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Using the IATA airport code MPN, RAF Mount Pleasant also acts as the Falkland Islands ' only international airport, along with its military role.

Flights open to civilian passengers are operated twice each week.

Starting in autumn 2008, these flights were operated on behalf of the Royal Air Force by a civilian airline, Flyglobespan.

Since the airline's bankruptcy in 2009, the flights have been operated by Air Tahiti Nui, Titan Airways and Air Seychelles.

They fly to and from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, with a refuelling stop at RAF Ascension Island in the south-central Atlantic Ocean.

These flights currently use Boeing 767 aircraft although occasionally an RAF Lockheed TriStar freight aircraft or the Antonov An-225 are employed to bring in large items of freight.