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Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport (OUA)

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · ICAO DFFD · IATA OUA

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Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport (DFFD)0422
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 21 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
ICAO code
DFFD
IATA code
OUA
Elevation
1,037 ft
Longest runway
9,843 ft (04/22)
Runways
1
Size class
Large
Position
12.3532, -1.5124

About DFFD

Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport (OUA) is a large airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, with the ICAO code DFFD. It has one runway, 04/22, 9,843 ft long and 148 ft wide, with a hard surface. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 23 taxiway segments, 9 aprons and 3 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 16 airlines have 97 routes through DFFD. Its most frequent links are Abidjan (ABJ), Zaventem (BRU) and Niamey (NIM).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
04 / 229,843 ft148 ftHardLit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • Brussels BEL18 routes
  • Air France AFR11 routes
  • Royal Air Maroc RAM10 routes
  • Turkish THY8 routes
  • Ethiopian ETH6 routes
  • Air Algerie DAH3 routes
  • United UAL2 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: VBW, VRE, SZN, SKK, AFW, TAR, AAW, SWT.

Connected airports

Nearby airports with maps

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.