Hurghada International Airport

Hurghada International Airport
مطار الغردقة الدولي
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Government
Serves Hurghada, Egypt
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 52 ft / 16 m
Coordinates 27°10′41″N 33°47′57″E / 27.17806°N 33.79917°E / 27.17806; 33.79917Coordinates: 27°10′41″N 33°47′57″E / 27.17806°N 33.79917°E / 27.17806; 33.79917
Website hurghada-airport.co.uk
Map
HRG
Location of airport in Egypt
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16L/34R 4,000 13,123 Asphalt
16R/34L 4,000 13,123 Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Hurghada International Airport (IATA: HRG, ICAO: HEGN) is the international airport of Hurghada in Egypt. It is located inland, 5 km (3.1 mi) southwest of El Dahar, the downtown of Hurghada. It is the second busiest airport in Egypt after Cairo International Airport and an important destination for leisure flights mainly from Europe.

Terminal

Aerial overview
Departure area
Control tower

The airport currently has two passenger terminals: Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. Construction of the new terminal complex cost $335 million, which was mainly financed by the Arab Fund for Economic Development. Egypt's aviation minister, Houssam Kamal, said that the airport would be able to host up to 13 million visitors annually.[3][4] The project was inaugurated by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on December 17, 2014.[5] The new terminal has a total area of 92,000 square meters on 3 levels. The departure hall has 72 check-in counters and 20 departure gates.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Adria Airways Seasonal charter: Ljubljana
Air Arabia Egypt Seasonal: Sharm el Sheikh
Seasonal charter: Leipzig/Halle[6]
Air Cairo Belgrade, Billund, Bratislava, Budapest, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Katowice, Munich, Prague, Stuttgart, Tbilisi, Warsaw–Chopin, Yerevan
Seasonal charter: Graz,[7] Linz,[8] Paris-Charles De Gaulle[9]
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal: Cairo
Seasonal charter: Belgrade,[10] Budapest,[11] Paris-Charles De Gaulle,[9] Warsaw–Chopin,[12] Wrocław[13]
Azur Air Ukraine Charter: Kiev–Boryspil[14]
Seasonal charter: Lviv,[14] Odessa,[14] Zaporizhia[14]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal charter: Vienna[15]
Belavia Seasonal charter: Brest,[16] Grodno,[17] Minsk,[18] Mogilev,[19] Vitebsk[20]
Blue Air Seasonal charter: Bucharest[21]
Bravo Airways Charter: Kiev–Boryspil,[22] Kiev–Zhuliany[22]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[23]
Bulgaria Air Seasonal charter: Sofia[21]
Bulgarian Air Charter Seasonal charter: Sofia,[21] Varna[24]
Condor Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart[25]
Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn
Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf (begins 1 November 2018), Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Vienna
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam, Brussels
Seasonal: Maastricht/Aachen
Danish Air Transport Seasonal charter: Billund,[26] Copenhagen[27]
easyJet London–Gatwick
Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel (begins 2 November 2018), London–Stansted (begins 2 November 2018),[28] Milan–Malpensa (begins 28 October 2018)
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Geneva
Edelweiss Air Zürich
EgyptAir Cairo
EgyptAir Express Alexandria–Borg el Arab, Cairo, Sharm el Sheikh
Enter Air Charter: Katowice,[29] Poznań,[30] Warsaw–Chopin,[29] Wrocław[29]
Eurowings Seasonal charter: Berlin–Tegel,[31] Cologne/Bonn,[31] Düsseldorf,[31] Hamburg,[31] Hannover,[31]
Finnair Seasonal charter: Helsinki (resumes 18 December 2018)[32]
FlyEgypt Luxor[33]
Seasonal charter: Basel/Mulhouse,[31] Belgrade,[10] Dresden,[31] Düsseldorf[31] Erfurt/Weimar,[31] Frankfurt,[31] Gdańsk,[12] Graz,[7] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[31] Katowice,[12] Leipzig/Halle,[31] Linz,[8] Memmingen,[31] Paris-Charles De Gaulle,[9] Rostock,[31] Weeze[31]
Germania Berlin–Schönefeld, Berlin–Tegel, Bremen, Dresden, Erfurt/Weimar, Friedrichshafen, Münster, Nuremberg, Rostock
Seasonal: Düsseldorf (resumes 1 November 2018)[34]
Germania Flug Zürich[35]
Jet Time Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[26] Helsinki[36]
Luxair Seasonal charter: Luxembourg (begins 30 October 2018)[37]
Nesma Airlines Seasonal charter: Budapest[11]
Nile Air Cairo
Novair Seasonal charter: Copenhagen (begins 24 October 2018),[27] Stockholm–Arlanda[38]
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal charter: Copenhagen (begins 3 November 2018),[27] Oslo-Gardermoen (begins 16 February 2019),[39] Stockholm–Arlanda (begins 29 December 2018)[38]
SkyUp Charter: Kiev–Boryspil,[22] Kiev–Zhuliany[22]
Seasonal charter: Lviv[22]
Small Planet Airlines Charter: Vilnius[40]
Small Planet Airlines Germany Seasonal charter: Berlin–Schönefeld,[31] Düsseldorf,[31] Frankfurt,[31] Hamburg,[31] Hannover,[31] Leipzig/Halle,[31] Paderborn/Lippstadt[31]
Small Planet Airlines Poland Katowice
Charter: Warsaw–Chopin[30]
Smartlynx Airlines Seasonal charter: Riga[41]
Smartlynx Airlines Estonia Seasonal charter: Tallinn[41]
SmartWings Prague
Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava
Sunday Airlines Seasonal charter: Almaty,[42] Astana[43]
Sun Express Deutschland Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Nuremberg
Seasonal: Leipzig/Halle, Stuttgart[44]
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva[45]
Thomas Cook Airlines Birmingham, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle
Seasonal: Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow[46]
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[47] Gothenburg (begins 29 October 2018),[48] Helsinki,[49] Stockholm–Arlanda[48]
Transavia Amsterdam
Seasonal charter: Eindhoven[50]
Travel Service Hungary Seasonal: Budapest[51]
Travel Service Polska Charter: Katowice,[29] Warsaw–Chopin[30]
TUI Airways Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff (begins 6 May 2019),[52] Doncaster/Sheffield (Begins 5 April 2019),[52] London–Gatwick, London–Luton (Begins 1 November 2018),[52] London-Stansted (begins 7 May 2019),[52] Manchester
Seasonal charter: Gothenburg[53]
TUI fly Belgium Brussels, Charleroi,[54] Ostend-Bruges[55]
TUI fly Deutschland Berlin–Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart[31]
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam
Seasonal: Eindhoven (begins 2 November 2018)
TUI fly Nordic Seasonal charter: Stockholm–Arlanda[53]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Ukraine International Airlines Charter: Kiev–Boryspil
Seasonal charter: Kharkiv, Lviv[56]
Windrose Airlines Charter: Kiev–Boryspil,[57] Lviv[58]

