Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport

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The Tangier- Boukhalef ( IATA code TNG, ICAO code GMTT, French Aeroport Tangier Ibn Batouta ) is the international airport of the city of Tangier in Morocco. It lies approximately 14 kilometers southwest of the city.

The airport has a 3500m long and 45m wide asphalt airstrip with the 10 names / 28th An older 2000m long track is closed. Seven types of jets are turned off. Tangier- Boukhalef has the Casablanca airport, the longest Moroccan take-off and landing strip. Tangiers Airport is suitable for every type of aircraft, including the Boeing 747-400, as used by the Royal Air Maroc. The flight operation runs 24 hours a day.

Iberia via Madrid, Vueling via Barcelona and TAP Portugal via Lisbon from German speaking countries connections. Royal Air Maroc flights from Tangier to the most important cities in Europe, including London, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. German Wings connects Cologne / Bonn, Dusseldorf - Weeze Ryanair and Frankfurt-Hahn several times a week with Tangier.

Modernization

The airport was completed in 2008 and in Airport Tangier - Ibn Battouta renamed. The airport covers an airstrip, and a very modern terminal, which however has no jetways. Due to the size of the new terminal 's annual capacity is estimated at about 1.5 million passengers per year.

Incidents

On 22 December 1973, a Sud Aviation Caravelle VI -N of Royal Air Maroc on the road from Paris to Casablanca from crashed during a planned stopover in Tangier. All 106 people aboard were killed. In the dark and in the rain, the pilot came on the landing approach to runway 28 east off course. At 22:10 clock the machine collided in 2300 meters altitude with Mount Mellaline of the Rif mountains near the city of Tetouan.

Passenger numbers

Source: Statistiques de l' Aéroport de Tanger