Nador International Airport مطار الناظور العروي Anafag n Nadur Arwi
IATA: NDR – ICAO: GMMW
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		ONDA
Serves		Nador
Elevation AMSL		574 ft / 175 m
Coordinates		34°59′20″N 03°01′42″W / 34.98889°N 3.02833°W / 34.98889; -3.02833
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
08/26	9,842	3,000	Asphalt

Nador International Airport is an airport in Nador province serving the city of Nador, Morocco (IATA: NDR, ICAO: GMMW). It is also known as Al Aroui International Airport. Nador is a small international airport with links to Morocco's main airports and some European destinations (Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain). It is relatively busy airport during summers as many Moroccan nationals living in Western Europe and originating from Nador region (mainly the Tarifit-Berbers) travel through it. The Nador airport is owned and run by the state as all other Moroccan public airports (ONDA). It is exploited mainly by the Royal Air Maroc company and its subsidiary Atlas Blue.

In the year 2008 the airport handled over 215.000 passengers^[1].

It is also used by people visiting the neighbouring Spanish city of Melilla.

Contents 1 Terminal and passenger facilities 2 Airlines and destinations 3 Access to the airport 4 Traffic statistics 5 Runway information 6 Navigation 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Terminal and passenger facilities

Nador International Airport has a single terminal, divided in arrivals and departures, both on the ground floor and sharing the public/open area with basic facilities as a coffee-shop, snack-corner and small shop. Check-in terminals are located at one side of the main terminal hall, while the other side is for the baggage check for arriving customers. After passport control there is a waiting-room, a smoking-lounge and a small room for praying. The tax-free shop is closed. On boarding you leave via controlled doors and walk to the plane.

Outside the terminal building there is a paid parking lot and -on arrival of a scheduled flight- taxis are available for connection to Nador and other locations. No other forms of public transport are available.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Berlin	Cologne/Bonn
Ándalus Líneas Aéreas	Barcelona, Girona, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Reus
Atlas Blue	Amsterdam, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt
Jetairfly	Brussels, Brussels South -Charleroi
Jet4you	Barcelona, Brussels South-Charleroi
Royal Air Maroc Express	Casablanca
Ryanair	Brussels South-Charleroi [begins 9 April], Madrid, Marseille, Reus

[edit] Access to the airport

The airport is located at Al Arouit and approximately 30 km. from Nador city by road. No public transport as trains or regular busses are available. On arrival-time of an incoming flight many grand taxis wait outside the terminal and offer transfers to most regional cities.^[2] A paid car-park area is directly outside terminal, mainly used to bring passengers or pick up arriving passengers. The roads between the airport and Nador city are in good condition and signposted in Arabic and French. The airport lies directly along the main national route N2 (from Tangier to Oujda). From the airport the route to the city uses this N2 in Easterly direction to the North going route N15 to the city.

[edit] Traffic statistics

Like other Moroccan airports the traffic is very seasonal. All through the year Royal Air Maroc (in codeshare with Atlas Blue) flies several times per week to Brussels and Amsterdam, but in the summer-season more flights are scheduled. In the peak-season RAM even uses their Boeing 747 Jumbo-jet every week on the route to/from Amsterdam and Brussels in stead of the smaller Boeing 737 the rest of the year.

Recent monthly data

Item	Passengers 2009	Passengers 2008	Change	Movements 2009	Movements 2008	Change	Freight 2009	Freight 2008	Change
January[3]	16.728	15.080	10.9	161	140	15,0	0,33	0,01	3150
February [4]	18.769	12.638	48,5	254	144	76,4	0,66	0,34	92,9
March[5]	22.694	14.321	58,5	286	150	90,7	0	0,85	-100

The seasonal spread, based on the monthly statistics of 2008, shows peak-traffic in the summer:

Item	Movements	=% of full year	SUM	Passengers	=% of full year	SUM
Year 2008[6]	1983	100		215.045	100
January[7]	154	6,75		15.104	7,02
February [8]	144	7,26		12.638	5,68
Jan + Feb			14,01			12,70
July [9]	416	20,98		33.429	15,55
August [10]	274	13,82		30.607	14,23
Jul + Aug			34,80			28,67

In the two summer months nearly a third of the annual traffic is handled by the airport. Because Nador and surroundings isn't (yet) a tourist-destination such as Agadir or Marrakesh nearly all passengers are Moroccan nationals (incl. 2nd and 3rd generation) visiting relatives.^[11]

Recent statistics

Item	2008[6]	change %	2007[12]	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002
Passengers[13]	215.045	25,5	171.293	110.589	94.380	89.287	81.604	82.010
Movements[14]	1983	7.9	1838	1614	1634	1368	1001	1009
Cargo (Metric tons)[15]	5,59	- 63,6	15,35	92,33	22,04	74,36	17,27	20,30

[edit] Runway information

The airport has one runway of 3.000 meter long and 45 meter wide and can handle commercial aircraft up to a Boeing 747^[16]. Total parking space of 54.000 m² which results in two Boeing 747 and three Boeing 737.

[edit] Navigation

The airport has an ILS Class 1 certification and offers the following radionavigational aids: VOR – DME – NDB

PAPI lighting available when landing on runway 28

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Accident history for NDR at Aviation Safety Network
• Airport information for GMMW at Great Circle Mapper.
• Current weather for GMMW at NOAA/NWS
• Airport information for GMMW at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.

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