TIL that South Africa Airways in 1967 began to use the Amílcar Cabral International Airport for its international flights Europe and America, because its aircraft were prohibited from landing in the vast majority of African countries due a boycott to apartheid.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%ADlcar_Cabral_International_Airport

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