Bangui M'Poko International Airport

Bangui M'Poko International Airport

Airport terminal
IATA: BGFICAO: FEFF
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Government
Location Bangui, CAR
Elevation AMSL 1,208 ft / 368 m
Coordinates 04°23′54.51″N 018°31′07.63″E / 4.3984750°N 18.5187861°E / 4.3984750; 18.5187861Coordinates: 04°23′54.51″N 018°31′07.63″E / 4.3984750°N 18.5187861°E / 4.3984750; 18.5187861
Map
BGF

Airport in Central African Republic

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17/35 8,530 2,600 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 11,600
Airport tarmac.

Bangui M'Poko International Airport (IATA: BGF, ICAO: FEFF) is an international airport located 7 km (4 miles) northwest of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.

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.[1]

The airport is currently an unofficial refugee camp for some 60,000 refugees as of May 2014. [2]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle[3]
Air Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan [4]
ASKY Airlines Douala, Lomé,[5]
Karinou Airlines Douala
Kenya Airways Douala, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta[6]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
TAAG Angola Airlines Brazzaville, Douala, Luanda[7]
Westair Benin Brazzaville, Cotonou, Malabo[8]

Cargo airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Africa West Airlines Lomé[9]

Sexual abuse allegations

18 soldiers from France, Chad and Equatorial Guinea were accused of receiving oral sex and sodomizing children at the airport during 2014. Tens of thousands of refugees live at the airport due to the ongoing civil war in the Central African Republic.[10]

Statistics

Bangui Airport Passenger

Statistics for Bangui International Airport
Year Total passengers % Increase Freight (tons) Total Aircraft movements
2003 12,666-%501178
2004 53,86276.8%1053871
2005 52,854–0.4%9054722
2006 66,05815.9%21525609
2007 97,63337.2% 2841 7258
2008 107,0794.4% 2885 7049

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