Mwalimu J.K. Nyerere International Airport
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Mwalimu J.K. Nyerere International Airport | |||
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IATA: DAR - ICAO: HTDA | |||
Summary | |||
Airport type | Public | ||
Operator | Tanzania Airports Authority | ||
Serves | Dar es Salaam | ||
Elevation AMSL | 196 ft (60 m) | ||
Coordinates | |||
Runways | |||
Direction | Length | Surface | |
ft | m | ||
05/23 | 9,842 | 3,000 | Asphalt |
14/32 | 3,280 | 1,000 | Asphalt |
Mwalimu J.K. Nyerere International Airport formerly called Dar es Salaam International Airport is the principal airport serving Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania.
The airport is named after the former Tanzanian leader Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere.
In 2004, the airport served 1,011,392 passengers (+23.9% vs. '03).
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Air India (Mumbai)
- Air Malawi (Blantyre, Lilongwe)
- Air Tanzania (Comoros, Entebbe/Kampala, Johannesburg, Kilimanjaro,Mwanza, Mtwara, Zanzibar)
- Air Zimbabwe (Harare, Nairobi)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Comores Air Services Hahaya
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa)
- Kenya Airways (Nairobi)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (Maputo, Pemba)
- Precision Air (Bukoba, Kigoma, Kilimanjaro, Mombasa, Musoma, Mwanza, Nairobi, Shinyanga, Tabora, Zanzibar)
- Qatar Airways (Doha) [starts January 9, 2007]
- South African Airways (Johannesburg)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- Yemenia (Sana'a)
- Zambian Airways (Lusaka)
- ZanAir ( Zanzibar)