Julius Nyerere International Airport
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| Julius Nyerere International Airport | |||
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| IATA: DAR - ICAO: HTDA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Tanzania Airports Authority | ||
| Serves | Dar es Salaam | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 196 ft (60 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 05/23 | 9,842 | 3,000 | Asphalt |
| 14/32 | 3,280 | 1,000 | Asphalt |
Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) 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.
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[edit] 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 to Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere International Airport.
A total of 9,501,265 passengers used the airport from 1980 to 2004; averaging to 2,770 passengers per day.[1]
The Government of Tanzania decided to rename the airport once again from Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere International Airport to Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) effective 1 November 2006..[2]
[edit] JNIA today
In 2004, the airport served 1,011,392 passengers (+23.9% vs. '03).
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Air Comores International (Moroni)
- Air India (Mumbai, Nairobi)
- Air Malawi (Blantyre, Lilongwe)
- Air Tanzania (Moroni, Entebbe/Kampala, Johannesburg, Kilimanjaro, Mwanza, Mtwara, Zanzibar)
- Air Zimbabwe (Harare, Nairobi)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Coastal Aviation (Tanzanian safari parks, private charters- Addis Ababa, Johannesburg, Nairobi)
- Comores Air Services (Moroni)
- Community Airlines (Kilimanjaro, Mwanza)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa)
- Kenya Airways (Nairobi, Mombasa)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (Maputo, Pemba)
- Precision Air (Bukoba, Kigoma, Kilimanjaro, Mombasa, Musoma, Mwanza, Nairobi, Shinyanga, Tabora, Zanzibar)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- South African Airways (Johannesburg)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Nairobi, Zürich)
- Yemenia (Sana'a)
- Zambian Airways (Lusaka)
- ZanAir (Zanzibar)