Ground transportation

Car hire is available at the airport. Regular taxis, tourist taxis and minibuses operate from the airport as well.

See also

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 October 2006).
  3. ↑ "Egypt completes Hurghada airport expansion". Al-Arabiya. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Egypt doubles Red Sea airport capacity in anticipation of more tourists". Al-Bawaba. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Sisi inaugurates a new terminal in the Hurgadah International Airport". The Cairo Post. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Flughafen Leipzig/Halle - Passengers and visitors > Flights > Destinations and timetables > Destinations and timetables". Leipzig-halle-airport.de. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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  10. 1 2 "Timetable :: Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport". Beg.aero. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  11. 1 2 "Anubis Travel - Várható menetrend". Anubistravel.hu. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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  14. 1 2 3 4 "Flight Map". Azurair.ua. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
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  17. ↑ "Из Гродненского аэропорта вылетел первый самолет в Хургаду". Белтелерадиокомпания. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
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  19. ↑ "Timetable". www.tez-tour.com.
  20. ↑ "Timetable". www.tez-tour.com.
  21. 1 2 3 "Timetable". www.tez-tour.com.
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 "freight monitor". online.joinup.ua. 9 July 2018.
  23. ↑ "Flight tickets to Hurghada. Book your flight with Brussels Airlines". brusselsairlines.com. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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  25. ↑ "Timetable". Condor.com. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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  27. 1 2 3 "Flight". apollorejser.dk. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
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  30. 1 2 3 "air and charter tickets". itaka.pl. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  31. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 "TUIfly.com - Schedule". Tuifly.com. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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  34. ↑ https://www.flygermania.com/en-gb/
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  36. ↑ "Only Flight".
  37. ↑ "Hurghada". luxairtours.lu. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  38. 1 2 "Flight". apollo.se. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  39. ↑ "Flight". apollo.no. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
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  41. 1 2 "My Flight - Passengers - SmartLynx Airlines". Smartlynx.aero. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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  43. ↑ "Timetable". www.tez-tour.com.
  44. ↑ "Flight schedules". Sunexpress.com. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  45. ↑ 2018, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Swiss files preliminary Geneva – Hurghada schedule from Oct 2018".
  46. ↑ "Timetable". Thomascookairlines.com. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  47. ↑ "Flight". spies.dk.
  48. 1 2 "Flight". ving.se.
  49. ↑ "Flight". tjareborg.fi.
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  51. ↑ "Travel Service Polska adds Budapest routes in S17". Routesonline.com. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  52. 1 2 3 4 "Flight Timetable". tui.co.uk. 5 November 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  53. 1 2 "Only Flight".
  54. ↑ "TUI Airlines Belgium plans new Belgium routes in S17". Routesonline.com. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
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  56. ↑ "Charter flights department – Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) (Ukraine)". FlyUIA. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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