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Oran Es Senia Airport:

Coordinates: 35°37′38″N 000°36′41″W / 35.62722, -0.61139

Oran Es-Sénia Airport مطار السانية وهران
IATA: ORN – ICAO: DAOO
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		EGSA
Serves		Oran, Algeria
Location		Es Sénia, Algeria
Elevation AMSL		90 m / 295 ft
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
07/25	3,060	10,039	Asphalt
Sources: Algerian AIP ^[1] and DAFIF ^[2]^[3]

Oran Es Sénia Airport (Arabic: مطار السانية / وهران‎) (IATA: ORN, ICAO: DAOO) is an airport located 4.7 nm (8.7 km) south of Oran, near Es Sénia, in Algeria.

1 History
2 Project 2007
3 Airlines and destinations
4 Incident
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

The training paid off when the 509th spearheaded the Allied invasion of North Africa. The longest Airborne operation occurred 8 November 1942. After a C-47 flight of over 1600 miles from England, the battalion seized Tafarquay Airport in Oran, Algeria by parachute assault.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Project 2007

Andrade Gutierrez, a Brazilian company has won a contract to construct a new runway in Oran Airport, located in the second largest city in Algeria. The construction work is estimated to be EUR 20 million. Oran has a population of around 650,000. Being the second largest city of the country, Oran is an important industrial, educational and cultural centre. The construction work at Oran airport is the second contract won by the company in Algeria.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aigle Azur (Marseille, Lille, Lyon, Paris-Orly, Toulouse)
Air Algérie (Adrar, Algiers, Alicante, Annaba, Bechar, Brussels [seasonal], Casablanca, Constantine, Geneva, Hassi Messaoud, In Amenas, Jeddah, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier [seasonal], Nice [seasonal], Paris-Orly, Ouargla, Toulouse)
Air Méditerranée (Toulouse)
Corsairfly (Paris-Orly)
Iberia Airlines
- operated by Air Nostrum (Alicante)
Nouvelair (Tunis)
Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca, Marrakech)
Tassili Airlines (Hassi Messaoud, Hassi R'mel)
Tunisair (Tunis)

[edit] Incident

A passenger on a flight from Oran, Algeria to Paris, France sparked panic when he threatened to blow up the jet with more than 150 people on board over Paris. He was overpowered by the crew and the flight landed safely.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

^ AIP and Chart from Service d'Information Aéronautique - Algerie (French)
^ Airport information for DAOO at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.. Source: DAFIF.
^ Airport information for ORN / DAOO at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).