Chlef Aboubakr Belkaid International Airport guide

Chlef Aboubakr Belkaid International Airport (ICAO: DAOI) serves the city of Chlef and the Chelif valley in northwestern Algeria. It sits on the plain about 5 km north of the city centre, at an elevation of 153 m.

The airport has two asphalt runways: 08/26, which is 2,800 m long, and 07/25, which is 1,650 m. Services are mostly international. Air Algérie flies to Paris and Marseille, with a second Paris carrier operating seasonally. Domestic links to Algiers have also been listed. In mid-2025 Air Algérie operated two weekly return flights to Paris and two to Marseille, and later added a third weekly Marseille service. Passenger numbers are small: the airport handled 50,737 passengers in 2012, a 78 percent rise on the year before.

The airport is managed by EGSA Alger, the national airport services company that runs 17 airports across Algeria. Its exterior lighting was put out to tender for conversion to solar power, and a study for an extension and modernisation of the facilities was reported in its final phase in 2025.