<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Felix Houphouet Boigny International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport is managed by Aeria, a private Ivorian company,</p>
<p class="blog-para">who continually developed the airport over the decades and contributing to making it one of the most modern and one of the main hubs of West Africa. It is also a strategic piece of infrastructure for both the delivery of military equipment and, in times of unrest, the evacuation of foreign nationals.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Air Afrique, which was based in Abidjan, ceased all flights in January 2002. Disturbances that took place in Ivory Coast in the early 2000s had a negative impact on the airport. In November 2004, during the French&ndash;</p>
<p class="blog-para">Ivorian clashes that occurred in Abidjan, the airport was looted and damaged. It was taken back by French troops and returned to the Ivorian government in the second half of November. The airport was later refurbished by the Ivorian government and modernized with new modern facilities.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On the night of 2 to 3 April 2011, the airport was again taken by the French troops in order to evacuate French nationals and foreigners, as the final assault against the presidential palace was announced, during the battle for Abidjan. After the civil war ended in April 2011, the airport was returned to the Ivorian government and development projects, paused for almost a decade, were restarted.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Following the gradual recovery of economic activities in Ivory Coast from 2012, investments and projects to increase the capacity of the airport, provided in March 2010, are in the works since October 2011.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In February 2012, Abdoulaye Coulibaly, president of Aeria's board of directors, indicated that he wanted to make the airport suitable for the Airbus A380. Air France did not deny that it could eventually use the A380 on the Paris-Abidjan route if there were sufficiently strong economic growth.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On 4 May 2012, PROPARCO loans 10 billion CFA francs (15 million euros) to Aeria to fund a major expansion and modernization program for the airport. This loan is part of the renewal of Aeria's concession, effective 1 January 2010, for a period of 20 years. This concession provides investment programs in increments of five years. The first slice of 24 million dollars, includes the renovation of the international terminal, the rehabilitation of the charter terminal and development of new infrastructure.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In addition, the refurbishment included an extension of the international terminal of a surface 11 000 to 26 000 m2, the refurbishment of the aircraft parking area, renovation of access roads and the construction of a new parking lot. The ultimate goal is to create a commercial zone next to the airport, with a lodging area, hangars, a convention center, a free zone, office buildings, warehouses, exhibition halls, a shopping center and housing for dedicated staff. On 16 June 2012, the Radisson Hotels group announced the laying of the first stone of the Radisson Blu hotel on the airport grounds. The Radisson Blu opened in the spring of 2016 and has over 200 rooms and suites, as well as a restaurant, outdoor pool and fitness center. Also on the airport grounds, ONOMO Hotels operates a 118-room select-service property. Both the ONOMO and the Radisson Blu are accessible from the passenger terminal via shuttle buses.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Ethiopian Airlines commenced direct flights to Newark aboard Boeing 787s in May 2018. They were the product of negotiations between Ethiopian and the Ivorian government.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The company had signed a codeshare agreement with Air C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire to attract passengers. Tens of thousands were left homeless in January 2020 as homes in Adjoufou, a shanty town near the airport, were demolished, officially for safety reasons. Residents said they were targeted because they are poor.Two months later, Ethiopian suspended its link to Newark because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2023, the carrier began services to New York City.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Port Bouet Airport (also known as F&eacute;lix Houphou&euml;t-Boigny International Airport and Abidjan International Airport) is an international airport serving Abidjan, the largest and capital city of C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire. The airport is served by airlines from across Africa and Europe. Abidjan has extensive connections to francophone countries in Africa, and also has direct connections to France and South and Central Africa.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Abidjan F&eacute;lix Houphou&euml;t-Boigny International Airport has now emerged from the crisis that hampered development of the country these last years. The airport as a capacity of 2 million passengers per year and we have almost reached the range of one million passengers.</p>
<p class="blog-para">AERIA is runned under PPP (PUCLIC PRIVATE PARTENAIRSHIP) throughout a concession. it profits by EGIS GROUP know-how ,member of board of directors .</p>
<p class="blog-para">Under the management of Mr Gilles Darriau , our CEO , The airport acknowledges currently a fast growth of its traffic and record arrival of new carriers. Several projects will also be developed by the end of this year such as a new cargo terminal, luggage delivery improvement, boarding lounge enhancement, runway to accommodate very soon AF A 380</p>
<p class="blog-para">AERIA, operator of the airport, dispose of 3700 Hectares of land for new developments in and around the airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Our airport is currently served by the following airlines: AF AT CV C2 DN EK ET KQ KP L6 ME SN TU VK HF L6 2J 8U SS MS TK SA.</p>
<p class="blog-para">There are opportunities for new routes especially long-haul to the US, to Europe (Only CDG and BRU are served presently), to the Middle East and Asia.</p>
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