<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Luanda International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The construction of the airport began in 1951, in order to serve the capital of the former-Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola.</p>
<p class="blog-para">It was inaugurated in 1954, by the Portuguese President Craveiro Lopes, which in his honor, the airport was named Aeroporto Presidente Craveiro Lopes (President Craveiro Lopes Airport).</p>
<p class="blog-para">In August, September, and October 1975 the airport hosted tens of thousands of mostly white Portuguese Angolans fleeing to Lisbon (during Operation Air Bridge) who camped-out while awaiting evacuation flights during the weeks before Angola's Independence.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Following Angola's independence from Portugal (in November 1975), the airport was renamed Aeroporto Quatro de Fevereiro Internacional (Fourth of February International Airport) to commemorate the events leading to the independence of the state.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Facilities</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport is at an elevation of 243 feet (74 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 05/23 is 3,716 by 45 metres (12,192 ft &times; 148 ft) and 07/25 is 2,600 by 60 metres (8,530 ft &times; 197 ft).</p>
<p class="blog-para">Starting no earlier than 2022, the airport will be replaced by the new Angola International Airport. Construction work has already started, but its opening was postponed due to financial difficulties on the part of the Angolan government.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">About Luanda International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Luanda International Airport, (IATA Airport Code: LAD) is the current international airport serving Angola's capital city Luanda and the rest of Angola,</p>
<p class="blog-para">via a network of provincial airports, and is soon to be replaced by the new Angola International Airport, which lies approximately 30 km to the east of Luanda.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The Republic of Angola is served from Luanda International Airport via 12 provincial Airports. Luanda International Airport is also known as Quatro de Fevereiro Airport or in Portuguese, Aeroporto Internacional Quatro de Fevereiro, with reference to the date of the start of the movement for independence from Portugal in 1975.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Rapid expansion of the international airport facility is urgently required to meet the growing opportunities for business and tourism to Luanda, the gateway to the rest of the Republic of Angola, in South West Africa. Luanda Airport is officially known by its Portuguese name 'Aeroporto Internacional 4 de Fevereiro' after the date the Republic of Angola gained independence from Portugal.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Scheduled International services include flights to Lisbon (7 days a week), Rio de Janeiro (3 days a week), Sao Paulo (4 days a week), Beijing (3 days a week), Dubai (3 days a week), Porto (3 days a week) and London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt and Madrid are all scheduled to fly twice weekly.</p>
<p class="blog-para">SonAir operate a chartered service to Houston Intercontinental Airport from Luanda Airport Angola. The 'Houston Express' was introduced to satisfy the needs of Angolas' growing oil industry, but some seats are available for anyone to use this service.</p>
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