User:Baardheere/Garbaharey Airport

Garbaharey Airport is located southwest of the city of Garbaharey, in Gedo, Somalia.

Garbaharey Airport currently has no regularly scheduled flights except the construction supervising crew including Abdi Guled.

Early 1990s UN mission to Somalia, United States corps of engineers conducted thorough measurements and surface hardening for the runway. European aid agencies used Garbaharey Airport for much of 1990s as much of southern Somalia was no fly zone.

Diaspora friends of Garbaharey Airport sprearheaded by Abdi Guled, are planning flights from Garbaharey destined to Mecca for the Hajj season of 2010. Previous attempts from 2004-2007 to make Bardera Airport to facilitate such services was a failure.

As people see the economic potential of Gedo region as a whole, there is a need to have a well serviced airport in the area to serve such cities as Bardera, Kismayo, Balad Hawo and Baidoa.

Some of the neighboring cities currently have flights to and from Nairobi.