AviatDataAhmed Sékou Touré International Airport CKY / GUCY
Conakry · GN · SOGEAG (Société de Gestion des Aéroports de Guinée) — a fully state-owned public company, created by presidential decree announced 9 Jul 2025 when the prior operator SOGEAC (Société de Gestion et d'Exploitation de l'Aéroport de Conakry, founded 1985/87) was renamed and its mandate widened to potentially manage other Guinean airports, not only Conakry. The Guinean State has held 100% of the operator since 13 Dec 2022, when it bought back the 49% previously held by Aéroports de Paris (ADP), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIB) — reversing an earlier Feb-2020 restructuring (25-year concession convention) under which shares had stood at Guinean State 34% / ADP 33% / Africa50 33%. Turkish conglomerate Albayrak Holding (also the concessionaire of Conakry's port terminal via Alport Conakry) has held a modernization agreement with the Guinean authorities since 2023-24 and is contracted as SOGEAG's strategic infrastructure/EPC partner for the airport's overhaul — not an equity concessionaire of the airport itself — executing Phase 1 (new terminal, ~€120m) and, per a further MOU signed 9 Dec 2025, Phase 2 (second new terminal, runway reinforcement/widening, new control tower, two-level car park, targeting 3M pax/yr capacity). Note: SOGEAG's own corporate site still glosses the acronym as "Société de Gestion et d'Exploitation de l'Aéroport International de Conakry" (legacy SOGEAC-era wording) rather than the July-2025 press-reported "...des Aéroports de Guinée" — likely just an un-updated About page, not independently reconciled.
958kpax · 2025
H24International · customs & immigrationJet A-1
ICAO / IATAGUCY / CKY
OperatorSOGEAG (Société de Gestion des Aéroports de Guinée) — a fully state-owned public company, created by presidential decree announced 9 Jul 2025 when the prior operator SOGEAC (Société de Gestion et d'Exploitation de l'Aéroport de Conakry, founded 1985/87) was renamed and its mandate widened to potentially manage other Guinean airports, not only Conakry. The Guinean State has held 100% of the operator since 13 Dec 2022, when it bought back the 49% previously held by Aéroports de Paris (ADP), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIB) — reversing an earlier Feb-2020 restructuring (25-year concession convention) under which shares had stood at Guinean State 34% / ADP 33% / Africa50 33%. Turkish conglomerate Albayrak Holding (also the concessionaire of Conakry's port terminal via Alport Conakry) has held a modernization agreement with the Guinean authorities since 2023-24 and is contracted as SOGEAG's strategic infrastructure/EPC partner for the airport's overhaul — not an equity concessionaire of the airport itself — executing Phase 1 (new terminal, ~€120m) and, per a further MOU signed 9 Dec 2025, Phase 2 (second new terminal, runway reinforcement/widening, new control tower, two-level car park, targeting 3M pax/yr capacity). Note: SOGEAG's own corporate site still glosses the acronym as "Société de Gestion et d'Exploitation de l'Aéroport International de Conakry" (legacy SOGEAC-era wording) rather than the July-2025 press-reported "...des Aéroports de Guinée" — likely just an un-updated About page, not independently reconciled.
Coordinates9.5769°N, 13.6120°W
Elevation72 ft · 22 m
Time zoneGMT (UTC+0, no DST)
Passengers / yr957,820 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
Bonded—
AIP referenceGUCY — AIP Guinée (AGAC). Confirmed: Guinea (Conakry) is NOT an ASECNA member state (ASECNA's roster runs Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, France, etc. — Guinea-Bissau, not Guinea, is the member), so CKY's AIP is Guinea's own national publication rather than an ASECNA one.
Operating hoursReported H24 by multiple flight-planning databases, consistent with long-haul international and cargo flights scheduled at various hours; exact ATC tower hours were not independently re-verified against a current Guinea AIP chart. PPR is not required (uas.aero); handling-agency advisories flag that curfew/restricted-hours conditions can apply during periods of civil instability — confirm current NOTAMs before ops.
Terminals1 terminal currently in service, originally designed for roughly 500,000 pax/yr and now running at close to double that. A new 32,000 m² passenger terminal plus a 3,600 m² cargo terminal (Phase 1, built by Albayrak) progressed from ~75% complete (Aug 2024) to ~85% complete (Feb 2025); a Dec-2025 government report described the passenger terminal's delivery target as end of 2025. Its inauguration ceremony, originally set for 8 Nov 2025, was then postponed indefinitely for organizational reasons ("la nouvelle date sera communiquée dès la finalisation des dispositions organisationnelles"); no confirmed new date, and no report that it has since opened, was found — treat any claim that the new terminal has opened with caution pending reconfirmation.
