Blaise Diagne International Airport
is an international airport near the town of Diass in Thiès Region, Senegal.
43 Kilometer east of downtown Dakar.
It serves as the main airport for Dakar,
replacing Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, which had become too small.

Regular flights are operated to destinations across many parts of Africa,
as well as to Europe, Macaronesia, the Middle East, and the United States.
The airport was originally expected to be operational at the end of the year 2011
but this date was pushed back by almost a year in September of that year.

In September 2012,
Senegalese Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye announced that the airport would open in the first quarter of 2014.

In January 2015,
word spread that the airport would open in June 2015. On April 4, 2015
Reuters announced a new opening date for early 2016.
The expected building costs rose to 566 million euros,
The airport finally opened for scheduled operations on December 7, 2017.


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