Cadjehoun Airport

Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport

Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport
Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport; Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport
	IATA: COO; ICAO: DBBB COOLocation of Airport in Benin;
Summary
Serves	Cotonou
Location	Cotonou, Benin
Hub for	Benin Golf Air; Westair Benin;
Elevation AMSL	19 ft / 6 m
Coordinates	6°21′21″N 002°23′06″E / 6.35583°N 2.38500°E
Runways

Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport (IATA: COO, ICAO: DBBB) is an airport in Cotonou, the largest city in Benin in West Africa.

Passenger traffic

In 2004, the airport served 301,493 passengers.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Burkina	Libreville, Lomé, Ouagadougou
Air Côte d’Ivoire	Abidjan, Accra, Lomé, N'Djamena, Pointe-Noire
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
ASKY Airlines	Brazzaville, Douala, Libreville, Lomé, N'Djamena, Yaoundé
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Camair-Co	Douala
Ceiba Intercontinental Airlines	Accra, Malabo
Cronos Airlines	Bata, Douala, Malabo
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa
Kenya Airways	Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta
Mauritania Airlines International	Abidjan, Bamako, Nouakchott
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca, Lagos
Sénégal Airlines	Abidjan, Dakar, Douala, Libreville
South African Airways	Johannesburg-OR Tambo, Pointe-Noire
Trans Air Congo	Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul (begins 23 June 2014) ^[1]
Westair Benin	Abuja, Brazzaville, Douala, Kinshasa-N'Djili, Libreville, Niamey, Ouagadougou, Pointe-Noire^[2]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Africa West Airlines	Bamako, Liège, Lomé, Niamey^[3]
Air France Cargo	Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Incidents and accidents

UTAGE Flight 141: On 25 December 2003, the airplane crashed in the Bight of Benin, killing 151 of the 163 occupants, most of them Lebanese.

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.^[4] Construction on the new facility appears to have stalled again.^[5]

References

^ "Turkish Airlines Launches a New Route to Cotonou". Turkish Airlines. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
^ Westair Benin destinations list for Winter 2012/2013
^ Africa West Airlines Cargo Schedule
^ Beninese Embassy in Paris, France. "Bénin : Glo-Djigbé, un aéroport flambant neuf à 360 milliards". Retrieved 6 July 2013.
^ Teiga, Marcus Boni (27 June 2012). "Bénin – Que sont les grands projets économiques devenus?" (in French). SlateAfrique. Retrieved 6 July 2013.

External links

Cotonou airport - Cotonou airport website

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[1] "Turkish Airlines Launches a New Route to Cotonou". Turkish Airlines. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014.

[2] Westair Benin destinations list for Winter 2012/2013

[3] Africa West Airlines Cargo Schedule

[4] Beninese Embassy in Paris, France. "Bénin : Glo-Djigbé, un aéroport flambant neuf à 360 milliards". Retrieved 6 July 2013.

[5] Teiga, Marcus Boni (27 June 2012). "Bénin – Que sont les grands projets économiques devenus?" (in French). SlateAfrique. Retrieved 6 July 2013.

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