Global InformationThomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou information
Ouagadougou Airport Aéroport International Thomas Sankara Ouagadougou | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||
| Serves | Ouagadougou | ||||||||||
| Location | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | ||||||||||
| Hub for | Air Burkina | ||||||||||
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±00:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,037 ft / 316 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°21′11″N 01°30′44″W / 12.35306°N 1.51222°W | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
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  OUA Location of the airport in Burkina Faso | |||||||||||
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Ouagadougou Airport (IATA: OUA, ICAO: DFFD), officially Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou, is an international airport in the center of the capital city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. It was built in the 1960s, and it is approximately 1.5 kilometres (1 mi) southeast of the main commercial area. The site itself is approximately 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi) in length, 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) in width at its narrowest point, and covers an area of approximately 4.26 km2 (1,050 acres). Its runway is 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) long. When the airport was built it was on the southern boundary of the city. Ouagadougou has since experienced rapid urbanization and the airport is now surrounded by urban development.[2]
Besides having outgrown its capacity constraints, Ouagadougou Airport is a source of pollution and risk. The government has plans for a new airport 30 km north of the capital.[2][3]
In addition to civilian traffic, the airport has a military sector.[4]
Ouagadougou Airport handles about 98% of all scheduled commercial air traffic in Burkina Faso. Air Burkina and Air France handle about 60% of scheduled passenger traffic. Between 2005 and 2011, air passenger traffic at Ouagadougou airport grew at an average annual rate of 7.0%, reaching about 404,726 passengers in 2011 and was estimated to reach 850,000 by 2025.
In 2007 it was the 15th busiest airport in West Africa in passenger volume, just ahead of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and behind Banjul (Gambia).
The total air cargo grew 71% from 4,350 tons in 2005 to about 7,448 tons in 2009.[5]
- ^ "ANNUAIRE STATISTIQUE 2020" [Yearly Statistics 2020] (PDF; 1.608 KB). insd.bf (in French). Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie (INSD). p. 256. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Ouagadougou-Donsin Airport" (PDF). Embassy of Burkina Faso in New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ "New Ouagadougou-Donsin Airport, Burkina Faso". Egis Group. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ Whitlock, Craig (13 June 2012). "U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ "Project Information Document (PID), Burkina Faso Donsin Transport Infrastructure Project". 12 March 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2014.