Gaborone airport
| Sir Seretse Khama International Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | FBSK |
| IATA code | GBE |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 1006 m (3301 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 15 km north of Gaborone |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1984 |
| Passengers | 425,000 (2008) |
| Flight movements |
16,922 (2008) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 08/26 | 3000 m × 45 m concrete |
The International Airport Sir Seretse Khama (short SSKA , English Sir Seretse Khama International Airport ) is the airport of the Botswana capital Gaborone . Its name refers to the country's first president, Sir Seretse Khama . It is 15 kilometers north of the city and is the home base of Air Botswana .
The airport is the busiest in the country with around 425,000 passengers annually. With 16,922 aircraft movements per year, it ranks second after Maun Airport .
Airlines and connections
The airport is served by the airlines Air Botswana , South African Express , Ethiopian Airlines (since October 2016) and Qatar Airways (since December 2019) on scheduled flights. In addition, three charter airlines are based at the airport. Connections exist within Botswana as well as to Harare in Zimbabwe , Johannesburg in South Africa , Windhoek in Namibia , Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Doha in Qatar .
Incidents
- On 11 October 1999 a pilot who started Air Botswana an ATR 42 -320 of Air Botswana ( aircraft marks A2 ABB ) and drove a stolen plane, alone flying, intentionally same on the remaining two copies at the airport Gaborone type, the blank on the The runway were parked. Before that he had circled around the airfield for about two hours and asked to be connected to President Festus Mogae , who was, however, abroad. The pilot was killed in the impact.
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Sir Seretse Khama Airport. Ministry of Works & Transport, Department of Civil Aviation, archived from the original on August 6, 2007 ; accessed on January 7, 2015 .
- Portrait on the website of the civil aviation authority of Botswana (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Statistics at mmegi.bw (English), accessed on December 26, 2014
- ^ Accident report ATR 42 A2-ABB, Gaborone , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 12, 2018.