Angads Airport

"OUD" redirects here. For other uses, see Oud (disambiguation).

Oujda Angads Airport (مطار وجدة أنجاد) (IATA: OUD, ICAO: GMFO) is an airport serving Oujda,^[2] a city in the Oriental region in Morocco. It is located about 12 kilometres (7 mi) north of Oujda and about 600 kilometres (373 mi) northeast of Casablanca, near the Algerian border.

Oujda Angad Airport مطار وجدة أنجاد (Arabic) Aéroport d'Oujda-Angad (French)
IATA: OUD ICAO: GMFO
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	ONDA
Serves	Oujda, Morocco
Elevation AMSL	1,535 ft / 468 m
Coordinates	34°47′14″N 001°55′26″W
Map
OUD Location of airport in Morocco
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 06/24 3,000 9,843 Asphalt/Bitumen 13/31 3,000 9,843 Asphalt/Bitumen
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 701,913[1] Passenger change 18-19 +3.83%
Source: DAFIF[2][3]

History

During World War II, the airport was used as a military airfield by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force during the North African campaign. It was called RAF Oujda and Oujda Airfield. Known units assigned were:

• HQ 5th Bombardment Wing, December 1942 – January 1943
• HQ 52d Troop Carrier Wing, 8 May – July 1943
• 68th Reconnaissance Group, November 1942 – 24 March 1943 (Various photo-reconnaissance aircraft)
• 313th Troop Carrier Group, 9 May – 16 June 1943 C-47 Skytrain
• 319th Bombardment Group, 3 March – 25 April 1943 B-26 Marauder
• 350th Fighter Group, 6 January – 14 February 1943 P-39/P-400 Airacobra

After the Americans moved out their active units in mid-1943, the airport was used as a stopover and landing field for Air Transport Command aircraft on the Casablanca-Algiers transport route. When WWII ended, the control of the airfield was returned to civil authorities.^[4][5][6]

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 1,535 feet (468 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways designated 06/24 and 13/31 each with an asphalt/bitumen surface and each measuring 3,000 by 45 metres (9,843 ft × 148 ft).^[2]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Oujda-Angads Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia	Brussels,[7] Marseille[citation needed], Murcia,[7] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[7] Rabat[8] Seasonal: Barcelona[9][better source needed], Charleroi[10][better source needed], Lille[11][better source needed], Lyon[11][better source needed], Montpellier[11]
Air Nostrum	Seasonal charter: Lisbon,[12] Porto[12]
ASL Airlines France	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[13] Strasbourg
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels[14]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca,[15] Paris–Orly[16] Seasonal: Brussels,[16] Düsseldorf,[17] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[18] Rotterdam[19]
Ryanair	Agadir,[20] Barcelona,[7] Beauvais,[7] Charleroi,[7] Marrakesh,[20] Marseille,[7] Tangier,[20] Toulouse,[7] Weeze[7]
Transavia	Paris–Orly Seasonal: Bastia,[21] Lyon,[citation needed] Nantes[22]
TUI fly Belgium[23]	Brussels[24][23] Seasonal: Antwerp,[25] Eindhoven,[7] Lille,[citation needed] Paris–Orly,[7] Rotterdam/The Hague[citation needed]

Traffic statistics

Annual passenger traffic at OUD airport. See Wikidata query.

Item[26]	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002
Movements[27]	3546	3108	3316	3031	2303	2199
Passengers[28]	315,006	242,080	225,444	193,036	180,406	168,385
Cargo (metric tons)[29]	451.09	451.09	202.08	197.14	260.99	618.10