Cairo International Airport

Cairo International Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	HECA
IATA code	CAI
Coordinates	30 ° 7 ′ 19 ″  N , 31 ° 24 ′ 20 ″  E Coordinates: 30 ° 7 ′ 19 ″  N , 31 ° 24 ′ 20 ″  E
Height above MSL	116 m (381  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	17 km northeast of Cairo
Street	Oroba Road and new slip road to the Ring Road and Suez Road interchange
Local transport	bus
Basic data
operator	Cairo Airport Company
Terminals	3 (2 in operation)
Passengers	14,711,500 (2011)
Air freight	approx. 300,000 t (2010)
Flight movements	approx. 205,000 (2016)
Employees	approx. 6000 at the operator
Runways
05R / 23L	4000 m × 60 m asphalt
05C / 23C	3999 m × 60 m asphalt
05L / 23R	3301 m × 60 m asphalt

The Cairo International Airport ( Arabic مطار القاهرة الدولي Maṭār al-Qāhira ad-duwalī , English Cairo International Airport ) is the international airport of the Egyptian capital Cairo as well as the home base of the state airline Egypt Air .

Location and operation

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

The airport is operated by the Cairo Airport Company. Fraport had a management contract from 2005 to 2014 and provided parts of the management.

In 2010 more than 16 million passengers were handled, in the same year an Airbus A380 landed for the first time in Cairo for advertising purposes.

Terminal building

Terminal 1

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

Terminal 2

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Terminal 2, which opened in 1986, has been extensively renovated and modernized and has been reopened in 2015. Among other things, handling positions for the Airbus A380 will be available here in the future .

Terminal 3

As the airport had almost reached its capacity limit, the new Terminal 3 was built in the west of the central airport area. This modern facility offers 164,000 square meters of covered space and has increased passenger capacity to nearly 20 million. Terminal 3 started in 2004 and went into operation on April 27, 2009. It serves as a hub for Egypt Air and its partners from the Star Alliance , including Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa .

Seasonal Flights Terminal

The Seasonal Flight Terminal was opened on September 20, 2011 and serves to relieve the other terminals during the pilgrimage flights to Jeddah and Medina . Initially, only the daily EgyptAir flight to Medina operated from this terminal. All EgyptAir flights to Medina and Jeddah have been handled there since Hajj 2011. Saudia pilgrimage flights will remain at Terminal 1.

The terminal has a capacity of 3.5 million pax / year and has 27 check-in counters and 7 exits. It does not have its own aircraft positions. Passengers are taken to the apron positions of Terminal 3 by bus.

Government terminal

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

expansion

In addition to the three existing runways, a new runway in the south of 3600 meters was added at the end of 2010, so that the growing demand can be met for the foreseeable future. The old runway crossing the parallel system was shut down.

A fully automated elevated railway ( APM ) between Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 and a new multi-storey car park were put into operation.

Transport links

The airport can be reached by car via Oroba Road or the slip road from the Ring Road ring road. A toll is charged for access to the airport, but this includes 3 hours of free parking at the airport.

Awards

• In 2010, the airport was voted one of the top three airports with the best improvements by Skytrax passengers .

Incidents

By July 2020 there were 24 total losses of aircraft at or in the vicinity of the airport. 253 people were killed. Examples:

• On August 31, 1950, a Lockheed L-749A Constellation of the US American Trans World Airlines (TWA) ( aircraft registration number N6004C ) was destroyed on the flight from Cairo Airport to Rome-Ciampino during a night emergency landing in Wadi Natrun ( Egypt ), about 100 Kilometers west-northwest of the departure airport. A major fire broke out in engine 3 (inside right) during the climb. After the engine broke out, the pilots attempted an emergency landing, but failed in the dark. All 55 occupants, 7 crew members and 48 passengers were killed.

• On November 19, 1951, one of Ankara next Douglas DC-3 / C-53-DO Turkish Türkiye Devlet Hava Yollari (DHY) (today's Turkish Airlines) ( air vehicle registration TC-ACA ) while approaching the Cairo airport in a sand dune flown. In this CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain , all 5 occupants were killed.

• On February 20, 1956, a Douglas DC-6 B of the French Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) (F-BGOD) was flown into the ground 29 kilometers east of Cairo Airport. The pilots of the machine coming from Karachi fell below the minimum altitude by 1500 feet (almost 500 meters) on the approach . Of the 64 inmates, 52 were killed. The cause of the accident was a controlled flight into terrain .

• On June 12, 1961, a Lockheed L-188C Electra of the Dutch KLM (PH-LLM) coming from Rome flew four kilometers from the runway into a hill that is only 60 meters higher than the airport. The machine was on its way to Karachi and Kuala Lumpur. 20 of the 36 inmates were killed.

• On May 20, 1965, a Boeing 720-040B operated by Pakistan International Airlines (AP-AMH) sank too early on its approach to the airport and flew 20 kilometers south of the runway into the desert. Six passengers survived the accident, but a total of 121 people on board were killed, including 108 passengers and the entire crew of 13 people. The cause of the accident was a controlled flight into terrain (see also Pakistan International Airlines flight 705 ) .

• On March 18, 1966, an Antonov An-24 of the Egyptian United Arab Airlines (SU-AOA) coming from Nicosia crashed five kilometers northeast of it while approaching Cairo Airport. All 30 people on board did not survive the accident.

• On December 13, 1988, the pilots of a Boeing 707-351C of GAS Air Cargo from Nigeria (5N-AYJ) coming from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania tried to land at Cairo Airport. Due to the bad weather, they avoided going to Luxor Airport after two failed landing attempts . However, the machine never arrived there, but instead crashed in a residential area near Karm Umran , 45 kilometers north of Luxor. All 8 crew members and one person on the ground were killed in the accident. It was assumed that the machine had run out of fuel (see also the flight accident of a Boeing 707 operated by GAS Air Cargo near Karm Umran ) .

Web links

Commons : Cairo International Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
• Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
• Official site of the airport Cairo International (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fraport AG press release from December 20, 2004  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed January 13, 2011  
2. ↑ Fraport AG press release from February 5, 2014 , accessed on November 5, 2014
3. ^ Moodie Report , accessed January 20, 2011
4. ^ ^{A b} Cairo Airport Company: Operational Gazette , December 2010
5. ^ Egypt State Information Services , accessed September 22, 2011
6. ^ Cairo Airport Company: Completed Projects , accessed January 13, 2011
7. ↑ Cairo Airport Company: Project list ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed January 13, 2011 
8. ^ Cairo Airport Company, Commercial Sector, CCO
9. ↑ Skytrax World Airport Awards ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed January 17, 2011  
10. ↑ Accident statistics Cairo International Airport , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 23 August 2020.
11. ^ Accident report Lockheed L-749A Constellation N6004C , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 23, 2020.
12. ^ Accident report DC-3 TC-ACA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 10, 2019.
13. ^ Accident report DC-6 F-BGOD , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 17, 2017.
14. ↑ accident report L.188 PH LLM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on May 15, 2017th
15. ^ Accident report B-720 AP-AMH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 17, 2017.
16. ^ Accident report AN-24 SU-AOA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2017.
17. ^ Accident report B-707 5N-AYJ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 10, 2019.