Senou International Airport
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| Bamako Senou International Airport Aéroport international de Bamako-Sénou |
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| IATA: BKO - ICAO: GABS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Joint (Civil and Military) | ||
| Serves | Bamako | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,247 ft (380 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 06/24 | 8,879 | 2,706 | Asphalt |
Bamako Senou International Airport (IATA: BKO, ICAO: GABS) is Mali's main airport in Bamako, the capital of the Republic of Mali in West Africa. It is located some 15 km south of downtown Bamako within the limits of the District of Bamako. It was open to traffic in 1974. Passenger traffic is steadily increasing: 403,380 (1999), 423,506 (2003), 486,526 (2004), 516,000 (2005) and is predicted to reach over 900,000 by 2015 under a low (4%) yearly growth rate scenario (source: www.mcamali.org). The longest scheduled non-stop commercial flight from Bamako is by Kenya Airways to Nairobi (duration: 7h30). The highest frequency is on the Bamako-Dakar sector with 27 weekly flights. Domestic flights also serve Mali's regional capitals Kayes, Mopti, Timbuktu, Sikasso, Gao, and Kidal.
Bamako Senou International Airport is managed by Aéroports du Mali (ADM).
[edit] Airlines and destinations
The following airlines have scheduled direct services to Bamako Senou:
- Aero Contractors (Lagos)
- Afriqiyah Airways (Ouagadougou, Tripoli)
- Air Algérie (Algiers)
- Air Burkina (Dakar, Ouagadougou)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Guinée (Conakry)
- Air Ivoire (Abidjan, Conakry, Dakar)
- Air Mauritanie (Abidjan, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Dakar, Nouakchott)
- Air Sénégal International (Dakar, Lomé, Ouagadougou, Niamey)
- Benin Golf Air (Abidjan, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Dakar)
- Cameroon Airlines (Abidjan, Dakar, Douala, Lagos)
- Compagnie Aérienne du Mali (Abidjan, Ouagadougou, Paris Orly)
- Corsair (Paris-Orly)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Abidjan, Addis-Ababa, Dakar, Ndjamena)
- Ghana Airways (Abidjan, Accra, Ouagadougou)
- Inter Air (Brazzaville, Cotonou, Johannesburg)
- Kenya Airways (Dakar, Nairobi)
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
- South African Airways (Johannesburg) [Starts January 2007]
- Tunisair (Abidjan, Tunis)
[edit] External links
- World Aero Data airport information for GABS
- A-Z World Airports
- Aeronautical charts for Senou International Airport
- Official website of Aéroports du Mali
- Map from Multimap
- Satellite image from TerraServer
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