Bole International Airport

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Bole International Airport
IATA: ADD – ICAO: HAAB
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator N/A
Serves Addis Ababa
Elevation AMSL 7,656 ft / 2,334 m
Coordinates 08°58′40″N 38°47′58″E / 8.97778, 38.79944
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07R/25L 12,467 3,800 Asphalt
07L/25R 12,139 3,700 Asphalt

Bole International Airport (IATA: ADD, ICAO: HAAB) serves the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Formerly known as Haile Selassie I International airport, it is the main hub of Ethiopian Airlines. The national airline has service to destinations in Ethiopia and throughout the African continent, as well as nonstop service to Asia, Europe, and North America. Bole International is also served by bmi, Lufthansa, Sudan Airways, and recently, KLM. It is also one of the main pilot training and aircraft maintenance centers in Africa.

In 2003, a new international passenger terminal opened, one of the largest on the continent. This accompanied the completion of a new 3800m runway.

The airport is located near the Bole neighborhood in the southeastern part of Addis Ababa.

In 2007, the airport served 2.837.543 passengers.

Airlines and destinations

  • BMI (Amman, London-Heathrow)
  • Daallo Airlines (Hargeisa)
  • Djibouti Airlines (Djibouti City)
  • EgyptAir (Cairo)
  • Emirates (Dubai, Entebbe)
  • Ethiopian Airlines (Abidjan, Accra, Arba Minch, Asosa, Axum, Bahir Dar, Bahrain, Bamako, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beica, Beijing, Beirut, Brazzaville, Brussels, Bujumbura, Cairo, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dembidolo, Dessie, Djibouti, Dire Dawa, Douala, Dubai, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Gambela, Gode, Gore, Guangzhou, Harare, Hargeisa, Hong Kong, Inda Selassie, Jeddah, Jijiga, Jimma, Jinka, Johannesburg, Kabri Dar, Khartoum, Kigali, Kilimanjaro, Kinshasa, Lagos, Lalibela, Libreville, Lilongwe, Lomé, London-Heathrow, Luanda, Lusaka, Mekane Selam, Mek'ele, Mizan Teferi, Mumbai, Nairobi, Ndjamena, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Shilavo, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tel Aviv, Tippi, Washington-Dulles)
  • Kenya Airways (Djibouti, Dubai, Nairobi)
  • KLM (Amsterdam)
  • Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Khartoum)
  • Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah)
  • Sudan Airways (Khartoum)
  • TAAG Angola Airlines (Luanda)
  • Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
  • Yemenia (Sanaa)
  • Djibouti Airlines (Djibouti)

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