Hurghada International Airport

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Hurghada International Airport
Hurghada-Airport.jpg
IATA: HRGICAO: HEGN
HRG is located in Egypt
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Location of airport in Egypt
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Government
Serves Hurghada, Egypt
Elevation AMSL 52 ft / 16 m
Coordinates 27°10′41″N 33°47′57″E / 27.17806°N 33.79917°E / 27.17806; 33.79917
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16/34 4,000 13,124 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers 8,062,652
Source: List of the busiest airports in Africa, DAFIF[1][2]
Hurghada airport aerial

Hurghada International Airport (IATA: HRGICAO: HEGN) is an international airport located in Hurghada, Egypt.

The airport is located inland, 5 km (3.1 mi) southwest of El Dahar (downtown Hurghada).

In 2009 the airport handled 6,730,087 passengers (-0.2% compared to 2008).

Contents

[edit] Terminal

The airport is currently served by one terminal. In recent years, a large number of expansion works was carried out at the airport, including the building of the arrival hall, which cost US$155 million

[edit] Future Developments

  • Construction of a new terminal complex at a cost of $300 million with an annual passenger capacity of 7.5 million. The project will be implemented over the course of 36 month period. Passengers will have access to a wide variety of stores, duty-free boutiques and restaurants. The planned opening date is 2011.
  • Construction of a second 4,000m runway.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Hurghada Airport is served by the following scheduled airlines:

Airlines Destinations
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Air Algerie Algiers, Oran
Air Arabia Sharjah
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Munich, Sttutgart
Air Bucharest Seasonal Charter: Bucharest-Otopeni
Arkefly Amsterdam
Belair Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Zürich
Condor Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam
EasyJet London-Gatwick
EasyJet Switzerland Geneva
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
EgyptAir Cairo
EgyptAir operated by EgyptAir Express Alexandria-El Nouzha, Cairo, Luxor, Marsa Alam, Sohag, Sharm-El-Sheikh
Enter Air Seasonal: Warsaw
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Flydubai Dubai
Germania Seasonal Charter: Düsseldorf, Magdeburg
Jazeera Airways Kuwait
Jetairfly Brussels
Mahan Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Meridiana Fly Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
Nas Air Abha, Jeddah, Qassim, Yanbu
Neos Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
Niki Vienna
Rossiya Seasonal: St Petersburg
Saudi Arabian Airlines Dammam, Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh
Thomas Cook Airlines Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Brussels
Thomson Airways Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester
Transavia Amsterdam
Transavia France Paris-Orly
Transaero Airlines Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo , Saint Petersburg-Pulkovo, Yekaterinburg
TUIfly Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Zweibrücken
Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, Nuremberg
UTair Aviation Charter: Krasnodar, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Tyumen

[edit] Transportation

  • Car hire is available at the airport
  • Regular taxis, tourist taxis and minibuses operate from the airport

[edit] References

  1. ^ Airport information for HEGN at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  2. ^ Airport information for HRG at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).

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