Kamembe Airport
| Kamembe International Airport | |||||||||||
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| IATA: KME – ICAO: HRZA | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Civil | ||||||||||
| Owner | Rwandan Government | ||||||||||
| Operator | Rwanda Airports Authority | ||||||||||
| Serves | Cyangugu | ||||||||||
| Location | Kamembe, Rwanda | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,491 m / 4,891 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 02°27′44″S 028°54′28″E / 2.46222°S 28.90778°ECoordinates: 02°27′44″S 028°54′28″E / 2.46222°S 28.90778°E | ||||||||||
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  KME Location of the airport in Rwanda | |||||||||||
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Kamembe International Airport is an airport for Cyangugu and Kamembe in Rwanda (IATA: KME, ICAO: HRZA). RwandAir had operated a Dash 8-Q400 with nine flights per week to and from Kigali, but has currently suspended service until runway resurfacing is completed.[2] The airport receives charter flights from Tanzania, Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo, though not on a regular schedule.
During the Rwandan Civil War, Kamembe airport was suggested as a site for transiting French arms to the interim government after April 1994.
The airport terminal building was heavily damaged by a 2008 earthquake, and early in 2010 the Rwanda government announced that Kamembe Airport would be modernized.[3] By the end of 2012 a new terminal was completed, a new control tower was opened, and Techno Sky, a branch of the Italian publicly owned ENAV corporation, had installed new navigation systems.[4]
During a May 2013 visit, Infrastructure Minister Albert Nsengiyumva announced that the runway would be widened and lengthened from 1.5 kilometres to 2.2 kilometres by 2014-2015.[5] The airport re-opened in June 2015 and RwandAir began scheduled flights from the airport.[6]
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| RwandAir | Kigali |
References
- ↑ Airport information for HRZA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- ↑ RwandAir Flight Schedules, 2015. Accessed 19 March 2015.
- ↑ Gérard Rugambwa, L'aéroport de Kamembe va être réhabilité ("Kamembe Airport to be rehabilitated"), 7 June 2010 (archived link). Accessed 19 March 2015.
- ↑ Techno Sky (Italy) wins a contract with the Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority, 11 June 2012. Accessed 19 March 2015.
- ↑ "Rehabilitation works at Kamembe Airport are completed and plans of extending Landing site to 2 kilometres length by 2015 are in place to increase the capacity of handling many planes at the same time"
- ↑ Thome, Wolfgang (15 June 2015). "Kamembe Airport ready to open new runway". Retrieved 16 August 2016.