Sharm El Sheikh International Airport

Sharm El Sheikh
International Airport
مطار شرم الشيخ الدولي
Summary
Airport type Public (former military)
Operator Government
Serves Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 143 ft / 44 m
Coordinates 27°58′38″N 34°23′41″E / 27.97722°N 34.39472°E / 27.97722; 34.39472Coordinates: 27°58′38″N 34°23′41″E / 27.97722°N 34.39472°E / 27.97722; 34.39472
Website sharm-el-sheikh-airport.com
Map
SSH
Location of airport in Sinai
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04L/22R 3,081 10,108 Asphalt
04R/22L 3,081 10,108 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passenger throughput 8,693,990[1]
Source: DAFIF[2][3]

Sharm El Sheikh International Airport (Arabic: مطار شرم الشيخ الدولي‎ Maṭār Sharm El Sheikh El Dawli) (IATA: SSH, ICAO: HESH) is an international airport located in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. It is the third-busiest airport in Egypt after Cairo International Airport and Hurghada International Airport.

Overview

The airport was opened on May 14, 1968 as an Israeli Air Force base. After the signing of the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in 1979 and subsequent Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, it was reopened as a civilian airport.

The largest regular aircraft using the airport was a Transaero Airlines-operated Boeing 747-400. These flights transiting from Moscow ended when Transaero ceased operations in October 2015. British Airways operated the only regular scheduled Boeing 777-200ER service (from Gatwick Airport). However, this service (and others) has ceased due to concerns over the downing of Metrojet Flight 9268 on 31 October 2015.

In 2008, the Egyptian Airports Holding Company (EAHC) 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 was planned to double the airport's capacity from 7.5 to 15 million passengers per year. The project's primary costs were estimated at $350 million. The design phase was due to be completed by early 2010. International contractors then were invited for an open tender to construct the terminal, which was scheduled to be completely constructed by 2015.[4] However, as of September 2016 construction has not commenced yet.

In November 2015, passenger numbers significantly decreased due to the downing of Metrojet Flight 9268 on 31 October 2015. This led to airlines cancelling flights from the airport and operating rescue flights for stranded passengers. Governments from Russia and European countries such as the United Kingdom banned airlines from operating to the airport, citing safety concerns that were highlighted following the crash.

In January 2018, it was announced that EgyptAir Express would open a base at the airport for its incoming fleet of Airbus A220s. This would increase the amount of destinations served by the airline at the airport with the possibility of operating to cities in Italy, Germany, Morocco and India non-stop.[5]

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-square-metre (460,000 sq ft) 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'. This 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

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 inauguration of Terminal 1 in 2007 most airlines have shifted operations to the new building.

In December 2016 Egyptian Airports Company announced plans to extend Terminal 2. EAC plans to expand the terminal and increase its capacity by two million passengers per year, thus taking the total capacity of the airport to 9.5 million. This also includes the construction of a new runway and 40 new airsides.[6]

