<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Arusha Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Arusha airport was built in the year 1956 by Colonel Grey who was a big farmer cultivating coffee and sorghum in the area of Burka and Mateves, After Tanganyika independence in the year of 1961 the airport was officially handled to the government.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport was run under East African airways, after the break down of East African community 1977 the airport was handed over to Agricultural department called KILIMO HANGER to run the airport. The inception of Tanzania airports Authority in the year 1999 as an executive agency mandated to operate and run all government airports and airstrips within Tanzania mainland.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport is managed by the airport manager who is also responsible for monitoring and managing the Loliondo airstrip.</p>
<p class="blog-para">As per ICAO standards, annex 14, Aerodrome design manual, Arusha airport is classified as a code 3C airport</p>
<p class="blog-para">Current the airport has a runway of 1860 meter length and 30 meter wide with its orientation of 09 and 27, PCN 15/F/B/Y/T after complited of extension of runway project which make a total of 1860 meter long and its turning pads both ends</p>
<p class="blog-para">Arusha airport has five taxiways; Taxiway A, B, C, D and P (parallel taxiway) which has 500m length and 7.5 width joining the remote apron, runway 09 and taxiway &ldquo; A&rdquo;,</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3">Facilities Arusha Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The IATA code for the airport is ARK. Cleartrip provides information about the different airline brands that operate from Arusha airport and also a list of top domestic and international routes from Arusha.</p>
<p class="blog-para">There are different domestic and international airlines that operate from Arusha airport. Out of them, the airline brands that operate more frequently are translation missing: en.airlines.CQ, Eurocypria Airlines, Barents Airlink and Precision Air. In addition to this, the most popular sectors from Arusha are Arusha to Dar Es Salaam, Arusha to Zanzibar with 62, 62 weekly flights respectively. Airline 134 to Zanzibar is the first flight that departs from Arusha airport at 12:45 PM, followed by Eurocypria Airlines airline 614 to Dar Es Salaam at 12:45 PM. Whereas Precision Air airline 431 to Zanzibar is the last flight that departs from Arusha airport at 3:50 PM.</p>
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