Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airport
Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airport
Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airport (formerly Belize City Municipal Airport) (IATA: TZA, ICAO: MZBE) is an airport serving Belize City, Belize. It is only one mile from the city center, and is more centrally located to the city than is Belize City International Airport. It mostly provides travel to Belize's cayes, allowing faster passage to the cayes than by boat or water taxi. The airport is named after the late Belizean politician and entrepreneur Barry Bowen. The head office of Maya Island Air is on the airport. Tropic Air also has a terminal at this airport with multiple flights every day.
Location
17.517°N, 88.196°O · 2 m s. n. m. (8 ft)
General data
Airlines operating here · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airport (TZA). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TZA
MLA
“Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airport (TZA).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TZA. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
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Harvard
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BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airport (TZA)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TZA},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TZA}},
urldate = {2026-10-23},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}Wikipedia
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