Mallam Aminu International Airport (KAN)
A working profile of Mallam Aminu International Airport in Kano, Nigeria: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Mallam Aminu International Airport
- Serves: Kano, Nigeria
- Coordinates: 12.0476, 8.5246
- Elevation: 1,562 ft
- Time zone: Africa/Lagos
Mallam Aminu International Airport sits inside the air network of Nigeria. It shows 7 distinct scheduled departures across 7 destinations and 6 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from KAN
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEY | Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport | Beirut | Lebanon | KAN→BEY | 1 |
| CAI | Cairo International Airport | Cairo | Egypt | KAN→CAI | 1 |
| KRT | Khartoum International Airport | Khartoum | Sudan | KAN→KRT | 1 |
| JED | King Abdulaziz International Airport | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | KAN→JED | 1 |
| NDJ | N'Djamena International Airport | N'djamena | Chad | KAN→NDJ | 1 |
| ABV | Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport | Abuja | Nigeria | KAN→ABV | 1 |
| LOS | Murtala Muhammed International Airport | Lagos | Nigeria | KAN→LOS | 1 |
Airlines operating at KAN
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from KAN |
|---|---|---|---|
| W3 | World Scale Airlines | United States | 2 |
| ME | Middle East Airlines | Lebanon | 1 |
| MS | Egyptair | Egypt | 1 |
| SD | Sudan Airways | Sudan | 1 |
| SV | Saudi Arabian Airlines | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| TK | Turkish Airlines | Turkey | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into KAN typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEY | Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport | Beirut | Lebanon | 1 |
| CAI | Cairo International Airport | Cairo | Egypt | 1 |
| NDJ | N'Djamena International Airport | N'djamena | Chad | 1 |
| JED | King Abdulaziz International Airport | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| IST | Istanbul Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | 1 |
| ABV | Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport | Abuja | Nigeria | 1 |
| LOS | Murtala Muhammed International Airport | Lagos | Nigeria | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from KAN on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list KAN to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat KAN as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.