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Cairo International Airport

Greater Cairo

  • IATACAI
  • ICAOHECA
30.9 million Passengers a year (2025)
Serves
Greater Cairo
Operator
Cairo Airport Company
Owner
Egyptian Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation
Opened
1963
Elevation
382 ft (116 m)
Runways
3 (longest 4,000 m)
Airlines based here
EgyptAir, Nile Air, Air Cairo, Air Arabia Egypt

About the airport

Cairo International Airport (IATA: CAI, ICAO: HECA) (Arabic: مطار القاهرة الدولي; Maṭār El Qāhira El Dawli) is the main international airport serving Cairo and its metropolitan area. It is the largest and busiest airport in Egypt. The airport serves as the primary hub for EgyptAir and Nile Air as well as several other airlines. The airport is located in Heliopolis, to the northeast of Cairo around fifteen kilometres (eight nautical miles) from the business area of the city and has an area of approximately 37 km2 (14 sq mi). It is the busiest airport in Africa and the 9th busiest airport in the Middle East in terms of total passengers.

This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.

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