Lomé-Tokoin Airport , also known as Gnassingbé Eyadéma

Gnassingbé Eyadéma

General Gnassingbé Eyadéma , was the President of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005. He participated in two successful military coups, in January 1963 and January 1967, and became President on April 14, 1967...

 International Airport, is an airport in Lomé

Lomé

Lomé, with an estimated population of 737,751, is the capital and largest city of Togo. Located on the Gulf of Guinea, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center and its chief port. The city exports coffee, cocoa, copra, and palm kernels...

, the capital of Togo

Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

. In 2004, the airport served 234,557 passengers. ASKY Airlines

ASKY Airlines

ASKY Airlines is a passenger airline with its head office in Lomé, Togo, operating out of Lomé-Tokoin Airport.-History:The airline was founded in June 2008 by Ethiopian Airlines, which hold a 40 percent stake in ASKY...

, a subsidiary of Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines , formerly Ethiopian Air Lines, often referred to as simply Ethiopian, is an airline headquartered on the grounds of Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It serves as the country's flag carrier, and is wholly owned by the Government of Ethiopia...

, has its hub

Airline hub

An airline hub is an airport that an airline uses as a transfer point to get passengers to their intended destination. It is part of a hub and spoke model, where travelers moving between airports not served by direct flights change planes en route to their destinations...

 at the airport since January 2010.

Airlines and destinations

Accidents and incidents

On August 14, 2008, Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey, headquartered in the Turkish Airlines General Management Building on the grounds of Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy, Bakirköy district, Istanbul...

Flight 1123, en route from Istanbul, Turkey, to Lagos, Nigeria, landed safely at Lomé-Tokoin Airport after experiencing failure of all navigation instruments and radios in night conditions.