Marsa Alam International Airport

Marsa Alam International Airport (IATA: RMF, ICAO: HEMA) is an international airport located 60 km north of Marsa Alam in Egypt. It is an important destination for leisure flights from Europe.

Marsa Alam International Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerEMAK Marsa Alam for Management & Operation Airports SAE
OperatorM.A. Al-Kharafi Group of Kuwait
ServesMarsa Alam, Egypt
Elevation AMSL251 ft / 77 m
Coordinates25°33′25″N 34°35′01″E
Map
RMF
Location of airport in Egypt
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15/33 3,000 9,843 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers1,089,000
Sources: DAFIF[1][2] Page 6[3]

Overview

It was built in response to the increasing needs of European travelers to this southern Red Sea destination, along with other airports on the Red Sea such as Hurghada International Airport, being inaugurated on 16 October 2003. The official name of the airport until 2011 was Marsa Mubarak Airport. The airport is privately owned and operated by EMAK Marsa Alam for Management & Operation Airports, a subsidiary of the M.A. Al-Kharafi Group of Kuwait.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn (begins 1 November 2022),[4] Düsseldorf (begins 2 November 2022),[4] Hannover (begins 1 November 2022),[4] Nuremberg (begins 4 November 2022)[5]
easyJet Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Berlin[6]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
EgyptAir Cairo
Enter Air Charter: Katowice,[7] Warsaw–Chopin[7]
Seasonal charter: Poznań[8]
European Air Charter Seasonal charter: Sofia[9]
Eurowings Discover Seasonal: Frankfurt,[10] Munich (begins 30 October 2022)[10]
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich[11]
Neos[12] Bergamo, Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
SkyUp Seasonal charter: Kyiv–Boryspil[13]
Smartwings Prague
Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava
Seasonal charter: Bratislava, Budapest,[14] Vilnius[15]
Sundair[16] Seasonal: Berlin, Düsseldorf
TAROM Seasonal charter: Bucharest[17]
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
TUI fly Deutschland Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt
TUI fly Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal charter: Kyiv–Boryspil[18]

See also

References

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