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Houari Boumediene Airport Aéroport d'Alger / Houari Boumediene

IATA: ALG – ICAO: DAAG
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		EGSA Alger
Serves		Algiers, Algeria
Elevation AMSL		25 m / 82 ft
Coordinates		36°41′40″N 003°13′01″E / 36.69444°N 3.21694°E / 36.69444; 3.21694
Website		www.AeroportAlger.dz
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
05/23	3,500	11,482	Asphalt
09/27	3,500	11,482	Asphalt
Sources: AIP^[1], EGSA Alger^[2], DAFIF^[3]

Houari Boumediene Airport (French: Aéroport d'Alger Houari Boumediene^[4]^[1]^[2]) (IATA: ALG, ICAO: DAAG), also known as Algiers Airport, is an international airport serving Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is located 9.1 nautical miles (16.9 km) southeast of the city. The airport is named for Houari Boumediene (also written as Houari Boumedienne), a former president of Algeria.

The Company Management Services and Infrastructure Aéroportuaires (SGSIA), more commonly known as "Airport of Algiers", is a Public Company. It was established on 1 November 2006 to manage and operate the Airport Algiers Houari Boumediene. The SGSIA includes 1200 employees.

[edit] History

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force Air Transport Command as a major transshipment hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. It functioned as a stopover en-route to Tafarquay Airport, near Oran or to Tunis Airport, Tunisia on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route. It also flew personnel and cargo to Marseilles, Milan, Naples and Palermo, Sicily.^[5]

Under French rule, Dar El Beïda, the area at which the airport is located, was known as Maison Blanche and, in much of the literature about the Algerian War of Independence it is called Maison Blanche airport.

[edit] Terminals

The International Terminal (Terminal 1) presents a capacity of 6 million passengers per year. It was inaugurated on July 5, 2006 by the President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. International traffic is 2.5 million passengers per year

The Domestic Terminal (Terminal 2) renovated in 2007, has a capacity of 2.5 million passengers per year. It offers conditions of comfort and security comparable to those of Terminal 1. The domestic traffic is 1.5 million passengers per year. Terminal 2 is equipped with 20 registration desks, a cafeteria, tearoom and prayer room. The terminal also has a pharmacy, perfumery, a hairdresser, watches, luggage shops, games and toys and a tobacco/newspaper shop. There are 900 car parking spaces, a taxi stand, a boarding area of 5,000 m², with a 7 gates, luggage delivery area, and lounges for first-class passengers.^[6]

[edit] Projects

The international airport of Algiers will be connected to the second bypass south of Algiers and the east-west highway, through connecting ramps. The second bypass road south of Algiers (Boudouaou-Zéralda) that runs with the southern part of the current southern bypass (Ben Aknoun Dar-El Beïda) will serve the airport through a connection to Dar El-Beïda, while users from the east or west will use a ramp at the Eucalyptus straight to the airport. The second bypass south of Algiers will be completed in July 2008. However the end of 2009 is estimated for the completion of the east-west highway.^[7].

The airport infrastructure will be improved, such as the construction of new terminals, new control tower and the renovation and extension of runways.

In 2008 Egsa (the company that is in charge of the airports in Algeria) will build a third terminal at Houari Boumediene, to be called Terminal 3, with 300.000 m2 of area and a capacity of 20 million passenger. Construction is planned to start in 2008, with completion in 2012.

[edit] Statistics

Passenger use, total cargo, and aircraft movements have increased since 2003.^[8]

	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Passengers
Total	2,631,807	3,413,417	5,403,453	6,283,340	6,783,340	7,183,340

[edit] Ground Transportation

[edit] Car

The distance to the center of Algiers is 20 km using the route N5 direct Bab Ezzouar.

[edit] Parking

The airport has a 7,000 capacity car park.

[edit] Bus

Buses link the airport to downtown Algiers every 30 minutes.

[edit] Taxi

Prices vary beween 600-2000 DA.

[edit] Subway

The Algiers Metro (line L1) will connect the airport with the center of Algiers. This connection is planned to be completed by 2010.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

The following airlines have scheduled services to Houari Boumediene Airport as of June 2008:

[edit] Terminal 1

[edit] Hall 1

Airlines	Destinations
Aigle Azur	Basel/Mulhouse, Lille, Marseilles, Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Toulouse
Air France	Marseilles, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino
Alitalia operated by Air One	Milan-Malpensa
British Airways	London-Heathrow
EgyptAir	Cairo
Iberia	Madrid
Libyan Airlines	Tripoli
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Qatar Airways	Doha
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Saudi Arabian Airlines	Jeddah
Spanair	Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca
Syrian Arab Airlines	Damascus
TUIfly	Cologne/Bonn
Tunisair	Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk

[edit] Hall 2

Airlines	Destinations
Air Algérie	Abidjan, Amman, Bamako, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld [seasonal], Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Dakar, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Lille, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Marseilles, Metz/Nancy, Milan-Malpensa, Montréal-Trudeau, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Strasbourg [begins 4 July], Toulouse, Tripoli, Tunis

[edit] Terminal 2

Airlines	Destinations
Air Algérie	Annaba, Batna, Bechar, Bejaia, Biskra, Constantine, Djanet, El Oued, Ghardaia, Hassi Messaoud, Illizi, In Amenas, In Salah, Jijel, Oran, Ouargla, Setif, Tamanrasset, Tebessa, Timimoun, Tindouf, Tlemcen, Touggourt
Tassili Airlines	Constantine, Ghardaia, Oran

[edit] Terminal 3

Airlines	Destinations
Air Algérie Cargo
Air Express Algeria
Cargolux
DHL Aviation
FedEx Express
Royal Air Maroc Cargo
United Parcel Service

[edit] Incidents

On August 28, 1992, a bomb at the airport killed 9 people injured 128. Several people were arrested in connection with the bombing, including Hossein Abderrahim, a member of the Islamic FIS political party. He was executed in 1993. In 2002, Abdelghani Ait Haddad, sentenced to death in his absence, took refuge in Britain after residing in France for nine years.

On December 24, 1994 Air France Flight 8969 an Airbus A300, bound for Paris, was seized by 4 Islamic terrorists before take off; 3 passengers were killed before departure. In Marseille a special operations team of the French Gendarmerie stormed the aircraft and killed all 4 hijackers, although 25 passengers were injured.