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Jijel Ferhat Abbas Airport is a public airport on Algeria's Mediterranean coast, serving the town of Jijel from a location near Taher in Jijel Province. It offers a single long instrumented runway and is served by Air Algérie flights, making it a useful VFR and IFR waypoint for pilots operating along the North African coast.
Jijel Ferhat Abbas Airport (ICAO: DAAV, IATA: GJL) lies near the town of Taher in Jijel Province, on Algeria's northern coast, and takes its name from Ferhat Abbas, the first president of the Algerian National Assembly. It is a public airport serving the nearby city of Jijel and is of interest to simulator pilots for its single long, lit runway with an ILS approach and its coastal Mediterranean setting.
The airport sits near Taher in Jijel Province, close to Algeria's Mediterranean coastline, and serves the city of Jijel. No specific airspace classification, FIR boundaries or details of neighbouring controlled airspace are given in the available sources.
The field has a single physical runway, 17/35, orientated north-south. It measures 7856 feet in length with a hard surface and runway lighting. An ILS approach is available for runway 17.
The tower frequency is TWR 119.7 MHz. No further navaid or approach frequency detail is given, beyond the noted ILS serving runway 17.
The airport takes its name from Ferhat Abbas, the first president of the Algerian National Assembly, and serves the coastal city of Jijel from its site near Taher. On 5 August 2025, a civil protection surveillance aircraft crashed at the airport during a training mission, killing four people.
Air Algérie operates scheduled services from the airport to Algiers and Marseille. The airport is classified as a large_airport with airline service in current aeronautical records.
