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Cairo International Airport

Airport information
IATACAI
ICAOHECA
 Location of airport in Egypt
Airport typePublic
OperatorCairo Airport Authority
ServesCairo, Egypt
HubEgyptAir
Elevation116 m (382 ft)

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Cairo International Airport (Arabic: مطار القاهرة الدولي Maṭār al-Qāhirah al-Duwaliyy) is the busiest airport in Egypt and the primary hub for Star Alliance member EgyptAir. The airport is located to the north-east of the city around 15 km from the business area of the city.

The airport is administered by the Egyptian Holding Co. for Airports and Air Navigation (EHCAAN), which controls four companies including: Cairo Airport Co., Egyptian Airports Co., National Air Navigation Services and Aviation Information Technology and the Cairo Airport Authority (CAA), which is the regulatory body. In 2004, Fraport AG won the management contract to run the airport for 8 years.

Cairo International is the second busiest airport in Africa after OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa. Over 65 airlines use Cairo airport (including charter airlines) and 9 cargo airlines. EgyptAir is the largest operator at the airport, holding 61% of the departure slots in 2009. With the assimilation of the carrier into Star Alliance in July 2008 the airport has the potential to be a major hub with its positioning between Africa, the Middle East and Europe (especially with facilities for the A380).

In 2009, the airport served 14,382,042 passengers (+0.2% vs. 2008) and handled just under 143,000 aircraft movements (+3.6% vs. 2008). Total airfreight tonnage handled at the airport in 2009 dropped by 3.9% to approximately 274,550 tonnes.

The airport has three terminals, with the third (and largest) opened on 27 April 2009. Terminal 2 was closed in April 2010 for major renovation works to the building's structure and facilities. A third parallel runway is currently under construction and will replace the current crossing runway once it goes into operation in 2010. Runway 05L/23R is 3,300m long, 05C/23C has a length of 4,000m and the new runway will be designated as 05R/23L and will be 4,000m. A new cargo terminal is also under construction.

In 2010, the airport was voted one of the three most improved airports in the 2010 Skytrax World Airport Awards.

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Weather conditions force Alexandria airport shut down - Al-Ahram Weekly Tweet this news
Al-Ahram Weekly--Alexandria airport was shut down today and air traffic has been transferred to -Cairo International Airport- due to heavy fog, Egyptian airport sources said. ... - Date : Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:59:13 GMT+00:00
New inspection equipment for Cairo Airport - Al-Masry Al-Youm Tweet this news
Al-Masry Al-Youm--Egypt will import new rapid inspection equipment for export cargo going through -Cairo International Airport-, said Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on Sunday. ... - Date : Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:27:56 GMT+00:00
US Embassy working on my behalf, says author denied entry to Egypt - Al-Masry Al-Youm Tweet this news
Al-Masry Al-Youm--Stock was barred entry into the country at -Cairo International Airport- on Friday night. His deportation to the UK was ordered via a British airliner ... - Date : Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:46:35 GMT+00:00
ElBaradei harassed in Cairo airport - Press TV Tweet this news
Press TV--Egypt opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been harassed at the -Cairo International Airport- as security officers checked his name in the wanted persons ... - Date : Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:32:09 GMT+00:00
The Unsettling Failure of Airport Security Worldwide - Family Security Matters Tweet this news
Family Security Matters--At Beirut-Rafik Hariri -International Airport- it gets worse. Hizballah, which is in charge of -airport- security (Remember, Hizballah fought a bloody battle ... - Date : Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:04:04 GMT+00:00
For the First Time El-Baradei Harrassed at Cairo Airport - ikhwanWeb.com Tweet this news
ikhwanWeb.com--Egypt's former UN nuclear watchdog, Chief Mohamed El-Baradei was subject to harrassment by security officers at -Cairo Airport- as soon as he arrived ... - Date : Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:36:55 GMT+00:00
The real attack on Egypt's sovereignty - Al-Masry Al-Youm Tweet this news
Al-Masry Al-Youm--I never would have imagined that the Egyptian regime could compromise its sovereignty to such an extent, whereby -Cairo International Airport- now seems as if ... - Date : Sat, 27 Nov 2010 06:03:35 GMT+00:00
Abbas in Cairo for 2-day meet with Egypt leader - Ma'an News Agency Tweet this news
Ma'an News Agency--Abbas was received at -Cairo airport- by the Egyptian minister of development Othman Muhammad Othman and the Palestinian ambassador to Egypt Barakat Al-Farra ... - Date : Sun, 21 Nov 2010 06:19:33 GMT+00:00
EgyptAir takes delivery of 4th B777-300 for New York service - Arabian Aerospace (blog) Tweet this news
Arabian Aerospace (blog)---...- the chairman of EgyptAir engineering and other top officials welcomed the new aircraft when it landed at -Cairo International airport-. ... - Date : Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:46:30 GMT+00:00
Israeli jet, British airliner avoid mid-air collision: report - People's Daily Online Tweet this news
People's Daily Online--Several F-16 jets were on a patrol mission above southern Israel when the British plane, which took off from the -Cairo International Airport-, ... - Date : Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:01:12 GMT+00:00

