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Bordj Badji Mokhtar Airport is a remote domestic airfield in far south-western Algeria, close to the border with Mali, serving the town of the same name. It offers two long runways well suited to the operations of Air Algérie, which provides the only scheduled services to and from the field.
Bordj Badji Mokhtar Airport (ICAO: DATM, IATA: BMW) is a public airport lying about 5 kilometres northwest of the town of Bordj Badji Mokhtar in the far south-west of Algeria, close to the border with Mali. It is a domestic field within Algeria's network, and the only carrier operating scheduled flights there is Air Algérie. For a simulator pilot, its main interest lies in its isolation deep in the Sahara and its unusually long runways for a field of this size.
The airport sits in the extreme south-west of Algeria, roughly 9 kilometres northeast of the Malian border, and about 5 kilometres northwest of the town it serves. No specific airspace classification, FIR boundary detail, or nearby controlled airspace is described in the available material, and pilots should treat this as a remote desert aerodrome with correspondingly sparse surrounding infrastructure.
The airfield has two physical runways. The main runway, 08/26, is 9,791 feet long, has a hard surface and is lit. A parallel runway, 08R/26L, is 7,201 feet long, has a paved (D-class) surface and is also lit. Field elevation is 1,296 feet. There is no ILS available.
No communications frequencies, callsign, or navigation aids are recorded for this airport, and no instrument approach procedures are documented.
No published joining or circuit procedures, circuit heights, or noise abatement measures are available for this field.
No formal visual reference points are published. The most obvious landmark for locating the field is the town of Bordj Badji Mokhtar itself, lying a short distance southeast of the airport, set within the surrounding Saharan terrain near the Mali border.
Little historical detail is recorded beyond the airport's basic identity and role as a domestic airfield serving the town of Bordj Badji Mokhtar in Adrar Province.
Air Algérie operates the only regular scheduled flights to and from the airport, connecting it with Adrar and Tamanrasset. No further detail on facilities, fuel availability, opening hours or flying club activity is available.
