Osvaldo Vieiro International Airport

Osvaldo Vieiro International Airport (IATA code OXB, ICAO code GGOV) is an airport that serves the city of Bissau, the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. It is the only international airport in the country.

As with many airports in Africa, Osvaldo Vieiro is not open 24 hours a day; it is only open from sunrise to sunset.

Osvaldo Vieiro International Airport has one runway, heading 03/21, with a length of 10,498 feet. The altitude of this runway is 127 feet. This runway is also the one of the three in Guinea-Bissau that are paved.

The airport had to be closed on June 7 1998 due to intense fighting in and around Bissau. It was officially reopened in July 1999 when an Air Portugal plane carrying Prime Minister Francisco Fadul , along with numerous other dignitaries from both Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, landed at Osvaldo Vieiero.