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Amílcar Cabral International Airport (SID)

Espargos, Cape Verde · ICAO GVAC · IATA SID

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Amílcar Cabral International Airport (GVAC)0119
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 21 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Espargos, Cape Verde
ICAO code
GVAC
IATA code
SID
Elevation
177 ft
Longest runway
10,760 ft (01/19)
Runways
1
Size class
Large
Position
16.7414, -22.9494

About GVAC

Amílcar Cabral International Airport (SID) is a large airport in Espargos, Cape Verde, with the ICAO code GVAC. It has one runway, 01/19, 10,760 ft long and 148 ft wide, with a hard surface. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 6 gates, 9 taxiway segments, 1 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 48 airlines have 438 routes through GVAC. Its most frequent links are Rabil (BVC), Amsterdam (AMS) and Zaventem (BRU).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
01 / 1910,760 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 These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date.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

  • TUI TOM52 routes
  • easyJet Europe EJU20 routes
  • TAP TAP16 routes
  • Transavia TVF15 routes
  • easyJet EZY11 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: TFL, TCV, TUI, JAF, TVS, BLX, VKG, NOS and 2 more.

Connected airports

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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.