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El Golea Airport (ICAO: DAUE, IATA: ELG) is a public airfield serving the town of El Menia in the Wilaya de Ghardaïa, Algeria, sitting on the northern fringe of the Sahara at an elevation of 1,299 ft. It offers two hard-surfaced, lit runways of notably generous length for a field of its size, and is served by scheduled Air Algérie flights linking it with Algiers, Ouargla and Tamanrasset.
El Golea Airport lies at El Menia in the Wilaya de Ghardaïa, deep in the Algerian Sahara. It is a public-use aerodrome with two substantial hard runways, making it a useful waypoint and destination for pilots operating in the region's desert airspace. The field is served by Air Algérie, which operates the only scheduled services into and out of the airport.
The airport is located at El Menia (also written El Goléa) in the Wilaya de Ghardaïa, southern Algeria, at coordinates 30.5689, 2.8647 and an elevation of 1,299 ft. It sits within Algerian domestic airspace in a sparsely populated desert region, well removed from the country's major international airports.
El Golea has two physical runways, both hard-surfaced and lit. Runway 18/36 is the longer of the pair, with a published length of 9,819 ft for runway 18 and 8,872 ft for runway 36. Runway 11/29 is 5,898 ft in each direction. There is no ILS available at the field.
The airport uses the radio callsign El Golea, with RDO on 889.4 MHz and TWR (tower) on 119.7 MHz. No ILS approach is available.
El Golea Airport is listed among Algeria's network of domestic airports. It has historically been served by Air Algérie, connecting El Menia with Algiers, Ouargla and Tamanrasset.
Air Algérie operates the only regular scheduled flights into and out of El Golea Airport, linking El Menia with Algiers, Ouargla and Tamanrasset.
