Margaret Ekpo International Airport
Airport serving Calabar, Nigeria
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Margaret Ekpo International Airport (IATA: CBQ, ICAO: DNCA), also known as Calabar Airport, is an airport serving Calabar, the capital of the Cross River State in Nigeria. The airport is named after Margaret Ekpo, who was one of Nigeria's pioneering feminists and anticolonial activists. It was commissioned in 1983 by Alhaji Shehu Shagari, then president of Nigeria.[4]
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorFederal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)
ElevationAMSL210 ft / 64 m
Margaret Ekpo International Airport Calabar Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) | ||||||||||
| Serves | Calabar, Nigeria | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 210 ft / 64 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 4°58′33″N 8°20′50″E | ||||||||||
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  CBQ Location of the airport in Nigeria | |||||||||||
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| Sources: FAAN[1] WAD[2] GCM[3] | |||||||||||
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
These data show the number of passengers' movements into the airport, according to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria's Aviation Sector Summary Reports.
| Year | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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| Passengers | 136,153 | 167,767 | 207,542 | 273,586 | 316,736 | 281,935 | 153,068 | 206,168 | 198,157 | 204,036 | 189,908 |
| Growth (%) |  4.40% |  23.22% | 23.71% | 31.82% | 15.77% | 10.99% | 45.71% | 34.69% | 3.89% | 2.97% | 6.92% |
| Source: Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Aviation Sector Reports (2010-2013,[5] 2014,[6] Q3-Q4 of 2015,[7] and Q1-Q2 of 2016[8]) | |||||||||||
