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Taba International Airport sits on the Sinai Plateau in South Sinai Governorate, close to the Israeli border and the resort town of Eilat. Built originally as an Israeli air force base, it is now a lightly used civilian charter airport serving the Taba and Taba Heights resort area. Its two long, hard-surfaced runways and ILS approach give it capacity well beyond its modest traffic levels.
Taba International Airport (ICAO: HETB, IATA: TCP) is a government-operated airport serving the town of Taba and the nearby Taba Heights resort in South Sinai, Egypt. It handles almost exclusively seasonal charter traffic rather than scheduled services, and for a visiting sim pilot its appeal lies as much in its unusual history as an Israeli air base as in its long, well-equipped runways set against the Sinai Plateau and the Red Sea coastline.
The airport lies on the Sinai Plateau in South Sinai Governorate, about 13 kilometres from Taba itself and roughly 30 kilometres from Taba Heights, near El Nakb. It sits immediately adjacent to Eilat, Israel, just across the border, placing it in a geopolitically sensitive corner of airspace at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba.
Taba has two physical hard-surfaced runways, both lit. Runway 04/22 is the longer of the pair at 13,084 feet, with an ILS serving runway 04. Runway 14/32 is 9,839 feet long. Field elevation is 2,428 feet, at coordinates 29.5878 N, 34.7781 E.
Radio services at Taba comprise Approach on 122.8 MHz, Ground on 121.9 MHz, Tower on 120.3 MHz, and a radio facility on 579 MHz. An ILS is available for runway 04, supporting an instrument approach into the airport.
The airport's position adjacent to Eilat, Israel, at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba, and its setting on the Sinai Plateau near El Nakb, make it readily identifiable from the air, with the Red Sea coastline and the Israeli border providing strong natural reference features for a VFR approach.
The airfield was built by Israel in 1972 during its occupation of the Sinai following the Six-Day War, and operated as the Etzion Air Force Base, home to squadrons including the
Taba International Airport today handles mainly seasonal charter flights, historically from Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, including services to Katowice, Prague, Brno, Budapest and Warsaw, alongside occasional charters to Cairo. The airport has only one gate. Traffic has fluctuated considerably over the years, falling from 41,142 passengers in 2014 to just 13,488 in 2015, before charter services resumed from 2018. In 2026, Israeli carrier Arkia introduced a shuttle service between Taba and Athens to provide air access to the Eilat area during a closure of Israeli airspace.
