Dakar, Yoff (DKR / GOOY) Senegal

3 mars 1998

IATA: DKR – ICAO: GOOY
Summary
Airport type		Public / Military, The unusually long named airport, 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.
Serves		Dakar, In 2004, the airport served 1,394,351 passengers.
Location		Yoff, Senegal
Fact		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.
Coordinates
Website		aeroportdakar.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
18/36	3,490	11,450	Asphalt
03/21	1,500	4,921	Asphalt

Web information :

During World War II, Dakar Airport was a key link in the United States Army Air Force Air Transport Command Natal-Dakar air route, which provided a transoceanic link between Brazil and French West Africa after 1942. Massive amounts of cargo were stored at Dakar, which were then transported along the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. From Dakar, flights were made to Dakhla Airport, near Villa Cisneros in French North Africa or to Atar Airport, depending on the load on the air route. In addition to being the western terminus of the North African route, Dakar was the northern terminus for the South African route, which transported personnel to Pretoria, South Africa, with numerous stopovers at Roberts Field, Liberia, the Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia.

The airport was a Space Shuttle landing site until it was determined that a dip in the runway could damage the shuttle upon landing.

It used to be one of the five main hubs of the now defunct multi-national airline, Air Afrique.

Delta Air Lines started service on December 4, 2006 between Atlanta USA and Johannesburg, South Africa. with an intermediate stop in Dakar, making it the only major U.S. airline to serve the African continent.^{[citation needed]} It currently serves Dakar as an intermediate stop on its flight between New York-JFK USA and Abuja, Nigeria.

Airlines	Destinations
Afriqiyah Airways	Bamako, Tripoli
Air Algérie	Algiers
Air Burkina	Bamako, Ouagadougou
Air Europa	Madrid
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Ivoire	Abidjan, Cotonou
Air Méditerranée	Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse
Arik Air	Banjul, Freetown, Lagos
Bellview Airlines	Abidjan, Accra, Freetown, Lagos
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Compagnie Aérienne du Mali	Bamako, Conakry
Corsairfly	Paris-Orly
Delta Air Lines	New York-JFK
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa, Bamako,
Hello Airlines	Basel/Mulhouse
Iberia Airlines	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madrid
Kenya Airways	Abidjan, Bamako, Nairobi
Livingston Energy Flight	Banjul, Milan-Malpensa
Mauritania Airways	Abidjan, Nouakchott
Meridiana operated by Eurofly	Milan-Malpensa, Rome fiumicino
Nigerian Eagle Airlines	Accra, Lagos
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
South African Airways	Johannesburg, New York-JFK, Washington-Dulles
TACV Cabo Verde Airlines	Banjul, Bissau, Freetown, Praia
TAP Portugal	Lisbon
Tunisair	Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk, São Paulo-Guarulhos [ends 29 March]
XL Airways France	Paris-Orly