Khartoum International Airport
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| Khartoum International Airport | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: KRT - ICAO: HSSS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Joint (Civil and Military) | ||
| Serves | Khartoum | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,265 ft (386 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 18/36 | 9,777 | 2,980 | Asphalt |
Khartoum International Airport (IATA: KRT, ICAO: HSSS) is an airport in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
It will be replaced with a new airport 30 miles south of Omdurman by 2010.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Air Arabia (Sharjah)
- Air West (El Geneina, El Fasher, El Obeid, Juba, Nyala, Port Sudan, Sharjah)
- Afriqiyah Airways (Tripoli)
- Bahrain Air (Bahrain)
- bmi (Beirut, London-Heathrow)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Cairo)
- Gulf Air (Bahrain)
- Kenya Airways (Cairo, Nairobi)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Addis Ababa, Amsterdam)
- Lufthansa (Addis Ababa, Frankfurt)
- Marsland Aviation (El Daein, El Geneina, El Fasher, El Obeid, Juba, Malakal, Nairobi, Nyala, Rumbek)
- Nasair (Asmara, Nairobi)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
- Sudan Airways (Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Amman, Cairo, Damascus, Doha, Dongola, Dubai, El Fasher, El Obeid, Entebbe, Jeddah, Juba, Kano, London-Heathrow, Malakal, Nairobi, N'Djamena, Nyala, Port Sudan, Riyadh, Tripoli, Wadi Halfa)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- Turkish Airlines (Addis Ababa, Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Yemenia (Sana'a)
[edit] Accidents and incidents
- On March 30, 2007, a hijacked airliner landed at Khartoum International. Sources vary on what happened next, but the man was ultimately detained with no injuries caused to anyone. See 2007 Sudan Airways hijacking.
[edit] External links
- Khartoum International Airport Departure Terminal
- Airport information for HSSS at World Aero Data
