Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International Airport guide

Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International Airport is Burundi's only international airport and the only one in the country with a paved runway. It sits in the extreme northwest of Bujumbura Mairie Province, on the western side of the capital, and carries the ICAO code HBBA. The airport opened in 1952 and took its present name in July 2019, in honour of Melchior Ndadaye, Burundi's first democratically elected president.

The single asphalt runway, 17/35, is 3,600 metres long. One passenger terminal handles both international and domestic flights, with arrivals and departures side by side. Scheduled passenger service has included Air Tanzania, Brussels Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, Kenya Airways, RwandAir and Uganda Airlines, linking Bujumbura with Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kigali, Entebbe, Dar es Salaam and Brussels. Ethiopian Airlines Cargo also flies freight.

A renovation and expansion programme under Sino-Burundian cooperation began in August 2024. The first phase covers a runway extension, rehabilitation of aircraft movement and parking areas, and a new control tower. The second phase includes further modernisation and a new passenger terminal.