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The Cairo Airport (Arabic مطار القاهرة الدولي Matar al - Qāhira ad duwalī, english Cairo International Airport ) is an international commercial airport in the Egyptian capital Cairo and home base of the national airline EgyptAir.

Able operation

The airport is located on the northeastern outskirts of Cairo around 17 km from the center in the Heliopolis district. The travel time by car to Talaat Harb Square in the city center is about 25-35 minutes.

The airport is operated by the Cairo Airport Company. Since 2005, Fraport has a management contract and is part of the management.

2010 over 16 million passengers and rising. That same year, the first time an Airbus A380 landed for advertising purposes in Cairo.

Terminal building

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 is the oldest terminal building of the airport and is home to the airlines of SkyTeam and oneworld airline alliances as well as the airlines without alliance membership. Hall 2 will be exclusively used by Saudi Arabian Airlines, the second largest airline in Cairo. Hall 3 is used only for international arrivals and is not directly connected to the remaining terminal. In Hall 4 General Aviation is located.

Terminal 2 ( closed)

Built in 1986, Terminal 2 is currently being extensively renovated and modernized and should be reopened only in 2015. Among other things, handling positions for the Airbus A380 will be available here in the future.

Terminal 3

Since the airport was almost reached its capacity limit, was the new Terminal 3 built in the west of the central airport area. This modern facility offers 164,000 square feet of covered space and has the passenger capacity increased to approximately 20 million. Terminal 3 began in 2004 and put into operation on April 27, 2009. It serves as a hub for EgyptAir and its partners in the Star Alliance, including Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa.

Seasonal Flights Terminal

The Seasonal Flight terminal was opened on 20 September 2011 and serves the discharge of the other terminals during the pilgrimage flights to Jeddah and Medina. Initially, only moved the daily flight of EgyptAir to Medina from this terminal. Since the Hajj 2011 All EgyptAir flights to Medina and Jeddah, there are dispatched. Pilgrim flights of Saudia remain at Terminal 1

The terminal has a capacity of 3.5 million pax / year and has 27 check-in desks and 7 outputs. It does not have its own aircraft positions. Passengers are driven by bus to the remote stands of Terminal 3.

The airport also has its own terminal for the Egyptian president and his guests.

Extension

Among the three existing runways came in late 2010, a new location south runway of 3600 meters in length, so that increasing demand can be met in the foreseeable future. The old, the parallel system intersecting runway was shut down.

A fully automated elevated train (APM ) between Terminal 1 and Terminal 3, as well as a new parking garage was put into operation.

Transport links

The airport can be reached by car via the Oroba Road or the feeder from the motorway ring Ring Road. For the access to the airport a toll is levied, which, however, includes three hours of free parking at the airport.

Awards

• In 2010 the airport by passengers at Skytrax rated amongst the top three airports with the best improvements.

Incidents

Aircraft accidents at the airport are not known; following aircraft that are started here or should land here, crashed:

• On 19 March 1972, the launched here Flight 763 EgyptAir crashed in Vietnam; all 30 people on board died.
• On 25 December 1979, launched here Flight 864 EgyptAir crashed into a commercial area in Bangkok; 20 of the 52 people on board and 72 on the ground died.
• On November 24, 1985, a plane of EgyptAir in Luqa (Malta ) has been kidnapped, a short time later a shell exploded on board. 60 of the 96 people on board died.
• On 31 October 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed with the aim Cairo from on the flight from New York near the island of Nantucket in the USA. All 217 people on board died. After analyzing the flight data recorder showed that the plane had passed shortly before the crash in one of one of the pilots caused nosedive.