Princess Juliana International Airport's (PJIA) role as a regional hub. Formally launched by the Netherlands' Queen Beatrix November 10, the airport serves the world's smallest territory split between two sovereign states (Dutch Sint Maarten and French Saint Martin). It has boomed through thriving tourism since the 1960s. Beatrix's mother - then Princess Juliana, opened the airport in 1944, which had been built by occupying WW2 American troops; the old ...
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