Tanga Airport

Airport located in Tanga Region, Tanzania

TGT

Location of airport in Tanzania

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
06/24	1,255	4,117	Asphalt
14/32	1,388	4,554	Grass

Statistics (2013)

Passengers	21,271
Aircraft movements	3,444

Source: TAA^[1] GCM^[2] Google Maps^[3]

Tanga Airport (IATA: TGT, ICAO: HTTG) (Uwanja wa Ndege wa Tanga, in Swahili) is a small domestic airport located in Mwanzange ward of Tanga City Council in Tanga Region, Tanzania. It is the sole airport in the regional capital city of Tanga.

It is 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city, off the A14 trunk road. The airport has scheduled flights to Arusha, Dar es Salaam and the Zanzibar Archipelago islands of Unguja and Pemba.

The Tanga non-directional beacon (Ident: TG) is located on the field.^[4]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
As Salaam Air	Pemba
Auric Air	Pemba, Zanzibar
Coastal Aviation	Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Pemba, Zanzibar

Traffic and statistics

**Passenger numbers at Tanga**^[1]
Year	Passengers handled	Cargo (tonnes)	Aircraft movements
1999	918	–	314
2000	963	–	297
2001	3,407	–	782
2002	9,552	–	1,336
2003	5,864	–	1,084
2004	7,113	–	1,324
2005	7,153	11.857	1,250
2006	8,201	32.133	1,410
2007	7,705	30.310	1,289
2008	8,447	35.245	1,588
2009	9,759	45.121	1,534
2010	9,277	38.919	1,552
2011	13,509	–	2,286
2012	20,020	10.000	3,339
2013	21,271	–	3,444

References

^ ^a ^b "Consolidated Traffic Statistics". Tanzania Airports Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-24. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
^ Airport information for TGT at Great Circle Mapper.
^ "Tanga Airport". Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
^ "SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts". skyvector.com. Retrieved 2018-08-28.