Nacala International Airport guide

Nacala International Airport (ICAO: FQNC) serves the port city of Nacala in Nampula Province, northern Mozambique. It stands on the site of a former military airfield, which was rebuilt for civil use by the Brazilian contractor Odebrecht with financing from the Brazilian Development Bank. President Armando Guebuza inaugurated it in December 2014.

The airport has a single asphalt runway, 01/19, measuring 3,100 by 45 metres. That length can handle large wide-body aircraft, well beyond what current scheduled services require. The airport sits at an elevation of about 121 metres and was planned for 500,000 passengers a year and 5,000 tonnes of cargo.

Traffic is far below that design capacity. LAM Mozambique Airlines links Nacala with Maputo, and Airlink is listed on the route to Johannesburg. The airport supports the Nacala deep-water port and the surrounding industrial and mining region, and it is the main air gateway for the northern coast, including Ilha de Moçambique. Aeroportos de Moçambique manages the airport.