Cotonou Airport (COO) — Direct Flights, Airlines, USD Fares | Benin

Cardinal Bernardin Gantin International (COO, ICAO DBBB) serves Cotonou, Benin and is a destination reached by travellers flying from across Africa. Our catalogue links 0 direct destinations out of COO and 3 African origins into it, served by 3 carriers.

At a glance

3 catalogued corridors touch Cotonou (COO / DBBB) in Benin: 0 outbound and 3 inbound, flown by 3 carriers. 1 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our fare file; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone. The mix runs 2 sectors under four hours, 1 of four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

The route mix at COO splits into 2 short sectors under four hours, 1 medium sector of four to seven hours and 0 long-haul sectors beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 0 of the corridors here are flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.

Two codes, two uses. COO is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while DBBB is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.

Airlines serving COO

3 carriers appear on the COO corridors catalogued here, 3 of them with a row in our carrier file, recording checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg, and 2 of those rows sit inside a global alliance (Oneworld 1, Star Alliance 1). That list is built from the 3 corridors this site catalogues through COO, so it is our coverage rather than the airport’s full published schedule.

These carriers operate the COO corridors catalogued on this site.

Alliance spread decides how easily a disruption at COO gets fixed. With 1 Oneworld carrier, 1 Star Alliance carrier on these corridors, a passenger stuck here can sometimes be reflowed onto a partner without a new ticket — but only within the same alliance, and only when the original ticket permits it. Between alliances, re-accommodation is a commercial favour rather than an entitlement.

Diaspora and migrant-worker baggage uplift recorded against carriers here: Royal Air Maroc +23 kg and Ethiopian Airlines +5 kg. These are carrier promotions attached to nominated corridors and fare families — they do not follow you onto a partner’s codeshare segment, and the cheapest fare buckets are usually excluded. Confirm against your own booking class rather than the table.

Top routes into COO

6/10 is the highest demand score on any COO corridor in our catalogue — Lagos to Cotonou (LOS–COO), about 5 flights a week on W3 and ET. Demand score is this catalogue’s own 1-10 editorial rating across 3 corridors at COO, not a passenger count from a civil-aviation authority.

Sorted by demand; the USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our cache has seen on the corridor across all carriers.

Schedule concentration is the number worth noticing: the three busiest corridors account for about 100% of the roughly 13 weekly departures our catalogue records at COO. A concentrated airport recovers well on its trunk routes — several rotations a day means a cancellation is a wait, not a lost day — and badly on its thin ones, where the next flight can be days away.

Block times across these corridors run from about 0.8 h to 5.8 h. That range is the practical reason a single connecting-time rule does not work at COO: a short regional inbound and a long-haul outbound have very different delay profiles, and a tight self-built connection between them is where most missed onward flights on this site’s corridors happen. On separate tickets there is no protection at all.

Corridors and typical fares from COO

1 of the 3 COO corridors carry a cached USD quote, the lowest at $817. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 2 run under four hours, 1 four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

Most COO corridors here serve intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business travellers. The mix is 2 short intra-Africa hops (under 4 h), 1 medium Gulf-range sector (4–7 h). USD fares vary by corridor — intra-Africa typically $400–900, Gulf hubs $500–1,200, long-haul $800–2,200; each per-route guide below carries live cached fares.

The shape of the fare curve follows the sector length. The 2 short corridors under four hours from COO price like regional traffic and move mostly with the day of the week; the 0 long-haul corridors beyond seven hours move with season and school holidays, and can double between the cheapest and dearest month in our own cache. Mixing the two on one average would be meaningless, which is why every corridor page carries its own floor.

Direct flights to COO — 3 routes

3 catalogued routes are listed below for COO, reaching 3 countries, led by Nigeria, Ghana and Morocco. Our catalogue records 0 departure and 3 arrival corridors at COO, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare. The list is this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable.

• ACC -> COO
• CMN -> COO
• LOS -> COO

Each link opens a corridor guide rather than a booking form: carriers, an estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time, the great-circle distance used that sets an EU261 or UK261 band where either applies, and whatever the fare cache holds. That is deliberate — the useful decision on a corridor is usually which routing and which carrier, and only then which price.

Treat the list as a catalogue rather than a timetable. Routes are included where African outbound demand justifies a guide, so charter and marginal regional services at Cotonou may be flying without being listed. Where a corridor is here, the carriers shown are the ones our route file records and a dash in the fare column means unqueried, not unavailable.

FAQ

5 questions below answer what travellers ask most often about this page’s subject, drawn from the same route, carrier, airport and fare files as everything above. Where a figure is missing from our data, the answer says so rather than estimating.

How is COO airport connected? COO (Cotonou) is reachable on 3 direct routes in our catalogue — see the full route list above.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for COO airport? The IATA code is COO and the ICAO code is DBBB. The airport serves Cotonou, Benin.

How can I check fares and schedules for routes through COO? Each route in the list above links to a guide with live USD fares, weekly frequency and the airlines that operate it.

Which airlines fly from COO? Carriers on COO corridors catalogued here: Arik Air, Ethiopian Airlines, Royal Air Maroc. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.

What is the cheapest flight from COO? In our fare cache the lowest market fare out of COO is about $817 on Casablanca–Cotonou (CMN-COO). Fares move with season — check live prices on the route guide.

Related

1 related page follow. Each is linked because it shares an endpoint, a carrier, a country or an audience cluster with this one — the annotations say what each adds, so the ones that do not apply to your trip can be skipped.

• Flights to Benin — country landing page: 3 catalogued corridors from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.

These links come out of the data rather than an editorial wish-list. Two pages are connected when they share an airport, a carrier, a destination country or an audience cluster, which means the list is stable as the catalogue grows and does not drift toward whatever term happens to rank. Skip what does not match your trip.

Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.