Entebbe International Airport
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| Entebbe International Airport | |||
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| IATA: EBB – ICAO: HUEN | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Military / Public | ||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda | ||
| Location | Entebbe / Kampala, Uganda | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,782 ft / 1,153 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 17/35 | 3,658 | 12,000 | Asphalt |
| 12/30 | 2,408 | 7,900 | Asphalt |
| Source: DAFIF[1][2] | |||
Entebbe International Airport (IATA: EBB, ICAO: HUEN) is the main international airport of Uganda. It is located near the town of Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and about 35 km (21 miles) from the capital Kampala.
Entebbe was the site of a seaplane base in the late 1930s, built by the British in order to facilitate long-range flights from Great Britain to South Africa and other points. Runways were added in 1947, and a terminal building was ceremonially opened by then - Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) in 1952.
The airport was the scene of a hostage rescue operation by Israeli Sayeret Matkal, dubbed Operation Entebbe, in 1976, after an Arab-German hijacking of an Air France flight out of Tel Aviv. The scene of that particular rescue was "the old airport", which was recently demolished except for its tower — right next to "the new airport". In late 2007, a domestic terminal was constructed at the site of the old airport, leaving the "new airport" to handle International flights exclusively.
In 2007, the airport served 720,000 International passengers (+10.7% vs. 2006).[3]
It is also a Cooperative Security Location of the United States military. [4]
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Air Burundi (Bujumbura)
- Air Tanzania (Dar Es Salaam)
- Air Uganda (Nairobi, Mombasa, Juba, Khartoum, Kilimanjaro/Arusha, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Eagle Air (Arua, Gulu, Moyo, Pakuba, Juba, Yei)
- East African Airlines (Kisangani, Kinshasa)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Lilongwe)
- Fly540 (Nairobi)
- Kenya Airways (Nairobi)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- Precision Air (Mwanza, Kilimanjaro/Arusha)
- Royal Daisy Airlines (Juba, Kisumu)
- Rwandair Express (Kigali)
- South African Airways (Johannesburg)
- Sudan Airways (Khartoum)
- United Airlines Ltd. (Gulu, Arua)
[edit] References
- ^ Airport information for HUEN at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for EBB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Juuko, Sylvia. "Air travellers increase to 720,000", New Vision Online, 11 March 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-11.
- ^ "Presence, Not Permanence", Journal of the Air Force Association, Air Force Association, August 2006. Retrieved on 2008-03-11.
