Grantley Adams International Airport — Bridgetown, Barbados

Grantley Adams International Airport, coded BGI, honors Sir Grantley Adams, the first Premier of Barbados, and serves Bridgetown from a single runway at an elevation of just 169 feet on the island's southern coast. For years, British Airways flew Concorde to Barbados on a popular route among the supersonic jet's limited scheduled destinations, and one retired Concorde aircraft, registration G-BOAE, now sits on permanent display at the airport as a museum exhibit known as the Barbados Concorde Experience. BGI functions as the main international gateway for Barbados, a country whose tourism-driven economy depends heavily on steady air connections to North America and Europe. Barbados itself sits at the far eastern edge of the Caribbean island chain, somewhat apart from the main arc of the Lesser Antilles, which gives incoming flights a longer stretch of open ocean to cross compared with many neighboring islands. Bridgetown itself, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed city, sits a short distance from the airport along the island's coastline. Beyond tourism, BGI also serves as a regional hub connecting Barbados to several smaller Eastern Caribbean islands that lack their own long-haul international service.