Piarco International Airport

Piarco International Airport is about 30 km east of downtown Port of Spain. With light traffic the drive takes around 30 minutes, mainly along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, but traffic into the capital is heavy at rush hours, so allow considerably more time on weekday mornings and evenings. The airport sits in Piarco, in the Tunapuna–Piarco region of Trinidad.

Yes. Piarco International Airport (POS) is the airport travelers call Port of Spain airport or Trinidad airport. It is the main international airport of Trinidad, about 30 km east of Port of Spain, and flight bookings show it as Port of Spain (POS). Tobago has its own airport, A.N.R. Robinson International Airport (TAB), on the separate island of Tobago.

Piarco has two terminals, but passengers use only one. The North Terminal, opened in 2001, handles all commercial passenger flights, with a western concourse for international airlines, an eastern concourse for Caribbean Airlines and a Tobago concourse for domestic flights. The older South Terminal now handles general aviation, cargo and helicopter flights.

Caribbean Airlines is the main airline at Piarco and uses it as its hub, with flights to Tobago, around the Caribbean and to Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, New York and Toronto. Other airlines include American Airlines, JetBlue, United Airlines, Air Canada, British Airways, KLM, Copa Airlines, InterCaribbean Airways, Winair, LIAT20 and Contour Airlines. All of them use the North Terminal.

Caribbean Airlines flies several times a day from Piarco to A.N.R. Robinson International Airport in Tobago, a flight of about 20 minutes. Domestic flights use the Tobago concourse of the North Terminal, so you stay in the same building if you connect from an international arrival. The inter-island ferry is the other option, leaving from Port of Spain rather than the airport.

Yes. Authorized taxis wait outside the Arrivals Hall at Piarco. Taxis in Trinidad are not metered: airport taxis work on fixed fares, so confirm the price with the driver before you set off and check the approved rates shown at the taxi stand. Legal taxis carry license plates that start with the letter H.

Yes. The Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) runs an hourly weekday bus between the airport and City Gate in Port of Spain, where you can change to other buses and maxi taxis. Buses do not run around the clock, tickets must be bought before boarding, and space for large suitcases is limited, so the bus suits light travelers arriving in the daytime.

Yes. Since 17 March 2026, everyone entering or leaving Trinidad and Tobago completes an Arrival or Departure Card online at travel.gov.tt instead of the old paper forms. You can fill it in up to 72 hours before travel, so do it before your flight and keep the confirmation on your phone for the immigration desk at Piarco.

It depends on your passport. Citizens of CARICOM member states except Haiti, of European Union and other Schengen countries, and of most Commonwealth countries can visit without a visa, while a number of other nationalities need one in advance. Check the current list with the Immigration Division of Trinidad and Tobago before you travel.

The North Terminal has free Wi-Fi on the Piarco_AirportWifi network, ATMs from five banks and an information booth in the Atrium, currency exchange bureaus, a prayer room on the first floor of the Atrium, and charging stations in the Atrium and at every gate. Porters work at check-in and in the Arrivals area, and emergency medical technicians are on standby at all times.

Yes. Caribbean Airlines runs the Club Caribbean lounge on the eastern concourse, used by its own flights, and the VIP Flyer's Lounge is on the western concourse used by the other international airlines. Access depends on your ticket class, airline status or lounge membership, so check with your airline or the lounge before you fly.

Yes. The public parking area at Piarco offers hourly, daily and monthly parking. Take a ticket at the entry machine, use the digital signs to find a space, and pay by cash or card at a Pay on Foot kiosk in the North Terminal Atrium before you return to your car. You then scan the paid ticket at the exit machine to leave.

Trinidad and Tobago is on Atlantic Standard Time, UTC-4, all year, with no daylight saving time. The currency is the Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD), and you can withdraw it at the ATMs in the Piarco Atrium or change money at the airport exchange bureaus. Traffic drives on the left, which matters if you rent a car at the airport.

Piarco International Airport is operated by the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, which has its head office in the South Terminal. The airport handled about 2.9 million passengers in 2019, roughly two-thirds of them international. It has one runway, 3,200 m long, and is the hub of Caribbean Airlines and the cargo carrier Amerijet International.