Rock Sound International Airport

MYER

Location in The Bahamas

Rock Sound International Airport (IATA: RSD, ICAO: MYER) is an airport in the South Eleuthera district of The Bahamas. Its name comes from the former district of Rock Sound.

Historically, Rock Sound was served by Pan Am beginning the mid-1960s with Boeing 707 and Boeing 727 jetliner service to Miami and New York JFK Airport via an intermediate stop in Nassau.^[2] The airport is one of the very few in The Bahamas to have received such mainline jet service. In addition, during the late 1970s, Air Florida served the airport with Boeing 737 jetliners with nonstop flights to Miami.^[3]As of February 1st, 1979, Air Florida also offered flight services from Rock Sound to : Jacksonville, Key West and Marathon, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale,^[4] Orlando, Pensacola, Philadelphia Tallahassee, Tampa, Washington (Dulles), and West Palm Beach.^[5] During that same period, flights were offered to Rock Sound from : Gainesville, Jacksonville, Key West, ^[6] Marathon, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, ^[7], Orlando, Pensacola, Philadelphia (refer to reference #3), Tallahassee, Tampa (refer to reference #4), Washington (Dulles), West Palm Beach. ^[8]This wide availability, presumably, solidified Rock Sound early on as a tourist stop for anyone vacationing in the Bahamas, despite the small size of the town of Rock Sound itself. Lauda Air Italy also flew weekly charters to Milan for a brief period in 2001.^[9]