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Ouagadougou Airport

Ouagadougou Airport (IATA: OUA, ICAO: DFFD), officially Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou, is an airport in the center of the capital city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. It was built in the 1960s, and it is approximately 1.5 km southeast of the main commercial area. The site itself is approximately 4.8 km in length, 0.5 km in width at its narrowest point, and covers an area of approximately 4.26 km2 (1,050 acres). Its runway is 3 000 m long. When the airport was built it was on the southern boundary of the city. Ouagadougou has since experienced rapid urbanization and the airport is now surrounded by urban development.

Besides having outgrown its capacity constraints, Ouagadougou Airport is a source of pollution and risk. The government has plans for a new airport 30 km north of the capital.

In addition to civilian traffic, the airport has a military sector.

Ouagadougou Airport handles about 98% of all scheduled commercial air traffic in Burkina Faso. Air Burkina and Air France handle about 60% of scheduled passenger traffic. Between 2005 and 2011, air passenger traffic at Ouagadougou airport grew at an average annual rate of 7.0%, reaching about 404,726 passengers in 2011 and was estimated to reach 850,000 by 2025.

In 2007 it was the 15th busiest airport in West Africa in passenger volume, just ahead of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and behind Banjul (Gambia).

The total air cargo grew 71% from 4,350 tons in 2005 to about 7,448 tons in 2009.

Ouagadougou Airport
Aéroport International Thomas Sankara Ouagadougou
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  • IATA: OUA
  • ICAO: DFFD
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Serves Ouagadougou
Location Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Hub for Air Burkina
Time zone Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±00:00)
Elevation AMSL 1,037 ft / 316 m
Coordinates 12°21′11″N
01°30′44″W
Website www.aeroport-ouagadougou.com
Map
OUA is located in Burkina Faso

OUA
Location of the airport in Burkina Faso
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04L/22R 3,028 9,934 Asphalt
04R/22L 1,911 6,269 Laterite
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 527,524

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines Destinations
Air Algérie Algiers
Air Burkina Abidjan, Accra, Bamako, Bobo-Dioulasso, Cotonou, Dakar–Diass, Lomé, Niamey
Air Côte d’Ivoire Abidjan
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Senegal Dakar–Diass
ASKY Airlines Conakry, Lomé, Niamey
Brussels Airlines Abidjan, Brussels
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa, Niamey
Guinea Airways Conakry
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Tunisair Abidjan, Tunis
Turkish Airlines Conakry, Freetown, Istanbul

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
Air France Cargo Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Cargolux Luxembourg
Emirates SkyCargo Dakar, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Frankfurt

Military use

The United States military uses the military side of the airport as the hub of its airborne intelligence operations for much of Western Africa.

The surveillance operations are carried out mainly with small, unarmed turboprop aircraft disguised as private planes but full of surveillance equipment. The U.S. spy planes fly hundreds of miles north to Mali, Mauritania and the Sahara, where they search for Al-Qaida fighters from the Maghreb. The planes refuel on isolated airstrips favored by African bush pilots, extending their effective flight range by thousands of miles.

Ouagadougou is the most important of the approximately dozen air bases that the U.S. established in Africa since 2007.

Plans for a new airport

The government plans to close the current airport upon construction of the Ouagadougou-Donsin Airport, approximately 35 km northeast of Ouagadougou near the village of Donsin. It is expected to be completed around 2018, and the government of Burkina Faso has a $85 million loan from the World Bank to help finance the construction. The government of Burkina Faso believed that the project would cost $618 million.

The first phase of construction of the new airport was planned for a five-year period beginning in 2013 and finishing in 2018. This phase will focus on the construction of infrastructure that is required to move the operations from Ouagadougou to Donsin. The plans call for a single runway 3 500 m long, which is 500 m longer than the one at the current airport, with an option to extend to 4 000 m. Generally 3 000 m is sufficient to land virtually any aircraft at sea level, but longer runways are helpful for heavily loaded cargo planes. Space for a second runway and its accompanying infrastructure has been reserved for when growth in air traffic warrants it.

A second expansion phase is planned for 2026–2030 to meet projected increases in demand. At this stage, however, the government of Burkina Faso is seeking investors only for Phase 1.

Aerial photograph of Ouagadougou with airport runway visible at centre

Aerial photograph of Ouagadougou with airport runway visible at centre

Ouagadougou Airport



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General Info
Country Burkina
ICAO ID DFFD
Time UTC 0
Latitude 12.353194
12° 21' 11.50" N
Longitude -1.512417
001° 30' 44.70" W
Elevation 1037 feet
316 meters
Type Joint (Civil and Military)
Magnetic Variation 003° W (01/06)
Operating Agency MILITARY - CIVIL JOINT USE AIRPORT
Operating Hours 24 HOUR OPERATIONS
International Clearance Status Airport of Entry


Communications
OUAGA TWR 118.1
OUAGA APP 118.1
AG VOICE OUAGA RDO 120.3
6586
6673


Runways
ID Dimensions Surface PCN ILS
04R/22L 6269 x 98 feet
1911 x 30 meters
LATERITE. - NO
04L/22R 9934 x 148 feet
3028 x 45 meters
ASPHALT 059FBXT YES


Navaids
Type ID Name Channel Freq Distance From Field Bearing From Navaid
VOR-DME OG OUAGADOUGOU 076X 112.9 At Field -
NDB OUA OUAGADOUGOU - 333 1.4 NM 037.4


Supplies/Equipment
Fuel Jet A1+, Jet A1 with icing inhibitor.

100/130 MIL Spec, low lead, aviation gasoline (BLUE)


Remarks
FUEL (NC-100LL, A1)
RSTD NORDO proh. 180 turns only at rwy end for acft over 88,000 lb.



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