Airlines and destinations

Departure hall at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport
Control tower at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport
AirlinesDestinations
Air Arabia Egypt Seasonal: Alexandria–Borg el Arab,[7] Beirut,[8] Hurghada
Seasonal charter: Bergamo[9]
Air Cairo Bari, Bologna (begins 28 October 2018),[10] Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Katowice, Milan–Malpensa, Munich, Naples,[11] Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Tbilisi, Venice (begins 2 November 2018), Warsaw–Chopin, Yerevan
Air Italy Milan–Malpensa
Air Moldova Seasonal charter: Chișinău[12]
ALK Airlines Seasonal charter: Sofia[13]
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal: Cairo
Seasonal charter: Bari,[14] Beirut,[15] Bergamo,[9] Bologna,[16] Katowice,[17] Milan–Malpensa,[18] Naples,[14] Rimini,[19] Rome-Fiumicino,[20] Verona[21]
Anda AirSeasonal charter: Kiev–Boryspil[22]
Azerbaijan Airlines Seasonal: Baku (begins 8 November 2018)[23]
Azur Air Ukraine Charter: Kharkiv,[24] Kiev–Boryspil,[24] Lviv[24]
Seasonal charter: Odessa,[24] Zaporizhia[24]
Belavia Seasonal charter: Brest (begins 20 October 2018),[25] Gomel,[25] Grodno (begins 26 October 2018),[25] Minsk[26][25] Mogilev,[25] Vitebsk (begins 19 October 2018)[25]
Blue Panorama Airlines Seasonal charter: Bologna,[27] Verona[21]
Bravo Airways Charter: Kiev–Boryspil,[22] Kiev–Zhuliany,[22]
Seasonal charter: Kherson,[22] Kryvyi Rih,[22] Odessa[22] Vinnytsia[22]
Bulgarian Air Charter Seasonal charter: Sofia[28]
Danish Air Transport Seasonal charter: Billund,[29] Copenhagen[29]
EgyptAir Alexandria–Borg el Arab, Cairo
Seasonal charter: Bergamo,[9] Yerevan[30]
EgyptAir Express Alexandria–Borg el Arab, Cairo, Hurghada, Kuwait
Seasonal: Jeddah, Riyadh
Enter Air Charter: Katowice,[31] Warsaw–Chopin[31]
FlyEgypt Seasonal charter: Berlin-Schönefeld,[32] Düsseldorf,[32] Frankfurt,[32] Leipzig/Halle,[32] Munich,[32] Stuttgart[32]
Flynas Jeddah, Riyadh[33]
FlyOne Seasonal charter: Chișinău (begins 20 October 2018)[12]
Germania Düsseldorf, Munich[34]
Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld, Dresden, Hamburg[34]
Germania Flug Zürich[34]
Gulf Air Bahrain[35]
Iraqi Airways Seasonal charter: Baghdad[36]
Jazeera Airways Seasonal: Kuwait[37]
Jordan Aviation Amman–Queen Alia
Kuwait Airways Seasonal: Kuwait
Middle East Airlines Seasonal charter: Beirut[15]
Nile Air Cairo[38]
Neos Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Bologna, Rome-Fiumicino (begins 10 November 2018),[39] Verona
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[40]
Royal Jordanian Seasonal charter: Amman–Queen Alia[15]
Saudia Jeddah, Riyadh[41]
SkyUp Charter: Kharkiv,[22] Kiev–Boryspil,[22] Kiev–Zhuliany,[22] Odessa,[22] Zaporizhia[22]
Seasonal charter: Lviv[22]
Small Planet Airlines Charter: Vilnius[42]
Small Planet Airlines Poland Charter: Katowice,[31][43] Warsaw–Chopin[31][43]
Smartlynx Airlines Seasonal charter: Riga[44]
Smartlynx Airlines Estonia Seasonal charter: Tallinn[45]
Sunday Airlines Seasonal charter: Aktobe,[46] Almaty,[47] Astana,[48] Karaganda[49]
Travel Service Hungary Seasonal charter: Budapest[50]
Travel Service Polska Charter: Katowice,[43] Warsaw–Chopin[43]
Travel Service Slovakia Seasonal charter: Bratislava[51]
TUI fly Belgium Brussels, Charleroi, Ostend-Bruges[52]
TUI fly Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven (begins 2 November 2018)
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk[53]
Ukraine International Airlines Charter: Kiev–Boryspil,[54] Lviv,[54] Odessa[54]
Seasonal charter: Kharkiv,[54] Zaporizhia[54]
Windrose Airlines Charter: Kiev–Boryspil[55]
Seasonal charter: Dnipropetrovsk,[56] Kharkiv,[57] Lviv,[58][59] Odessa[60]
Wings of Lebanon Seasonal charter: Beirut[61]
Yanair Charter: Kiev–Boryspil,[22] Kiev–Zhuliany,[22] Lviv[22]
Seasonal charter: Kryvyi Rih,[22] Vinnytsia,[22] Zaporizhia[22]

Accidents and incidents

  • On January 3, 2004, Flash Airlines Flight 604, en route to Cairo and then Paris as its final destination, crashed in the Red Sea shortly after taking off from Sharm El Sheikh, killing all 148 people on board. Causes for the accident include pilot error and instrument failure, but investigators have been unable to reach a consensus.
  • On August 23, 2015, Thomson Airways Flight 476, approaching Sharm El Sheikh at the end of a flight from London Stansted Airport with 189 passengers aboard, took evasive action to avoid a missile traveling toward it; the missile missed the airliner by about 1,000 feet (300 meters), and the plane landed safely. An investigation concluded that the missile was an Egyptian armed forces missile that had strayed from a military exercise.[62]
  • On October 31, 2015, Metrojet Flight 9268, en route from Sharm El Sheikh to St. Petersburg, Russia, crashed in the Sinai Peninsula between Nekhel and Housna, killing all 224 people on board, most of them Russian tourists. The jihadist group ISIL, at war with Russian forces in nearby Syria, quickly claimed responsibility for the crash, which was believed by western governments to be the result of a terrorist bombing. Russian investigators confirmed in mid-November that the flight was bombed; the investigation is still ongoing.[63] Following these events, many countries ordered all flights to Sharm El Sheikh suspended until further notice. The security at Sharm El Sheikh is currently considered dangerously lax. Airport staff have been seen taking cash from passengers to let weapons and drugs through or to let passengers skip queues despite the bomb threat.[63][64]

See also

References

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