Hosea Kutako International Airport
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The Hosea Kutako International Airport ( HKIA short; WDH IATA, ICAO FYWH ) is the international airport of Windhoek, Namibia's capital. It is located about 45 kilometers east of the city and is based on the number of passengers with more than 800,000 passengers a year, the country's largest airport.
History
The airport was opened in 1964 as the JG Strijdom Airport Windhoek. Patron was the former South African Prime Minister John Gerhardus Strijdom. Since 1998 the airport is named after Herero leader Hosea Kutako.
Infrastructure
The airport has one which is operating, passenger terminal, an abandoned passenger terminal and a cargo terminal and two runways, one of which corresponds to international guidelines (08 /26). Since mid- 2009, the infrastructure was built by an advanced radar, the Thales Group, expanded. The radar and the monitoring center at Eros airport making a complete monitoring of the entire Namibian airspace possible. The total investment amounts to N $ 240 million. In addition, the start and runways have been renovated since October 2009.
For the years 2011 to 2014, further major investments in the airport, including, among others, the construction of a new terminal for arriving passengers, planned.
At the airport is the international car rental companies have settled. There is also an ATM, a post office of NamPost, international telephone and fax facilities, restaurants and bars as well as duty-free facilities and money exchange offices. With the city of Windhoek, the airport is connected by bus and taxi service.
Airlines and connections
Air Namibia uses the airport as a home base and offers - depending on the season - in addition to four to seven weekly direct flights to Frankfurt, regional flights to various African cities ( Accra, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Luanda, Lusaka, Maun, Victoria Falls, Harare ) and flights within Namibia to Walvis Bay, Lüderitz, Oranjemund, Ondangwa, Rundu and Katima Mulilo.
Furthermore fly British Airways to Johannesburg and TAAG Angola Airways to Luanda. The South African SAA and its regional subsidiary South African Express Airways also offer flights to Cape Town and Johannesburg. Air Berlin presented his connection to Berlin ( previously Frankfurt) October 29, 2012, and the airline office was closed. As of November 11, 2014 Condor to connect twice a week directly the airport to Frankfurt.
Statistics
Passenger numbers evolve since reporting year 2002/2003 steadily upwards of 503 937 (2002/ 03 ) to 708 935 (2007/ 08), but experienced in 2009/10 a slight decline to 678 974 passengers.
Source: NAC Statistics Template: Web Archive / Maintenance / Nummerierte_Parameter 1 Data refer to six months from September 2010 to February 2011
Special events
On April 20, 1968, came shortly after the start of a machine of the South African Airways to the worst air disaster to date in Namibia. See: Plane Crash near Windhoek
On 17 November 2010, a fake bomb was found at the airport. Two days later took the Namibian Police in this connection, one of its officials as suspects were deployed there. The finding comes from a California Small Business that manufactures bomb dummies for safety tests. The Namibian police found the piece of luggage during a routine examination. There was no label, so at first it was unclear whether and where it should be flown.
Photos
Terminal (left) and cargo area (right)
Aerial view of the airport