Editing Transport in Burkina Faso (section)

==Air transport==
[[File:Plane in Ouagadougou.jpg|thumb|Plane in Ouagadougou]]

There are international airports at [[Ouagadougou]] and [[Bobo-Dioulasso]] and numerous smaller airfields. In 2004, the number of airports totaled 23, only two of which had paved runways as of 2005.<ref name="port">{{cite web |title=Field Listing – Airports |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2053.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613004807/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2053.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 13, 2007 |website=Central Intelligence Agency |access-date=7 July 2018}}</ref> [[Air Burkina]], which began in 1967, is government-run and has a monopoly on domestic service but also flies to neighboring countries.

Ouagadougou airport handles about 98% percent of all scheduled commercial air traffic in Burkina Faso. Air Burkina and Air France handle about 60% of all scheduled passenger traffic.<ref name="P120960"/> Between 2005 and 2011, air passenger traffic at Ouagadougou airport grew at an average annual rate of 7.0 percent per annum reaching about 404,726 passengers in 2011 and was estimated to reach 850,000 by 2025.<ref name="P120960"/> In 2007 Ouagadougou airport was the fifteenth busiest airport in West Africa in passenger volume, just ahead of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and behind Banjul (Gambia).<ref name="P120960"/> The total air cargo at Ouagadougou airport grew 71% from 4,350 tons in 2005 to about 7,448 tons in 2009.<ref name="P120960"/>

The government plans to close the Ouagadougou airport upon construction of the new [[Ouagadougou-Donsin Airport]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=egis Group Projects |url=https://www.egis-group.com/projects |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=egis Group |language=en}}</ref> approximately 35&nbsp;km northeast of Ouagadougou. The new airport is expected to be completed around 2018 and the government received an $85 million loan from the [[World Bank]] to help finance the construction.<ref name="P120960"/> The government of Burkino Faso believed that the project would cost $618 million.<ref>{{Cite web |title=burkinafasoindia.org |url=https://burkinafasoindia.org/ |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=burkinafasoindia.org |language=fr-FR}}</ref>