Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport

Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport
Sharm el-Sheikh International Airpoirt
مطار شرم الشيخ الدولي
Maṭār Sharm Ash-Shaykh Ad-Dawly
Sharm airport.JPG
Terminal 2 of the airport
IATA: SSHICAO: HESH
SSH is located in Sinai
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SSH
Location of airport in Sinai
Summary
Airport type Public (former Military)
Operator Government
Serves Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
Elevation AMSL 143 ft / 44 m
Coordinates 27°58′38″N 34°23′41″E / 27.97722°N 34.39472°E / 27.97722; 34.39472
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04L/22R 3,081 10,108 Asphalt
04R/22L 3,081 10,108 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers 8,693,990
Source: List of the busiest airports in Africa, DAFIF[1][2]

Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport (Arabic: مطار شرم الشيخ الدوليMaṭār Sharm al-Shaykh al-Duwaliyy) (IATA: SSHICAO: HESH), formerly known as Ophira International Airport, is an international airport located in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Opened on May 14, 1968, the airport was originally an Israeli Air Force base and also served the small settlement of Ofira, before the territory was returned to Egypt following the Camp David Accords.

In 2008, the Egyptian Airports Holding Company announced plans to build a third new terminal at the airport. The company expects to receive design offers for before the end of September 2008. Ibrahim Mannaa, the director of Airports Holding Company, said that it is a move to meet the sizeable increase in passengers numbers at the airport that exceeded 28% during the first 8 months of 2008.

The largest regular aircraft operating into the airport is the Boeing 747-400 by Transaero Airlines (from Moscow); British Airways operated the only regular scheduled Boeing 777-200ER service from Gatwick Airport, which has now ceased.

In 2009, the airport served 7,430,940 passengers (-4.2% vs 2008). It is the second busiest airport in Egypt after Cairo International Airport.

Contents

Terminals

Terminal 1

On 23 May 2007, the airport's second terminal was inaugurated with a capacity for 5 million passengers per year. The two-level 43,000 m2 terminal features 40 check-in counters and is designed to cater to a large number of international and chartered flights. It has two domestic and six international gates, all of which exit to remote stands. The terminal comprises three building components: two circular-shaped halls fused together by a wedge-shaped intermediate space dubbed 'the boat'. 'The boat' serves as a passenger transit hub housing passport control, duty free, and VIP areas as well as cafes/restaurants. The halls, in stark textural contrast to the solid mass of 'the boat', feature airy, billowing tent-like roofs inspired by the indigenous Bedouin culture

Terminal 2

Departure Hall

Although known as 'Terminal 2' this is actually the airport's original terminal building. The building underwent a complete modernisation programme in 2004 and has a passenger handling capacity of 2.5 million passengers per year. Since the auguration of Terminal 1 in 2007 most airlines have shifted operations to the new building with notable exceptions like Air Berlin, Air Cairo, Eurofly and Livingston Airlines.

Future Developments

Terminal 3

In 2008, the Egyptian Airports Holding Company announced plans to build a third new terminal at the airport. In July 2009 the Egyptian Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation (EHCAAN) signed a contract with Spanish construction designers Pointec for the third terminal. The terminal will double the airport's capacity from 7.5 to 15 million passengers per year. The project's primary costs are estimated at $350 million. The design phase is due to be completed by early 2010. International contractors then will be invited for an open tender to construct the terminal which is scheduled to be completely constructed by 2012.

Other

A new runway and apron will be constructed in time for the inauguration of Terminal 3 in 2012.

Transaero Boeing 747-200 landing at Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Adria Airways Seasonal: Ljubljana
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aerosvit Airlines Kiev-Boryspil, Odessa
Seasonal: Simferopol
AirBaltic Seasonal: Riga
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Nuremberg
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich
Air Berlin operated by Belair Basel/Mulhouse, Zürich
Air Cairo Copenhagen, Milan-Malpensa, Oslo-Gardermoen, Poznan, Wroclaw
Air Italy Milan-Malpensa
Air Italy Polska Katowice, Warsaw
AMC Airlines Seasonal: Dublin [begins 22 December]
Air Memphis Milan-Malpensa, Venice-Marco Polo
Air Moldova Seasonal: Chişinău
Arkefly Amsterdam
AtlasJet Istanbul-Atatürk
Austrian Airlines operated by Lauda Air [3] Vienna
Aviogenex Seasonal: Belgrade
Bahrain Air Bahrain
Blue Air Seasonal: Larnaca
Blue Panorama Airlines Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
Bulgaria Air Seasonal: Sofia
Condor Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle
Donavia Rostov-on-Don
EasyJet Geneva, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester
Edelweiss Air Geneva, Zürich
EgyptAir Cairo, London-Heathrow
EgyptAir Express Alexandria, Cairo, Hurghada, Jeddah, Luxor
Seasonal: Marsa Alam
Georgian Airways Tbilisi
Germania Bremen
Hello Zürich, Geneva
Jazeera Airways Kuwait
JAT Airways Seasonal: Belgrade
Jettime Copenhagen, Billund
I-Fly Moscow-Vnukovo
Kuwait Airways Kuwait
Meridiana Fly Bologna, Milan-Orio al Serio, Naples, Rome-Fiumicino, Venice-Marco Polo
Seasonal: Ancona, Bari, Pisa
Mistral Air Milan-Malpensa
Monarch London-Gatwick, Manchester
Nas Air Jeddah, Riyadh
Neos Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Verona
Nordwind Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Niki Vienna
Norwegian Air Shuttle Oslo-Gardermoen
Rossiya St Petersburg
Royal Jordanian Amman-Queen Alia
Saudi Arabian Airlines Seasonal: Jeddah, Riyadh
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen
SCAT Almaty
Sky Airlines Antalya
SmartLynx Airlines Seasonal: Riga
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Thomas Cook Airlines Birmingham, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Belfast-International, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, London-Stansted
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Brussels
Thomson Airways Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich
Seasonal: Bournemouth, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter
Transaero Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Seasonal: Saint Petersburg-Pulkovo, Yekaterinburg
Transavia.com Amsterdam
Travel Service Prague
Travel Service Hungary Budapest
TUIfly Düsseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Hanover
TUIfly Nordic Oslo-Gardermoen
Ukraine International Airlines Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv, Odessa, Simferopol
Seasonal: Kharkov
Vladivostok Air Charter: Vladivostok
XL Airways France Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Wind Jet Seasonal: Forlì
Wind Rose Aviation Kiev-Boryspil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Simferopol
Seasonal: Uzhogorod
UTair-Ukraine Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil

See also

References

  1. ^ Airport information for HESH at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  2. ^ Airport information for SSH at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
  3. ^ https://www.laudaair.com/book/StartHtml.aspx?a=3&fplan=y&L=0&lang=DE Lauda Air timetable (retrieved 2009-08-31)

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