Blaise Diagne International Airport (French: A├®roport international Blaise Diagne, IATA: DSS, ICAO: GOBD) is an international airport near the town of Diass in Thi├¿s Region, Senegal, 43 kilometres (27 mi) east of downtown Dakar. It serves as the main airport for Dakar, replacing L├®opold S├®dar Senghor International Airport, which had become too small. It is named after Blaise Diagne, the first black African elected to France's parliament in 1914. Regular flights are operated from it to destinations across many parts of Africa, as well as to Europe, Macaronesia, the Middle East, and the USA.