I need a list of all the airports on the Africa continent that offer
regularly scheduled flights to points outside the African continent.

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 15 Feb 2003 06:34 PST

I'd be happy to provide you with the information you are seeking if I
can, but this kind of research normally takes quite a bit longer than
the fee you selected normally allows. If you'd like to adjust your
price I will try my best to deliver the data to you.

If you need help with deciding what a reasonable price for your
question would nromally be, you can visit this pricing guide:
http://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by kongulu-ga on 16 Feb 2003 01:00 PST

Dear Researchers - Thank you all for your efforts, I did not intend to
consume so much time. Obviously I need to re-phrase the question.

Maybe this will work?

How about all the (at least one per country) MAJOR airports on the
Africa continent that offer regularly scheduled flights to points
outside the African continent.

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Request for Question Clarification by answerfinder-ga on 17 Feb 2003 01:21 PST

Dear kongulu
I have found a list which the author describes as a "comprehensive
database of nearly 1,000 of the world's major airports. The database
includes airport 4 letter code, 3 letter code, airport name, city
name, country, airport elevation, runway length and
latitiude/longitude."
It is available in 3 formats - HTML, Excel spreadsheet or PDF file. It
appears to contain most of the African countries. However, it does not
specify if they are international airports. Let me know if this meet
your requirements and I will post it as an answer.
http://www.daz-technology.demon.co.uk/airports/airports.html

answerfinder-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by revbrenda1st-ga on 02 Mar 2003 15:49 PST

Hi Kongulu,

I wasn't sure if you'd seen the comment I posted yesterday, but I'm
pretty sure you'll get a notification by e-mail about this
clarification. My comment is below. Hope it's useful to you.

Regards,
revbrenda1st

Kongulu --

I thought that the FAA (because of it's safety monitoring) or the
International Air Transport Organization (www.iata.org) would have a
condensed list, but I couldn't find it.

If you have cities that you're seeking, the IATA does have an airport
code lookup though it's no guarantee that there's international (or
even regular domestic) service:
http://www.iata.org/codes/index.htm

A Google search strategy using the following yields a number of pages
with international service but they are missing many known
connections:
"international airports" + Africa

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

This is funny because I was just swapping emails this
morning with my friend from the FAA who is going to
be in charge of Africa.  RATI.com, you would need to
join, has descriptive data on all of these.  I had another
researcher point me towards it, and it is a truly outstanding
product and worth the money.  Not sure what you are doing,
but check it out.  I agree with Tutuzdad, it is not a 2 dollar search.

I agree with everyone who's commented here. I've spent more than a
good hour compiling information and would just as soon quit. I've not
even made a dent in such a list! This is a major undertaking and I'm
ready to cut my losses and run. Sorry.

revbrenda1st

Hi Kongulu,

Your question has been on my mind since I decided I couldn't justify
the time it would take to provide a complete answer. I see nobody has
taken it on, so I'll give you what I have. (It is by no means
complete.)

The problem for me was not finding the names of the airports -- it was
in determining if, in fact, there were regular flights which travelled
off the continent. This is partly because if/when I could find an
airport, (big) IF it had a website, it was most usually not in English
but in the language of the power who'd colonized the country years
ago. i.e French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, etc. Just because an
airport has an international designation it doesn't mean that there
are international flights.

Here's what I've found definitively:

Moroccan Airports:
Agadir -- Al Massira Airport: (AGA)
Flights to most major European cities.

Al Hoceima -- Cherif Al Idrissi Airport: (AHU)
Flights to Amsterdam, Casablanca and Tetouan.

Casablanca -- Mohammed V Int. Airport: (CMN)
Arrivals and departures to worldwide destinations.

Fez -- Saïss Airport: (FEZ)
Arrivals and departures to Casablanca, Oujda and Paris.

Marrakech -- Menara Airport: (RAK)
Flights to Agadir, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bruxelles, Casablanca, Geneva,
Lille, London, Lyon, Marseille, Metz, Milan, Mulhouse, Nantes, Palma
de Mallorca, Paris, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Verona and Zurich.

Oujda -- Angads Airport: (OUD)
Flights to Amsterdam, Casablanca, Marseille and Paris.

Ouarzazate Airport: (OZZ)
Flights to Casablanca and Paris.

Rabat -- Sale: (RBA)
Flights to Paris.

Tangier -- Ibn Batouta Int. Airport: (TNG)
Flights to Amsterdam, Bruxelles, Casablanca, London, Madrid,
Mararakech and Paris.



Airlines & Airports: Airport Directory: African Airports: South Africa
http://www.travelnotes.org/Airports/south-african-airports.htm

Airports in South Africa:

Airlines & Airports: Airport Directory: African Airports: South Africa
http://www.travelnotes.org/Airports/south-african-airports.htm

Cape Town International Airport: (CPT)
"Cape Town International Airport has four terminal buildings for
domestic arrivals, domestic departures, international departures and
international arrivals. Shuttle services are available at the Arrivals
Terminals, with the following companies operating from within the
Domestic Arrivals Terminal: Intercape, Way2Go Tours, Tafile Magic Bus,
and City Hopper. major car-rental agencies are also represented."

Durban International Airport: (DUR)
"Eleven international airlines serve Durban airport. Airport Shuttle
services can be found in front of domestic and international
terminals."

Johannesburg International Airport: (GCJ)
"Situated 18.5km north-east of the city centre, Johannesburg
International Airport is the air transport hub of South Africa;
serving more than 10 million passengers a year."

Upington Airport: (UTN)
"Upington Airport, located in the Northern Cape, has the longest
runway on the African continent. It was built to accommodate a Boeing
747 with a full load of passengers, cargo and fuel so that it could
take off for Europe non-stop when landing rights were refused in other
African countries."

Regards,
revbrenda1st