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Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (French: Aéroport International Léopold Sédar Senghor[1]) (IATA: DKR, ICAO: GOOY) is an international airport serving Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The airport is situated near the town of Yoff, north of Dakar. It was known as Dakar Yoff International Airport (French: Aéroport International de Dakar Yoff) until 9 October 1996,[1] when it was renamed in honor of Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal. The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of the Boeing 747 jets. In 2007, the airport served about 2,100,000 passengers.[citation needed] The Rough Guide to West Africa states that "the supervision of the arrivals hall is pretty relaxed, with lots of 'porters' aiming to part you from your cash", and that the airport has more and better facilities than most in West Africa, including catering, an ATM and a business centre.[4] In 2007, Patrick Smith, author of the Ask the Pilot column for Salon.com, called it the "World's Worst Airport", commenting that he found there "only squalor, an unnerving sense of confinement and to some extent danger".[5]
[edit] HistoryDuring World War II, Dakar Airport was a key link in the United States Army Air Force Air Transport Command Natal-Dakar air route, which provided a transoceanic link between Brazil and French West Africa after 1942. Massive amounts of cargo were stored at Dakar, which were then transported along the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. From Dakar, flights were made to Dakhla Airport, near Villa Cisneros in French North Africa or to Atar Airport, depending on the load on the air route. In addition to being the western terminus of the North African route, Dakar was the northern terminus for the South African route, which transported personnel to Pretoria, South Africa, with numerous stopovers at Roberts Field, Liberia, the Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia.[6] The airport was a Space Shuttle landing site until it was determined that a dip in the runway could damage the shuttle upon landing.[citation needed] It used to be one of the five main hubs of the now defunct multi-national airline, Air Afrique.[citation needed] Delta Air Lines started service on December 4, 2006 between Atlanta USA and Johannesburg, South Africa. with an intermediate stop in Dakar, making it the only major U.S. airline to serve the African continent.[citation needed] It currently serves Dakar as an intermediate stop on its flight between New York-JFK USA and Abuja, Nigeria. [edit] Airlines and destinations
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