Talk:El Nouzha Airport

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the El Nouzha Airport article.
Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Ask questions, get answers. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Be welcoming	Article policies No original research Neutral point of view Verifiability

	Egypt Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Egypt, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Egypt on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the Project's quality scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the Project's importance scale.
	After rating the article, please provide a short summary on the article's ratings summary page to explain your ratings and/or identify the strengths and weaknesses.

	This article is within the scope of the Aviation WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.	Aviation Portal
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.
Additional information and associated projects or task forces: This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: not checked Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: not checked Grammar: not checked Supporting materials: not checked To fill out this checklist, please add the following to the template call: <!-- B-Class-1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations. --> |B-Class-1=yes/no <!-- B-Class-2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. --> |B-Class-2=yes/no <!-- B-Class-3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. --> |B-Class-3=yes/no <!-- B-Class-4. It is free from major grammatical errors. --> |B-Class-4=yes/no <!-- B-Class-5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. --> |B-Class-5=yes/no Airports WikiProject

I guess Borg El Arab Airport deserves its own article, but wasn't Borg El Arab the main airport while El Nhouza was being renovated? When I flew to Addis Ababa a couple of years ago, we stopped at Borg El Arab, but I think the flight moved to El Nhouza a short time later. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:23, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Borg al Arab airport is located way out of the city. That might be a reason most airlines use the more convenient Al Nozha airport, which is also located smack in the middle of Alexandria, similar to London City or Berlin Tempelhof. --Soylentyellow 23:35, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need clarification/attribution

I've removed the following statement from the article:

Because of the runways' short lengths, the airport is incapable of handling larger aircraft. As a result, many airlines use Borg el Arab instead.

This needs clarification and/or attribution. The main runway at this airport is longer than that of La Guardia (LGA), yet the DC-10 and L-1011 were specifically designed to use the latter airport's short runways. So there is no reason a large aircraft couldn't use the airport, although whether it could do so at maximum weight (i.e. for long-distance flights) is another matter. Also note that Wellington's airport runway (WLG) is even shorter, yet it handled 747SPs. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 11:28, 27 July 2007 (UTC)