Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport
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Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport | |||
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IATA: DKR - ICAO: GOOY | |||
Summary | |||
Airport type | Civil | ||
Operator | Military/Civil | ||
Serves | Dakar | ||
Elevation AMSL | 85 ft (26 m) | ||
Coordinates | |||
Runways | |||
Direction | Length | Surface | |
ft | m | ||
03/21 | 4,921 | 1,500 | Asphalt |
18/36 | 11,450 | 3,490 | Asphalt |
Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (IATA: DKR, ICAO: GOOY) is an international air facility in Dakar, Senegal.
The unusually long named airport, the most significant airport in Senegal, can handle airplanes up to the size of the Boeing 747 jets. It used to be one of the five main hubs of the now defunct multi-national airline, Air Afrique. The airport was named after Léopold Sédar Senghor, a well-known poet who served as president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980, and died in 2001.
In 2004, the airport served 1,394,351 passengers.
Delta Air Lines started service in December 4, 2006 between Atlanta and Johannesburg, South Africa with an intermediate stop in Dakar, making it the only major U.S. airline to serve the African continent.
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[edit] Passenger Airlines
The following airlines have scheduled services to Dakar:
- Air Algérie (Algiers)
- Air Europa (Madrid)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Mali International (Bamako)
- Air Mauritanie (Nouakchott)
- Air Senegal International (Abidjan, Accra, Bamako, Banjul, Bissau, Cap Skirring, Casablanca, Cotonou, Gran Canaria, Lomé, Milan-Malpensa, Niamey, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Praia, Tambacouanda, Zigunchot)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
- Bellview Airlines (Lagos)
- British Airways
- operated by BMED (London-Heathrow)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Johannesburg)
- Iberia Airlines (Las Palmas, Madrid)
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
- SN Brussels Airlines (Banjul, Brussels)
- South African Airways (Chicago-O'Hare [starts May 9, 2007], Johannesburg, New York-JFK, Washington-Dulles)
- TACV Cabo Verde (Praia, Santa Maria)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- Virgin Nigeria (Lagos)
[edit] Cargo Airlines
[edit] Car hire
Several car hire companies are stationed at the airport such as Hertz, Europcar, and others.
[edit] External link
- World Aero Data airport information for GOOY