Kédougou Airport
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Kédougou Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Government | ||||||||||
| Location | Kédougou, Senegal | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 584 ft / 178 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°34′20″N 012°13′13″W / 12.57222°N 12.22028°W | ||||||||||
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  KGG Location within Senegal | |||||||||||
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Kédougou Airport (IATA: KGG, ICAO: GOTK) is an airport serving Kédougou, a town in the Tambacounda Region of Senegal.
History
In 2019, Macky Sall announced the Kédougou Airport would be transformed into an international airport. Regular flights by Air Senegal were also in the pipeline.[3] This transformation is part of the country's plan announced in 2018 to modernize its main airports and turn Senegal into a major hub in Western Africa.[4]
References
- ^ Airport information for GOTK[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
- ^ Airport information for KGG at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ "Aéroport de Kédougou : Les travaux bientôt lancés". Lequotidien - Journal d'information Générale (in French). 2019-02-09. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ Atcha, Emmanuel (25 December 2018). "Projets structurants : le Sénégal lance son programme de réhabilitation des aéroports". La Tribune (in French). Retrieved 2021-05-25.
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