Margaret Ekpo International Airport

ICAO DNCA4.9760°N 8.3472°E64 m / 210 ftMedium airport

Margaret Ekpo International Airport (IATA: CBQ, ICAO: DNCA) is a medium airport in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. It has one runway, 2,451 m (8,040 ft) long, asphalt. In 2017 it handled 157 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

03/21027° / 207° · LIT

LENGTH2,451 m8,040 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2017

195K

203K

157K

151617

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

ABVNnamdi Azikiwe International AirportNigeria · Air Peace, Aero Contractors, Ibom Air464 km288 mi LOSMurtala Muhammed International AirportNigeria · Air Peace, Aero Contractors, Ibom Air584 km363 mi

Most destinationsAir Peace 2Aero Contractors 2Ibom Air 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CBQ. From the Wikipedia article “Margaret Ekpo International Airport” (revision of 16 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers157K (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,642of 3,974 · #108 Africa · #10 NG Longest runway2,451 m8,040 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,657of 29,823 · #334 Africa · #24 NG Elevation64 m210 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=33,582of 43,341 · =2,757 Africa · =39 NG Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =3 NG

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

TWRTWR124.500