Ivato International Airport is the main

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serving

Antananarivo Antananarivo ( French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "An ...

, the capital of

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, located northwest of the city centre. Ivato Airport is the main hub for Air Madagascar and is located in the commune of Ivato.

History

Ivato has been the main airport of Antananarivo since the 1960s; civil and military mixed platform and main hub of Air Madagascar. It has two main terminals: one terminal for domestic flights and one terminal for international flights. In December 2021, a new terminal opened.https://www.airport-technology.com/projects/ivato-international-airports-new-terminal-antananarivo-madagascar/ In 2016, 845,000 passengers passed through the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Turkish Airlines to and from Istanbul makes a stopover in

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. However, Turkish Airlines has no traffic rights between Antananarivo and Mauritius. Air Madagascar operates to Guangzhou with a stopover in

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