Hosea Kutako International Airport

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Hosea Kutako International Airport
Namibie Windhoek Aeroport 01.JPG
Characteristics
ICAO code FYWH
IATA code WDH
Coordinates

22 ° 28 '48 "  S , 17 ° 28' 15"  O Coordinates: 22 ° 28 '48 "  S , 17 ° 28' 15"  E
Height above MSL 1719 m (5640  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 41 km east of Windhoek
Street B6
train Windhoek – Gobabis railway line
(not in operation for airport connections)
Basic data
opening 1964, 1985
operator Namibia Airports Company
Terminals Passengers 2 (incl. 1 for VIP );
Cargo 1
Passengers 940,284 (2019)
Flight
movements 		16,724 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		250,000
Runways
08/26 4532 m × 45 m asphalt
16/34 1525 m × 30 m asphalt
website
airports.com.na



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Hosea Kutako International Airport (Namibia)
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The Hosea Kutako International Airport ( German  International Airport Hosea Kutako , HKIA for short ) has been the international airport of Windhoek , the capital of Namibia , since 1985 . It is located around 41 kilometers east of the city and is the largest airport in the country in terms of passenger volume with over a million passengers per year (as of 2018). It was built in 1985 for a capacity of 250,000 passengers a year.

history

The airport opened as Windhoek JG Strijdom Airport in 1964 . The namesake was the former South African Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom . Since 1990 the airport has been named after the Herero leader Hosea Kutako . In 1985 the current terminal building was inaugurated.

Infrastructure

The airport has an operating passenger terminal, a former passenger terminal (today only handling of VIPs ) as well as a cargo terminal and two runways, one of which complies with international guidelines (08/26). Since mid-2009, the infrastructure has been expanded with a state-of-the-art radar set up by the Thales Group . The radar and the monitoring center at Eros Airport enable seamless monitoring of the entire Namibian airspace. The total investment was N $ 240 million. In addition, the runways have been renovated since October 2009.

Several international car rental companies have settled on the airport premises. There is also a cash machine , a post office of NamPost , international telephone and fax facilities, restaurants and bars as well as duty-free facilities and money exchange offices. The airport is connected to the city of Windhoek by bus and taxi services.

Planning 2011

Further major investments in the airport were planned for 2011 to 2014, including the construction of a new terminal for arriving passengers. In June 2014 it was announced that a completely new airport would be built. This turned out to be a false message only two days later.

Planning 2015

A far-reaching expansion and renovation for a total of 6.8 billion Namibian dollars was announced in December 2015. The work was to be carried out by the Chinese company Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Corporation . The award was withdrawn on December 22, 2015 on the instructions of President Hage Geingob - due to irregularities.

  • New runway
  • New two-story terminal with passenger boarding bridges
  • Refurbishment of the existing terminal for national flights
  • New tower
  • New parking spaces
  • New fire station

The new board of the NAC confirmed in June 2017 that they did not support the plans from 2015. The aim is to improve the passenger experience by April 2018 and to carry out security-related construction work within five years.

Planning 2018

On May 29, 2018, the Namibia Airports Company announced that the airport would be expanded within nine months [obsolete] . Above all, it is about structural measures at the check-in, baggage handling and security control. The construction measures are expected to cost 19 million US dollars . The medium-term plan is to build a new airport for more than 2 million passengers a year. In November 2018, the short-term start of renovation in the amount of 245 million Namibia dollars was announced for March 2019. Completion is planned for October of the same year.

Expansion 2019/20

The expansion for 250 million Namibian dollars finally started in September 2019. This should be completed by September 2020. In addition to the renovation of the existing (in the future for international flights) and the former, today's VIP terminal (in the future for national and VIP flights), expansion measures are planned at the check-in, the baggage belts and security and passport controls.

Airlines and connections

Countries with a direct connection to HKIA (as of May 24, 2019)
Airport overview
view in north-west direction

Air Namibia

Air Namibia uses the airport as its home base and, depending on the season, offers seven (as of July 2019) weekly direct flights to Frankfurt am Main , regional flights to various African destinations (including Cape Town , Johannesburg , Luanda , Lusaka ) and flights within Namibia to Walvis Bay .

Air Namibia served Accra ( Ghana ) via Lagos ( Nigeria ) from the end of June 2018 to May 24, 2019 .

