Hurghada International Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Government | ||||||||||
| Serves | Hurghada | ||||||||||
| Location | Hurghada, Egypt | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 52 ft / 16 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°10′41″N 33°47′57″E / 27.17806°N 33.79917°E | ||||||||||
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Hurghada International Airport (IATA: HRG, ICAO: 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 2011 the airport handled 5,975,423 passengers (-25.9% compared to 2010).
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
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 mid 2012.
- Construction of a second 4,000m runway.
Airlines and destinations
Hurghada Airport is served by the following scheduled airlines:
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| Air Arabia | Debrecen |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Leipzig/Halle, Münster/Osnabrück, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart |
| Air Bucharest | Bucharest-Henri Coanda |
| Air Cairo | Bydgoszcz, Budapest, Belgrade |
| Arkefly | Amsterdam |
| Belair | Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Zürich |
| Condor | Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart |
| Corendon Dutch Airlines | Seasonal: Amsterdam |
| EasyJet | London-Gatwick |
| EasyJet Switzerland | Geneva [resumes 5 September 2012] |
| Edelweiss Air | Zürich |
| EgyptAir | Cairo |
| EgyptAir operated by EgyptAir Express | Alexandria-El Nouzha, Cairo, Sharm el-Sheikh |
| Enter Air | Seasonal: Warsaw-Chopin |
| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki |
| Jat Airways | Seasonal Charter: Belgrade |
| Jetairfly | Brussels |
| Niki | Vienna |
| Rossiya | St Petersburg |
| SunExpress Deutschland | Berlin-Schönefeld, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich |
| 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 | Moscow-Domodedovo, Yekaterinburg |
| Travel Service | Prague |
| TUIfly | Cologne/Bonn [ends 30 August 2012], Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden [ends 8 October 2012], Munich, Stuttgart |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Charter:Kiev-Boryspil, |
| UTair | Charter: Krasnodar, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk |
| UTair Ukraine | Charter: Kiev-Boryspil |
Transportation
- Car hire is available at the airport
- Regular taxis, tourist taxis and minibuses operate from the airport
References
- ^ Template:WAD
- ^ Airport information for HRG at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
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