ASW

Aswan International Airport

ICAO HESN23.9611°N 32.8204°E198 m / 650 ftLarge airport
On the map
Aswan International Airport, Aswan, AG, EGY (48025277278)
Warren LeMay from Cullowhee, NC, United States · CC0 · Commons

Aswan International Airport (IATA: ASW, ICAO: HESN) is a large airport in Aswan, Aswan Governorate, Egypt. It has one runway, 3,402 m (11,161 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Egyptian Airports Company. In 2018 it handled 523 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1969–1969
20 MAR 1969
Disaster1969 Aswan Ilyushin Il-18 crash.100 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
17/35171° / 351° · LIT
LENGTH3,402 m11,161 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2007–2018
979K
1.1M
864K
955K
338K
294K
250K
270K
363K
366K
467K
523K
070809101112131415161718

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAir Cairo 2EgyptAir 2Nile Air 1Petroleum Air Services 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ASW. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Aswan International Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers523K (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,095of 3,974 · #74 Africa · #8 EGLongest runway3,402 m11,161 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#583of 29,823 · #85 Africa · #13 EGElevation198 m650 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=24,346of 43,341 · =2,522 Africa · #15 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

4 channels
APPRADAR119.350
EMRFIRE121.900
RDORDO585.900
TWRTWR118.300