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Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport is a public Airport located in Carolina , 3 miles (5 km) southeast of San Juan , Puerto Rico . It is the island's main international gateway, and its main connection to the mainland United States . Intra-island flights fly between Carolina and various local points of interest, including Aguadilla , Culebra , Mayagüez , Ponce and Vieques . The airport offers rapid access to San Juan , the capital of the island. The airport serves as the Caribbean hub for American Airlines and American Eagle . HISTORY Located in the area known as Isla Verde , the airport was, for many decades, known as Isla Verde International Airport, until 1985 , when then Governor Rafael Hernández Colón decided to name it after Luis Muñoz Marín , Puerto Rico's first democratically elected Governor . The airport served as a Caribbean hub for Pan Am , Trans-Caribbean , Eastern Airlines , and a short lived "focus city" for TWA . It was also the hub of Puerto Rico's international airline, Prinair , from the airline's start in 1966 to 1984 , when Prinair went bankrupt. In 1986, American Airlines (along with American Eagle ) established a hub in the airport to compete with Eastern Airlines. In the past, the airport has been served by Mexicana , Lufthansa , Air France , British Airways , Air Jamaica , Viasa , Aerolineas Argentinas , Virgin Atlantic , Dominicana De Aviacion and many other important airlines. Various celebrities have been welcomed to Puerto Rico at this airport, including Menudo in 1981 , after the group came back from touring Mexico ; the boxer Félix Trinidad in 1999 , after he defeated Oscar De La Hoya , King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain in 1985 , and Pope John Paul II in 1984 . Miss Universe 2003 , Amelia Vega , held a press conference at the airport after her arrival on October of that year. Disasters On On June 24 , 1972 , Prinair Flight 191 , which took off from Isla Verde Airport, crashed while attempting to land at Mercedita Airport in Ponce . On December 31 of that same year, Baseball star Roberto Clemente and his companions died when their DC-3 crashed soon after Takeoff from Isla Verde during a relief flight bound for Nicaragua . Neither the bodies of the victims nor the plane's wreckage were ever found. In 1983 , a hijacked Alitalia DC-10 landed at this airport, under orders by the hijacker. In 1985 , an American Airlines DC-10 taking off from Muñoz Marín to JFK International Airport in New York overran the runway and nosedived into a nearby lake. Everybody avoided injury. On May 9 , 2004 an American Eagle Super ATR, Flight 5401 , crash-landed when of the tires popped. Twenty-six people were injured, but no one died. TERMINALS AND AIRLINES The Luis Muñoz Marín Airport has three terminals: Terminal A, the Main Terminal and the American Airlines Terminal. Terminal A is currently in construction. Previously, the airport had a different layout which called the different concourses as Terminals B, C and D, but the new signing around the airport has changed this. The Main Terminal houses Concourse B and Concourse C while the American Airlines Terminal houses Concourse D and Concourse E. All airlines except American Airlines and American Eagle check in the Main Terminal. American Airlines and American Eagle check in the American Airlines Terminal. Terminal A Under construction... Main Terminal Concourse B (former Terminal B)
Concourse C (former Terminal C)
American Airlines Terminal (former Terminal D) Concourse D
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