Kigali International Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Civil aviation airport | ||||||||||
| Operator | Rwanda Airports Authority | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kigali | ||||||||||
| Location | Kigali, Rwanda | ||||||||||
| Hub for | RwandAir | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,891 ft / 1,491 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 01°57′59″S 030°07′59″E / 1.96639°S 30.13306°E | ||||||||||
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  KGL Location within Rwanda | |||||||||||
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Kigali International Airport (IATA: KGL, ICAO: HRYR), formerly known as Kanombe International Airport, is the primary international airport serving Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. As of June 2024, there is an ongoing project to build another mega-airport in Bugesera District, Eastern Province, which will be the biggest and the main air gateway for all destinations in the country, in addition to serving as a transit airport for Goma and Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.[citation needed] There are 4 airlines based at Kigali Airport: RwandAir, the flag carrier airline of Rwanda; Akagera Aviation, a Rwandan heli-company;[2] Tempus Jet, an American airline providing charter flights;[3] and Nexus Aero, a Saudi VIP airline.[4]
- ^ Julien Clémençot (23 June 2017). "Aéroports : l'Afrique prend de l'altitude". Jeune Afrique. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "About Akagera". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "Tempus Jets international operations". Tempusjets.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2013.
- ^ "Our headquarters are based in Saudi Arabia with a back-up Flight Operations Centre located in Bahrain as well as a new Africa base in Rwanda". Nexus.aero. Archived from the original on 23 June 2013.