Marsa Alam International Airport

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Marsa Alam International Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerEMAK Marsa Alam for Managing and Operating Airports SAE
OperatorM.A. Al-Kharafi Group of Kuwait
ServesMarsa Alam, Egypt
Elevation AMSL251 ft / 77 m
Coordinates25°33′25″N 34°35′01″E / 25.55694°N 34.58361°E / 25.55694; 34.58361
Map
RMF is located in Egypt
RMF
RMF
Location of airport in Egypt
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15/33 3,000 9,843 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers1,089,000
Sources: DAFIF[1][2] Page 6[3]

Marsa Alam International Airport (IATA: RMF, ICAO: HEMA) is an international airport located 60 km north of Marsa Alam in Egypt. It is an important destination for leisure flights from Europe.

Overview

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The airport was built in response to the increasing needs of European visitors to this southern Red Sea destination, along with other airports on the Red Sea such as Hurghada International Airport, being inaugurated on 16 October 2003. The official name of the airport until 2011 was Marsa Mubarak Airport. The airport is privately owned and operated by EMAK Marsa Alam for Management & Operation Airports, a subsidiary of the M.A. Al-Kharafi Group of Kuwait.

Airlines and destinations

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Marsa Alam Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Air Cairo Berlin,[4] Cairo, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart,[4] Vienna, Zürich[4]
Seasonal: Bratislava, Nuremberg, Prague[5]
Air Serbia Seasonal charter: Belgrade[6]
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Nuremberg
Discover Airlines Seasonal: Frankfurt[7]
easyJet Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Berlin, Geneva (begins 10 November 2024),[8] Naples[9]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Egyptair Cairo
Enter Air Charter: Gdańsk,[10] Katowice, Kraków (begins 22 December 2024), Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf,[11] Nuremberg,[12] Salzburg,[13] Stuttgart (begins 2 November 2024)[14]
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich[15]
Luxair Luxembourg[16]
Neos Bergamo, Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
SmartLynx Airlines Seasonal charter: Leipzig/Halle[17]
Smartwings Prague
Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Wroclaw (begins 2 November 2024)[18]
Seasonal Charter: Bratislava, Budapest,[19] Vilnius,[20] Warsaw–Chopin
TUI Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick[21]
TUI fly Belgium Brussels[22]
TUI fly Deutschland Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam
Wizz Air Seasonal: Rome–Fiumicino[23]

Ground transport

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During the first years of its existence, there were no public transportation options – not even taxis – available for arriving international visitors. Tourists – almost all of them arriving on package tours – would instead be met by shuttles or buses arranged by their hotel or tour operator. However as of 2023 this has changed and the usual range of third party airport shuttles, buses and taxis are now available.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Airport information for HEMA". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
  2. ^ Airport information for RMF at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. ^ "AIRLINE COMPETITION -- Note by Egypt --". Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  4. ^ a b c "AIR CAIRO JULY - OCTOBER 2022 ATR72 OPERATIONS". aeroroutes.com. 14 October 2022.
  5. ^ "AIR CAIRO ADDS MARSA ALAM – EASTERN EUROPE ROUTES IN NS23". aeroroutes.com. 24 November 2022.
  6. ^ "Air Serbia to run regular Marsa Alam charters". 30 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Umstellung des touristischen Kurz- und Mittelstreckenangebots auf Eurowings Discover - Factsheet" (PDF). Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  8. ^ "Weiterer Ausbau von Easyjet ab Basel und Genf". 27 June 2024.
  9. ^ "EASYJET NW23 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 09JUL23". aeroroutes.com. 10 July 2023.
  10. ^ "Coral Travel". coraltravel.pl.
  11. ^ "Schauinsland stockt mit Eurowings, Smart Lynx und Nouvelair auf". March 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  12. ^ "EUROWINGS ADDS NUREMBERG – MARSA ALAM SERVICE FROM NOV 2023". aeroroutes.com. 23 August 2023.
  13. ^ "Salzburg: Eurowings neu im Winter 2023/24 nach Marsa Alam". 17 July 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  14. ^ "Eurowings Adds Stuttgart – Marsa Alam in NW24". AeroRoutes. 13 August 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  15. ^ "München mit mehr Reisezielen der Lufthansa".
  16. ^ "Luxair July – Oct 2023 737 MAX Network – 09APR23". Aeroroutes.
  17. ^ "Smartlynx Airlines NW23 Leipzig/Halle Operations".
  18. ^ "Smartwings Poland Adds Wroclaw – Marsa Alam in NW24".
  19. ^ "Travel Service: Három új útvonal és 13%-os kapacitásbővítés a nyári menetrendben". 27 February 2018.
  20. ^ "Marsa Alam". itaka.lt.
  21. ^ "Flight Timetable". Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  22. ^ Liu, Jim. "TUIfly Belgium NW22 Boeing 737 MAX 8 Network – 13NOV22". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  23. ^ "Fancy Egypt? Wizz opens two new routes from Italy to Sharm El-Sheikh and Marsa Alan". theflightclub.it. 6 August 2024.
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