LADFNLU

Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport

Luanda, Angola · Africa

Africa Africa/Luanda IVCA 46.4

8direct destinations

2airlines

2runways

3,716 mLongest runway

1954opened

Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Internacional 4 de Fevereiro), (IATA: LAD, ICAO: FNLU) is the old international airport of Luanda, in Angola. It is located in the southern part of the city, situated in the Luanda Province. Quatro de Fevereiro means "4th February", which is an important national holiday in Angola, marking the start of the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime on 4 February 1961. In 2018, about 5.6 million passengers were handled. It was closed to all commercial flights on 1 March 2026, replaced by Dr. António Agostinho Neto International Airport, located 40 km south of Luanda.

Location

8.858°S, 13.231°E · 74 m s. n. m. (243 ft)

General data

CountryAngola

CityLuanda

IATA codeLAD

ICAO codeFNLU

Coordinates8.858°S, 13.231°E

Elevation74 m s. n. m. (243 ft)

Time zoneAfrica/Luanda

Runways2

Longest runway3,716 m

OperatorENANA

Opened1954

Direct destinations8

Official website Its quality in the IVCA Ranking

Runways · 2

05/23

Length3,716 m12,192 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

07/25

Length2,600 m8,530 ft

Width60 m197 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 4

Tower

118.100

Ground

121.900

Approach

119.100

Common traffic (CTAF)

129.500A/G VOICE RDO

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

History

The construction of the airport began in 1951, in order to serve the capital of the former Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola. It was inaugurated in 1954, by the Portuguese President Craveiro Lopes, which in his honor, the airport was named Aeroporto Presidente Craveiro Lopes (President Craveiro Lopes Airport).

In August, September, and October 1975 the airport hosted tens of thousands of mostly white Portuguese Angolans fleeing to Lisbon (during Operation Air Bridge) who camped out while awaiting evacuation flights during the weeks before Angola's Independence.

Following Angola's independence from Portugal (in November 1975), in 1976 the airport was renamed Aeroporto Quatro de Fevereiro Internacional (Fourth of February International Airport) to commemorate the events leading to the independence of the state.

In March 2026, all airline operations were transferred to the new airport Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport.

Airlines operating here · 2

Other airlines with direct routes

TAAG Angola Airlines Fly Angola

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Manuel Dohmen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · view original

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (LAD). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LAD

MLA

“Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (LAD).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LAD. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_lad,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (LAD)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LAD},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LAD}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

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