Bukavu Kavumu Airport — Kamakombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bukavu Kavumu Airport, marked by the code BKY, is located in Kamakombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, serving the nearby city of Bukavu at the southern end of Lake Kivu. Perched at 5,643 feet, a single runway here handles traffic amid the mountainous terrain of the eastern Congo. As a medium airport, BKY provides an essential air link for a region where ground infrastructure can be unreliable, connecting Bukavu to Kinshasa and other cities within the country. The high-altitude setting near the Great Lakes region of Central Africa shapes how aircraft operate here, with the surrounding hills and Lake Kivu itself forming a distinctive backdrop to the runway.