Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport
Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Angola | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Empresa Nacional de Exploração de Aeroportos e Navegação Aérea (ENANA) | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Luanda | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Bom Jesus, Icolo e Bengo Province, Angola | ||||||||||||||
| Hub for | TAAG Angola Airlines | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 522 ft / 159 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 9°2′48.4″S 13°30′25.9″E / 9.046778°S 13.507194°E | ||||||||||||||
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Source: aerobaticsweb.org | |||||||||||||||
Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Internacional Dr. António Agostinho Neto) (IATA: NBJ, ICAO: FNBJ), informally Novo Aeroporto Internacional de Luanda (NAIL), is an international airport serving the capital of Angola, Luanda. It is located in the municipality of Bom Jesus in Icolo e Bengo Province, 40 km south-east of the Luanda city center. It is named after Agostinho Neto, the first president of Angola.
It is the largest airport ever constructed by any Chinese enterprise outside of China. It is intended to be Angola's main gateway to the world and an important air hub for Africa. It will gradually replace the city's existing Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, which will remain open for non-commercial air services, maintenance, and training.
The airport is designed for 15 million passengers annually and 130,000 metric tons of cargo. The five busiest airports in Africa handle 7.5 to 28 million passengers per year, of which three have direct flights from Luanda. The older Luanda airport served 5.6 million in 2018.
While recognizing that the new airport will have a much larger capacity than is needed in 2024, the government considers it to be a bet on the future, hoping to facilitate increased trade within Africa, especially for air cargo.