Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport

Sharm el-Sheikh International Airpoirt مطار شرم الشيخ الدولي Maṭār Sharm Ash-Shaykh Ad-Dawly
Terminal 2 of the airport
IATA: SSH – ICAO: HESH 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 الدولي‎ Maṭār Sharm al-Shaykh al-Duwaliyy) (IATA: SSH, ICAO: 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.

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

• List of airports in Egypt
• List of the busiest airports in Africa by passenger traffic

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)

External links

• Current weather for HESH at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for SSH at Aviation Safety Network