ABS

Abu Simbel Airport

ICAO HEBL22.3759°N 31.6117°E187 m / 614 ftMedium airport
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Abu Simbel Airport (IATA: ABS, ICAO: HEBL) is a medium airport in Abu Simbel, Aswan Governorate, Egypt. It has one runway, 3,000 m (9,843 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Egyptian Airports Company. In 2018 it handled 64 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
15/33150° / 330° · LIT
LENGTH3,000 m9,843 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2007–2018
538K
634K
449K
490K
119K
74K
36K
11K
23K
22K
34K
64K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAir Cairo 2EgyptAir 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ABS. From the Wikipedia article “Abu Simbel Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers64K (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,984of 3,974 · #135 Africa · #10 EGLongest runway3,000 m9,843 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,196of 29,823 · =185 Africa · =27 EGElevation187 m614 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=25,063of 43,341 · =2,535 Africa · #16 EGRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =28 EG
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
MISCFIRE121.900
RDORDO585.900
TWRTWR/APP118.100