Ain Beida Airport guide

Ain Beida Airport serves Ouargla, a Saharan city in eastern Algeria about 540 km southeast of Algiers. It lies roughly 8 km southeast of the city centre, at an elevation of 152 metres. The IATA code is OGX and the ICAO code is DAUU.

The airport has two asphalt runways, 02/20 and 18/36, each 3,000 metres long. That length handles large jets, and the Ouargla VOR-DME and NDB beacons north of the runways support approaches. The airport is public and military, and EGSA Alger, the authority that also runs Algiers Houari Boumediene Airport, operates it.

Air Algérie is the main scheduled carrier. It flies to Algiers, Constantine, Oran, Adrar, Djanet, El Golea, Illizi, In Amenas and Tamanrasset. Services are domestic, and the schedule changes by season, so check with the airline before travelling. No official passenger statistics are published for the airport.

The site was known as Sedrata Airfield during World War II, when the United States Twelfth Air Force used it in 1942 and 1943. Today it connects the oil and gas region around Ouargla with the north of the country and with other Saharan towns.