Melchior Ndadaye International Airport

Melchior Ndadaye International Airport

*Aéroport international Melchior Ndadaye*
Melchior Ndadaye International Airport; Aéroport international Melchior Ndadaye
	IATA: BJM; ICAO: HBBA;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Bujumbura, Burundi
Elevation AMSL	2,582 ft / 787 m
Coordinates	03°19′26″S 029°19′07″E / 3.32389°S 29.31861°E
Website	aacb.bi
Map
	BJM Location of Airport in Burundi; Placement on map is approximate
Runways
Statistics (2017)
Passengers (arrivals)
Passengers (arrivals)	131, 477

Melchior Ndadaye International Airport (IATA: BJM, ICAO: HBBA) is an airport in Bujumbura, the former capital of Burundi. It is Burundi's only international airport and the only one with a paved runway.

History

The airport was opened in 1952.^[2] On 1 July 2019, the airport was renamed Melchior Ndadaye International Airport after the first democratically elected president of Burundi who was murdered in a coup d'état in October 1993, three months after being elected. This event sparked the decade-long Burundian Civil War.^[3]

Airlines and destinations

As of December 2018^[update], the following airlines maintain regular scheduled service to Bujumbura International Airport:^[4]

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Air Tanzania	Dar es Salaam, Kigoma^[5]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa
Kenya Airways	Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
RwandAir	Kigali
Uganda Airlines	Entebbe^[6]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo	Addis Ababa, Kigali^[7]

References

External links

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