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Cairo Airport
Airport Directory » Egypt » Cairo » Cairo AirportCairo International Airport (IATA: CAI, ICAO: HECA) (Arabic: مطار القاهرة الدولي) is the busiest airport in Egypt and the primary hub for Star Alliance fellow member EgyptAir. The airport is turn up to the north east of the town around 15 kilometre from the business area of the town.
The airport is administrated by the Egyptian Holding Co. for Airports and Air Navigation (EHCAAN), which commands 4 corporations including: Cairo Airport Co., Egyptian Airports Co., National Air Navigation Services and Aviation Information Technology and the Cairo Airport Authority (CAA), which is the regulatory organic structure. In 2004, Fraport AG won the direction contract to run the airport for eight yr.
Cairo International is the 2nd busiest airport in Africa after Johannesburg International Airport in South Africa. 58 air hose use Cairo airport (including charter air hose) and ten load air hose. With the assimilation of EgyptAir into Star Alliance in July 2008 the airport has the potentiality to be a major hub with its positioning between Africa, the Middle East and Europe (particularly with installations for the A380).
In 2008, the airport assisted 14,360,175 riders (+14.2% vs. 2007) and dealt merely over 138,000 aircraft motilities (+12.4% vs. 2007).
The airport has 3 depots with a 3rd (and biggest) opening on 27 April 2009. A 4th landing track is now under building (opens late 2009) and a individual freight depot. Runway 05L/23R is 3,300m long, 05C/23C has a length of 4,000m and 16/34 is 3,180m (all of the landing track are 60m broad). The 4th landing track (05R/23L), which is southward of the being field is 4,000m by 65m and shall be suitable for the Airbus A380.
Terminals
Picture demos 7 EgyptAir aeroplanes, 1 EgyptAir Express and 1 Air France, at depot 1.Terminal one
During World War II, the United States Army Air Force made Payne Airfield to assist the Allied Forces, instead than take over the being Almaza Airport, turn up 5 kilometer off. Payne Field was a major Air Transport Command air freight and rider hub, tie westward though Benghazi Airport to Algiers airport on the North African path to Dakar Airport in French West Africa. (1943-1945).
Other places which transport paths were winged were RAF Habbaniya, Iraq on the Cairo - Karachi, India path; Lydda Airport, British Palestine; Jeddah, Arabia , on the Central African path to Roberts Field, Liberia (1941-1943), and afterward after the conflict finished, Athens, Greece and on to destinations in Europe.
When American squeezes go forth the ground at the finish of the conflict, the Civil Aviation Authority took over the installation and set about using it for international general aviation. In 1963, Cairo International Airport replaced the old Heliopolis Airport, which had been turn up at the Hike-Step area in the east of Cairo.
The depot installations include Departure Hall 1, International Hall 3, and Hall four for Private & Non-commercial Aircraft Services. As division of the recent upgrading and installation improvement strategy, the CAA pulverised the old hallway 3, antecedently used for domestic arrivals and going, to construct a new hallway to be used for international reaches. Terminal one is locally known as the "Old Airport," although its installations were late given a complete pass and are newer than those of Terminal 2, which is still known as the "New Airport."
Terminal one is used by EgyptAir for its domestic and international voyages, even so their functioning will to the full transport to the new Terminal three on 15 June 2009. It is also used by several Middle Eastern air hose, and an increasing figure of other foreign bearers, such as Air France and KLM, who reassigned functioning from Terminal two in 2006. Terminal one has twelve entrances
The CAA has also kick off the "Airport City Concept," to supply an lay out of services and amusement installations to travellers, airport visitants, as good as the general public. The 1st stage of this, a new centering named the 'AirMall' has been made near Terminal one's New International Arrival Hall 3.
As of 2009 the façade of the depot was being upgraded. The facing which includes the landside frontages of the depot, the water tower and CAC's disposal constructions. A Study on shake up the going and reaching Halls is ongoing as good as the feasibleness survey to include a figure of contact stand up to better the service and comfortableness stages to the riders.
Terminal two
Terminal two was kick off in 1986. It assists mainly European and Far Eastern air hose, air hose from the Gulf district, and sub-Saharan Africa.
The architecture of the depot construction boundaries the possibility of enlargement. There is eminent over-crowding when more than three voyages check in at a time, or more than two aeroplanes arrive at the same clip. The depot itself has seven boarding entrances.
In April 2009 a new exclusive lounge opened in the Departure area of Terminal 2 . The Exclusive lounge is a little world of its own and includes a separate VIP gate guarantying privateness forth from the general public and offers an impressive position for going.
In July 2008 the Cairo Airport Company (CAC) stated it would apportion $400 million to evolve the airport's Terminal 2. The travel is averaged to increase the depot capacity from 3 million riders to 7.5 million each year. The entire depot's "look & experience" will better dramatically one time the overhaul works are finished. Upgrade of Terminal two shall include a modernisation of the 20 yr old installation to hit the same stage of service as the new Terminal three since both depots shall be functioned "under 1 roof" in the near hereafter.
