BRAZZAVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Facilities Brazzaville Maya-Maya International Airport

In 2010, a new 3,300-metre (10,800 ft) long runway and a new terminal with three air bridges were opened. The older runway was repaired and now is used as a taxiway. A second phase of the new terminal was completed in 2013, the construction of which, valued at $160 million, was undertaken by Chinese construction firm Weihai International Economic & Technical Cooperative Co., Ltd.

Accidents and incidents

On 19 September 1989 UTA Flight 772, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (registration N54629) operating the Brazzaville-N'Djamena-Paris CDG sector, was bombed 46 minutes after take-off from N'Djamena causing the aircraft to crash while flying over Niger.All 156 passengers and 14 crew members on board perished. For nearly 20 years, this incident marked the deadliest air disaster involving a French-operated airliner, in terms of loss of life. As of June 2009, it ranks as the second-deadliest (see Air France Flight 447).

23 November 1996: Hijackers forced Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, bound from Mumbai and Addis Ababa to Abidjan through many stops (including Brazzaville), to crash into the Indian Ocean.

On 26 August 2009, an Antonov An-12 of Aero-Fret (registered TN-AIA) crashed on approach. The flight had originated from Pointe Noire Airport. The five Ukrainian crew and one Congolese passenger were killed.

On 30 November 2012, an Aéro-Service (initially mistakenly attributed to Trans Air Congo) Ilyushin Il-76T on a cargo flight from Pointe Noire to Brazzaville crashed during landing short of runway 5L at Maya–Maya Airport in Brazzaville in bad weather, in a residential area. All six crew members, five of them from Armenia, one police officer on board the aircraft, and 26 people on the ground were killed, and 14 people on the ground were injured.

Brazzaville Maya-Maya International Airport

Brazzaville Maya-Maya International Airport is the largest airport in Congo. Its international code (IATA code) is BZV.

Built in 1949 north-west of the old center of Brazzaville in the middle of an area that was at that time mainly forest, it has since seen growing its air traffic of passengers and freight. New neighborhoods have developed over time in the surrounding area.

Totally modernized and enlarged between 2010 and 2015, it is now one of the most modern airports on the continent. Its new futuristic design, made of glassn concrete and steel, totals 44,500m² and can handle more than 2 million passengers each year.

The new telescopic bridges now allow quick and safe boarding and disembarking of passengers arrivingand departing from Brazzaville.

The largest new generation aircraft like Airbus A380 can now fly to Congo.

Maya Maya Airport

The IATA code for the airport is BZV. Cleartrip provides information about the different airline brands that operate from Brazzaville airport and also a list of top domestic and international routes from Brazzaville.

There are different domestic and international airlines that operate from Brazzaville airport. Out of them, the airline brands that operate more frequently are Kenya Airways, KLM Royal Dutch, Equatorial Congo Airlines (ECAIR) and Royal Air Maroc. In addition to this, the most popular sectors from Brazzaville are Brazzaville to Pointe Noire, Brazzaville to Casablanca with 95, 54 weekly flights respectively.

Airways airline 552 to Nairobi is the first flight that departs from Brazzaville airport at 12:20 AM, followed by Kenya Airways airline 552 to Nairobi at 12:20 AM. Whereas Air Cote DIvoire airline 870 to Pointe Noire is the last flight that departs from Brazzaville airport at 11:59 PM.

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