Houari Boumedienne Airport
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| Houari Boumedienne Airport | |||
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| IATA: ALG - ICAO: DAAG | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Serves | Algiers | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 54 ft (16 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 05/23 | 11,482 | 3,500 | Asphalt |
| 09/27 | 11,482 | 3,500 | Asphalt |
Houari Boumedienne Airport (IATA: ALG, ICAO: DAAG) serves Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is named after Houari Boumedienne. In 2006, 12,332,578 passengers passed through the airport.
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[edit] New Terminal
The new terminal at Houari Boumediene airport will meet the increase in national and international air traffic in Algeria. The terminal, covering an area of 82 000 m2, will accommodate more than six million passengers a year in conditions comparable to those in the largest international airports.
Dufry Group has opened its first stores at the airport. Both stores measure 320sq m (3,440sq ft) and sell duty-free goods. The shop in Hall 1 caters for Air Algérie passengers, while the Hall 2 store serves all other travellers. The stores opened on July 1 2006, 4 days before the official inauguration of the airport by the Algerian president.
[edit] Duty free shops
The President of the Republic opened two shops located at Hall 1 (320sq m shop size) and Hall 2 (640sq m shop size) for Air Algérie flights and all other airlines respectively. The stores offer a range of 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] New runway
The construction of a new runway has started, for use in 2007/2008:
- Runway direction: 04/22
- Runway length (feet): 11,482
- Runway length (metres): 4000
- Runway surface: Asphalt
[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] Parking
The airport has a car park with a total capacity of 2850 cars. Part of the car park is sealed off and will be opened when needed.
[edit] Statistics
Passenger use, total cargo, and aircraft movemens have increased since 2003.[1]
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | ||
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| Total | 3,870,921 | 5,661,272 | 9,545,178 | 13,790,285 | |
| Domestic | 1,239,114 | 2,247,855 | 5,250,285 | 6,250,285 | |
| International | 2,631,807 | 3,413,417 | 4,294,893 | 7,540,000 | |
[edit] Airlines and destinations
The following airlines have scheduled services to Houari Boumedienne Airport as of March 2007:
[edit] International Terminal
- Aigle Azur (Basel Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseilles, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Toulouse)
- Air Algérie (Abidjan, Alicante, Amman, Bamako, Barcelona, Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld seasonal, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Dakar, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Lille, London-Heathrow, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Marseilles, Metz/Nancy, Montpellier, Montreal [begins 15 June 2007], Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Nantes, Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Sharjah, Toulouse, Tripoli, Tunis)
- Air France (Marseilles, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly)
- Air Niger (Niamey)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Libyan Airways (Tripoli)
- Qatar Airways (Doha) [2]
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah)
- Spanair (Barcelona [begins 20 May 2007], Madrid [begins 21 May 2007])
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
[edit] Domestic Terminal
- Air Algérie (Adrar, Annaba, Batna, Bechar, Biskra, Bordj Badji Mokhtar, Chlef, Constantine, Djanet, El Golea, El Oued, Ghardaia, Hassi Messaoud, Illizi, In Amenas, In Salah, Jijel, Oran, Ouargla, Setif, Tamanrasset, Tebessa, Tiaret, Timimoun, Tindouf, Tlemcen, Touggourt)
- Tassili Airlines (El Oued, Ghardaia, Hassi Messaoud, Hassi R'Mel, In Amenas, Touggourt)
[edit] Cargo Terminal
- Air Algérie Cargo
- Air Express Algeria
- CCM Airlines
- DHL Cargo
- Fedex
- Royal Air Maroc Cargo
- S7 Airlines
- United Parcel Service
[edit] Incidents
- On August 28, 1992, a bomb went off at the airport, 9 died and 128 were injured. 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 during take-off preparations; 3 passengers were killed before the plane departed. In Marseille a special operations team of the French military stormed the aircraft and killed all 4 hijackers, although 25 passengers were injured.
