Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport

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Dakar Airport ( Aéroport international French Léopold Sedar - Senghor -, Leopold Sedar Senghor English International Airport, IATA code DKR, ICAO code GOOY ) is the international airport of Dakar, capital of Senegal.

The airport is the most important of Senegal and can accommodate aircraft of the size of the Boeing 747. He was one of the five main hubs of the 2002 resolution multinational Air Afrique. The airport is named after the famous writer and former President of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Senghor since 1996. Previously, he was Aéroport International de Dakar Yoff Yoff named after the district of Dakar.

In 2004 1.394.351 passengers were handled.

The airport is not served directly from German-speaking countries; there are connections with Air France via Paris, Brussels Airlines via Brussels, with Iberia via Madrid and with TAP via Lisbon.

By September 1987, the Dakar airport was a possible emergency landing of the Space Shuttle at a take-off.

Delta Air Lines launched in December 2006, a route between Atlanta and Johannesburg, South Africa, with a stopover in Dakar.

Construction of a new airport

Since the long term, the existing airport does not meet the demands of rising passenger numbers and freight, near the town of Diass (also Ndiass written, in the region of Thies located ), a new airport in the name Aéroport is 45 km east of Dakar, built, international Blaise Diagne will bear.