Leopold Sedor Senghor International Airport is one of the biggest airports in West Africa and it has an important role for the management of the Flight Information Regions (FIR’s) trusted to ASECNA by ICAO. For this reason, many devices are installed in this airport.
However, LSS Airport does not have all the modern devices we could find in the most developed airports in the world, but it is deemed by FAA/ICAO like one of the safe airport in Africa. All the departure gates have metal detectors and x-ray scanners and also a lot of security agents. Sometimes it could be frightening but heartening because the travellers can trust in a safe flight. So, lots of airplanes companies are established in Senegal like Delta Airlines, America Airlines, Egypt Airlines and even Air France, Royal Air Maroc and South African Airlines have a representative in our country.
It does not have many terminals like in Heathrow or in Roissy Charles Degaulle, only two terminals (A and B), but very pleasant by this simplicity and the diversity of the control positions makes the management of travellers not so easy.
In the arrival/departure hall we have some pleasant places like the duty free shop or restaurants where the travellers can relax. It also have free luggage trolleys, a lot parked in row for travellers. The baggage carousel is maybe deemed not so long and can make busy the arrival hall.
With regard to flight information screens, they are present everywhere inside the airport.
The airport has big hangars for Air France, SAA and military hangars, but more than six aircrafts can be on stand. Furthermore, the runway, three kilometres long, is often controlled by specialists from the aeronautical regulation department of Senegal (ANACS) which allows better security lift to aircraft.
However, meanwhile, LSS Airport needs to be extended and to have modern devices. At the moment, the government is building a new one (called Blaise Diagne Airport) in Diass (a department of Dakar) with two runways and probably a new infrastructure, because in the future, it will be difficult to manage a small airport in a big passengers and aircrafts traffic.
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