Osvaldo Vieira International Airport

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Osvaldo Vieira International Airport
IATA: OXB – ICAO: GGOV
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		N/A
Location		Bissau
Elevation AMSL		129 ft / 39 m
Coordinates		11°53′42″N 15°39′13″W / 11.895, -15.65361
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
03/21	10,499	3,200	Asphalt

Osvaldo Vieira International Airport (IATA: OXB, ICAO: GGOV) is an airport that serves the city of Bissau, the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. It is the only international airport in the country.

Osvaldo Vieira International Airport has one runway, heading 03/21, with a length of 10,498 feet (3200 m). The altitude of this runway is 127 feet (39 m). This runway is also the one of the three in Guinea-Bissau that are paved. As with many airports in Africa, Osvaldo Vieira is only open from sunrise to sunset. There is currently only one intercontinental flight per week to Lisbon, Portugal on a Friday.

The airport had to be closed on June 7, 1998 due to intense fighting in and around Bissau. It was officially reopened in July 1999 when an Air Portugal plane carrying Prime Minister Francisco Fadul, along with numerous other dignitaries from both Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, landed at Osvaldo Vieira.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

• Air Sénégal International (Dakar)
• Halcyon Air (Dakar)
• Mahfooz Aviation (Banjul)
• TACV (Dakar, Praia, Sal)
• TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
• Yamal Airlines (Conakry, Dakar, Lisbon, Luanda)

[edit] External links

• Airport information for GGOV at World Aero Data