Julius Nyerere International Airport
IATA: DAR – ICAO: HTDA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Tanzania Airports Authority
Location		Dar es Salaam
Elevation AMSL		196 ft / 60 m
Coordinates		06°52′32″S 39°12′07″E / 6.87556°S 39.20194°E / -6.87556; 39.20194Coordinates: 06°52′32″S 39°12′07″E / 6.87556°S 39.20194°E / -6.87556; 39.20194
Website		http://www.jnia.aero/
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
05/23	9,842	3,000	Asphalt
14/32	3,280	1,000	Asphalt

Julius Nyerere International Airport ((IATA: DAR, ICAO: HTDA), is the principal airport serving Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania. The airport is named after the first Tanzanian President, Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere.

Contents 1 History 2 JNIA today 3 Airlines and destinations 3.1 Cargo airlines 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

The German colonial Government built the first airport in Tanganyika at Kurasini in Temeke District in 1918. It was called Mkeja Airport.

Another airport known as Dar es Salaam Airport, Terminal I, was built at Ukonga area, as the former could not meet the demands. Therefore the Government of Tanzania extended the airport to Terminal II in 1979. It was inaugurated by Julius Nyerere in October 1984.

In October 2005, Dar es Salaam International Airport (DIA) was renamed Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere International Airport.

A total of 9,501,265 passengers used the airport from 1980 to 2004; averaging 2,770 passengers per day.^[1]

On November 1, 2006 the Government of Tanzania decided to rename the airport once again, now becoming Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA). ^[2]

[edit] JNIA today

In 2006, the airport served 1,249,419 passengers ^[3]

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Malawi	Blantyre, Lilongwe
Air Uganda	Entebbe, Nairobi, Zanzibar, Juba, Khartoum
Air Zimbabwe	Harare, Nairobi
British Airways	London-Heathrow
Coastal Aviation	Tanzanian safari parks, private charters- Addis Ababa, Johannesburg, Nairobi
Comores Air Services	Moroni
Comores Aviation	Anjouan, Moroni
Community Airlines	Kilimanjaro, Mwanza
EgyptAir	Cairo
Emirates	Dubai
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa
Kenya Airways	Nairobi
KLM	Amsterdam
Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique	Maputo, Pemba
Precision Air	Kigoma, Kilimanjaro, Mombasa, Musoma, Mwanza, Nairobi, Shinyanga, Tabora, Zanzibar
Qatar Airways	Doha
RwandAir	Kigali [4] [begins 15 December]
South African Airways	Johannesburg
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich
Zambezi Airlines	Lusaka
ZanAir	Zanzibar

[edit] Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
Safair

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Julius Nyerere International Airport
• Accident history for DAR at Aviation Safety Network
• Airport information for HTDA at Great Circle Mapper.
• Current weather for HTDA at NOAA/NWS
• Airport information for HTDA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.