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36°41′40″N 003°13′01″E / 36.69444°N 3.21694°E / 36.69444; 3.21694

Houari Boumedienne International Airport
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 (IATA: ALG, ICAO: DAAG) is a public airport located 9 miles (17 km) southeast of Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is named after Houari Boumedienne. Under French rule, Dar El Beïda, the area at which the airport is located, was known as Maison Blanche and, in much of the literature about the Algerian War of Independence it is called Maison Blanche airport.

The new terminal, covering an area of 82 000 m², can accommodate more than six million passengers a year.

Hall 1 is dedicated to foreign airlines. Hall 2 is used by 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 inauguration of the airport by the Algerian president.

This terminal is equipped with 20 registration desks, a cafeteria, tearoom and prayer room. The terminal also has a pharmacy, perfumery, a hairdresser, watches, luggage shops, games and toys and a tobacco/newspaper shop. There are 900 car parking spaces, a taxi stand, a boarding area of 5,000 m², with a 7 gates, luggage delivery area, and lounges for first-class passengers.[2]

The Company Management Services and Infrastructure Aéroportuaires (SGSIA), more commonly known as "Airport of Algiers", is a Public Company. It was established on 1 November 2006 to manage and operate the Airport Algiers Houari Boumediene. The SGSIA includes 1200 employees.

The International Terminal (Terminal 1) presents a capacity of 6 million passengers per year. It was inaugurated on July 5, 2006 by the President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. International traffic is 2.5 million passengers per year

The Domestic Terminal (Terminal 2) renovated in 2007, has a capacity of 2.5 million passengers per year. It offers conditions of comfort and security comparable to those of Terminal 1. The domestic traffic is 1.5 million passengers per year.

The international airport of Algiers will be connected to the second bypass south of Algiers and the east-west highway, through connecting ramps. The second bypass road south of Algiers (Boudouaou-Zéralda) that runs with the southern part of the current southern bypass (Ben Aknoun Dar-El Beïda) will serve the airport through a connection to Dar El-Beïda, while users from the east or west will use a ramp at the Eucalyptus straight to the airport. The second bypass south of Algiers will be completed in July 2008. However the end of 2009 is estimated for the completion of the east-west highway.[3].

The airport infrastructure will be improved, such as the construction of new terminals, new control tower and the renovation and extension of runways.

In 2008 Egsa (the company that is in charge of the airports in Algeria) will build a third terminal at Houari Boumediene, to be called Terminal 3, with 300.000 m2 of area and a capacity of 20 million passenger. Construction is planned to start in 2008, with completion in 2012.

The airport has a 7,000 capacity car park.

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

The distance to the center of Algiers is 20 km using the route N5 direct Bab Ezzouar.

Buses link the airport to downtown Algiers every 30 minutes.

Prices vary beween 600-2000 DA.

The Algiers Metro (line L1) will connect the airport with the center of Algiers. This connection is planned to be completed by 2010.

The following airlines have scheduled services to Houari Boumedienne Airport as of June 2008:

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force Air Transport Command as a major transshipment hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. It functioned as a stopover en-route to Tafarquay Airport, near Oran or to Tunis Airport, Tunisia on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route, It also flew personnel and cargo to Marseilles, Milan, Naples and Palermo, Sicily.^[4]

• On August 28, 1992, a bomb at the airport killed 9 people injured 128. 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 before take off; 3 passengers were killed before departure. In Marseille a special operations team of the French Gendarmerie stormed the aircraft and killed all 4 hijackers, although 25 passengers were injured.

• Houari Boumedienne Airport
  Houari Boumedienne Airport
• Terminal 1, international terminal
  Terminal 1, international terminal
• 
  The new terminal at the airport
• 
  Check-in sector
• Terminal 2
  Terminal 2
• Quick (restaurant chain) in Terminal 2
  Quick (restaurant chain) in Terminal 2
• Duty-Free
  Duty-Free
• Departures zone
  Departures zone
• 
  Entrance to the terminal

• Aeroport d'Alger official website
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• Current weather for DAAG at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for ALG at Aviation Safety Network