Ain Arnat Airport guide

Ain Arnat Airport, also called Sétif International Airport, serves the city of Sétif in northeastern Algeria. The ICAO code is DAAS. It sits on the high plateau at 1,010 metres above sea level, about 8 km southwest of the city centre. It is a civil and military airfield, and units of the Algerian Air Force, including a training helicopter regiment, are based there.

The airfield dates back to the French colonial period. Military use continued after independence until 1993, when work on a civil terminal began. The terminal was expanded in 2005-2007 and again in 2019-2021, lifting capacity from 250,000 to more than 450,000 passengers a year. It has separate domestic and international sections, 10 check-in counters and 11 international arrival booths.

A single asphalt runway, 09/27, is roughly 2,900 to 3,000 metres long, depending on the source. It was rebuilt in 2016, and the airport closed for about ten months during the works.

Air Algérie and Tassili Airlines link Sétif with Algiers, and Tassili also flies to Oran. International flights go to France, with Air Algérie, Transavia and Volotea serving Paris-Orly, Lyon and Marseille. The airport handled 248,225 passengers in 2017 and 25,964 in 2020, when the pandemic cut traffic.