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Rabah Bitat Airport

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Coordinates: 36°49′20″N 007°48′34″E / 36.82222, 7.80944

Rabah Bitat Airport El Mellah Airport
IATA: AAE – ICAO: DABB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		EGSA-Constantine
Serves		Annaba, Algeria
Elevation AMSL		5 m / 16 ft
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
01/19	3,000	9,843	Asphalt
05/23	2,290	7,513	Asphalt
Sources: AIP ^[1] and DAFIF ^[2]^[3]

Rabah Bitat Airport (IATA: AAE, ICAO: DABB), formerly known as Les Salines Airport, and popularly as El Mellah Airport is an international airport located 9 km south of Annaba, a city in Algeria.^[1] It is named after Rabah Bitat, a president of Algeria (1978-1979).

1 Facilities
- 1.1 Terminal
- 1.2 Statistics
2 Airlines and destinations
- 2.1 Domestic
- 2.2 International
3 References
4 External links

Facilities

Terminal

The terminal has an annual capacity of 500,000 passengers. A project to build a new international terminal has been awarded to the Egyptian company Arab Contractor. The terminal should be completed in 2007, leaving the existing one for hajj flights and peak season charters to Europe.

Statistics

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Passengers
Total	416,022	435,451	349,008	348,503	360,121
Domestic	316,751	331,580	239,114	247,855	250,285
International	99,271	103,871	109,894	100,648	109,836
Freight
Total	302.750	357.270	329.148	328.180	359.217
Domestic	185.532	180.773	147.519	215.883	237.124
International	117.218	176.497	181.629	112.297	122.093
Aircraft movements
Total	9,060	6,468	6,071	5,995	6,203
Domestic	8,089	5,439	4,849	4,893	5,041
International	971	1,029	1,177	1,102	1,162

Airlines and destinations

Domestic

Air Algerie (Algiers, Oran)

International

Aigle Azur (Marseille, Paris-Orly)
Air Algerie (Lyon, Marseille, Paris-Orly)

References

^ ^a ^b AIP and Chart from Service d'Information Aéronautique - Algerie (French)
^ Airport information for DABB at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
^ Airport information for AAE / DABB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF. Retrieved 2007-11-26.