Soummam – Abane Ramdane Airport, also known as the Soummam Airport or the Bejaia Airport is an international airport serving Bejaia City in the northern region of the North African nation of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Algeria. Located at a distance of 5 kilometers to the south of the Bejaia city centre, this airport was originally established as a domestic airport in the year 1982. Bejaia however, happening to be the principal oil port of the Western Mediterranean, besides an industrial town developed rapidly enabling the Soummam Airport open to international traffic soon after in the year 1993.