There are many airports in Senegal. Most of the airports in Senegal boast of well paved runways. These runways help airplanes to taxi down them smoothly before taking off and while landing. Pilots of global airliners have opined that it is a pleasure taxiing down the runways of the airports in Senegal.
Some of the first-class airports in Senegal that have paved and almost frictionless runways are the Leopold Sedar Senghor Airport in Dakar, Ziguinchor Airport in Ziguinchor, Bakel Airport in Bakel, St Louis Airport in St Louis, Kolda Airport in Kolda, Tambacounda Airport in Tambacounda, Cap Skiring Airport in Cap Skiring, Kaolack Airport in Kaolack, and Kedougou Airport in Kedougou. Most of these airports in Senegal are passenger airports and fighter and military aircrafts rarely make them their bases for landing.
Senegal's flagship carrier Air Senegal International operates across the different airports in the different cities of Senegal. The aircrafts of this airliner land at the Saint Louis Airport in Saint Louis, Tambacounda Airport in Tambacounda, the Ziguinchor Airport in Ziguinchor, the Dakar-Yoff-Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Dakar and some of the lesser known airports in Senegal.
Among the different airports in Senegal, the Dakar-Yoff-Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Dakar deserves a special mention. This Airport in the capital of Senegal is the landing ground for robust Boeing 747 carriers. This airport is one of the airports in Senegal that boasts of impressive statistics. About three years ago, the Dakar-Yoff-Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Dakar handled over one million travelers as well as a sizeable amount of cargo. Packaged shipments carried by Lufthansa and Swiss Airlines land regularly at this Airport.
Some of the global airliners that land at this Airport are Air Europa, an airliner that operates from Madrid; Air France, an airliner that operates from Paris; Alitalia, an airliner that operates from Milan; Brussels Airlines, Delta Airlines, an airliner that operates from Atlanta and New York; and South Africa Airlines, an airliner that operates from Johannesburg as well as from New York and Washington, and other cities.
Most of the airports in Senegal house spacious lounges where passengers can sit comfortably and wait before they board flights for departing the soils of Senegal. The duty free shops are excellent and stock a whole host of goods which the travelers buy as last-minute purchases.
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