VILGMMH

Dakhla Airport

Dakhla, Western Sahara · Africa

Africa Africa/El_Aaiun

10direct destinations

5airlines

1runway

3,000 mLongest runway

1993opened

Dakhla Airport (IATA: VIL, ICAO: GMMH/GSVO) is an airport serving Dakhla (also known as Dajla or ad-Dakhla, formerly Villa Cisneros), a city in Western Sahara, a disputed territory occupied by Morocco. (See Political status of Western Sahara) The airport is operated by the Moroccan state-owned company Airports of Morocco.

Location

23.718°N, 15.932°O · 11 m s. n. m. (36 ft)

General data

CountryWestern Sahara

CityDakhla

IATA codeVIL

ICAO codeGMMH

Coordinates23.718°N, 15.932°O

Elevation11 m s. n. m. (36 ft)

Time zoneAfrica/El_Aaiun

Runways1

Longest runway3,000 m

OperatorAirports of Morocco

Opened1993

Direct destinations10

Official website

Runways · 1

03/21

Length3,000 m9,843 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

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

Radio frequencies · 1

Tower

118.100

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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command as a stopover for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. It connected to Dakar Airport in the South and Agadir Airport to the north.. Spanish flag carrier Iberia had regular scheduled flights to the airport, for example in Winter 1970-1971, there were daily flights from Las Palmas.

Airlines operating here · 5

Other airlines with direct routes

Royal Air Maroc Ryanair Transavia Binter Canarias Transavia France

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

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Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Dakhla Airport (VIL). Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VIL

MLA

“Dakhla Airport (VIL).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VIL. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Dakhla Airport (VIL).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VIL.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Dakhla Airport (VIL). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VIL (Accessed: 20 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_vil,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Dakhla Airport (VIL)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VIL},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VIL}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-20},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

Wikipedia

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