Nouakchott International Airport

Nouakchott International Airport
Nouakchott International Airport
IATA: NKCICAO: GQNN
NKC is located in Mauritania
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NKC
Location of airport in Mauritania
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Government\ASECNA"African air traffic management organisation"
Operator Government
Serves Nouakchott, Mauritania
Elevation AMSL 7 ft / 2 m
Coordinates 18°05′52″N 015°56′52″W / 18.09778°N 15.94778°W / 18.09778; -15.94778
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 3,010 9,876 Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Nouakchott International Airport (French: Aéroport de Nouakchott) (IATA: NKCICAO: GQNN) is an airport located in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania. Until late 2010, it served as hub of Mauritania Airways. From early 2011, Mauritania Airlines International will be based there.

Contents

Airlines and Destinations

Airlines Destinations
Afriqiyah Airways Tripoli
Air Algérie Algiers
Air France Casablanca, Conakry, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Mali Bamako
Binter Canarias Seasonal:Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Islas Airways Seasonal:Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Canary Fly Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Mauritania Airlines International Bamako, Casablanca, Dakar, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Nouadhibou
Seasonal: Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Sélibaby
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Sénégal Airlines Dakar
Tunisair Tunis

Cargo airlines

  • Air France Cargo operated by Martinair Cargo

2008 coup d'etat

On the morning of 6 August 2008, by 9:20 local time, BASEP troops seized the President, Prime-minister, and Interior Minister in the capital, Nouakchott. Mauritania television was taken off the air earlier, but Persian Gulf-based al-Arabiya television played an announcement said to be from the new junta; according to the announcement, General Abdel Aziz, chief of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion), would head a "state council". The airport was closed at the time.[3]

References

  1. ^ Airport information for GQNN from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  2. ^ Airport information for NKC at Great Circle Mapper.
  3. ^ "Troops stage coup in Mauritania". BBC News. 2008-08-06. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7544834.stm. 

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