| Hargeisa Egal International Airport | |||
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| IATA: HGA – ICAO: HCMH
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Location | Hargeisa | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,423 ft / 1,348 m | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 06/24 | 8,000 | 2,438 | Paved Asphalt (no ILS) |
Hargeisa Egal International Airport (IATA: HGA, ICAO: HCMH) (Somali: Madaarka Hargeysa ee Calaamiga) is an international airport in the city of Hargeisa in Somaliland, a self-declared republic that is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia.[1] Hargeisa is Somalia's second largest city and Somaliland's capital and largest city.
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Originally a small facility built during the colonial period, the former Hargeisa International Airport was expanded and modernized in the 1980s by the Siad Barre administration so as to accommodate larger aircraft and offer more flight destinations.[2]
During the events leading up to the Somali Civil War in the early 1990s, the airport's infrastructure was significantly damaged. However, the facility was gradually rehabilitated over the next several years.
The airport was later re-named to Egal International Airport after the veteran politician Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal. Egal served as Somalia's Prime Minister in the early 1960s during the country's post-independence civilian administration, before later becoming the Somaliland region's second President.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Daallo Airlines | Addis Ababa, Djibouti, Mogadishu-K50, Mogadishu-Aden Adde, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, Dubai |
| Jubba Airways | Bosaso, Djibouti, Galkacyo, Jeddah, Mogadishu-Aden Adde |