Touat-Cheikh Sidi Mohamed Belkebir Airport guide

Touat-Cheikh Sidi Mohamed Belkebir Airport serves Adrar, the capital of Adrar Province in the Algerian Sahara. It sits at 280 metres above sea level, about 11 km southeast of the city centre. The ICAO code is DAUA.

Construction began in 1978 and finished at the end of 1980. A Boeing 737 test flight followed in 1981, and the runway was strengthened before the airport entered service. It replaced the older Adrar Aerodrome on 15 January 1983, and that aerodrome was later closed.

The single asphalt runway, 04/22, is 3,000 metres long. That length takes large jets, which suits a remote desert region where air travel links Adrar to the north of the country. Scheduled flights are domestic, run by Air Algérie and Tassili Airlines. Air Algérie flies to Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Ouargla, In Salah, Tamanrasset and Bordj Badji Mokhtar. Tassili Airlines flies to Algiers and Oran.

Traffic is modest. The airport handled 92,197 passengers in 2013, up from 41,418 in 2011.