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Asmara International Airport, IATA: ASM, ICAO: HHAS, is the international airport of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. It is the country's largest airport and, as of 2017, the only one receiving regularly scheduled services.

Asmara International Airport
IATA: ASM ICAO: HHAS
Summary
Airport type	Military/Public
Serves	Asmara, Eritrea
Elevation AMSL	7,661 ft / 2,335 m
Coordinates	15°17′30.67″N 38°54′38.40″E
Map
ASM Location of airport in Eritrea
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 07/25 9,842 3,000 Asphalt

History

The airport was constructed by the Italian colonial authorities in 1922, the first such facility to be opened in Italian Eritrea with the name "Aeroporto di Gura". It served as the main military airport in the territory. In the mid-1930s, the airport (enlarged and now called Aeroporto Civile Umberto Maddalena di Asmara[1]) began offering civilian and commercial flights.

On 7 July 1935, an agreement was signed with British "Imperial Airways" to connect Asmara to Khartoum. A regular Kassala-Khartoum-Asmara-Massawa 770 km commercial route was subsequently started with a Caproni 133 of the Italian Ala Littoria.[2]

Additionally, a regular Asmara-Assab- Mogadishu commercial route was started in summer 1935, with an Ala Littoria's Caproni Ca.133 providing 13-hour flights from the Mogadishu airport to Italian Eritrea. The aircraft had a maximal capacity of 18 passengers, which at the time was a record.

In 1936, Ala Littoria launched an intercontinental connection -called "Linea dell'Impero"- between Mogadishu-Asmara-Khartoum-Tripoli and Rome. The voyage lasted four days and was one of the first long range flights in the world.

During World War II, the airport was nearly destroyed by the British. It was later renovated in the 1950s, and reopened to offer flights to Addis Ababa and other cities in Ethiopia. With Eritrea's independence in the 1990s, the airport became an international portal to the new nation.

During the Eritrean-Ethiopian War, the airport was bombed two times by Ethiopia. The first was in 1998[3] and another in 2000.[4] In April 2003, after improvements to the airport's runways, Eritrean Airlines started regular services between Asmara and Frankfurt, Milan, Nairobi and Rome. In 2004, it served 136,526 passengers (+11.8% vs. 2003). in 2018, after renewed relations with Ethiopia, the airport started accepting flights from Addis Ababa for the first time since the war.

Facilities

The airport has capacity restrictions due to its small terminal, short runway and high 1.5-mile (2300m.) altitude. Consequently, some large jet aircraft (like an A380, MD-11 or 747) cannot fly to the airport.^{[citation needed]} Unsuitable aircraft would instead need to use the Massawa International Airport on the Eritrean coast. Lufthansa, however, operated Airbus A340 aircraft on a FRA-JED-ASM service as recently as 2012.

The airport is also an Eritrean Air Force base.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Badr Airlines	Khartoum
EgyptAir	Cairo
Eritrean Airlines	Addis Ababa,[5] Cairo, Jeddah, Khartoum
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa
flydubai	Dubai–International[6]
Tarco Airlines	Khartoum
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[7]

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

External links

Media related to Asmara International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Asmara

Der Flughafen Asmara ist der größte Flughafen Eritreas und neben dem Flughafen Assab der einzige internationale Flughafen des Landes mit planmäßigen Flügen. Der Flughafen Asmara wird auch für militärische Zwecke benutzt.

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- [en] Asmara International Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto Internacional de Asmara

El Aeropuerto Internacional de Asmara, anteriormente conocido como Aeropuerto Internacional Yohannes IV (IATA: ASM, OACI: HHAS) es un aeropuerto en Asmara, capital de Eritrea.

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[fr] Aéroport international d'Asmara

L'aéroport international d'Asmara, (code IATA : ASM • code OACI : HHAS) est un aéroport domestique et international desservant la ville d'Asmara, capitale et la plus grande ville de l'Érythrée.

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[it] Aeroporto Internazionale di Asmara

L'Aeroporto Internazionale di Asmara è un aeroporto situato ad Asmara, in Eritrea. Nel 1922 venne costruito dagli italiani nella Colonia eritrea come campo volo militare e dagli anni 30 diventa anche civile (Aeroporto Civile di Asmara) con i voli della Ala Littoria su Caproni Ca.133. Il 22 gennaio 1935 arriva il I Gruppo ed al 1º febbraio successivo erano presenti il Gruppo misto della Regia Aeronautica, con le Squadriglie di Stato maggiore e la Squadriglia di Ro.1 Libica inquadrate nel Comando aeronautica dell'Africa orientale italiana. Al 6 settembre 1935 arriva la III Brigata aerea ed al 3 ottobre successivo il Comando IV Gruppo bombardamento AO. Dal 31 dicembre 1935 al 1º ottobre 1936 era sede del 14º Stormo, al 15 gennaio 1936 era presente la 106ª Squadriglia, dal 19 gennaio successivo torna la Squadriglia di Ro.1 Libica. per la Campagna d'Etiopia ed al 1º ottobre 1936 il Comando settore aeronautico nord.

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[ru] Асмэра (аэропорт)

Междунаро́дный аэропо́рт Асмэ́ры, ранее известный как аэропорт имени Йоханнеса IV (ИАТА: ASM, ИКАО: HHAS) — аэропорт города Асмэры, столицы Эритреи.

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