Rabah Bitat Airport

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Coordinates: 36°49′20″N 007°48′34″E / 36.82222, 7.80944

Rabah Bitat Airport
El Mellah Airport
IATA: AAE – ICAO: DABB
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator EGSA-Constantine
Serves Annaba, Algeria
Elevation AMSL 5 m / 16 ft
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 3,000 9,843 Asphalt
05/23 2,290 7,513 Asphalt
Sources: AIP [1] and DAFIF [2][3]

Rabah Bitat Airport (IATA: AAE, ICAO: DABB), formerly known as Les Salines Airport, and popularly as El Mellah Airport is an international airport located 9 km south of Annaba, a city in Algeria.[1] It is named after Rabah Bitat, a president of Algeria (1978-1979).

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[edit] Facilities

[edit] Terminal

The terminal has an annual capacity of 500,000 passengers.

A project to build a new international terminal has been awarded to the Egyptian company Arab Contractor. The terminal should be completed in 2007, leaving the existing one for hajj flights and peak season charters to Europe.

[edit] Statistics

  2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Passengers
Total 416,022 435,451 349,008 348,503 360,121
Domestic 316,751 331,580 239,114 247,855 250,285
International 99,271 103,871 109,894 100,648 109,836
Freight
Total 302.750 357.270 329.148 328.180 359.217
Domestic 185.532 180.773 147.519 215.883 237.124
International 117.218 176.497 181.629 112.297 122.093
Aircraft movements
Total 9,060 6,468 6,071 5,995 6,203
Domestic 8,089 5,439 4,849 4,893 5,041
International 971 1,029 1,177 1,102 1,162

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Domestic

  • Air Algerie (Algiers, Oran)
  • Algeria Air (Constantine)

[edit] International

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b AIP and Chart from Service d'Information Aéronautique - Algerie (French)
  2. ^ Airport information for DABB at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
  3. ^ Airport information for AAE / DABB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF. Retrieved 2007-11-26.

[edit] External links