DSS
Blaise Diagne International Airport
Blaise Diagne International Airport (IATA: DSS, ICAO: GOBD) is a large airport in Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal. It opened on 7 Dec 2017. It has one runway, 3,500 m (11,483 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 2.0 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 2017–201707 DEC 2017
OpenedBlaise Diagne International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap01/19359° / 179° · LIT
LENGTH3,500 m11,483 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2018–20212.3M
2.5M
1.2M
2.0M
18192021
Routes
30 destinations · 20 countriesYear-round20
OXBOsvaldo Vieira International AirportGuinea-Bissau · Air Côte d'Ivoire, Turkish Airlines345 km214 miSIDAmílcar Cabral International AirportCape Verde · Air Senegal670 km416 miLPAGran Canaria AirportSpain · Binter Canarias1,485 km923 miNIMDiori Hamani International AirportNiger · Air Senegal2,081 km1,293 miLFWLomé–Tokoin International AirportTogo · Asky Airlines2,214 km1,376 miCMNMohammed V International AirportMorocco · Royal Air Maroc2,288 km1,422 miLISLisbon Humberto Delgado AirportPortugal · TAP Air Portugal2,791 km1,734 miBCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Vueling3,489 km2,168 miMRSMarseille Provence AirportFrance · Transavia3,836 km2,384 miNTENantes Atlantique AirportFrance · Transavia3,885 km2,414 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · ITA Airways4,126 km2,564 miMXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · Neos4,204 km2,612 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France4,217 km2,620 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Brussels Airlines4,468 km2,776 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines5,296 km3,291 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines6,100 km3,790 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines6,160 km3,828 miNBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Kenya Airways6,200 km3,853 miYULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Transat6,272 km3,897 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Emirates7,579 km4,709 miSeasonal8
TLSToulouse-Blagnac AirportFrance · Transavia3,665 km2,277 miBODBordeaux–Mérignac AirportFrance · Transavia3,690 km2,293 miNCENice-Côte d'Azur AirportFrance · Transavia3,962 km2,462 miLYSLyon Saint-Exupéry AirportFrance · Transavia4,027 km2,502 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · TUI Airways4,329 km2,690 miLILLille AirportFrance · Transavia4,385 km2,725 miLUXLuxembourg-Findel International AirportLuxembourg · Luxair4,423 km2,748 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · TUI fly Netherlands4,610 km2,865 miSeasonal charter1
PRGVáclav Havel Airport PragueCzechia · Smartwings4,847 km3,012 miMost destinationsTransavia 7Turkish Airlines 2Air Senegal 2Air Côte d'Ivoire 1Binter Canarias 1Asky Airlines 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from DSS. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Blaise Diagne International Airport” (revision of 29 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
4 channelsARR120.500
TWR118.800
ATISATIS EN126.200
ATISATIS FR126.600