Entebbe International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Entebbe International Airport
nativename =

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IATA = EBB
ICAO = HUEN
type = Military / Public
owner =
operator = Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda
city-served =
location = Entebbe / Kampala, Uganda
elevation-f = 3,782
elevation-m = 1,153
coordinates = coord|00|02|32|N|032|26|36|E|type:airport_region:UG
website =
metric-rwy = y
r1-number = 17/35
r1-length-f = 12,000
r1-length-m = 3,658
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 12/30
r2-length-f = 7,900
r2-length-m = 2,408
r2-surface = Asphalt
footnotes = Source: DAFIFWAD|HUEN|source=DAFIF] GCM|EBB|source=DAFIF]

Entebbe International Airport Airport codes|EBB|HUEN is the main international airport of Uganda. It is located near the town of Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and about 35 km (21 miles) from the capital Kampala.

Entebbe was the site of a seaplane base in the late 1930s, built by the British in order to facilitate long-range flights from Great Britain to South Africa and other points. Runways were added in 1947, and a terminal building was ceremonially opened by then - Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) in 1952.

The airport was the scene of a hostage rescue operation by Israeli Sayeret Matkal, dubbed Operation Entebbe, in 1976, after an Arab-German hijacking of Air France Flight 139 out of Tel Aviv. The scene of that particular rescue was "the old airport", which was recently demolished except for its tower — right next to "the new airport". In late 2007, a domestic terminal was constructed at the site of the old airport, leaving the "new airport" to handle International flights exclusively.

In 2007, the airport served 720,000 International passengers (+10.7% vs. 2006). [cite news
last = Juuko
first = Sylvia
coauthors =
title = Air travellers increase to 720,000
work =
pages =
language =
publisher = New Vision Online
date = 2008-03-11
url = http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/220/615970
accessdate = 2008-03-11]

It is also a Cooperative Security Location of the United States military. [cite news
title=Presence, Not Permanence
work = Journal of the Air Force Association
url=http://www.afa.org/magazine/Aug2006/0806presence.asp
date=August 2006
publisher=Air Force Association
accessdate=2008-03-11]

Airlines and destinations

*Air Burundi (Bujumbura)
*Air Tanzania (Dar Es Salaam)
*Air Uganda (Nairobi, Mombasa, Juba, Khartoum, Kilimanjaro/Arusha, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar)
*Avient Aviation (Châlons-en-Champagne)
*British Airways (London-Heathrow)
*Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
*Eagle Air (Arua, Gulu, Moyo, Kidepo, Kitgum, Pakuba, Juba, Yei, Bunia)
*East African Airlines (Kisangani, Kinshasa)
*EgyptAir (Cairo)
*Emirates (Dubai)
*Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Lilongwe)
*Fly540 (Nairobi)
*Kenya Airways (Nairobi)
*KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
*Precision Air (Mwanza, Kilimanjaro/Arusha)
*Royal Daisy Airlines (Juba, Kisumu)
*Rwandair Express (Kigali)
*Skyjet (Juba]
*South African Airways (Johannesburg)
*Sudan Airways (Khartoum)
*United Airlines Ltd. (Gulu, Arua)

References

1.http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=15752_0_1_0_M 2.http://www.caa.co.ug/

External links

* [http://www.caa.co.ug/ Uganda Civil Aviation Authority]
* [http://www.mccrow.org.uk/EastAfrica/Entebbe_Airport/Entebbe%20Airport.htm Malcolm McCrow's photos]
* [http://www.avient.aero/scheduledflights.htm Avient Aviation Scheduled Flights]
*NWS-current|HUEN
*ASN|EBB