Entebbe International Airport

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Entebbe International Airport
Entebbe Terminal.jpg
IATA: EBB – ICAO: HUEN
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda
Serves Entebbe, Kampala, Mukono
Location Entebbe, Uganda
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 3,782 ft / 1,153 m
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Website entebbe-airport.com
Map
EBB is located in Uganda
EBB
EBB
Location of airport in Uganda
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17/35 3,658 12,000 Asphalt
12/30 2,408 7,900 Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Entebbe International Airport (IATA: EBB, ICAO: HUEN) is the principal international airport of Uganda. It is near the town of Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and about 41 km (25 mi), by road, southwest of the central business district of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and its largest city.[3] The coordinates of the airport are 00°02'41"N, 032°26'35"E (Latitude: 0.044721; 32.443055). The headquarters of the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda have been relocated to a new block off the airport highway.[4]

History

The airport was constructed in 1928/1929: The first aircraft to use the new airfield were RAF Fairey IIIs of the Cairo-Cape flight which landed on the 900 yards (820 m) grass runway on 17 February 1929.[5]

Considerable extensions were planned, but for various reasons little was done until after the Second World War. In 1944-45 the main runway was bitumenized and extended to 1,600 yards (1,500 m).[6] Then on 10 November 1951 the airport was formally reopened after the facilities had been extended further: Runway 12/30 was now 3,300 yards (3,000 m), in preparation for services by the de Havilland Comet.[7][8]

History was made on 7 February 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II took her flight back to London via El Adem, Libya after being proclaimed Queen after the death of King George VI.[9]

In February 2015, the Government of South Korea, through the Korea International Cooperation Agency, gave the Government of Uganda a grant of USh27 billion (US$10 million) towards modernization of the airport.[10]

Passenger traffic

Since at least 2006, passenger traffic at the airport has increased except for 2009, when the Great Recession caused a small decline.[11]

Year Passengers Difference
2007 781,428[11] +10.7%[citation needed]
2008 936,184[11] +19.8%
2009 928,754[citation needed] – 0.8%[11]
2010 1,023,437[12] +10.2%[citation needed]
2011 1,080,000[11] +5.2%
2012 1,230,000[11][13] +14.1%
2013 1,370,000[14] +11.4%

Facilities

Passenger facilities include a left-luggage office, banks, ATMs, foreign exchange bureaux, restaurants, and duty-free shops.[15]

Airlines and destinations

Air Uganda aircraft parked next to Emirates Airbus A340-500 at Entebbe Airport.
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 ground handling at Entebbe International Airport.
The United Nations Ilyushin Il-76 parked at Entebbe Airport.
South African Airways Airbus A319 taxiing at Entebbe Airport.
Uganda Airlines Boeing 707 parked at Entebbe Airport.
Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 747-400 landing at Entebbe Airport.
Iran Air Boeing 707 parked at Entebbe Airport.

Passenger

Airlines Destinations
Brussels Airlines Brussels1
Eagle Air Arua, Yei
Charter: Apoka, Ishasha, Kasese, Kisoro, Mweya, Pakuba, Semliki, Soroti
EgyptAir Cairo
Emirates Dubai-International
Ethiopian Airlines Juba,[16] Kigali,[16] Addis Ababa
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi[17]
Fastjet Dar es Salaam,[18] Kilimanjaro[19]
flydubai Bujumbura (ends 19 January 2016),[20] Dubai-International, Kigali (ends 20 January 2016)[21]
Fly-SAX Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta
Kenya Airways Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta
KLM Amsterdam2
Qatar Airways Doha[22]
RwandAir Kigali, Juba,[23] Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta[24]
South African Airways Johannesburg-OR Tambo
South Supreme Airlines Juba,[25] Khartoum[26]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk3
United Airlines Limited Adjumani, Arua, Gulu, Nebbi, Moyo, Pakuba

Notes:

1: Brussels Airlines' inbound flights from Brussels to Entebbe make a stop in Kigali.[27] However, the airline does not have traffic rights to transport passengers solely between Kigali and Entebbe.

2: In addition to nonstop flights, some of KLM's inbound flights from Amsterdam to Entebbe make a stop in Kigali. However, the airline does not have traffic rights to transport passengers solely between Kigali and Entebbe.

3: Turkish Airlines' inbound flights from Istanbul to Entebbe make a stop in Kigali. However, the airline does not have traffic rights to transport passengers solely between Kigali and Entebbe.

Airlines offering specialized passenger service to non-stop destinations
Airlines Destinations
United Nations Humanitarian Air Service Bunia, Goma, Juba,[28] Kisangani,[29] Lubumbashi

Cargo

An Air Urga Antonov An-24, operating for the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service, taxiing at Entebbe International Airport
Airlines Destinations
Astral Aviation Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta
BidAir Cargo Johannesburg-OR Tambo
EgyptAir Cargo Cairo, Sharjah[30]
Emirates SkyCargo Dubai-Al Maktoum[31]
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa[16]
Etihad Cargo Abu Dhabi[32]
Martinair Amsterdam[33]
Qatar Airways Cargo Brussels,[16] Kigali,[16] Doha
South African Airways Cargo Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta,[16] Johannesburg-OR Tambo
Uganda Air Cargo Dubai-International, Frankfurt, Johannesburg-OR Tambo
Chapman Freeborn[34] Johannesburg-OR Tambo, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, Ostend/Bruges
Turkish Airlines Cargo Istanbul-Atatürk, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta
United Nations Humanitarian Air Service Rome-Fiumicino

Ground handling

As of May 2014, there were three ground-handling companies serving this airport:

Incidents

  • In 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked and taken to Entebbe, and Israeli commandoes rescued the hostages in Operation Entebbe.
  • On 9 March 2009, Aerolift Ilyushin Il-76 S9-SAB crashed into Lake Victoria just after takeoff from Entebbe airport, killing all 11 people on board. Two of the engines had caught fire on take-off. The aircraft had been chartered by Dynacorp on behalf of the African Union Mission to Somalia. The accident was investigated by Uganda's Ministry of Transport, which concluded that all four engines were time-expired and that Aerolift's claim that maintenance had been performed to extend their service life or that the work had been certified could not be substantiated.[38]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Airport information for HUEN at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  2. ↑ Airport information for EBB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. ↑ Road Distance From Kampala To Entebbe International Airport with Map
  4. ↑ "Contacts" Archived December 17, 2009 at the Wayback Machine Civil Aviation Authority. 17 December 2009. Retrieved on 28 January 2013. "Contact Information Head Office Entebbe International Airport P.O. Box 5536, Kampala"
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  20. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/12/25/fz-jan16/
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