Marsa Alam International Airport

Marsa Alam International Airport
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner EMAK Marsa Alam for Management & Operation Airports SAE
Operator Aéroports de Paris
Serves Marsa Alam, Egypt
Elevation AMSL 251 ft / 77 m
Coordinates 25°33′25″N 34°35′01″E / 25.55694°N 34.58361°E / 25.55694; 34.58361
Website marsa-alam-airport.com
Map
RMF

Location of airport in Egypt

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15/33 3,000 9,843 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers 1,089,000
Sources: Airport web site[1] and DAFIF[2][3] Page 6 [4]

Marsa Alam International Airport (IATA: RMF, ICAO: HEMA) is an international airport located 60 km north of Marsa Alam in Egypt and an important destination for leisure flights from Europe.

Overview

It was built in response to the increasing needs of European travelers to this southern Red Sea destination, along with other airports on the Red Sea such as Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, being inaugurated on 16 October 2003. The official name of the airport until 2011 was Marsa Mubarak Airport. The airport is privately owned and operated by EMAK Marsa Alam for Management & Operation Airports, a subsidiary of the M.A. Al-Kharafi Group of Kuwait. It is managed by Aéroports de Paris.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Cairo Prague, Graz, Linz, Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin
Aviolet
operated by Air Serbia 		Seasonal charter: Belgrade
Azur Air Germany Charter: Düsseldorf
Blue Panorama Airlines Charter: Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Pisa
Edelweiss Air Zürich
EgyptAir Express Cairo
Enter Air Charter: Katowice, Wrocław
Eurowings Vienna[5]
Jazeera Airways Kuwait
LOT Polish Airlines Seasonal charter: Warsaw-Chopin, Katowice
Meridiana Charter: Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino, Turin, Verona
Mistral Air Charter: Milan-Malpensa, Pisa
Neos Charter: Bergamo, Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino, Verona[6]
Small Planet Airlines Rome-Fiumicino, Vilnius
Small Planet Airlines Poland Warsaw-Chopin
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service 		Brno [7]
Sun Express Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Thomas Cook AirlinesBirmingham (begins 6 November 2017), London-Gatwick (begins 26 October 2017)
Thomas Cook Airlines BelgiumBrussels
Thomas Cook Airlines ScandinaviaSeasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda
Thomson AirwaysLondon-Gatwick
Travel Service AirlinesPrague, Warsaw-Chopin
Travel Service HungarySeasonal charter: Budapest
Travel Service SlovakiaBratislava, Košice
TUI fly Belgium Brussels
TUI fly DeutschlandCharter: Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly NetherlandsAmsterdam

See also

References

  1. ↑ Marsa Alam Airport, official web site
  2. ↑ Airport information for HEMA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  3. ↑ Airport information for RMF at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. ↑ http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=DAF/COMP/WD%282014%2932&docLanguage=En
  5. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/267234/eurowings-adds-egypt-service-from-nov-2016/
  6. ↑ http://www.neosair.it/Default.aspx?lang=en
  7. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/270438/smartwings-s17-new-routes-as-of-15dec16/

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