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 miMost destinationsAfriJet 11Asky Airlines 6Air Côte d'Ivoire 5Camair-Co 4Ethiopian Airlines 3RwandAir 3
Straight 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.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 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