Bamako Airport (BKO) — Direct Flights, Airlines, USD Fares | Mali

Modibo Keïta International (BKO, ICAO GABS) serves Bamako, Mali and is a destination reached by travellers flying from across Africa. Our catalogue links 0 direct destinations out of BKO and 1 African origin into it, served by 2 carriers.

At a glance

1 catalogued corridor touch Bamako (BKO / GABS) in Mali: 0 outbound and 1 inbound, flown by 2 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 1 sector under four hours, 0 of four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

The route mix at BKO splits into 1 short sector under four hours, 0 medium sectors 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. BKO is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while GABS 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 BKO

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

These carriers operate the BKO corridors catalogued on this site.

Alliance spread decides how easily a disruption at BKO gets fixed. With 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: 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 BKO

5/10 is the highest demand score on any BKO corridor in our catalogue — Accra to Bamako (ACC–BKO), about 4 flights a week on ET and HC. Demand score is this catalogue’s own 1-10 editorial rating across 1 corridor at BKO, 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.

About 100% of the roughly 4 weekly departures catalogued at BKO sit on just three corridors. That concentration is why the airport’s overall size tells you nothing useful about your own flight: on the trunk routes a cancellation costs hours, while on the tail of the distribution the next departure can be several days out. Read the frequency column, not the terminal.

Block times across these corridors run from about 2.5 h to 2.5 h. That range is the practical reason a single connecting-time rule does not work at BKO: 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.

Passenger compensation rights at BKO

1 instrument reaches BKO: the Montreal Convention 1999. Mali operates no EU261-style fixed cash scheme, so there is no statutory payout for a long delay — the cover is for baggage and provable delay losses, capped at about 1,288 SDR per passenger (the Special Drawing Right cap, roughly $1,700 USD at recent IMF rates).

Bamako’s catalogued arrivals sit outside the EU261 / UK261 / GACA / APPR / DOT cash-compensation schemes, so the Montreal Convention is the operative floor — it covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.

Bamako’s catalogued arrivals sit outside the EU261 / UK261 / GACA / APPR / DOT cash-compensation schemes, so the Montreal Convention is the operative floor — it covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.

Corridors and typical fares from BKO

1 of the 1 BKO corridors carry a cached USD quote, the lowest at $899. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 1 run under four hours, 0 four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

Most BKO corridors here serve intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business travellers. The mix is 1 short intra-Africa hop (under 4 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 1 short corridor under four hours from BKO 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 BKO — 1 route

1 catalogued route is listed below for BKO, reaching 1 country, led by Ghana. Our catalogue records 0 departure and 1 arrival corridor at BKO, 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 -> BKO

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 Bamako 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

How is BKO airport connected? BKO (Bamako) is reachable on 1 direct route in our catalogue — see the full route list above.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for BKO airport? The IATA code is BKO and the ICAO code is GABS. The airport serves Bamako, Mali.

How can I check fares and schedules for routes through BKO? 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 BKO? Carriers on BKO corridors catalogued here: Ethiopian Airlines, Air Senegal. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.

What is the cheapest flight from BKO? In our fare cache the lowest market fare out of BKO is about $899 on Accra–Bamako (ACC-BKO). Fares move with season — check live prices on the route guide.

Can I claim compensation for a disrupted flight at BKO? No fixed cash-compensation scheme applies to Bamako arrivals, but the Montreal Convention covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.

Sources

2 primary sources cited on this page are regulator and government material, not secondary summaries. Each is listed with what it actually governs, so a claim on this page can be checked against the instrument it comes from. Where a value is missing from our own files we leave the cell blank rather than estimate it.

• Montreal Convention 1999 — ICAO

• AirHelp — flight-compensation claims

• Montreal Convention 1999 — ICAO — the ICAO treaty collection, the source for the Montreal Convention 1999 baggage and delay liability limits.

• AirHelp — flight-compensation claims — a commercial claims service, cited as the industry explainer alongside the regulator rather than instead of it.

The sourcing rule here is simple: a regulator’s own text for anything with legal effect, and a commercial explainer only as a secondary reading beside it. Amounts stay denominated as the instrument denominates them — euro, pound, Canadian dollar, SDR — even though every fare on this site is quoted in USD, because a converted tariff is a moving number pretending to be a fixed one.

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 Mali — country landing page: 1 catalogued corridor 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.