Ivato International Airport is the main

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serving

Antananarivo Antananarivo (Malagasy language, Malagasy: ; French language, French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known ...

, the capital of

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, located northwest of the city centre. Ivato Airport is the main hub for

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and is located in the commune of

Ivato Ivato is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Ambohidratrimo (district), which is a part of Analamanga Region. It lies North from the capital Antananarivo and the Ivato International Airport Ivato International Ai ...

History

Ivato has been the main airport of Antananarivo since the 1960s; it is a civil and military mixed platform and the main hub of Air Madagascar. Madagascar's deadliest aviation accident occurred at the airport on July 19, 1967. A

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of Air Madagascar departing for

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touched the ground 720 meters past the runway, briefly became airborne but crashed again just over 500 meters later, killing 42 of the 77 on board. Among the dead was foreign minister Albert Sylla. It has two main terminals: one terminal for domestic flights and one terminal for international flights. In December 2021, a new terminal opened.

Airlines and destinations

Cargo Airlines

;Notes * : This flight operates with a stopover in

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. However, Turkish Airlines has no traffic rights to transport passengers solely between Antananarivo and Mauritius.

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