Runways (1)
- 06/24 · 3,300 m / 10,827 ft · 45 m wide · Asphalt · ILS Current charting (SkyVector, ourairports, Navigraph-listed procedures) shows ILS 06, VOR/DME 06 and VOR 06 approaches to RWY 06, plus RNAV(GNSS); RWY 24 has only a right-traffic visual approach, no ILS. This matches the draft's claim of a published RWY 06 ILS, but ground-equipment operational status was not cross-checked against a live NOTAM this session — a prior unverified secondhand report of the RWY 06 ILS being out of service could not be confirmed or refuted, so treat as CAT I pending NOTAM confirmation.
Guinea's sole major international gateway, and currently the epicenter of what's being called the 'Simandou boom': 2025 passenger traffic reached 957,820, up 21.4% from 788,879 in 2024, with aircraft movements up 19.1% (10,970 to 13,067) and freight up 85.3% (5,012 to 9,290 tonnes) as the giant Simandou iron-ore project drives fly-in/fly-out and cargo demand (SOGEAG figures via Financial Afrik, published 3 Feb 2026 — all four figures independently confirmed). Airport infrastructure is mid-overhaul and behind the traffic curve: the existing single terminal (~500,000 pax/yr design capacity) is running at close to double that, and the Albayrak-built replacement terminal (32,000 m², reported ~75% complete Aug 2024 and ~85% complete Feb 2025) had its planned 8 Nov 2025 inauguration postponed indefinitely, with no confirmed new opening date or opening report found — do not assume the new terminal is in service without reconfirming. A Phase 2 MOU (9 Dec 2025) between SOGEAG and Albayrak adds a second new terminal, runway reinforcement/widening, a new control tower and a two-level car park, targeting 3M pax/yr. Operator SOGEAC was renamed SOGEAG in Jul 2025 and remains 100% Guinean-state-owned since a Dec 2022 buy-back of ADP/AFD/CCIB's 49% stake (itself a reversal of a Feb-2020 restructuring that had set shares at Guinea 34% / ADP 33% / Africa50 33%); Albayrak is a contracted modernization/EPC partner, not an airport equity concessionaire. The single runway (06/24, 3300m asphalt) has published ILS/VOR-DME/VOR approaches to RWY 06 and RNAV(GNSS) per current charting confirmed, though live ground-equipment NOTAM status was not separately verified; RWY 24 has only a visual approach. Phone/email contact details were not — the listed email's domain (sogeac-conakry.com) still carries the pre-rename brand name, which may be legacy rather than an error.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available · 2 providers
SOGEAC (Société de Gestion et d'Exploitation de l'Aéroport de Conakry)
Self-operated ground handling via SOGEAC's own Direction de l'Assistance en Escale, organised into five services — fret (cargo), passage (passenger), opérations piste (ramp), trafic (traffic coordination) and litiges bagages (baggage claims); confirmed via SOGEAC's own airport-news article on the airport's site (aeroportahmedsekoutoure.com), which describes each department's role. SOGEAC is the airport operator/concessionaire (Guinean State, 100% since a Dec 13, 2022 buyout of the 49% previously held by Aéroports de Paris/ADP, AFD and the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce) and is the airport's in-house handler for airlines using CKY, per Guinean press coverage of the 2022 ownership transfer.
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PROBIZ GUINEE SARL
Independent aircraft ground assistance ('Assistance des avions au sol') at Conakry, listed in the Guinea airport-assistance business directory (GoAfricaOnline) and confirmed on the company's own site (probizguinee.com), which states Probiz Guinee has provided ground handling since 2004; address En face de la SEG, Almamya, Kaloum, Conakry.
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Aircraft fuel
Available
SOMCAG (Société de Manutention de Carburant Aviation de Guinée)
Sole aviation-fuel handling company supplying and into-plane fuelling Jet A-1 at Conakry's Gbessia/Ahmed Sékou Touré airport, per the Logistics Cluster's airport profile for Conakry Gbessia International Airport, which names SOMCAG as 'the sole provider of the fuel services at the airport'; TotalEnergies' own Guinea newsroom confirms Total Guinée holds a 66% stake in the SOMCAG depot as product supplier/shareholder — exact split of into-plane vs. supply roles between SOMCAG and Total Guinée not independently itemised.
