Saïss Airport or Fes-Saïss Airport is an airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 serving Fes

Fes

Fes or Fez is the second largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca, with a population of approximately 1 million . It is the capital of the Fès-Boulemane region....

,, the capital city

Capital City

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 of the Fès-Boulemane

Fès-Boulemane

Fès-Boulemane ) is one of the sixteen regions of Morocco. It is situated in northern Morocco. It covers an area of 19,795 km² and has a population of 1,573,055 . The capital is Fès....

 region

Regions of Morocco

Regions of Morocco As part of a 1997 decentralization/regionalization law passed by the legislature 16 new regions were created. It is the current highest administrative division of Morocco. The regions are subdivided into a total of 61 second-order administrative divisions, which are prefectures...

 in Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

.

The airport handled nearly 410,000 passengers in 2008.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 1900 feet (579 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

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 designated 09/27 with an asphalt

Asphalt

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 surface measuring 3200 by 45 m (10,498.7 by 147.6 ).

Airlines and destinations

Fes-Saïss Airport is an international airport operating flights to 18 desitinations in 6 countries in Europe. One of the largest airlines flying to Fes is Ryanair

Ryanair

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 with several flights to Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the UK

Traffic

2010

• Passengers: 743,018 (+40,00%)

2008

• Aircraft Movements: 4,796 (+10.48%)
• Passengers: 409,260 (+22.56%)
• Cargo (tons): 555.39 (+38.72%)

2007

• Aircraft Movements: 4,341
• Passengers: 333,929
• Cargo (tons): 400.38