| Margaret Ekpo International Airport | |
| Iata: | CBQ |
| Icao: | DNCA |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner-Oper: | Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) |
| City-Served: | Calabar, Nigeria |
| Elevation-F: | 210 |
| Coordinates: | 4.9758°N 8.3472°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Nigeria |
| Pushpin Label: | CBQ |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in Nigeria |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 03/21 |
| R1-Length-M: | 2450 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat-Year: | 2015 |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
| Stat1-Data: | 189,908 |
| Stat2-Header: | Passenger change 14–15 |
| Stat2-Data: | 6.9% |
| Footnotes: | Sources: FAAN[1] WAD[2] GCM |
Margaret Ekpo International Airport, also known as Calabar Airport, is an airport serving Calabar, the capital of the Cross River State in Nigeria. The airport is named after Margaret Ekpo, who was one of Nigeria's pioneering feminist and anticolonial activists. It was commissioned in 1983 by Alhaji Shehu Shagari, then president of Nigeria.[3]
These data show number of passengers movements into the airport, according to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria's Aviation Sector Summary Reports.
| Year | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passengers | 136,153 | 167,767 | 207,542 | 273,586 | 316,736 | 281,935 | 153,068 | 206,168 | 198,157 | 204,036 | 189,908 | |
| Growth (%) | 4.40% | 23.22% | 23.71% | 31.82% | 15.77% | 10.99% | 45.71% | 34.69% | 3.89% | 2.97% | 6.92% | |
| Source: Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Aviation Sector Reports (2010-2013,[4] 2014,[5] Q3-Q4 of 2015,[6] and Q1-Q2 of 2016,[7]) | ||||||||||||