Hurghada Flights

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While choosing a tour to Egypt I have taken advantage of a low season and opportunities of two airlines. Usually tourist operators offer air tickets to Hurghada by one airline. It helps to receive the discount at purchase of return tickets. Usually standard tours have duration of 8 days and 7 nights (plus additional one or two weeks if you want).

My tour was a practically completely excursion tour. Therefore it was important for me I could have a rest on the sea even one and a half or two days. For this reason I have chosen early morning Saturday flight to Hurghada by "Transaero" airline and returning to Moscow late Sunday flight by "Atlant-Souyz" airline. Therefore my tour was prolonged 9 days and 8 nights (including only 5 working days and 4 target days).

I don't know the price of my air tickets because I bought a complex tour with all transfers. But I think two-way ticket coasted about $350. I flied to Hurghada by "Boeing-747" and came back Moscow by "Iljushin-86". It took me 4 hours one way flight. There weren’t any delay. We arrived to Hurghada and Moscow just according to the schedule.

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This airport is one three main air Egypt gates (besides Cairo and Sham el-Sheikh). There are local airports in Abu Simbel, Alexandria, Aswan, Luxor. But the most of tourists usually arrive to Cairo, Hurghada and Sham el-Sheikh.

30 year ago the airport of Hurghada had only military value. Now it’s quite modern and equipped with tourist facilities place.

AirBaltic (Riga), Air Berlin (Berlin-Schönefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Cologne, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, Munster, Paderborn, Nuremberg), Astraeus (Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick), Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo), Austrian Airlines (Vienna), Bashkirian Airlines (Ufa), Belair (Zurich), British Airways, operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick), Condor Airlines (Düsseldorf, Munich), Edelweiss Air (Geneva, Zurich), Egyptair (Cairo, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Milan-Malpensa), Excel Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK)), Finnair ( only charter, from Helsinki), Hifly (Lisbon), Jat Airways (Belgrade), LTU (Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich), operated by LTU Austria (Vienna), Luxair (Luxembourg), MyTravel Airways (Manchester (UK)), Niki (Salzburg, Vienna), Primacharter (Poznan,Warsaw,Wroclaw), Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St Petersburg), S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo), Star Airlines (Paris), TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni) (seasonal), Thomas Cook Airlines (Glasgow, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK)), Thomsonfly (London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK)), Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo), TUIfly (Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Hanover), TUIfly nordic (only charter, from Helsinki).

The city is served by the Hurghada International Airport with direct connections with several cities in Europe.
There are also daily flights to and from Cairo. Some times a week there are flights to Sharm el-Sheikh and once a week to Aswan by Luxor.

The ariport is very interesting in itself, when I was there he airport was in caos. Not really know where to go and not many people around that could help you. But I've heard that the airport has improved alot the last year or two. But I must say it was a fun and interresting experience.

Just after New Year's, 2007 we faced a 3 hour wait in the Hurghada Airport to get from the curb to first security screening. No lines--just frustrated and angry travelers trying to make their flights. How often does this occur? I have no idea. Our guide told us this is not unusual. Other travelers have told us they endured long lines but nothing on this scale. It's the lack of lines that was the biggest problem. My tip? Be prepared. Ask your travel agent about best days (times) to travel out of Hurghada--especially if you're going during a holiday. We would have changed our travel days or tried to fly at an off time had we known this is what we were facing during peak times.

The best way to get to Hurghada is by airplane. From Belgrade the flight takes less than three hours. But if you travel during the hot summer time, be prepared for a shock when you leave the airplane! A very hot wind blows into your face and it can be very dangerous if you are not prepared. The airport is nothing much, and the bus will be waiting to transfer you to the airport building.

The easiest way to get to Hurghada is by air. Egypt air has reliable service from Cairo and other places. As a foreigner you pay more than a local but the price is still OK, although sometimes getting to Hurghada with a charter from abroad can be cheaper than flying from Cairo.

Being a popular (thanks to its cheapness, sea, and proximity – albeit a relative one – to Luxor) sea resort, Hurghada has an airport of its own, not really far from the city. Or, better, not really far from the first hotels on the seafront beach, because the town itself is somewhat further north.

There are charter flights into Hurghada airport from most European countries, like Russia, Germany, Italy, France, UK and the rest of them. The main plus of them is that they are cheap, the main drawbacks are that often you can not get them without booking a hotel with the tour company (which might be more expensive than booking it on your own) and that you can go only for an amount of times equaling one week, two weeks, three weeks, or a month.