Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport
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| Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport Aéroport international de Dakar-Léopold Sédar Senghor |
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| IATA: DKR – ICAO: GOOY | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Civil | ||
| Operator | Military/Civil | ||
| Location | Dakar, Senegal | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 85 ft / 26 m | ||
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| 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, and 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.
On May 25, 2007, Patrick Smith, author of the long-running 'Ask the Pilot' column for Salon.com, called it the 'World's Worst Airport', commenting that he found there 'only squalor, an unnerving sense of confinement, and to some extent danger'. [1]
It was a Space Shuttle landing site until it was determined that a dip in the runway could damage the shuttle upon landing
The compilers of the Rough Guide to West Africa[1], state that "the supervision of the arrivals hall is pretty relaxed, with lots of 'porters' aiming to part you from your cash" and that the airport has more and better facilities than most in West Africa, including catering, an ATM and a business centre.
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
The following airlines have scheduled services to Dakar:
- Afrinat International Airlines (Banjul, Dakar, Freetown)
- Afriqiyah Airways (Tripoli)
- Air Algérie (Algiers, Bamako)
- Air Burkina (Ouagadougou)
- Air Europa (Madrid)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Ivoire (Abidjan, Conakry)
- Air Sénégal International (Abidjan, Bamako, Banjul, Bissau, Cap Skirring, Casablanca, Conakry, Cotonou, Lomé, Lyon, Marseille, Niamey, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Paris-Orly, Praia, St. Louis [Senegal], Tambacounda, Ziguinchor)
- Bellview Airlines (Abidjan, Accra, Freetown, Lagos)
- Benin Golf Air (Abidjan, Cotonou, Conakry)
- Brussels Airlines (Banjul, Brussels)
- Cameroon Airlines (Abidjan, Bamako, Douala, Lagos)
- Compagnie Aerienne du Mali (Bamako, Conakry)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Cape Town, Johannesburg, New York-JFK)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Bamako, Ndjamena)
- Iberia Airlines (Las Palmas, Madrid)
- Kenya Airways (Bamako, Nairobi)
- Mahfooz Aviation (Banjul)
- Mauritania Airways (Abidjan, Nouakchott)
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah)
- Slok Air International (Accra, Abidjan, Bamako, Banjul, Conakry, Freetown, Monrovia)
- South African Airways (Johannesburg, New York-JFK, Washington-Dulles)
- TACV Cabo Verde (Banjul, Bissau, Freetown, Praia)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk, São Paulo-Guarulhos) [Begins September 2008]
- 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] References
[edit] External links
- (French) Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport official website
- Airport information for GOOY at World Aero Data
