Houari Boumedienne Airport:
Coordinates: 36°41′40″N 003°13′01″E / 36.69444, 3.21694
| Houari Boumedienne International Airport |
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| IATA: ALG – ICAO: DAAG |
| Summary |
| Airport type |
Public |
| Operator |
Egsa |
| Serves |
Algiers, Algeria |
| Elevation AMSL |
16 m / 54 ft |
| Runways |
| Direction |
Length |
Surface |
| m |
ft |
| 05/23 |
3,500 |
11,482 |
Asphalt |
| 09/27 |
3,500 |
11,482 |
Asphalt |
| Sources: Algerian AIP[1] & World Aero Data[2] |
Houari Boumedienne Airport (IATA: ALG, ICAO: DAAG) is a public airport located 9 miles (17 km) southeast of Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is named after Houari Boumedienne. 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] Facilities
[edit] New terminal
The new terminal, covering an area of 82 000 m2, can accommodate more than six million passengers a year.
Hall 1 is dedicated to foreign airlines. Hall 2 is used by the national carrier, Air Algérie.
Dufry Group has opened its first stores at the airport. Both stores measure 320sq m (3,440sq ft) and sell duty-free goods. The stores opened on July 1, 2006, 4 days before the inauguration of the airport by the Algerian president.
[edit] Terminal 2
This terminal 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.[1]
[edit] Algiers Airport
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.
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.
The parking has also been upgraded.
The new terminal at the airport
[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.[2].
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] Duty free shops
The President of the Republic opened two shops in Hall 1 (320 m² shop size) and Hall 2 (640 m² shop size) for Air Algérie flights and all other airlines respectively. The stores offers duty free products, including perfume and cosmetics, tobacco, liquor, food, confectionery, fashion and accessories.
Most of the shops are located in the departure zone after clearing departure passport control, however there are also a number of shops in the arrival zone.
[edit] Airline ticket offices
Airline ticket offices are located in the airport: Aigle Azur, Air Algerie, Air France, British Airways, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Tassili Airlines, Tunisair.
[edit] Brands at the airport
[edit] Parking
The airport has a 70,000 capacity car park.
[edit] Statistics
Passenger use, total cargo, and aircraft movements have increased since 2003.[3]
| |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
| Passengers |
| Total |
2,631,807 |
3,413,417 |
3,403,453 |
3,483,340 |
[edit] Transport links
The distance to the center of Algiers is 20 km using the route N5 direct Bab Ezzouar.
Buses link the airport to downtown Algiers every 30 minutes.
Prices vary beween 200-500 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 Boumedienne Airport as of June 2007:
[edit] Terminal 1
[edit] Hall 1
[edit] Hall 2
- Air Algérie (Abidjan, Amman, Bamako, Barcelona, Beijing [begins 22, February 2009][3][4][5], Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld [seasonal], Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Dakar, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Lille, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Malta-Luqa [seasonal] Marseilles, Metz/Nancy, Milan-Malpensa [begins 2009] [6], Montreal, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK [begins 2009/under negotiation] [7], , Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Shanghai [begins 2009] [8], Tehran [begins 2009] [9], Toulouse, Tripoli, Tunis)
[edit] Terminal 2
- Air Algérie (Adrar, Annaba, Batna, Bechar, Biskra, Chlef, Constantine, Djanet, El Golea, El Oued, Gara Djebilet, Ghardaia, Hassi Messaoud, Illizi, In Amenas, In Salah, Jijel, Oran, Ouargla, Setif, Tamanrasset, Tebessa, Tiaret, Timimoun, Tindouf, Tlemcen, Touggourt)
- Tassili Airlines (Djanet, El Golea, El Oued, Ghardaia, Hassi R'Mel, Hassi Messaoud, Illizi, In Amenas, In Salah, Tamanrasset, Tebessa, Touggourt)
[edit] Terminal 3
[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.
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