NACO/ECG were portioned to fix 3 (three) different scenarios for Terminal two’s re-development and the outline account was subjected in April 2008. The detailed project for T2 is ongoing. The labor which will take 36 calendar month will duplicate the capacity of T2 to around 7.5 million riders. It will include bigger and more modern retail area and will also include Airbus A380 entrances. The labor will take around 36 calendar month to be finished at a cost of about USD 350 million. Upon pass completion in 2013 the riders is able to anticipate a extremely raised modern projected depot offering international standard service stages and more riders' convenience to include a big and appealing retail area and lounges.
As an lag measure out several bearers functioning from the depot will briefly relocate to Terminal three while the depot is restituted.
Terminal three
Given projected development, and the limited ability to spread out Terminal 2, the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation set about building of Terminal three in 2004. The depot was officially kick off by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday 18th December, 2008 and opened for commercial functioning on 27 April 2009. The installation is twice as big as the current 2 depot constructions united, with the capability to deal 11 million riders each year one time the 1st phase I clinical trial finished. It is turn up adjacent to Terminal 2, and the 2 depots will ab initio be link up by a span. Access routes have already been redesigned, and the parking lot relocated.
With its hub at the airport EgyptAir's functioning shall be overtake one time it full tranfers all its functioning (international and domestic) into the province of the art depot by 15 June 2009. To implement the Star Alliance “Move Under One Roof” conception all confederation fellow member assisting the airport will relocate to the depot.
The conveyance of functioning at the depot is taking location in several stages with the 1st stage occuring on 27th April 2009 with the startup of the 1st commercial voyage from the depot - EgyptAir voyage MS985 from Cairo to New York JFK. The air hose (alongside with its domestic underling EgyptAir Express) will travel all domestic functioning to the new construction 1st come after by international functioning and eventually those of Star Alliance fellow member by June 2009. See beneath for a detailed dislocation of each stage:
EgyptAir and EgyptAir Express phased transport into the new depot:
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USA Flights
- 27APR09: New York (JFK)
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Domestic (Flights Egypt)
- 18MAY09:Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh
- 20MAY09:Abu Simbel, Alexandria-El Nouzha, Aswan, Luxor, Marsa Alam, Assiut, Mersa Matruh
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International Flights (except USA)
- 15JUN09: Algiers, Amman, Athens, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Barcelona, Beirut, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Brussels, Casablanca, Catania, Damascus, Dammam, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Geneva, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kano, Khartoum, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Larnaca, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Muscat, Medinah, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Milan, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Rome, Sanaa, Sharjah, Tripoli, Vienna
- 16JUN09: Accra, Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Berlin-Schoenfeld, Dar-es-Salaam, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Lagos, Montreal-Trudeau, Nairobi, Tokyo-Narita,
- 17JUN09: Amsterdam, Asmara, Benghazi, Lisbon, Beijing, Tunis
- 18JUN09: Malta, Osaka
Other Star Alliance bearers' transportation into Terminal three:
- 04MAY09: Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa and Swiss International
- 11MAY09: bmi
- TBD: Singapore Airlines and Turkish Airlines
Non-Star Alliance bearer(s) transportation into Terminal three:
- 10MAY09: Aegean Airlines
As an lag measure out other non-Star Alliance bearers functioning from Terminal two will briefly relocate to Terminal three in 2009 while the former depot is restituted.
The new depot includes:
- Two wharf of extendable capacity and entrances installations assisting domestic and international traffic, cared through contact and distant. The independent construction and the wharf are linked by concourses. Two of the entrances shall be fit to manage the Airbus A380 aircraft. Provisions for a 3rd wharf are now in the programming levels.
- Terminal three has 23 entrances (two entrances for the A380), 26 recommendation command desks at check-in and 28 recommendation command desks at check-out, 54 aircraft parkland locations, seven luggage roundabouts, 110 Check-in desks and 160 lifts, locomoting walks and moving staircase.
- Land side works including spans and fly-over assisting the traffic to and from the depot construction, surface auto parkland area (multi-story parkland garage capable of maintaining more than 3,000 auto), a new slip road plugging in the airport with the Autostrad route(Cairo ringway) and upgrading the slip road.
Other developments
With the national bearer, EgyptAir and the Egyptian dominances program to evolve the airport as a hub for the Middle East and Africa, the airport installations are in constant quantity development.
Several labors are underway including:
- A luxury 350-room five-star hotel is to be built in front end the new Terminal 3.
- Construction of a new 4th landing track for pass completion in late 2009, southward of the being field.
- The opening of a new ATC Tower.
- The Cairo Cargo City (CCC) will supply province of the art facilities to back up the development in freight traffic through the airport.
- Expanding the Cairo Metro to assist the airport. The new line, which is in an progressed level of programming, will connect the airport at 1 finish, and Mohandessin (in Giza), at the other. It is anticipated to be operational by 2012.
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