LBV
Libreville Leon M'ba International Airport
Libreville Leon M'ba International Airport (IATA: LBV, ICAO: FOOL) is a large airport in Libreville, Estuaire Province, Gabon. It has one runway, 3,001 m (9,844 ft) long, asphalt. In 2017 it handled 690 thousand passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1977–200402 APR 1977
DisasterQ17154651.8 killed
08 JUN 2004
DisasterGabon Express Flight 221.19 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap16/34154° / 334° · LIT
LENGTH3,001 m9,844 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2011–2017783K
840K
809K
714K
690K
1112151617
Routes
25 destinations · 20 countriesYear-round24
POGPort Gentil International AirportGabon · AfriJet149 km93 miPCPPrincipe AirportSão Tomé & Príncipe · AfriJet260 km162 miOYEOyem AirportGabon · AfriJet270 km168 miTMSSão Tomé International AirportSão Tomé & Príncipe · AfriJet, Asky Airlines300 km186 miSSGMalabo International AirportEquatorial Guinea · Ethiopian Airlines375 km233 miDLADouala International AirportCameroon · AfriJet, Asky Airlines, Trans Air Congo +2396 km246 miNSIYaoundé Nsimalen International AirportCameroon · AfriJet, Asky Airlines, RwandAir +1434 km270 miMVBM'Vengue El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba International AirportGabon · AfriJet506 km314 miPNRAntonio Agostinho-Neto International AirportCongo - Brazzaville · AfriJet, Trans Air Congo, Air Côte d'Ivoire +2648 km403 miBZVMaya-Maya International AirportCongo - Brazzaville · AfriJet, Air Côte d'Ivoire834 km518 miFIHNdjili International AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Asky Airlines860 km534 miLOSMurtala Muhammed International AirportNigeria · Air Côte d'Ivoire959 km596 miCOOCotonou Cadjehoun International AirportBenin · AfriJet, Air Côte d'Ivoire, Camair-Co1,019 km633 miBGFBangui M'Poko International AirportCentral African Republic · AfriJet1,102 km685 miLFWLomé–Tokoin International AirportTogo · Asky Airlines1,105 km687 miLADQuatro de Fevereiro International AirportAngola · Turkish Airlines1,119 km695 miABJFélix-Houphouët-Boigny International AirportCôte d’Ivoire · Air Côte d'Ivoire1,574 km978 miKGLKigali International AirportRwanda · RwandAir2,320 km1,442 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines3,388 km2,105 miJNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Asky Airlines, FlyGabon3,582 km2,226 miCMNMohammed V International AirportMorocco · Royal Air Maroc4,067 km2,527 miALGHouari Boumediene AirportAlgeria · Air Algérie4,079 km2,535 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines4,937 km3,068 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France5,438 km3,379 miCargo6
POGPort Gentil International AirportGabon · DHL Aviation149 km93 miMVBM'Vengue El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba International AirportGabon · DHL Aviation506 km314 miABJFélix-Houphouët-Boigny International AirportCôte d’Ivoire · Ethiopian Airlines, DHL Aviation1,574 km978 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines, Royal Air Maroc3,388 km2,105 miCMNMohammed V International AirportMorocco · Royal Air Maroc4,067 km2,527 miLUXLuxembourg-Findel International AirportLuxembourg · Cargolux5,476 km3,403 miStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LBV. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Léon-Mba International Airport” (revision of 25 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Airlines
20 airlines · destinations from LBVHub airlines6
—Air ExcellenceX7Air Service GabonG2Jet ExpressNRTNationale Regionale TransportSGNouvelle Air Affaires GabonGVSky GabonFormer hub of Air Gabon, Air Max Africa and Gabon Airlines.
Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from LBV. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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
3 channelsA/GA/G VOICE RDO655.900
RDOLIBREVILLE RDO666.600
TWRTWR118.700