Timbuktu Airport

Timbuktu Airport is an airport in Timbuktu, Mali that opened on April 15, 1961.

Airlines and destinations
The start of Sky Mali's service to Timbuktu in February 2021 marked the first commercial flights to the airport since the city was captured by jihadists in 2012.

Accidents and incidents

 * On February 22, 1985, an Antonov An-24V (TZ-ACT) of Air Mali crashed ~3 km from here during initial climb on a flight to Mopti, killing all but 1 of the 52 occupants. The flight route was from Gao to Bamako, with Timbuktu and Mopti as stopovers. The crash was Mali's deadliest until Air Algerie Flight 5017 in 2014.