Praia International Airport (RAI)
A working profile of Praia International Airport in Praia, Santiago Island, Cape Verde: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Praia International Airport
- Serves: Praia, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
- Coordinates: 14.9245, -23.4935
- Elevation: 230 ft
- Time zone: Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Praia International Airport sits inside the air network of Cape Verde. It shows 17 distinct scheduled departures across 15 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 RAI
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DKR | Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport | Dakar | Senegal | RAI→DKR | 2 |
| LIS | Humberto Delgado Airport (Lisbon Portela Airport) | Lisbon | Portugal | RAI→LIS | 2 |
| BJL | Banjul International Airport | Banjul | Gambia | RAI→BJL | 1 |
| CMN | Mohammed V International Airport | Casablanca | Morocco | RAI→CMN | 1 |
| OXB | Osvaldo Vieira International Airport | Bissau | Guinea-Bissau | RAI→OXB | 1 |
| TMS | São Tomé International Airport | Sao Tome | Sao Tome and Principe | RAI→TMS | 1 |
| LPA | Gran Canaria Airport | Gran Canaria | Spain | RAI→LPA | 1 |
| BOS | General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport | Boston | United States | RAI→BOS | 1 |
| BVC | Rabil Airport | Boa Vista | Cape Verde | RAI→BVC | 1 |
| CDG | Charles de Gaulle International Airport | Paris | France | RAI→CDG | 1 |
| FOR | Pinto Martins International Airport | Fortaleza | Brazil | RAI→FOR | 1 |
| MMO | Maio Airport | Maio | Cape Verde | RAI→MMO | 1 |
| SFL | São Filipe Airport | Sao Filipe, Fogo Island | Cape Verde | RAI→SFL | 1 |
| SID | Amílcar Cabral International Airport | Amilcar Cabral | Cape Verde | RAI→SID | 1 |
| VXE | São Pedro Airport | Sao Vicente Island | Cape Verde | RAI→VXE | 1 |
Airlines operating at RAI
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from RAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| VR | TACV | Portugal | 10 |
| AT | Royal Air Maroc | Morocco | 3 |
| DN | Senegal Airlines | Senegal | 1 |
| DT | TAAG Angola Airlines | Angola | 1 |
| NT | Binter Canarias | Spain | 1 |
| TP | TAP Portugal | Portugal | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into RAI typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DKR | Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport | Dakar | Senegal | 2 |
| LIS | Humberto Delgado Airport (Lisbon Portela Airport) | Lisbon | Portugal | 2 |
| BJL | Banjul International Airport | Banjul | Gambia | 1 |
| CMN | Mohammed V International Airport | Casablanca | Morocco | 1 |
| OXB | Osvaldo Vieira International Airport | Bissau | Guinea-Bissau | 1 |
| TMS | São Tomé International Airport | Sao Tome | Sao Tome and Principe | 1 |
| LPA | Gran Canaria Airport | Gran Canaria | Spain | 1 |
| BOS | General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport | Boston | United States | 1 |
| BVC | Rabil Airport | Boa Vista | Cape Verde | 1 |
| CDG | Charles de Gaulle International Airport | Paris | France | 1 |
| FOR | Pinto Martins International Airport | Fortaleza | Brazil | 1 |
| MMO | Maio Airport | Maio | Cape Verde | 1 |
| SFL | São Filipe Airport | Sao Filipe, Fogo Island | Cape Verde | 1 |
| SID | Amílcar Cabral International Airport | Amilcar Cabral | Cape Verde | 1 |
| VXE | São Pedro Airport | Sao Vicente Island | Cape Verde | 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 RAI 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 RAI 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 RAI 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.