Abeid Amani Karume International Airport

Abeid Amani Karume International Airport
IATA: ZNZ – ICAO: HTZA – WMO: 63870
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of Zanzibar
Operator	Zanzibar Airports Authority
Serves	Zanzibar City
Location	Unguja Island, Zanzibar
Hub for	ZanAir
Elevation AMSL	54 ft / 16 m
Coordinates
Map
ZNZ Location of airport in Tanzania
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 18/36 3,007 9,865 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 934,337 Aircraft movements 50,672 Metric KGs of cargo 1,735
Source: TAA

Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (IATA: ZNZ, ICAO: HTZA) (Swahili: Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Abeid Amani Karume) is the main airport in the Zanzibar Archipelago located on Unguja Island. It is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Zanzibar City, the capital of Zanzibar, and has flights to East Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

It was previously known as Kisauni Airport and Zanzibar International Airport. It was renamed in 2010 in honour of Abeid Amani Karume, the island's first president.

Terminals

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 is active for all landing aircraft. A new shelter on the entrance of the airport has been put in place.

Terminal 2

Construction of the second terminal started in January 2011 by the Chinese Beijing Construction Engineering Group. A new apron of 100,000 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft) will replace the existing 21,000 square metres (230,000 sq ft). The project is estimated to cost about US$70.4 million. On completion, it will have the capacity to serve up to 1.5 million passengers per year. The new terminal was expected to be operational in 2014, but construction work was still ongoing in August 2015. Once completed, terminal 1 will become the domestic flight terminal.

Airlines and destinations

Old Terminal Building

Aerial view.

On approach to the airport.

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Alitalia	Seasonal charter: Rome–Fiumicino
Arkia Israel Airlines	Seasonal: Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Coastal Aviation	Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Kilwa Masoko, Mafia Island, Manyara, Mwanza, Pemba Island, Serengeti, Tanga
Condor	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich (begins 25 March 2016)
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam
Fastjet	Dar es Salaam, Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo
Fly540	Mombasa, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
flydubai	Dubai–International
Flightlink Limited	Dar es Salaam, Pemba Island, Arusha, Serengeti
Israir	Seasonal: Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Jetairfly	Seasonal: Brussels
Kenya Airways	Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw-Chopin
Mango	Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo
Meridiana	Seasonal: Milan-Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Mombasa
Neos	Seasonal: Milan-Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino Seasonal charter: Bologna Verona
Oman Air	Muscat
Precision Air	Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
Qatar Airways	Doha
Regional Air Services	Arusha
Travel Service Airlines	Seasonal charter: Prague
Tropical Air	Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, Pemba Island
TUI Airlines Netherlands	Charter: Amsterdam
ZanAir	Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Pemba Island, Saadani, Selous

Note:

: Qatar Airways' inbound flights from Doha to Zanzibar make a stop in Kilimanjaro. However, the airline does not have traffic rights to transport passengers solely between Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar.

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Astral Aviation	Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
Kenya Airways Cargo	Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta, Mombasa

Statistics

• Number of flights handled (2005): 14,302
• Passenger Traffic (2005): 418,814
• Cargo handled (2005): 566 tons

Incidents

A Eurofly Airbus A330-200 had a winglet severely damaged by Precision Air ATR 5H-PWC which was taxiing. The tailfin of the ATR impacted the right-hand wingtip of the Eurofly Airbus. It is not known whether the ATR received bad marshaling instruction which led to the collision. The parking situation in Zanzibar has been extremely chaotic in recent times. The matter will now be investigated by the Tanzanian Civil Aviation Authority.

External links

• Zanzibar International Airport
• Current weather for Zanzibar / Kisauni, Tanzania (HTZA) at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for ZNZ at Aviation Safety Network