Houari Boumedienne Airport

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Coordinates: 36°41′40″N 003°13′01″E / 36.69444, 3.21694

Houari Boumedienne International Airport
مطار هواري بومدين

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 (Arabic: مطار هواري بومدين) (IATA: ALG, ICAO: DAAG) is a public airport located 9 nautical miles (17 km) southeast of Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is named after Houari Boumedienne.

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The new terminal at Houari Boumediene airport meets the increase in international air traffic in Algeria. The terminal, covering an area of 82 000 m2, can accommodate more than six million passengers a year in conditions comparable to those in the largest international airports.

Hall 1 is dedicated to foreign airlines, whereas hall 2 is used for 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 official inauguration of the airport by the Algerian president.


Developed on a surface exploitation of 16,000 m2, this terminal now offers multiple facilities with the completion of a public hall of 3,000 m2 accessible and equipped with registration desks, a cafeteria and a tearoom. The new district registrar Limited is equipped with 20 banks for registration, a prayer room, a self service and a cafeteria. The terminal is also an expanded commercial area 2.500m2, including pharmacy, perfumery, a hairdresser, watches, luggage shops, games and toys and a tobacco - newspapers. This was an international terminal is also equipped with a parking for 900 seats, a taxi stand, a boarding area of 5,000 m2, with a 7 gates, in a room Delivery of luggage and lounges for first-class passengers.[1]

  • In addition to its current services, the international airport of Algiers will be connected to the 2nd bypass south of Algiers and the east-west highway, through connecting ramps. This is the point on which Mr. Ghoul had long insisted, during his visit last Thursday yards of the east-west highway. Thus, the second bypass road south of Algiers (Boudouaou-Zéralda) that go along with the southern part of the current southern bypass (Ben Aknoun Dar-El Beïda) serve directly airport infrastructure through a connection to Dar El-Beïda, while users of the East-West may borrow a ramp at the Eucalyptus went too straight to the airport. Emphasize that the 2nd bypass south of Algiers will be completed in July 2008. However await end of 2009 to run on the famous east-west highway.[2]
  • The airport infrastructure is not to be outdone, the construction of new terminals, the acquisition of new control towers, the renovation and extension of runways testify to the importance of the sector in the economic life of Algeria. Civil Aviation Safety, a key element of air transport, it also enjoys a large budget for the acquisition of new instruments to support the latest generation of navigation for all airports open to air navigation.[3]
  • To be meaningful and be profitable and beneficial to all, these investments should, we believe, be accompanied and supported by a policy of liberalization of type Open Sky. Negotiations with the United States have been going on for the past few years, but for us the pressure is elsewhere. She is carrying on the markets, the domestic market and that of intra-Maghreb, the one between Algeria and Europe, particularly with France, the one between Algeria and the Middle East. For the benefit of all, authorities and users, airport authorities, air navigation facility, owners and operators, the Open Sky, allowing unlimited access to the market with fifth freedom rights also unlimited, no control or frequency, will be as a consequence a better return on these investments, development of the sector and consequently make huge services to users.[4]
  • In 2007, the Houari Boumediene Airport was described as the second most modern airport in Africa after the Johannesburg Airport, and the third largest.

In November 2007, it opened the new terminal 2, for domestic flights, the terminal was considered domestic flights more modern Africa. Egsa (company that is in charge of the airports in Algeria), in 2008 opened new terminals in several Algerian airports, including the airport Annabe, Constantine, Ghardaia, Hassi Messaoud, Oran, and Tlemcen. Egsa, intends to build a third terminal at the airport Houari Boumediene (Algiers), which is known as Terminal 3, has the ambitious project to make this terminal the largest in Africa and one of the biggest and important in the world, with 300.000 m2 and with a capacity of 20 million people. It intends to start construction in 2008 and inaugurarla in the year 2012.

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.

Airline ticket offices are located in the airport: Aigle Azur, Air Algerie, Air France, British Airways, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Tassili Airlines, Tunisair.


The airport has a car park with a total capacity of 70,000 cars.[citation needed]

Passenger use, total cargo, and aircraft movements have increased since 2003.[3]

  2003 2004 2005 2006
Passengers
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

This luxury hotel offers 307 rooms including 50 non-smokers. Only international hotel near the airport. 3 restaurants, 2 bars, Internet Wifi network, business center, laundry service, large outdoor pool, 2 tennis courts, space fitness, sauna, massage. Free airport shuttle operation 24 hs to 24hs [5].

They are 20km to the center of Algiers, leaving the international terminal, taking the route N5 direct Bab Ezzouar and continue right to the center of Algiers. If you leave the domestic terminal, must take the route that connects with the route out of the international terminal.

Buses link the airport to downtown Algiers every 30 minutes.

The distance between the airport in Algiers, and the center of Algiers and months of 20km The prejudice and not plus500 DA ca can vary between 200-500 DA. Taxis are not expensive in the city of Algiers.

The Algiers Metro, the line L1, connecting to Algiers Airport with the center of Algiers. This connection is planned for 2010.

The following airlines have scheduled services to Houari Boumedienne Airport as of June 2007:

  • Air Algérie (Abidjan, Amman, Bamako, Barcelona, Beijing [by end of 2007 [4]], Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld [seasonal], Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Dakar, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Lille, London-Heathrow, Luqa [seasonal], Luxembourg [seasonal], Lyon, Madrid, Marseilles, Metz/Nancy, Montreal, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK [by end of 2007[5]], Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Toulouse, Tripoli, Tunis)

  • 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)

  • 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.

  1. ^ AIP and Chart from Service d'Information Aéronautique - Algerie (French)
  2. ^ Airport information for DAAG at World Aero Data, retrieved 2007-09-24.
  3. ^ http://algiersairport.free.fr/contents4.html
  4. ^ http://www.algerie-dz.com/article10246.html
  5. ^ http://www.algerie-dz.com/article10246.html
  6. ^ http://www.liberte-algerie.com/edit.php?id=83347
  7. ^ http://www.elwatan.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=76117
  8. ^ http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i7Wc2g3Gy_kq-4MFYeg8z23SIaFw

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