Regional airlines

British Airways also fly to Johannesburg and TAAG Angola Airways to Luanda and Lubango . The South African SAA and South African Express also offer flights to Cape Town and Johannesburg .

In July 2017, the government of St. Helena announced the launch of connections from Johannesburg via Windhoek to St. Helena by Airlink , which started in August 2017 but has been via Walvis Bay since March 2019 .

From April 1, 2020, the Botswana company Mack Air Maun wanted to connect with HKIA, but this has been postponed for the time being due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

European airlines

On November 11, 2014 Condor began to connect the airport directly to Frankfurt twice a week, and from July 6, 2016 to 2018 (seasonally) also once a week with Munich.

On October 30, 2016, KLM started two (northern winter) three (northern summer) weekly connections from Amsterdam via Luanda to Windhoek.

In addition, Eurowings started two weekly connections from Cologne / Bonn on July 12, 2017. Since May 8, 2018, there have been flights to Munich once a week . The connections were discontinued at the end of 2018. Lufthansa , under the Eurowings brand and operated by Sunexpress Deutschland (from the end of 2020 by Brussels Airlines ) has been connecting Windhoek with Frankfurt three times a week since October 2019.

Other airlines

Since September 28, Qatar Airways has been flying direct to and from Qatar three to five times a week . Ethiopian Airlines has been flying to Windhoek from Addis Ababa since October 6, 2016 . Initially, this connection took place via Gaborone in Botswana .

Former societies and associations

Air Berlin discontinued its connection to Berlin (previously Frankfurt) on October 29, 2012, and the airline's office was also closed. Between September and November 2015 and December 2015, Namibia flyafrica flew from the airport to Johannesburg - Lanseria and Cape Town . On May 13, 2016, Fly Blue Crane flew to Cape Town once .

statistics

In 2018, HKIA handled more than a million passengers for the first time. In contrast, the capacity based on the construction in 1985 is only 250,000 passengers per year.

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Flight movements 6245 6823   14,259   14,822   16,329   17,049   15,590  
Passengers 251.715 258,301   564.310   637.247   693,671   715.511   681,317  
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Flight movements 14,978   15.052   17,514   13,687   14,371   14,940   14,563   17.306   18,110   16,724  
Passengers 681.817   746.457   815.087   765,657   794.780   773,721   809.442   938.499   1,037,794   940,284  

Source: Airport Statistics. Namibia Airports Company, January 2020.

Incidents

  • On April 20, 1968, a crashed Boeing 707-344C of South African Airways ( air vehicle registration ZS-EUW) shortly after taking off from the airport Windhoek-JG Strijdom to Luanda from. Of the 128 people on board, 123 died. The aircraft was not equipped with the flight recorders and voice recorders that were actually mandatory at the time, so that the aircraft accident investigation was difficult. The cause of the crash was ultimately attributed to pilot error (see also South African Airways Flight 228 ) .
  • On November 17, 2010, a dummy bomb was found at the airport. Two days later, the Namibian police arrested one of their officers as a suspect in this context. The find comes from a small Californian company that produces dummy bombs for security tests. The Namibian police found the piece during a routine baggage check. It had no label, so it was initially unclear whether and where it should be flown.
  • On January 29, 2016, a small Cessna aircraft crashed at the airport for unknown reasons. The pilot and two passengers were killed. The aircraft was about to land after taking off from Eros Airport .

Downgrades

The airport was approved by the ICAO on 23 July 2014 due to lack of fire protection by the ICAO fire protection category 9 downgraded to fifth As a result, the long-haul type ( Airbus A330-200 ) of Air Namibia was no longer allowed to land and take off there. The long-haul operation was therefore handled for two days via Gaborone Airport in Botswana . Thanks to a special permit from the Ministry for Public Works and Transport , direct flights could be resumed on July 24, 2014. The airport company also announced the acquisition of numerous new fire engines . On July 30, 2014, the ICAO rejected the possibility of special permits and the airport was closed again. Air Namibia had announced that it would be processing via Lusaka Airport by mid-August.

