El Nouzha Airport
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El Nouzha Airport Alexandria International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | civil aviation | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Government | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Alexandria | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1948 | ||||||||||||||
| Closed | 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | −8 ft / −2.4 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 31°11′02″N 029°56′56″E / 31.18389°N 29.94889°E | ||||||||||||||
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  ALY Location of airport in Egypt | |||||||||||||||
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El Nozha Airport or Alexandria International Airport (Arabic: مطار الاسكندرية الدولي) (IATA: ALY, ICAO: HEAX) was an international airport of Alexandria, Egypt, 7 km (4.3 mi) southeast of the city center. In 2022, the airport served 1,142,412 passengers (−1.8% vs. 2021). The airport was shut down for major renovations in 2024, making Alexandria the only city without any functional airport. The government subsequently announced that the airport will no longer reopen.[citation needed]
Overview
[edit]The future of the airport was in doubt with the opening of Borg El Arab International Airport. In early 2011, the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation announced major plans to overhaul the airport and its facilities to ensure its future as one of the two commercial airports for Alexandria and Nile Delta region. The renovation project was expected to cost US$120 million, which would have included lengthening the main runway (04/22) by an additional 750m and the construction of a new passenger terminal to replace the existing aging facility. Due to the length of the old runways, the largest aircraft operating into the airport were the Airbus A320-200, Boeing 737-800, and McDonnell Douglas MD-90.
The airport was closed down by December 2011 to implement the expansion project and development and was scheduled to be reopened end of 2014. As of January 2016, the airport still remained closed. Satellite images showed the airports runways to be resurfaced and extended while the terminal site remains unfinished and abandoned.[3] Since then, it has been announced officially by the government that the airport will close completely and become defunct.[citation needed][when?]
Airlines and destinations
[edit]The airport was originally closed for refurbishment and there are no longer any services. The airport previously offered services to domestic destinations within Egypt and cities across the Arab world. Egyptair and its subsidiary Egyptair Express were the largest airlines at the airport, operating over 50 weekly domestic and regional flights with a mixture of Airbus A320-200s and Embraer E-170s.
It was also served by some foreign airlines, including British Mediterranean Airways (BMED) from London–Heathrow.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Airport information for HEAX". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF. - ^ Airport information for ALY at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ Satellite images on Google Maps, retrieved January 2016
External links
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Media related to Alexandria International Airport (Egypt) at Wikimedia Commons
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