Overcrowded Or Overbuilt? Africa’s Airports Face A Planning Dilemma

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA)

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).

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In 2025, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) handled 8.6 million passengers against a design capacity of 7.5 million. But the picture is reversed in Dakar, where Blaise Diagne International Airport served just over three million passengers in a terminal planned for 10 million. Between those...
Chloe Greenbank

Chloe Greenbank wrote her first airline magazine article two decades ago and has been immersed in aviation magazines ever since.

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