Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ouagadougou Airport (IATA: OUA, ICAO: DFFD) is an airport in the centre of the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. It was built in the 1960s and it is approximately 1.5 km southeast of the main commercial area. The airport site itself is approximately 4.8 km in length, 0.5 km in width at its narrowest point, and covers an area of approximately 426 hectares. Its runway is 3 000m long. When the airport was originally built it was on the southern boundary of the city as it stood at that time. Ouagadougou has since experienced rapid urbanization and the airport is now surrounded by urban development.Besides having outgrown its capacity constraints, the airport is a source of pollution and risk. The government therefore has plans for a new airport 30 km north of the capital.In addition to civilian traffic, the airport has a military sector.The airport handles about 98% of all scheduled commercial air traffic in Burkina Faso. Air Burkina and Air France handle about 60% of scheduled passenger traffic. Between 2005 and 2011, air passenger traffic at Ouagadougou airport grew at an average annual rate of 7.0%, reaching about 404,726 passengers in 2011 and was estimated to reach 850,000 by 2025.In 2007 it was the fifteenth busiest airport in West Africa in passenger volume, just ahead of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and behind Banjul (Gambia).The total air cargo grew 71% from 4,350 tons in 2005 to about 7,448 tons in 2009."@en }
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- Ouagadougou_Airport abstract "Ouagadougou Airport (IATA: OUA, ICAO: DFFD) is an airport in the centre of the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. It was built in the 1960s and it is approximately 1.5 km southeast of the main commercial area. The airport site itself is approximately 4.8 km in length, 0.5 km in width at its narrowest point, and covers an area of approximately 426 hectares. Its runway is 3 000m long. When the airport was originally built it was on the southern boundary of the city as it stood at that time. Ouagadougou has since experienced rapid urbanization and the airport is now surrounded by urban development.Besides having outgrown its capacity constraints, the airport is a source of pollution and risk. The government therefore has plans for a new airport 30 km north of the capital.In addition to civilian traffic, the airport has a military sector.The airport handles about 98% of all scheduled commercial air traffic in Burkina Faso. Air Burkina and Air France handle about 60% of scheduled passenger traffic. Between 2005 and 2011, air passenger traffic at Ouagadougou airport grew at an average annual rate of 7.0%, reaching about 404,726 passengers in 2011 and was estimated to reach 850,000 by 2025.In 2007 it was the fifteenth busiest airport in West Africa in passenger volume, just ahead of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and behind Banjul (Gambia).The total air cargo grew 71% from 4,350 tons in 2005 to about 7,448 tons in 2009.".
- Q773547 abstract "Ouagadougou Airport (IATA: OUA, ICAO: DFFD) is an airport in the centre of the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. It was built in the 1960s and it is approximately 1.5 km southeast of the main commercial area. The airport site itself is approximately 4.8 km in length, 0.5 km in width at its narrowest point, and covers an area of approximately 426 hectares. Its runway is 3 000m long. When the airport was originally built it was on the southern boundary of the city as it stood at that time. Ouagadougou has since experienced rapid urbanization and the airport is now surrounded by urban development.Besides having outgrown its capacity constraints, the airport is a source of pollution and risk. The government therefore has plans for a new airport 30 km north of the capital.In addition to civilian traffic, the airport has a military sector.The airport handles about 98% of all scheduled commercial air traffic in Burkina Faso. Air Burkina and Air France handle about 60% of scheduled passenger traffic. Between 2005 and 2011, air passenger traffic at Ouagadougou airport grew at an average annual rate of 7.0%, reaching about 404,726 passengers in 2011 and was estimated to reach 850,000 by 2025.In 2007 it was the fifteenth busiest airport in West Africa in passenger volume, just ahead of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and behind Banjul (Gambia).The total air cargo grew 71% from 4,350 tons in 2005 to about 7,448 tons in 2009.".