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.[6]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo[7]
Air Arabia Alexandria,[8] Cairo[8]
Air Astana Seasonal charter: Almaty[9]
Air Bucharest[10] Seasonal charter: Bucharest, Cluj–Napoca, Sibiu, Suceava
Air Cairo Banja Luka,[11] Basel/Mulhouse,[12][13] Belgrade, Berlin,[12][13] Bratislava, Bremen,[12][13] Cologne/Bonn,[12][13] Düsseldorf,[14] Frankfurt,[14] Hamburg,[12][13] Hannover,[12][13] Leipzig/Halle,[12][13] Munich,[12][13] Nuremberg, Prague, Sarajevo,[11] Skopje,[11] Stuttgart,[12][13] Vienna, Zürich[14]
Seasonal charter: Amsterdam,[15] Tirana[16]
Air Serbia Charter: Belgrade[17]
Seasonal charter: Niš
airBaltic Seasonal charter: Riga[18]
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal: Cairo, Moscow–Domodedovo[19]
Seasonal charter: Wrocław[20]
Animawings[21] Bucharest
Seasonal: Cluj-Napoca, Suceava, Timișoara
Austrian AirlinesSeasonal Charter: Vienna
Azur Air Ukraine Charter: Kyiv–Boryspil[22]
Belavia Charter: Minsk[18]
BH Air Seasonal charter: Sofia[18]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[23]
Chair Airlines Zürich
Condor[24] Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Airlines[25] Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Erfurt/Weimar, Friedrichshafen, Graz, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, Memmingen, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Rostock, Saarbrücken, Vienna
Seasonal: Bremen (resumes 8 May 2022), Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Munich, Salzburg (begins 8 July 2022),[26] Stuttgart, Weeze
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam, Maastricht/Aachen
easyJetBristol, London–Gatwick, London–Luton,[27] Manchester
Seasonal: Amsterdam,[28] Basel/Mulhouse,[28] Berlin,[28] Geneva,[28] Milan–Malpensa,[28] Naples,[28] Venice
Edelweiss Air Zurich
EgyptAir Cairo, Sharm El Sheikh
Seasonal: Alexandria, Budapest,[29] Moscow–Domodedovo,[30] Prague[31]
Enter Air[20] Charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław
Eurowings[32] Seasonal: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Salzburg, Stuttgart
Eurowings Discover[33] Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich (begins 4 June 2022)
Finnair Seasonal charter: Helsinki[34]
FlyEgypt Seasonal charter: Belgrade, Graz,[35] Linz,[36] Skopje, Yerevan[37]
Flynas Seasonal: Riyadh[38]
Freebird Airlines[39] Cologne/Bonn
Seasonal: Düsseldorf
GetJet Airlines Seasonal charter: Riga,[40] Tallinn,[40] Vilnius[18]
HiSky[41] Seasonal charter: Baia Mare, Chișinău[18] Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, Târgu Mureș
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich (ends 4 June 2022)[33]
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg[42]
Nile Air Cairo
Nordwind Airlines[43] Seasonal charter: Kazan, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg
Novair Seasonal charter: Billund,[44] Copenhagen,[44] Gothenburg,[45] Stockholm–Arlanda[45]
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Rossiya Airlines[46] Charter: Moscow–Sheremetyevo,[47] Saint Petersburg
S7 Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo[48]
Seasonal: Kazan,[48] Samara,[48] Ufa,[48] Yekaterinburg[48]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal charter: Gothenburg[49] Oslo[50] Stockholm[49]
SkyUp Charter: Kyiv–Boryspil,[51]
Seasonal charter: Lviv[51]
Smartlynx Airlines Seasonal charter: Tallinn[18]
Smartwings Prague
Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava
Charter: Katowice,[52] Warsaw–Chopin[53]
Seasonal charter: Bratislava,[54] Budapest[55]
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Helsinki,[56] Oslo,[57] Stockholm–Arlanda[58]
Sundair[59] Berlin, Dresden, Kassel
Seasonal: Bremen, Düsseldorf, Leipzig/Halle
Sunday Airlines Seasonal charter: Almaty,[18] Nur–Sultan[18]
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva[60]
TAROM Seasonal charter: Bucharest,[18] Cluj–Napoca,[18] Iași,[18] Timișoara[18]
Transavia Seasonal: Paris–Orly[61]
TUI Airways[62] Birmingham, Bristol, Doncaster/Sheffield, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne[63]
TUI fly Belgium[64] Brussels, Ostend/Bruges
Seasonal: Charleroi
TUI fly Deutschland[65] Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Nuremberg,[66] Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam, Eindhoven
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Ukraine International Airlines Charter: Kyiv–Boryspil[67]
Seasonal charter: Kharkiv,[67] Lviv[67]
Ural Airlines[68] Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Zhukovsky,[69] Saint Petersburg
Windrose Airlines Charter: Kyiv–Boryspil[18]
Seasonal charter: Lviv[18]
Wizz Air Rome–Fiumicino[70]
Seasonal: Budapest[71]

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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