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Yoff Airport
Airport Directory » Senegal » Dakar » Yoff AirportDakar-Yoff / Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (IATA: DKR, ICAO: GOOY) is an international air installation in Dakar, Senegal.
The remarkably long-named and most eminent airport in Senegal, is able to deal aircraft up to the size of it of the Boeing 747 jet plane. It used to be 1 of the 5 independent hubs of the currently defunct multi-national air hose, Air Afrique. The airport was renamed (from Dakar-Yoff) to Léopold Sédar Senghor, a well-known poet who assisted as president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980, and pop off in 2001.
In 2007, the airport assisted approximately 2,100,000 riders.
Delta Air Lines set about service on December 4, 2006 between Atlanta USA and Johannesburg, South Africa. with an intermediate halt in Dakar, make it the only major U.S. air hose to assist the African continent.
On May 25, 2007, Patrick Smith (editorialist), writer of the long-running 'Ask the Pilot' column for Salon.com, named it the 'World's Worst Airport', point out that he constitute there 'only sordidness, an fazing sense of confinement and to some extent danger'.
It was a Space Shuttle districting location until it was find out that a plunge in the landing track is able to damage the shuttle upon districting.
The compilers of the Rough Guide to West Africa , province that "the oversight of the reaches hallway is pretty unwound, with mountains of 'hall porter' directing to division you from your hard currency", and that the airport has more and more better installations than most in West Africa, including providing, an ATM and a business center.
Car engage
Several auto engage corporations are placed at the airport such as Hertz, Europcar, and others.
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