Hurghada International Airport

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Hurghada International Airport
Hurghada-Airport.jpg
IATA: HRGICAO: HEGN
HRG is located in Egypt
HRG
Location of airport in Egypt
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Government
Serves Hurghada
Location Hurghada, Egypt
Hub for
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 (2012)
Passengers 7,135,972
Source: List of the busiest airports in Africa, DAFIF[1][2]

Hurghada International Airport (IATA: HRGICAO: HEGN) is an international airport located in Hurghada, Egypt. It is located inland, 5 km (3.1 mi) southwest of El Dahar (downtown Hurghada).

The airport handled 7.1 million passengers in 2012 (+19.4% v 2011) and the second busiest airport in Egypt after Cairo International Airport.

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Terminal [edit]

Hurghada airport aerial

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

Future Developments [edit]

  • 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. The planned opening date is mid-2012.
  • Construction of a second 4,000m runway.

Airlines and destinations [edit]

Airlines Destinations
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aeroflot
operated by Vladivostok Air
Charter: Vladivostok[citation needed]
Air Arabia Egypt Charter: Debrecen, Dortmund, Graz, Krakow, Târgu Mureș[citation needed]
airBaltic Charter: Riga[citation needed]
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Nuremberg (ends 31 October 2013)
Seasonal: Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Münster/Osnabrück, Paderborn/Lippstadt
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Air Bucharest Charter: Bucharest-Henri Coandă[citation needed]
Air Cairo Charter: Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Bydgoszcz, Milan-Malpensa, Verona, Wroclaw[citation needed]
Air Italy Charter: Verona[citation needed]
Air Memphis Charter: Milan-Malpensa[citation needed]
AMC Airlines Charter: Bratislava, Ljubljana, Tallinn[citation needed]
Arkefly Amsterdam
Belair Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Zurich
Bingo Airways Charter: Warsaw-Chopin, Wroclaw[citation needed]
Blue Panorama Airlines Charter: Bologna[citation needed]
Bulgaria Air Charter: Sofia[citation needed]
Bulgarian Air Charter Charter: Sofia[citation needed]
Condor Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam
EasyJet London-Gatwick
EasyJet Switzerland Geneva
Edelweiss Air Zurich
EgyptAir Cairo
Seasonal charter: Cluj-Napoca
EgyptAir operated by EgyptAir Express Alexandria-Borg el Arab, Cairo, Sharm el-Sheikh
Enter Air Charter: Gdansk, Katowice, Poznan, Warsaw-Chopin, Wroclaw[citation needed]
Estonian Air Charter: Tallinn[citation needed]
Finnair Seasonal charter: Helsinki[citation needed]
FlyGeorgia Tbilisi
Georgian Airways Charter: Tbilisi[citation needed]
Germanwings Seasonal: Hannover
Holidays Czech Airlines Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Prague
I-Fly Charter: Moscow-Vnukovo[citation needed]
Jat Airways Charter: Belgrade[citation needed]
Jetairfly Brussels
Kolavia Charter: Moscow-Domodedovo, St Petersburg[citation needed]
Luxair Luxembourg
Meridiana Fly Seasonal charter: Bologna, Verona[citation needed]
Monarch Airlines Charter:Manchester. Gatwick Airport[citation needed]
Neos Scheduled charter: Milan-Malpensa[citation needed]
Nesma Airlines Charter: Belgrade, Billund, Bydgoszcz, Cluj-Napoca, Cologne/Bonn, Košice, Stuttgart , Wroclaw[citation needed]
Niki Salzburg, Vienna
Seasonal: Graz
NordStar Charter: Moscow-Domodedovo, St Petersburg[citation needed]
Nordwind Airlines Seasonal charter: Barnaul, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Novosibirsk[citation needed]
Orenair Charter: Belgorod, Chelyabinsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, St Petersburg, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg[citation needed]
SAMair Charter: Bratislava[citation needed]
Scandinavian Airlines Charter: Copenhagen[citation needed]
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Vilnius
SmartLynx Airlines Seasonal charter: Billund, Riga[citation needed]
SunExpress Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart
TAROM Charter: Bucharest-Henri Coandă[citation needed]
Tatarstan Airlines Charter: Kazan[citation needed]
Thomas Cook Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester
Thomas Cook Belgium Brussels
Thomas Cook Scandinavia Seasonal charter: Helsinki[citation needed]
Thomson Airways Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester
Transaero Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo,, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg[citation needed]
Transavia.com Amsterdam
Transavia.com France Paris-Orly
Travel Service Airlines Seasonal: Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Košice, Ostrava, Prague
TUIfly Nordic Charter: Stockholm-Arlanda, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport, Oslo-Gardermoen[citation needed]
TUIfly Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Ataturk
Ukraine International Airlines Charter: Kiev-Boryspil[citation needed]
Ural Airlines Charter: Kazan, Moscow-Domodedovo, Ufa, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg[citation needed]
UTair Aviation Charter: Krasnodar, Moscow-Domodedovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, St Petersburg[citation needed]
VIM Airlines Charter: Moscow-Domodedovo[citation needed]
Windrose Airlines Charter: Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv[citation needed]

Ground transportation [edit]

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

References [edit]

  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).

External links [edit]