Douala_International_Airport

Douala International Airport

Douala International Airport

International airport in Douala, Cameroon

Douala International Airport (French: Aéroport international 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 country'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 Cameroonian soil.[5]

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Douala International Airport with airplanes in the flight line
Front view of the Douala International Airport on a bright sunny day

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 formed part of a renovation plan of 20 billion CFA (US$36,363,636 million), financed by the French Agency of Development, which targeted a two-stage renovation: first the airport's runway, and then its terminals and interior.[7]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at DLA airport. See Wikidata query.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

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  • Camair-Co Boeing 767-300ER taxiing at Douala.
  • Water salute of a Camair-Co Boeing 767-300ER.
  • Water salute of a Camair-Co Boeing 767-300ER.
  • Camair-Co Boeing 767-300ER taking off.

Cargo

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Accidents and incidents

  • 4 March 1962: Caledonian Airways Flight 153 – all 111 people on board died
  • 3 December 1995: Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 – 71 out of 76 people on board died
  • 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.[19] There were 114 fatalities, including 37 Cameroonians, 15 Indians and one American.[20]

References

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    "Airport information for FKKD". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
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    Airport information for DLA at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
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    mbene (24 March 2020). "Aéroport International MD-Douala". Aéroports Du Cameroun SA (in French). Retrieved 18 September 2018.
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    "MD-Douala International Airport remains open authorities affirm". Cameroon Radio Television (in French). 22 April 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
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    Kerf, Michel; Smith, Warrick (1 January 1996). Privatizing Africa's Infrastructure: Promise and Challenge. World Bank Publications. ISBN 9780821337448.
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    "Airlines to use Yaoundé for duration of Douala closure". Ch-aviation. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
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    "Douala International Airport remains open authorities affirm". Cameroon Radio Television (in French). 22 April 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
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    Schedule 2016
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    "Air Algerie plans Douala NW23 Launch".
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    "Air Senegal to launch Dakar-Douala route on March 29, 2021".
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    "Camair-Co May 2024 Africa Network Expansion". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
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    Camair-Co adds Dakar flight from June 2018 Routesonline. d27 June 2018.
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    "Congo Airways adds new African destinations in May 2018". routesonline. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
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    "EGYPTAIR plans Douala service from late-July 2019".
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    "RwandAir expands Central Africa network, London halted".
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    "New Flight to Douala from April 9, says RwandAir – Southern Africa". Retrieved 10 May 2018.
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    Rwandair network adjustment from Sep 2016 Routesonline. 12 August 2016.
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    "Istanbul New Airport Transition Delayed Until April 5, 2019 (At The Earliest)". 9 April 2019.
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    "Kenya Airways Cameroon crash blamed on pilot actions: report". U.S. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
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    "Pilot error blamed for 2007 Kenya Airways crash". CNN. Retrieved 18 September 2018.

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