Douala International Airport

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Douala International Airport
Aéroport international de Douala
Douala Airport, 2013.jpg
IATA: DLA – ICAO: FKKD
Location of Airport in Cameroon
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator Aéroports du Cameroun (ADC)
Serves Douala, Cameroon
Hub for Camair-Co
Elevation AMSL 33 ft / 10 m
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 2,853 9,359 Asphalt
Statistics
Passengers (2009) 704,765
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Douala International Airport (French: Aéroport international de Douala) (IATA: DLA, ICAO: FKKD) is an international airport located 10 kilometres (5 nmi; 6 mi) from Douala, the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region. It is the country's busiest airport.

Runway

Douala Airport has a single runway, 12/30, with a length of 2,853 m (9,359 ft). Between 1 and 21 March 2016, the runway will be closed for upgrade works; all airlines will switch to Yaoundé Airport during this period.[3]

Airlines and destinations

Asky airlines at Douala, 2013

Passenger

Airlines Destinations
Africa's Connection STP[4] São Tomé[5]
Aero Contractors Accra, Lagos
Air Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan, N'Djamena[6]
Air France Malabo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Arik Air Cotonou,[7] Kinshasa-N'Djili, Lagos
ASKY Airlines Bangui, Lomé, N'Djamena[8]
Brussels Airlines Brussels1
Camair-Co Abidjan, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Garoua, Kinshasa-N'Djili, Lagos (suspended), Libreville, Malabo, Maroua, N'Djamena, Ngaoundéré, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Yaoundé
CEIBA Intercontinental Bata, Cotonou, Libreville, Malabo, N'Djamena
Cronos Airlines Bata, Malabo
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa, Malabo
Equatorial Congo Airlines
operated by PrivatAir		 Brazzaville, Cotonou, Pointe-Noire[9]
Kenya Airways Bangui,[10] Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca1
RwandAir Kigali[11]
South African Airways Johannesburg-OR Tambo, Libreville
TAAG Angola Airlines Bangui, Brazzaville, Luanda
Trans Air Congo Libreville, Pointe-Noire
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk1
Westair Benin Cotonou, Libreville[12]

1: Some of these flights to Douala from North Africa and Europe make a stop in Yaoundé. However, the airlines in question do not have traffic rights to transport passengers solely between Douala and Yaoundé.[13]

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
Allied Air Lagos, Liege, Nairobi, Pointe Noire
Etihad Cargo[14] Abu Dhabi, Lagos, Nairobi
Sky Gabon Libreville

Accidents and incidents

References

  1. ↑ Airport information for FKKD at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  2. ↑ Airport information for DLA at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. ↑ "Airlines to use Yaoundé for duration of Douala closure". Ch-aviation. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Route map 2014
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ August 2015 Timetable, http://www.flyasky.com/asky/horaires/dla
  9. ↑ 2014 Timetable, http://www.flyecair.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Proramme_Vols.pdf
  10. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/09/28/kq-bgf-oct15/
  11. ↑ 2014 timetable,http://www.rwandair.com/spip.php?article43
  12. ↑ Westair Benin destinations list for Winter 2012/2013
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Etihad cargo launch Douala

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