Douala International Airport

Douala International Airport
Aéroport international de Douala
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator Aéroports du Cameroun (ADC)
Serves Douala, Cameroon
Hub for Camair-Co
Elevation AMSL 33 ft / 10 m
Coordinates 04°00′21″N 009°43′10″E / 4.00583°N 9.71944°E / 4.00583; 9.71944Coordinates: 04°00′21″N 009°43′10″E / 4.00583°N 9.71944°E / 4.00583; 9.71944
Website ccaa.aero
Map
DLA
Location of Airport in Cameroon
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 2,880 9,448 Asphalt
Statistics
Passengers (2014) 1,500,000
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Douala International Airport (French: Aéroport international de Douala) (IATA: DLA, ICAO: FKKD) is an international airport located in Douala, the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region. With its 4 terminals[3] and an average of 1.5 million passengers and 50,000 tonnes of freight per year[4] it is the county's busiest airport. The airport is managed and partly owned (34%) by the company Aeroport du Cameroon (ADC) which also manages all other 13 airports on the Cameroonian soil.[5]

Runway

Douala Airport has a single runway, 12/30, with a length of 2,880 m (9,448 ft). Between 1 and 21 March 2016, the runway was closed for upgrade works; all airlines switched operations to Yaoundé Airport during that period.[6]This entered in the renovation plan of 20 Billion CFA (36,363,636 USD million ) financed by the French Agency of Development which targeted a two time renovation. Firs for the runway of the airport and then it's terminals and interior part[7].

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Africa's Connection STP São Tomé
Air Algerie Algiers (begins 3 December 2018)[8]
Air Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan, Bangui, N'Djamena
Air France Malabo, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Arik Air Cotonou, Kinshasa–N'Djili, Lagos
ASKY Airlines Bangui, Lagos, Libreville, Lomé, N'Djamena
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Camair-Co Abidjan, Bafoussam, Bamenda, Bangui, Cotonou, Dakar–Diass,[9] Garoua, Lagos, Libreville, Maroua, N'Djamena, Ngaoundéré, Yaoundé
CEIBA Intercontinental Bata, Malabo
Congo Airways Kinshasa–N'Djili[10]
Cronos Airlines Lagos, Malabo
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa, Malabo
Kenya Airways Bangui, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
RwandAir Kigali,[11] Libreville[12]
Tchadia Airlines N'Djamena (begins 1 October 2018)[13]
Trans Air Congo Libreville, Pointe–Noire
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Sky Gabon Libreville

Accidents and incidents

  • 4 March 1962: Caledonian Airways Flight 153
  • 3 December 1995: Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701
  • 5 May 2007: the Kenya Airways Flight 507 scheduled for Abidjan - Douala - Nairobi crashed in Mbanga Pongo near Douala international airport, two minutes after it took off from the airport. Although the weather was bad, the report from the Cameroonian civil aviation authority said the pilots were to blame for the crash.[14] There were 114 fatalities, including 37 Cameroonians, 15 Indians and one American.[15]

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. ↑ mbene (2016-10-17). "Aéroport International de Douala". Aéroports Du Cameroun SA (in French). Retrieved 2018-09-18.
  4. ↑ "Douala International Airport remains open authorities affirm". Cameroon Radio Television (in French). 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
  5. ↑ Kerf, Michel; Smith, Warrick (1996-01-01). Privatizing Africa's Infrastructure: Promise and Challenge. World Bank Publications. ISBN 9780821337448.
  6. ↑ "Airlines to use Yaoundé for duration of Douala closure". Ch-aviation. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Douala International Airport remains open authorities affirm". Cameroon Radio Television (in French). 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
  8. ↑ Air Algerie plans new African routes in December 2018 Routesonline. 21 August 2018.
  9. ↑ Camair-Co adds Dakar flight from June 2018 Routesonline. d27 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "Congo Airways adds new African destinations in May 2018". routesonline. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  11. ↑ "New Flight to Douala from April 9, says RwandAir - Southern Africa". Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  12. ↑ Rwandair network adjustment from Sep 2016 Routesonline. 12 August 2016.
  13. ↑ "Tchadia Airlines outlines planned network from Oct 2018". routesonline.com. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  14. ↑ Editorial, Reuters. "Kenya Airways Cameroon crash blamed on pilot actions: report". U.S. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
  15. ↑ "Pilot error blamed for 2007 Kenya Airways crash". CNN. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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