Bangui M'Poko International Airport

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Bangui M'Poko International Airport
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Airport tarmac
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGovernment
Serves Bangui
Opened1967 [1]
Elevation  AMSL 1,208 ft / 368 m
Coordinates 04°23′54.51″N018°31′07.63″E / 4.3984750°N 18.5187861°E / 4.3984750; 18.5187861
Website https://www.aeroport-bangui.com/bangui_international_airport.php
Map
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BGF
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
16/348,5302,600Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers11,600

Bangui M'Poko International Airport( IATA : BGF, ICAO : FEFF) is an international airport located seven kilometres (4 nautical miles) northwest of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.

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In 2004, the airport served 53,862 passengers. In 2012, the airport had an average attendance of about 120,000 passengers, despite a maximum capacity of 10,000 passengers. [2]

The airport was an unofficial refugee camp for some 60,000 refugees as of May 2014. [3] In 2017, the airport was functioning under the supervision of UN aviation officials.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan, [4] Douala [5]
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle, [6] Yaoundé
ASKY Airlines Douala, Lomé [7]
Camair-Co Douala, Yaoundé [8]
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa [9]
Karinou Airlines Cotonou, Douala
Kenya Airways Douala, Entebbe, [10] Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta [11]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
RwandAir Douala, Kigali [12]

Statistics

Runway Bangui Mpoko Int. Airport in Dec 2016.jpg
Runway
YearTotal passengersIncreaseFreight (tons)Total aircraft movements
200312,666501,178
200453,86276.8%1053,871
200552,854–0.4%9054,722
200666,05815.9%2,1525,609
200797,63337.2%2,8417,258
2008107,0794.4%2,8857,049

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "2.2.1 Central African Republic Bangui-M'Poko International Airport". dlca.logcluster.or. Logistics Cluster. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  2. ↑ https://www.afriquenouvelle.fr/Aeroport-Bangui-M-poko-bientot-la-grande-mutation_a1192.html [ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Stranded at Bangui Airport: The Refugee Crisis in Central African Republic (PHOTOS)". The Daily Beast. 25 May 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Air Cote d'Ivoire W15 Africa Service Expansions" . Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Air Cote d'Ivoire NW16 Preliminary Service Changes".
  6. ↑ Air France May 2014 flight Map, one flight per week, http://www.airfrance.se/SE/en/common/guidevoyageur/reseau/reseau_airfrance_airfrance.htm [ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ ASKY June 2016 Timetable http://www.flyasky.com/asky/horaires/bgf
  8. ↑ "Camair-Co Adds Yaounde – Bangui Sector From mid-May 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  9. ↑ "Ethiopian Airlines Plans Juba – Bangui Service From mid-Nov 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  10. ↑ "Kenya Airways Africa Service Changes from July 2016". routesonline. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  11. ↑ "Kenya Airways Proposes Bangui Service from Oct 2015" . Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "RwandAir expands Central Africa network, London halted".


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