Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International Airport

ICAO HBBA3.3240°S 29.3185°E787 m / 2,582 ftLarge airport

Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International Airport (IATA: BJM, ICAO: HBBA) is a large airport in Bujumbura, Bujumbura Mairie Province, Burundi. It opened in Dec 1952. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,600 m (11,811 ft). In 2019 it handled 258 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1952–1952

DEC 1952

OpenedBujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

17/35172° / 352° · LIT

LENGTH3,600 m11,811 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

02/20

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Passengers per year

2008–2019

165K

183K

195K

228K

261K

258K

241K

207K

181K

209K

258K

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Routes

7 destinations · 7 countries

Year-round7

KGLKigali International AirportRwanda · RwandAir176 km109 mi GOMGoma International AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Ethiopian Airlines184 km114 mi EBBEntebbe International AirportUganda · Uganda Airlines511 km318 mi NBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Kenya Airways874 km543 mi DARJulius Nyerere International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania1,164 km723 mi ADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines1,725 km1,072 mi BRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Brussels Airlines6,476 km4,024 mi

Cargo2

KGLKigali International AirportRwanda · Ethiopian Airlines176 km109 mi ADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines1,725 km1,072 mi

Most destinationsEthiopian Airlines 3RwandAir 1Uganda Airlines 1Kenya Airways 1Air Tanzania 1Brussels Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BJM. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Melchior Ndadaye International Airport” (revision of 6 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers258K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,416of 3,974 · #92 Africa Longest runway3,600 m11,811 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=383of 29,823 · =45 Africa · #1 BI Elevation787 m2,582 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=6,666of 43,341 · =1,446 Africa · #5 BI AgeOpened 19522026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,844of 15,079 · =47 Africa Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · #1 BI

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

3 channels

APPAPP119.700

GNDGND121.900

TWRTWR118.100