Senou International Airport

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Bamako Senou International Airport Aéroport international de Bamako-Sénou
IATA: BKO - ICAO: GABS
Summary
Airport type		Joint (Civil and Military)
Serves		Bamako
Elevation AMSL		1,247 ft (380 m)
Coordinates		12°32′00.76″N, 07°56′59.80″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
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 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 29 weekly non-stop connections. 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 (Nigeria) (Lagos)
Afrinat International Airlines (Conakry)
Afriqiyah Airways (Ouagadougou, Tripoli)
Air Algérie (Algiers, Ouagadougou)
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)
Avirex Gabon (Cotonou, Libreville)
Benin Golf Air (Abidjan, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Dakar)
Cameroon Airlines (Abidjan, Dakar, Douala, Lagos)
Compagnie Aérienne du Mali (Abidjan, Kayes, Mupti, Ouagadougou, Timbuktu, Paris Orly)
Corsair (Paris-Orly)
Ethiopian Airlines (Abidjan, Addis-Ababa, Dakar, N'djamena)
Ghana Airways (Abidjan, Accra, Ouagadougou)
Inter Air (Brazzaville, Cotonou, Johannesburg)
Kenya Airways (Dakar, Nairobi)
Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
South African Airways (Johannesburg)
Tunisair (Abidjan, Tunis)