Marsa Alam International Airport

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.

Marsa Alam International Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerEMAK Marsa Alam for Management & Operation 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
Websitemarsa-alam-airport.com
Map
RMF
Location of airport in Egypt
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15/33 3,000 9,843 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers1,089,000
Sources: airport website[1] and DAFIF[2][3] Page 6[4]

Overview

It was built in response to the increasing needs of European travelers 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
AirlinesDestinations
Blue Panorama Airlines Seasonal charter: Vilnius[5]
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Chair Airlines Zürich
easyJet Milan–Malpensa
Edelweiss Air Zürich
EgyptAir Cairo
Enter Air Charter: Katowice,[6] Warsaw–Chopin[6]
Seasonal charter: Poznań[7]
Eurowings Seasonal charter: Berlin (begins 3 April 2021), Düsseldorf (begins 3 April 2021)[8]
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg[9]
Neos[10] Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Seasonal: Bergamo
Smartwings Brno, Ostrava, Prague
Seasonal charter: Bratislava, Budapest[11]
Sundair Seasonal: Bremen,[12] Dresden[13]
Seasonal charter: Berlin–Brandenburg
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva[14]
TUI Airways Birmingham,[15] London–Gatwick[16]
TUI fly Belgium Brussels
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Nuremberg, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Munich[17]
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal charter: Kiev–Boryspil[18]

See also

References
  1. Marsa Alam Airport, official website
  2. Airport information for HEMA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  3. Airport information for RMF at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=DAF/COMP/WD%282014%2932&docLanguage=En
  5. "Marsa Alam". itaka.lt.
  6. "Coral Travel". coraltravel.pl.
  7. "Charter flights". tui.pl.
  8. "FLIGHTS FROM GERMANY TO MARSA ALAM". marsaalam.com. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  9. "Luxair adds Egypt service from Nov 2019". routesonline.com. 15 November 2019.
  10. "flight time flights".
  11. "Travel Service: Három új útvonal és 13%-os kapacitásbővítés a nyári menetrendben". 27 February 2018.
  12. "Germany's SundAir to extend its Bremen base into W19/20". ch-aviation.com.
  13. "Sundair extends flight offer from Dresden". airliners.de.
  14. "SWISS to offer new service from Geneva to Marsa Alam". aviation24.be. 19 July 2019.
  15. Liu, Jim. "TUI Airways UK W19 new short-haul routes". Routesonline. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  16. "Flight Timetable". tui.co.uk.
  17. Liu, Jim (23 January 2020). "TUIfly adds Munich – North Africa routes in S20". Routesonline.
  18. "Charter flights timetable". flyuia.com.

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