Airlines Destinations
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Aegean AirlinesAthens
AeroflotMoscow-Sheremetyevo
Aerosvit AirlinesKiev-Boryspil [begins 2 March]
Afriqiyah AirwaysTripoli
Air AlgérieAlgiers
Air BerlinMunich
Air FranceParis-Charles de Gaulle
Air SinaiTel Aviv
AlitaliaRome-Fiumicino
Alitalia operated by Air OneMilan-Malpensa
AlMasria Universal AirlinesAbha, Qassim, Yanbu
Austrian AirlinesVienna
BMI (airline)bmi
British AirwaysLondon-Heathrow
Buraq AirTripoli
Continental AirlinesNewark [begins 18 May]
Cyprus AirwaysLarnaca
Czech AirlinesPrague
Delta Air LinesNew York-JFK
EgyptAirAbidjan [begins 31 March], Abu Dhabi, Abu Simbel, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Alexandria, Algiers, Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Asmara, Assiut, Aswan, Athens, Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Benghazi, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brussels, Casablanca, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dammam, Doha, Dubai, Dar es Salaam, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Geneva, Guangzhou, Hurghada, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Juba, Kano, Khartoum, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Larnaca, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Lusaka [begins 16 January], Luxor, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Sana'a, Sharjah, Sharm el-Sheikh, Sohag, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson [begins June 1], Tripoli, Tunis, Vienna
EgyptAir ExpressAlexandria, Aswan, Budapest, Catania, El Arish, Hurghada, Luxor, Malta, Marsa Alam, Mersa Matruh [seasonal], Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharq al Owainat, Taba
El AlTel Aviv
Emirates (airline)Emirates
Ethiopian AirlinesAddis Ababa, Khartoum
Etihad AirwaysAbu Dhabi
Gulf AirBahrain
Hainan AirlinesBeijing-Capital
Iberia AirlinesIberia
Iraqi AirwaysBaghdadhttp://www.iq-airways.com/AirqAirways/trips_special.php?w=45
JetairflyBrussels{{Ref
3rdcoltitle=Terminal
Aegean AirlinesAthens
AeroflotMoscow-Sheremetyevo
Aerosvit AirlinesKiev-Boryspil [begins 2 March]
Afriqiyah AirwaysTripoli
Air AlgérieAlgiers
Air BerlinMunich
Air FranceParis-Charles de Gaulle
Air SinaiTel Aviv
AlitaliaRome-Fiumicino
Alitalia operated by Air OneMilan-Malpensa
AlMasria Universal AirlinesAbha, Qassim, Yanbu
Austrian AirlinesVienna
BMI (airline)bmi
British AirwaysLondon-Heathrow
Buraq AirTripoli
Continental AirlinesNewark [begins 18 May]
Cyprus AirwaysLarnaca
Czech AirlinesPrague
Delta Air LinesNew York-JFK
EgyptAirAbidjan [begins 31 March], Abu Dhabi, Abu Simbel, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Alexandria, Algiers, Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Asmara, Assiut, Aswan, Athens, Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Benghazi, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brussels, Casablanca, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dammam, Doha, Dubai, Dar es Salaam, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Geneva, Guangzhou, Hurghada, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Juba, Kano, Khartoum, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Larnaca, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Lusaka [begins 16 January], Luxor, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Sana'a, Sharjah, Sharm el-Sheikh, Sohag, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson [begins June 1], Tripoli, Tunis, Vienna
EgyptAir ExpressAlexandria, Aswan, Budapest, Catania, El Arish, Hurghada, Luxor, Malta, Marsa Alam, Mersa Matruh [seasonal], Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharq al Owainat, Taba
El AlTel Aviv
Emirates (airline)Emirates
Ethiopian AirlinesAddis Ababa, Khartoum
Etihad AirwaysAbu Dhabi
Gulf AirBahrain
Hainan AirlinesBeijing-Capital
Iberia AirlinesIberia
Iraqi AirwaysBaghdadhttp://www.iq-airways.com/AirqAirways/trips_special.php?w=45
JetairflyBrussels{{Ref
Kenya AirwaysKhartoum, Nairobi
KLMAmsterdam
Korean AirSeoul-Incheon{{Ref
Kuwait AirwaysKuwait
Libyan AirlinesBenghazi, Sebha, Tripoli
LOT Polish AirlinesWarsaw
LufthansaFrankfurt
Lufthansa operated by PrivatairMunich
Meridiana operated by EuroflyMilan-Malpensa
Middle East AirlinesBeirut
NasairAsmara, Port Sudan
Nile AirBaghdad, İstanbul-Atatürk, Sulaimaniyah
Olympic AirAthens
Oman AirMuscat
Qatar AirwaysDoha
RAK AirwaysRas al Khaimah [begins 15 December][http://www.rakairways.com/Flight-Schedule.asp RAK schedule]
Royal Air MarocCasablanca
Royal JordanianAmman-Queen Alia
Saudi Arabian AirlinesAbha, Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh
Singapore AirlinesDubai, Singapore
Sudan AirwaysKhartoum, Port Sudan
Sun Air (Sudan)Sun Air
Swiss International Air LinesZürich
Syrian AirAleppo, Damascus, Latakia
TAROMBucharest-Otopeni
Tunis AirTunis
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul-Atatürk
Wataniya AirwaysKuwait
YemeniaAden, Hodeidah, Sana'a, Ta'izz

