Julius Nyerere International Airport

Julius Nyerere International Airport
Julius Nyerere International Airport
D80-2007-03-26 25.JPG
IATA: DARICAO: HTDA
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Tanzania Airports Authority
Location Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Elevation AMSL 196 ft / 60 m
Coordinates 06°52′32″S 039°12′07″E / 6.87556°S 39.20194°E / -6.87556; 39.20194Coordinates: 06°52′32″S 039°12′07″E / 6.87556°S 39.20194°E / -6.87556; 39.20194
Website www.jnia.aero
Map
DAR is located in Tanzania
DAR
Location within Tanzania
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05/23 9,842 3,000 Asphalt
14/32 3,280 1,000 Asphalt

Julius Nyerere International Airport ((IATA: DARICAO: HTDA), is the principal airport serving Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania. The airport is named after the first Tanzanian President, Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere.

Contents

History

The German colonial Government built the first airport in Tanganyika at Kurasini in Temeke District in 1918. It was called Mkeja Airport.

Another airport known as Dar es Salaam Airport, Terminal I, was built at Ukonga area, as the former could not meet the demands. Therefore the Government of Tanzania extended the airport to Terminal II in 1979. It was inaugurated by Julius Nyerere in October 1984.

In October 2005, Dar es Salaam International Airport (DIA) was renamed Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere International Airport.

A total of 9,501,265 passengers used the airport from 1980 to 2004; averaging 2,770 passengers per day.[1]

On November 1, 2006 the Government of Tanzania decided to rename the airport once again, now becoming Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA).[2]

JNIA today

In 2006, the airport served 1,249,419 passengers[3]

A partnership project underway between the Government of Tanzania and China will see the current airport expand to Terminal Four. The airport will be East Africa's largest airport with modern facilities and amenities.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air Malawi Blantyre, Lilongwe
Air Tanzania Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Kigoma, Moroni, Mwanza, Tabora, Zanzibar
Air Uganda Entebbe, Juba, Nairobi, Zanzibar
Air Zimbabwe Harare, Nairobi
Bold Aviation Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar
British Airways London-Heathrow
British Airways operated by Comair Seasonal: Johannesburg
Coastal Aviation Zanzibar, Arusha, Selous, Kilwa, Serengeti, Tanga, Mafia, Kigali
Comores Air Services Moroni
Comores Aviation Anjouan, Moroni
EgyptAir Cairo, Lusaka
Emirates Dubai
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa, Zanzibar
Kenya Airways Nairobi
KLM Amsterdam
LAM Mozambique Airlines Maputo, Pemba
Oman Air Muscat
Precision Air Arusha, Johannesburg, Kigoma, Kilimanjaro, Mombasa, Moroni, Musoma, Mwanza, Nairobi, Shinyanga, Tabora, Zanzibar
Qatar Airways Doha
RwandAir Kigali
South African Airways Johannesburg
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich
Turkish Airlines Entebbe, Istanbul-Atatürk, Nairobi
ZanAir Zanzibar

Cargo airlines

Airlines Destinations
Safair

Accidents and Incidents

  • On 16 February 2011 Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam was closed overnight as a precaution after explosions rocked a number of munitions depots located about 10 kilometres from the airport killing at least 20 people.[4]

References

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Julius Nyerere — Mwalimu Julius Nyerere 1st President of Tanzania In office 26 April 1964 – 5 November 1985 Prime Minister Post Abolished (1962–1972) …   Wikipedia

  • Aeropuerto Internacional Julius Nyerere — IATA: DAR   OACI: HTDA …   Wikipedia Español

  • Dodoma International Airport — Dodoma Airport IATA: DOD/DOE – ICAO: HTDO …   Wikipedia

  • Comores Aviation International — IATA O5 ICAO KMZ Callsign Como …   Wikipedia

  • Dar es Salaam Airport — Flughafen Dar es Salaam …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Swiss International Air Lines destinations — This is a list of airports to which Swiss International Air Lines and it s subsidiary Edelweiss Air flies.Africa* Cameroon **Douala (Douala Airport) **Yaoundé (Nsimalen International Airport) * Egypt **Cairo (Cairo International Airport)… …   Wikipedia

  • Dar es Salaam — This article is about the city. For the region, see Dar es Salaam (region). For the 2000 Chadian film, see Daresalam. For the Divisions of the world in Islam , see Divisions of the world in Islam. Dar es Salaam Mzizima Dar… …   Wikipedia

  • Aeropuerto de Dar es Salaam — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Aeropuerto Internacional Julius Nyerere IATA: DAR   OACI: HTDA …   Wikipedia Español

  • Flughafen Dar es Salaam — Flughafen Dar es Salaam …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Precision Air — Infobox Airline airline=Precision Air logo=Precisionair.jpg logo size=250 fleet size=9 destinations=15 IATA=PW ICAO=PRF callsign=PRECISION AIR parent= company slogan= Tanzania s Finest founded=1991 headquarters=Dar es Salaam, Tanzania key… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”