BJA

Soummam–Abane Ramdane Airport

ICAO DAAE36.7125°N 5.0699°E6 m / 20 ftLarge airport
On the map

Soummam–Abane Ramdane Airport (IATA: BJA, ICAO: DAAE) is a large airport in Béjaïa, Béjaïa Province, Algeria. It opened in 1958. It has one runway, 2,400 m (7,874 ft) long, asphalt. In 2017 it handled 309 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1958–1958
1958
OpenedSoummam–Abane Ramdane Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Aeroport internationale Soummam - Abane Ramdane
08/26080° / 260° · LIT
LENGTH2,400 m7,874 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2017
301K
318K
309K
151617

Routes

9 destinations · 3 countries
Most destinationsAir Algérie 5ASL Airlines France 3Transavia 2TUI fly Belgium 2Domestic Airlines 1Volotea 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BJA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Abane Ramdane Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers309K (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,330of 3,974 · #87 Africa · #4 DZLongest runway2,400 m7,874 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,844of 29,823 · =346 Africa · =40 DZElevation6 m20 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,220of 43,341 · =3,066 Africa · #74 DZAgeOpened 19582026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,324of 15,079 · =56 Africa · #3 DZRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =24 DZ
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

1 channels
TWRBEJAIA TWR118.900