Conakry Airport: The Popular Students Destination

Conakry International Airport (IATA: CKY, ICAO: GUCY), also known as Gbessia International Airport, is an airport located in Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guinea in West Africa.
It is divided into domestic and international terminals.
A number of West African, North African and European airlines serve Conakry.
-->Runways:
06/24 10,826FT  3,300m Asphalt
-->As of 2010, the airport possesses no radar and guides all planes in by sight.
Night flights by European airlines require pilots to do a fly over of the runway following a near miss of a landing Air France A330 from Paris and a departing Air Senegal Internationale to Dakar.

The airport parking lot is also a popular destination for students preparing for exams, as it is one of the few places in the country which is freely accessible to the public and always illuminated by electric lamps....