In August 2018, another threatened downgrade of the airport was made public, but it was based on a misunderstanding.

gallery

  • Aerial view of the airport

  • Terminal, tower (left) and cargo area (right)

  • Front view of the terminal

  • Check-in area in the terminal

  • Airport fire brigade

  • Runway

  • Entrance for incoming passengers

Web links

Commons : Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ondangwa Aerodrome. Department of Civil Aviation, AIP, December 15, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d Press Release - Question and Answer Session. Namibia Airports Company, May 29, 2018.
  3. ^ Three killed in air crash near international airport. New Era, February 1, 2016.
  4. ↑ About Us Brochure 2015. Namibia Airports Company, 2015. ( Memento from May 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ New radar for Hosea Kutako Int. Airport, The Economist, January 23, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Airspace soon to be completely monitored, Allgemeine Zeitung, March 12, 2010
  7. ↑ Runways are being re-paved, Allgemeine Zeitung, March 12, 2010
  8. ↑ Newsletter Jan-Feb 2011 Email.pdf Capital Projects News. NAC NEWS, Vol. 1/2011, January / February 2011, p. 7  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.airports.com.na  
  9. ↑ June 10, 2014 News in the evening. Hitradio Namibia, June 10, 2014 ( memento from June 10, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on June 10, 2014
  10. ↑ China outfit eyes Billion $ project. Informanté, June 12, 2014 ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on June 12, 2014
  11. ↑ Airport renovation starts all over again. Allgemeine Zeitung, December 23, 2015
  12. ↑ Govt approves N $ 7b airport. The Namibian, December 9, 2015
  13. ↑ June 9, 2017 - Morning News. Hitradio Namibia, June 9, 2017.
  14. ↑ Government approves N $ 245m for Hosea Kutako International Airport upgrade. NBC, November 7, 2018.
  15. ↑ Keynote Address by Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwa, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Co-operations at The Ground Breaking Event to Alleviate Congestion at Hosea Kutako International Airport. Republic of Namibia, September 16, 2019.
  16. ↑ POSTPONEMENT OF COMMENCEMENT DATE FOR WINDHOEK - LAGOS - ACCRA FLIGHTS OPERATION. Air Namibia, February 14, 2018.
  17. ↑ SA AIRLINK TO PROVIDE SCHEDULED AIR SERVICES TO ST HELENA AND ASCENSION ISLAND. St Helena Government, July 21, 2017.
  18. ^ The "Desert Express" is Launching. Safari Destinations, November 18, 2019.
  19. ↑ Discover Namibia with Condor. Holiday airline starts flights to Windhoek. Condor Newsroom, February 6, 2014 ( Memento of February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 18, 2014
  20. ^ Qatar Airways to Launch 14 New Destinations. Airways News, March 10, 2016 ( Memento of April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ Stefan Fischer: Ade Air Berlin: Today is the last flight. After 17 years, the German airline is closing the Namibia route - the office in Windhoek will be closed from Wednesday. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. October 29, 2012, accessed November 15, 2012 .
  22. ^ Accident report B-707 ZS-EUW , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 30, 2019.
  23. ^ Namibian airport bomb scare: Policeman arrested. BBC, November 22, 2010.
  24. ↑ Stephan Fischer: Arrest for a dummy bomb . In: Allgemeine Zeitung , November 20, 2010. 
  25. ↑ Tina Falco: Sonora Grandma Made Fake Bomb (English) , Clarke Broadcasting Corporation. November 19, 2010. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. 
  26. ↑ Stephan Fischer: "Terror Package" without a destination . In: Allgemeine Zeitung , November 19, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2013. 
  27. ↑ Small plane crashed at Hosea Kutako. Namibia Press Agency, January 29, 2016
  28. ↑ 07/24/2014 morning news. Hitradio Namibia, July 24, 2014 ( memento from August 1, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on July 31, 2014
  29. ↑ 07/24/2014 News at noon. Hitradio Namibia, July 24, 2014 ( memento of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 31, 2014
  30. ↑ 07/25/2014 News at noon. Hitradio Namibia, July 25, 2014 ( memento of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 31, 2014
  31. ↑ 7/30/2014 News in the evening. Hitradio Namibia, July 30, 2014 ( Memento from August 1, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on July 31, 2014
  32. ↑ Frankfurt route again in chaos. Allgemeine Zeitung, July 31, 2014 ( Memento of August 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 31, 2014
  33. ^ Hosea Kutako license threatened. The Namibian, August 31, 2018.
  34. ↑ October 15, 2018 - News in the evening. Hitradio Namibia, October 15, 2018.