Airport Eros
Airport Eros | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | FYWE |
IATA code | ERS |
Coordinates | |
Height above MSL | 1699 m (5574 ft ) |
Transport links | |
Distance from the city center | 3.6 km south of Windhoek-Central |
Street | Aviation Road |
Basic data | |
operator | Namibia Airports Company |
Terminals | 1 |
Passengers | 99,658 (2019) |
Flight movements |
23,650 (2019) |
Runways | |
01/19 | 1983 m × 30 m asphalt |
09/27 | 1005 m × 30 m asphalt |
The Eros Airport ( english Eros Airport , officially Windhoek (Eros) Airport ) is the national airport of the Namibian capital Windhoek . The main office of the Namibian State Aviation Academy Namibian Aviation Training Academy (NATA) is also located at Eros Airport .
Surname
According to some sources, the airport is said to have been named JG Strijdom after Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom in the 1950s (possibly until the 1960s) . In most sources, including the airport operator Namibia Airports Company , this name is used for today's (and only opened in 1985) Hosea Kutako International Airport .
air traffic
Eros is the airport with the most flight movements in Namibia. It is mainly used by regional scheduled flights operated by the state-owned Air Namibia , as well as private pilots or charter airlines with smaller aircraft. Since the flight year 2002/2003 the number of passengers at the airport has moved between almost 100,000 (2002/03) and 65,000 (2009/10).
Under visual flight conditions , Eros can also be used as an alternate airport for Hosea Kutako International Airport , but only aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 737 can land in Eros.
Due to the poor condition of the runway , Air Namibia threatened to suspend flight operations to and from Eros in February 2019.
Airlines and connections
Air Namibia offers - mostly daily - flights to Ondangwa , Mpacha ( Katima Mulilo ) and Rundu . Since the end of July 2019, there have also been flights from here to Oranjemund and Lüderitz . Oranjemund has also been served by FlyWestair since July 2019 .
Westair Aviation flies Eros in charter traffic, Wilderness Air flies daily to all accommodations of the operator group Wilderness Safaris in many parts of Namibia.
Destinations from / to Windhoek-Eros (as of February 2020) |
statistics
year | Flight movements | Passengers |
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2003 | 24,501 | 77,667 |
2004 | 23,552 | 74,966 |
2005 | 23,831 | 68,208 |
2006 | 33,270 | 74,398 |
2007 | 35,551 | 80,072 |
2008 | 34,756 | 80,369 |
2009 | 29,703 | 65,895 |
2010 | 27,839 | 63,854 |
2011 | 26,318 | 74,310 |
2012 | 28,150 | 90,880 |
2013 | 20,898 | 80,591 |
2014 | 22,550 | 79,582 |
2015 | 20,167 | 75,592 |
2016 | 17,620 | 75,356 |
2017 | 23,889 | 86,670 |
2018 | 24,763 | 95,598 |
2019 | 23,650 | 99,658 |
Source: Airport Statistics. Namibia Airports Company, January 2020.
Web links
- Eros Airport - official site (English)
- Aeronautical map for Eros Airport on SkyVector.com
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eros Aerodrome. Department of Civil Aviation, AIP, December 15, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ↑ Windhoek. JG Strijdom airport. Formerly Eros airport. National Archives of Namibia. ( Memento of May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved May 11, 2016.
- ↑ About Us Brochure 2015. Namibia Airports Company, 2015. ( Memento from May 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 5, 2016.
- ^ Air Namibia threatens flight suspension from Eros Airport. The Patriot, February 22, 2019.
- ↑ Air Namibia 2016 flight plan. Accessed 25 May 2016.