Hurghada International Airport

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.

Hurghada International Airport

مطار الغردقة الدولي
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorGovernment
ServesHurghada, Egypt
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL52 ft / 16 m
Coordinates27°10′41″N 33°47′57″E
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]

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 three levels. The departure hall has 72 check-in counters and 20 departure gates.

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Air Bucharest[6] Seasonal charter: Bucharest, Cluj–Napoca, Sibiu, Suceava
Air Cairo Belgrade, Cairo, Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin
Seasonal: Bratislava, Prague, Yerevan
Seasonal charter: Graz,[7] Linz,[8] Paris–Charles De Gaulle,[9] Salzburg[10]
AirBaltic Seasonal charter: Riga[11]
Air Serbia Seasonal charter: Belgrade[11]
ALK Airlines Seasonal charter: Sofia[11]
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal: Cairo
Seasonal charter: Belgrade,[12] Budapest,[13] Cluj-Napoca,[14] Iași,[14] Oradea,[14] Paris-Charles De Gaulle,[9] Târgu Mureș,[14] Tirana,[15] Warsaw–Chopin,[16] Wrocław[17]
Aviolet Seasonal charter: Belgrade[18]
Azur Air Ukraine Charter: Kiev–Boryspil[19]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal charter: Vienna[20]
Belavia Charter: Brest,[11] Gomel,[11] Grodno,[11][21] Minsk,[11] Mogilev,[11] Vitebsk[11]
Blue Air Seasonal charter: Bucharest,[11] Cluj–Napoca,[22] Iași[22] Oradea,[22] Timișoara[22]
Bukovyna Airlines Charter: Kiev–Boryspil[23]
Chair Airlines Zürich
Condor Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart[24]
Corendon Airlines Europe[25] Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Vienna
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse,[25] Berlin–Brandenburg (begins 2 November 2020),[25] Berlin–Tegel, Erfurt/Weimar, Friedrichshafen, Graz, Linz,[26] Memmingen,[25] Saarbrücken,[25] Weeze (begins 7 November 2020),[27] Zürich
Seasonal charter: Bucharest,[11] Cluj–Napoca,[11] Tallinn,[26][28] Timișoara,[11] Vilnius[26][29]
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam, Brussels
Seasonal: Maastricht/Aachen
DAT Seasonal charter: Billund,[30] Copenhagen[30]
easyJet London–Gatwick
Seasonal: Amsterdam,[31] Berlin–Tegel, Bristol,[31] London–Stansted,[32] Manchester,[31] Milan–Malpensa,[31] Naples,[31] Venice[31]
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse,[31] Geneva
Edelweiss Air Zurich
EgyptAir Alexandria–Borg el Arab, Cairo, Sharm El Sheikh
Enter Air Charter: Gdańsk,[33] Katowice,[33]Poznań,[34] Warsaw–Chopin,[33] Wrocław[33]
Finnair Seasonal charter: Helsinki[35]
FlyEgypt Cairo[36]
Charter: Erfurt/Weimar,[37] Linz,[8] Salzburg[10]
Seasonal charter: Basel/Mulhouse,[38] Billund, Cluj–Napoca,[39] Dresden,[40] Graz,[7] Košice,[41] Memmingen,[40] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[9] Piešťany,[42] Sliač,[43] Vienna,[44] Zürich[40]
Flynas Seasonal: Riyadh[45]
Freebird Airlines Europe Seasonal charter: Leipzig/Halle [46]
GetJet Airlines Charter: Vilnius[11]
Great Dane Airlines Seasonal charter: Aalborg[30]
Holiday Europe Seasonal charter: Berlin–Schönefeld,[40] Cologne/Bonn,[40] Düsseldorf,[40] Erfurt/Weimar,[40] Frankfurt,[40] Hamburg,[40] Hannover,[40] Leipzig/Halle,[40] Munich,[40] Münster/Osnabrück,[40] Nuremberg,[40] Paderborn/Lippstadt,[40] Riga,[47] Sofia,[48] Stuttgart,[40] Tallinn,[49] Vilnius[50]
Iraqi Airways Charter: Baghdad[51]
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg[52]
Neos Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa[53]
Nile Air Cairo
Novair Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[30] Gothenburg,[54] Stockholm–Arlanda[54]
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
SkyUp Charter: Kiev–Boryspil,[23]
Seasonal charter: Lviv[23]
Smartlynx Airlines Seasonal charter: Riga[11]
Smartlynx Airlines Estonia Seasonal charter: Tallinn[11]
Smartwings Prague
Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava
Smartwings Hungary Seasonal charter: Budapest[55]
Smartwings Poland Charter: Katowice,[33] Warsaw–Chopin[34]
Smartwings Slovakia Seasonal charter: Bratislava[56]
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[57] Gothenburg,[58] Helsinki,[59] Oslo–Gardermoen,[60] Stockholm–Arlanda[58]
Sundair Berlin–Tegel, Dresden,[61] Kassel
Seasonal: Bremen[62]
Sunday Airlines Seasonal charter: Almaty,[63] Nur–Sultan[64]
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva[65]
TUI Airways[66] Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands,[67] London–Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne[67]
Seasonal: London–Stansted
TUI fly Belgium Brussels, Charleroi,[68] Ostend/Bruges[69]
TUI fly Deutschland Berlin–Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[70] Munich, Nuremberg,[71] Paderborn/Lippstadt,[70] Stuttgart[72]
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam, Eindhoven
TUI fly Nordic Seasonal charter: Gothenburg,[73] Stockholm–Arlanda[73]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Ukraine International Airlines Charter: Kiev–Boryspil[74]
Seasonal charter: Kharkiv,[74] Lviv[74]
Windrose Airlines Charter: Kiev–Boryspil[11]
Seasonal charter: Lviv[11]

Ground transportation

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

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