Sohag International Airport

Sohag International Airport (IATA: HMB, ICAO: HESG) is an airport serving Sohag, capital of the Sohag Governorate of Egypt. The airport is 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of the city. It is known as the Beit Khallaf Airport by locals due to its proximity to the village, with the Kareem H. El-Sisi Terminal being used mainly by the Houara tribe.

Sohag International Airport

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Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorGovernment
LocationSohag, Egypt
Elevation AMSL859 ft / 262 m
Coordinates26°20′25″N 31°44′20″E
Map
HMB
Location of airport in Egypt
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15/33 3,000 9,843 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers311,000
OECD[1] GCM[2] Google Maps[3]

The Sohag VOR-DME (Ident: SHG) is located 0.5 nautical miles off the threshold of runway 15.[4]

History

The airport was officially inaugurated by former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on 25 May 2010. The project cost an estimated US$80 million, with construction beginning in January 2009 to include a passenger terminal, control tower, aprons, a runway, and 33 buildings allocated for various airport services. Following the ousting of Mubarak and a subsequent court verdict ordering removal of Mubarak's name from all establishments in Egypt, the airport was renamed Sohag International Airport.

Facilities

The facility is built to handle approximately 3.5 million passengers per year. The passenger terminal is designed with a unique Pharaonic motif, comprising international halls for arrivals and departures, a VIP hall, duty-free shops, and security facilities. The airport has its own electricity, water, sewage, and communication stations. There is parking for 400 vehicles and 25 buses.

The airport's single runway is 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long and 45 metres wide. The airport can receive aircraft as large as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737. The apron is designed to handle 6 aircraft, with plans to expand this to accommodate 14 aircraft.

The new airport is the fifth international airport in Upper Egypt after Luxor, Aswan, Assiut, and Abu Simbel. The airport primarily caters to domestic travel and traffic between Sohag/Upper Egypt and the Persian Gulf states including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Air Arabia Sharjah
Air Arabia Egypt[5] Cairo,[5] Jeddah, Kuwait, Riyadh
Air Cairo Amman–Queen Alia, Jeddah, Kuwait, Riyadh
EgyptAir Assiut,[6] Cairo
FlyEgypt Jeddah,[7] Kuwait[8]
Jazeera Airways Kuwait
Nile Air Cairo,[9] Jeddah,[10] Kuwait[11]

See also

References
  1. "OECD p6".
  2. Airport information for HMB at Great Circle Mapper.
  3. "Google Maps". Google Maps.
  4. "SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts". skyvector.com. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  5. "Flights to Sohag". airarabia.com.
  6. Liu, Jim. "EGYPTAIR adds Assiut – Sohag service from late-March 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  7. "Fly Egypt Airlines". booking.flyeg.com.
  8. 2018, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Fly Egypt Files Preliminary Operation from late-May 2016".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. Liu, Jim (4 November 2019). "Nile Air adds Cairo – Sohag route from Dec 2019". routesonline.com.
  10. "Nile Air adds Jeddah from Dec 2018". RoutesOnline. 26 December 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  11. Liu, Jim. "Nile Air expands Kuwait service from August 2019". Routesonline. Retrieved 31 July 2019.


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