Dakar Blaise Diagne Airport was commissioned in 2017 and fully replaced the older Dakar-Leopold Senghor DKR.
The airport is 57 km east of the centre of the Senegalese capital and 33 km from the resort town of Somone.
The national airline Air Senegal has its main base here and the airport is the largest in Africa in terms of passenger numbers.
Scheduled flights are to most West African countries, but there are also a large number of airlines from Europe and North America. The most important direct flights from Dakar go to the following cities, for example.
- Abidjan - Air Cote d'Ivoire, Air Senegal, Kenya Airways
- Addis Ababa - Ethiopian Airlines
- Barcelona - Vueling
- Brussels - Brussels Airlines
- Casablanca - Air Senegal, Royal Air Maroc
- Dubai - Emirates
- Gran Canaria - Binter Canarias
- Istanbul - Turkish Airlines
- Lisbon - TAP
- Lomé - Asky
- Madrid - Iberia
- Marseille - Transavia
- Milan - Neos
- Nairobi - Kenya Airways
- Nantes - Transavia
- New York - Delta
- Paris - Air France, Air Senegal
- Rome - ITA Airways, Neos
- Washington - United
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