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In 2004, the airport served 301,493 passengers.

Incidents and accidents

• UTA Flight 141: On 25 December 2003, the airplane crashed in the Bight of Benin, killing 151 of the 163 occupants, most of them Lebanese.

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Airlines and destinations

• Afriqiyah Airways (Douala, Tripoli)
• Air Burkina (Lome, Ouagadougou)
• Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
• Air Ivoire (Abidjan, Brazzaville, Lome, Douala, Libreville)
• Air Mauritanie (Abidjan, Bamako, Brazzaville, Dakar, Nouakchott)
• Air Senegal International (Abidjan, Dakar)
• Benin Golf Air (Abidjan, Bamako, Bangui, Brazzaville, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Kinshasa, Libreville, Lomé, Malabo and Pointe-Noire)
• Compagnie Aerienne du Mali (Bamako)
• GETRA (Malabo)
• Kenya Airways (Abidjan, Nairobi)
• Interair South Africa (Bamako, Brazzaville, Libreville, Ouagadougou, Johannesburg)
• Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
• Trans Air Congo (Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire)
• Virgin Nigeria (Lagos)

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External links

• Airport information for DBBB at World Aero Data
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