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General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport

Ilorin, NigeriaIATA: ILRICAO: DNIL
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Arrivals

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Live radar around the airport

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The runways at this airport

What do the colors mean?

  • No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
  • Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
  • Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
  • Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.

The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.

Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.

1 runway · Longest runway: 10,171 ft

  • 05/2310,169 ft · heading 49/229 degrees

We currently see no traffic on approach or just after takeoff. That happens at a quiet airport or in the middle of the night.

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Airport facts

Practical information

Full name
General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport
City and country
Ilorin, Nigeria
IATA / ICAO
ILR / DNIL
Time zone
Africa/Lagos
Category
Major airport

Ilorin: the airport of Kwara State

Ilorin International Airport (IATA ILR, ICAO DNIL), renamed after General Tunde Idiagbon, lies about ten kilometers from the center of Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State in the north-central belt of Nigeria, roughly halfway between Lagos and Abuja by road. It is a mid-sized domestic airport with a long runway, international in name and designation but in practice serving the Nigerian network and the annual hajj charters to Saudi Arabia, for which a dedicated terminal was built. The radar on this page shows what our data sources report around Ilorin; the arrivals and departures pages are linked above it.

Airlines and destinations

Nigerian domestic carriers fly from Ilorin to Lagos and Abuja, the two routes that matter, with Air Peace, Overland Airways and others operating over recent years; schedules and operators change frequently in Nigeria's domestic market, so check the current timetable. Once a year, during the hajj season, wide-body charters fly pilgrims from Kwara and the neighboring states directly to Medina and Jeddah. There are otherwise no international flights. Ilorin lies beyond the reach of our receivers, so the live radar depends on other data sources.

Getting into Ilorin

Taxis and hotel cars wait at the terminal for the twenty-minute drive into Ilorin along the airport road; agree the fare beforehand. There is no bus service worth planning around. The city sits on the main Lagos-Abuja highway, with road connections to Ibadan in three hours and to Abuja in five.

Good to know

The passenger terminal is a modest single building with one departure hall; arrive an hour and a half ahead, because security screening is thorough and the flights are small. Delays and cancellations are common in Nigeria's domestic network, so allow time for connections in Lagos and Abuja. Read your government's travel advice for Nigeria before traveling. The international gateways are Lagos and Abuja, and Ibadan is the nearest other airport. Every airport we track is listed in the airport overview.