Airlines Destinations
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Air CairoDomestic and Europe
Air EuropaBarcelona, Madrid 
Air MemphisDomestic and Europe
Alexandria AirlinesAlexandria, Aqaba, Luxor
AlMasria Universal AirlinesDomestic and Europe
AMC AirlinesDomestic and Europe
Bulgaria AirSofia
Cairo AviationDomestic and Europe
EgyptAirPaphos
Euro Mediterranean AirlinesDomestic and Europe
IberworldMadrid 
Jat AirwaysBelgrade
KoralBlue AirlinesDomestic and Europe
Lotus AirDomestic and Europe
Midwest Airlines (Egypt)Domestic and Europe
Petroleum Air Servicesdomestic flights and oil airstrips

Airlines Destinations
Air France CargoParis-Charles de Gaulle, Reunion
EgyptAir CargoChâteauroux, Cologne/Bonn, Eldoret, Hahn, Istanbul, Khartoum, Kent, Nairobi, Ostend, Sharjah
Ethiopian AirlinesAddis Ababa, Dubai, Liège
Lufthansa CargoFrankfurt, Hong Kong, Sharjah
Qatar Airways CargoDoha
Royal Jordanian CargoAmman, Brussels
Trans Mediterranean AirwaysBeirut
Tristar AirAmsterdam, Düsseldorf, Kent-Manston, Tripoli
Turkish Airlines CargoBeirut, Istanbul

Airport Runways
DirectionLength ft(m)Surface
05L/23R10,830 (3,301)Asphalt
05C/23C13,120 (3,999)Asphalt
05R/23L13,124 (4,000)Asphalt

Airports of Egypt EG

Abu Simbel Airport * Alexandria: Borg El Arab Airport * Alexandria: El Nouzha Airport * Assiut Airport * Aswan: Daraw Airport * Cairo International Airport * El Arish International Airport * Hurghada Airport * Luxor International Airport * Marsa Alam Airport * Mersa Matruh Airport * Mubarak International Airport * Port Said Airport * Sharm el-Sheikh: Ophira Airport * Sharq Al-Owainat Airport * St. Catherine International Airport * Taba International Airport



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