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De-icing
Not listed
Part-145 line maintenance
Not listed
Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Available
Newrest
On-airport flight-kitchen production unit at Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport, catering operations begun July 2012 per Newrest's own 2012/13 group activity report; per Newrest's current network page (newrest.eu), Newrest is 'the leading provider of catering on-board services' at CKY, with its production unit on the airport premises serving international and regional carriers.
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Aircraft cleaning
Not listed
Ground support equipment
Unconfirmed
SOGEAC (Société de Gestion et d'Exploitation de l'Aéroport de Conakry)
Operates and is investing in its own ramp ground-support equipment fleet (new elevator/lift, tractors ('tracmas'), baggage carts, baggage-belt systems) as part of a push toward the airport's first ICAO aerodrome certification, per the same SOGEAC news article on aeroportahmedsekoutoure.com; no independent third-party GSE supplier/rental company identified at CKY, so this reflects self-operated equipment rather than a separate GSE vendor.
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Cargo handling
Available · 2 providers
SOGEAC (Société de Gestion et d'Exploitation de l'Aéroport de Conakry)
Operates the airport's shared freight warehouse and palletisation/containerisation area used by freight-forwarding agents at Gbessia (independently corroborated by a West African air-cargo directory entry for tenant Elite Cargo, which notes the freight store and palletisation zone 'sont communs et gérés par la SOGEAC'); current cargo-terminal footprint is approx. 3,000 m² per SOGEAC's own airport-expansion brochure, with a new 3,600 m² cargo terminal under construction as part of the ongoing modernisation project per SOGEAC/Guinean industry press.
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Elite Cargo SARL
Air-freight forwarder/handler with a dedicated bureau inside the airport's cargo terminal (Aérogare de Fret, Bureau AF B19/P2, Gbessia Airport, Conakry), confirmed by cargo-industry directories (CargoYellowPages, Go Africa Online) and the company's own site (elite-cargo.net); in business since 1997 (~29 years) per CargoYellowPages, with a separate warehouse (~2,400 m²) in the industrial zone about 15 km from the airport per a West Africa air-cargo directory profile; regional office presence beyond Guinea (Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Benin) is stated on the company's own site but not independently corroborated.
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Aviation security
Available
SYLI Aviation Service
Aviation security/guarding company ('la sûreté et sécurité sur mesure') based physically at Aéroport international Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conakry, per two separate Guinea airport-assistance business-directory listings (GoAfricaOnline, matching phone number); scope of screening vs. static guarding not independently itemised beyond the directory listings.
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Passenger & crew transport
Unconfirmed
Wedrive Africa
Professional ground-transport operator (cars and drivers) serving Conakry and greater Guinea for business travelers, companies, large projects, institutions and NGOs, per the company's own site (wedrive.africa) and its own promotional material, which specifically describes meeting travelers 'dès la sortie de l'aéroport de Gbessia' (right at the Gbessia/CKY airport exit); no confirmed dedicated airline-crew contract, but an active local ground-transport provider with airport-transfer service at CKY.
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Flight support
Available
PROBIZ GUINEE SARL
FBO/handler offering pilot services and general aircraft services at Conakry per the AC-U-KWIK FBO directory listing for GUCY/CKY, consistent with the company's own description of itself as covering ground handling, aircraft charter, FBO operations and transport services; an operations contact (reported on PPRuNe aviation forum as Alpha Diallo, ops lines ••• / •••) is used by charter/GA operators for trip support at CKY — unconfirmed beyond forum reporting.
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Hotel & travel
Available · 2 providers
Radisson Blu Hotel, Conakry
282-room international-chain beachfront hotel in Kipe Centre Emetteur, Commune de Ratoma, Conakry; per Radisson's own hotel site the drive from Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (CKY) takes around 25 minutes, and the site lists the contact email and phone confirmed here; commonly used for airline crew and business-traveller layovers in Conakry, though no airline-specific crew contract independently confirmed.
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Hotel Mariador Palace
Established hotel in the Kipe/Ratoma area of Conakry, roughly 15 km (~30 minutes by car) from CKY per travel-booking sites (Agoda); free WiFi, parking and an airport shuttle are listed as included by major OTAs (Hotels.com), and it is frequently used by international travellers in Conakry — but room count varies by listing (104–120 depending on source/property ID) and no specific airline crew-layover contract is independently confirmed.
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