Cadjehoun Airport

Cardinal Bernadin Gantin International Airport
Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport
Summary
Serves Cotonou
Elevation AMSL 6 m / 19 ft
Coordinates 6°21′21″N 2°23′06″E / 6.35583°N 2.38500°E / 6.35583; 2.38500
Website www.aeroport-cotonou.com
Map
COO

Location of Airport in Benin

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06/24 2,400 7,874 Asphalt
Sources: GCM[1] Google Maps[2] ACI's 2014 World Airport Traffic Report.

Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport (IATA: COO, ICAO: DBBB) is an airport in Cotonou, the largest city in Benin in West Africa. The airport is the largest in the country, and as such, is the primary entry point into the country by air with flights to Africa and Europe.

The Cotonou VOR-DME (Ident: TYE) is on the field. The Cotonou non-directional beacon (Ident: CO) is located 2.6 kilometres (1.4 nautical miles) northeast of the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Air Burkina Lomé, Ouagadougou
Air Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan, Accra, Libreville [3]
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Arik Air Douala, Lagos
ASKY Airlines Lomé, Ouagadougou
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Camair-Co Douala, Lagos
Ceiba Intercontinental Airlines Dakar, Malabo
COTAIRParakou
Cronos Airlines Malabo
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa
Kenya Airways Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
RwandAir Kigali, Libreville[4]
South African Airways Johannesburg–O.R. Tambo, Pointe–Noire
Trans Air Congo Brazzaville, Pointe–Noire, Libreville
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Allied Air Lagos, Libreville
Air France Cargo Paris–Charles de Gaulle

Statistics

Traffic by calendar year. Official ACI Statistics
Passengers Change from previous year Aircraft operations Change from previous year Cargo
(metric tons) 		Change from previous year
2007 401,073 Increase20.79% 9,274 Increase13.96% 5,772 Increase36.94%
2008 394,444 Decrease 1.65% 9,915 Increase 6.91% 10,091 Increase74.83%
2009 391,318 Decrease 0.79% 10,209 Increase 2.97% 8,081 Decrease19.92%
2010 406,491 Increase 3.88% 11,604 Increase13.66% 6,047 Decrease25.17%
2011 432,500 Increase 6.40% N.D. N.D. 6,829 Increase12.93%
2012 481,389 Increase11.30% N.D. N.D. 6,959 Increase 1.90%
2013 470,068 Decrease 2.35% 11,876 N.D. 6,506 Decrease 6.51%
2014 503,633 Increase7.14% 11,855 Decrease 0.18% 7,995 Increase22.89%
Source: Airports Council International. World Airport Traffic Reports
(Years 2005,[5] 2006,[6] 2007,[7] 2009,[8] 2011,[9] 2012,[10] 2013,[11] and 2014[12])

Incidents and accidents

Replacement

In 1974, it was decided to move the operations of the Cotonou international airport to a new facility in Glo-Djigbé. Lack of funding quickly stopped the project.

Plans were revived in 2011 and President Yayi Boni presided at a ceremonial start to the construction of the new airport, using South African funding.[13] Construction on the new facility appears to have stalled again.[14]

Meanwhile, improvements to the Cotonou airport were initiated.[15][16]

References

  1. ↑ Airport information for COO at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. ↑ Google Maps - Cotonou
  3. ↑ "Air Côte d'Ivoire adds new sectors from April 2017". Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  4. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/268379/rwandair-network-adjustment-from-sep-2016/
  5. ↑ Airport Council International's 2005 World Airport Traffic Report
  6. ↑ Airport Council International Archived 7 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine.'s 2006 World Airport Traffic Report
  7. ↑ Airport Council International Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.'s 2007 World Airport Traffic Report
  8. ↑ Airport Council International Archived 11 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine.'s 2009 World Airport Traffic Report
  9. ↑ Airport Council International Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.'s 2011 World Airport Traffic Report
  10. ↑ Airport Council International Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.'s 2012 World Airport Traffic Report
  11. ↑ Airport Council International Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.'s 2013 World Airport Traffic Report
  12. ↑ Airport Council International Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.'s 2014 World Airport Traffic Report
  13. ↑ Beninese Embassy in Paris, France. "Bénin : Glo-Djigbé, un aéroport flambant neuf à 360 milliards". Archived from the original on 6 July 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  14. ↑ Teiga, Marcus Boni (27 June 2012). "Bénin – Que sont les grands projets économiques devenus?" (in French). SlateAfrique. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  15. ↑ The President visits the airport Archived 6 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. French
  16. ↑ The President inaugurates improvements Archived 6 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. French


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