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Entebbe International Airport
Entebbe International Airport
IATA: EBB – ICAO: HUEN
Summary
Airport type	Military / Public
Operator	Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda
Location	Entebbe / Kampala, Uganda
Elevation AMSL	3,782 ft / 1,153 m
Coordinates	00°02′40″N 32°26′33″E / 0.04444°N 32.4425°E
Runways
	Source: DAFIF

Entebbe International Airport (IATA: EBB, ICAO: HUEN) is the principal international airport of Uganda. It is located near the town of Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and about 35 km (21 miles) from the capital, Kampala. The main offices of the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda are located at the airport.

The current passenger terminal building was constructed in the mid to late 1970's. The Old Entebbe airport is now used by Uganda's military forces and was the scene of a hostage rescue operation by Israeli Sayeret Matkal, dubbed Operation Entebbe, in 1976, after an Arab-German hijacking of Air France Flight 139 out of Tel Aviv.

The scene of that particular rescue was "the old airport", which was recently demolished except for its control tower. In late 2007, a domestic terminal was constructed at the site of the old airport, leaving the "new airport" to handle International flights exclusively. Entebbe International Airport served 720,000 International passengers in 2007. (+10.7% vs. 2006).^[3]

Entebbe Airport is a Cooperative Security Location of the United States military. ^[4] Entebbe airport uses the jetway boarding bridge system.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Scheduled passenger airlines

Airlines	Destinations
Africa Safari Air	Arua, Gulu, Mbarara, Johannesburg
Air Uganda	Nairobi, Juba, Khartoum, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar
British Airways	London-Heathrow
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Eagle Air	Arua, Gulu, Moyo, Kidepo, Kitgum, Pakuba, Juba, Yei, Bunia
EgyptAir	Cairo
Emirates	Addis Ababa, Dubai
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa, Lilongwe
Fly540	Nairobi
Kenya Airways	Nairobi
KLM	Amsterdam
Precision Air	Kilimanjaro, Mwanza
Royal Daisy Airlines	Juba
RwandAir	Kigali
Skyjet Airlines	Juba, Khartoum
South African Airways	Johannesburg
Sudan Airways	Khartoum
United Airlines Ltd.	Gulu, Arua

[edit] Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
Avient Aviation	Châlons-Vatry
Great Lakes Airways	Brussels, Dubai
Martinair ^[5]	Amsterdam

Sunset over Entebbe	Passenger terminal building	Old Entebbe International Airport	Entebbe old tower in 2008.
A Fly540 ATR 42 at Entebbe	A Lockheed L-100-20 Hercules in UN livery at Entebbe, preparing for yet another trip to Eastern Congo	Air Uganda McDonnell Douglas MD-80 taxiing to runway 17