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Marsa Alam International Airport (HEMA/RMF) sits on the Red Sea coast of southern Egypt, roughly 60 km north of the town of Marsa Alam itself, and was Egypt's first privately built and operated international airport. It offers a single long hard-surfaced runway well capable of handling the wide-body charter traffic that serves the region's diving and beach resorts, making it a striking waypoint for any simulator pilot exploring the Red Sea coastline.
Marsa Alam International Airport is a purpose-built commercial gateway serving the Red Sea resort area of southern Egypt. Opened in 2003, it was Egypt's first privately built and operated international airport, and today handles substantial charter and scheduled leisure traffic from Europe. For the simulator pilot it is notable less for any general-aviation character and more for its single very long runway, remote desert setting and the dramatic backdrop of the Red Sea coastline and coral reefs nearby.
The airport lies at coordinates 25.5581N, 34.5831E, at a field elevation of 240 ft, on the Red Sea coast of the Red Sea Governorate in southeastern Egypt, about 60 km north of the town of Marsa Alam. Port Ghalib, with its resort marina, lies only about 5 km from the airfield, and other landmarks such as Abu Dabbab Beach and the Elphinstone Reef diving site lie further south along the coast. No specific airspace classification or details of surrounding controlled airspace are given in available sources.
Marsa Alam has a single physical runway, 15/33, orientated broadly north-northwest to south-southeast. It is a hard-surfaced runway 10,597 ft in length and is lit, giving ample length for the large commercial jets that use the field; there is no ILS installed.
Published frequencies for the airport are: APPROACH on 121 MHz, TOWER on 121 MHz, EMERGENCY on 121.9 MHz, and GROUND/FIRE on 121.9 MHz. No specific navaids or published instrument approach procedures are detailed in available sources.
No published circuit joining procedures, circuit heights or noise abatement restrictions are given in available sources.
No published visual reference points are given in available sources, though the airfield's position close to the coast, roughly 5 km from Port Ghalib and around 60 km north of Marsa Alam town, together with the surrounding desert terrain and Red Sea shoreline, provide useful general orientation.
Marsa Alam International Airport opened on 16 October 2003 as Egypt's first privately built and operated international airport. It is owned by EMAK Marsa Alam for Managing and Operating Airports SAE and operated by the M.A. Al-Kharafi Group of Kuwait, which negotiated with the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority to run the airport under a Build-Operate-Transfer arrangement, reportedly granted for a 40-year period. The airport was developed to support the growth of tourism along the southern Red Sea coast, particularly for European visitors travelling to the diving and beach resorts in the area.
The airport remains a busy leisure gateway, with a single terminal handling both domestic and international flights and direct service to numerous destinations across Europe operated by airlines including Air Cairo, Neos, TUI fly, Eurowings and easyJet, among others. It supports the tourism industry of the southern Red Sea region, including nearby Port Ghalib, Abu Dabbab Beach and the Wadi El Gemal National Park. No information on fuel availability, operating hours or simulator scenery is given in available sources.
