Axum Airport (Tigrinya: ኣኽሱም ዮሃንስ ራብዓይ መዕረፍ ነፈርቲ) (IATA: AXU, ICAO: HAAX), also known as Emperor Yohannes IV Airport,[1] is a public airport serving Axum,[2] a city in the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The name of the city and airport may also be transliterated as Aksum. The facility is located 5.5 km (3.4 miles) to the east of the city.[1]
The airport is named after Yohannes IV, the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1872 to 1889.
The airport was heavily damaged by Tigray People's Liberation Front forces during the Tigray conflict in November 2020.[4]
^ abc"Axum Emperor Yohanes IV Airport". Ethiopian Airports Enterprise. Archived from the original on 29 April 2012.
^ abAirport information for HAAX[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
^Airport information for AXU at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
^"Tigray crisis: How the Ethiopian army and TPLF clashed over an airport". BBC News. 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
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