MAURITANIA’S NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ENTRENCHES OPERATIONS AS NEWEST MAJOR HUB IN NORTH-WEST AFRICA
May 1st, 2017
With a capacity to handle two million passengers annually, Mauritania’s new Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport, serving its capital Nouakchott, is important in terms of its scale: it is “the largest project undertaken” in the country since 1960, Mauritania’s minister of culture and handcraft, Mohamed Lemine Ould Cheikh has said.
Last year on June 23, the first commercial flight, by Turkish Airlines, landed at the airport and since then, it has been servicing 15 destinations in North Africa and Europe. Airlines using the airport have also ...
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