Douala International Airport

Douala International Airport Aéroport international de Douala
IATA: DLA – ICAO: FKKD DLA 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	04°00′21″N 009°43′10″E / 4.00583°N 9.71944°ECoordinates: 04°00′21″N 009°43′10″E / 4.00583°N 9.71944°E
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	Brussels^1
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	Casablanca^1
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-Atatürk^1
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

• 4 March 1962: Caledonian Airways Flight 153
• 3 December 1995: Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701
• 5 May 2007: Kenya Airways Flight 507

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. "Africa's Connection". Retrieved 6 June 2015.
5. Route map 2014
6. "• The African Aviation Tribune •: ► COTE D'IVOIRE: Air Côte d’Ivoire announces Pointe Noire, Ouagadougou, Yaounde; various timetable changes.". Retrieved 6 June 2015.
7. "Arik Air adds third route to Cotonou". Anna.aero. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
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. "SN371 - Flights list - Flightradar24". Retrieved 6 June 2015.
14. Etihad cargo launch Douala

External links

• Accident history for DLA at Aviation Safety Network