During his tour of North Sinai Governorate, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, followed up on the implementation status of the Al Arish International Airport development project. He was received by Major General Ahmed Sorour, Assistant Director of the Military Engineers Department at the Armed Forces Engineering Authority, and Air Major General Wael El-Nashar, Chairman and Managing Director of the Egyptian Airports Company.
The Prime Minister reiterated the state's keenness to develop the various Egyptian airports, in light of the directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on the need to follow an advanced operating system supported by the latest air navigation systems, strengthening the capacity and efficiency of Egypt's civil aviation sector and supporting targets to increase the number of tourists arriving in Egypt.
Major General Dr. Khaled Megawer, Governor of North Sinai, explained that developing Al Arish International Airport is part of implementing an integrated vision for developing Sinai in a number of sectors, including civil aviation. The project aims to strengthen infrastructure, carry out works to upgrade some of the airport's components, and build a new passenger terminal, a VIP lounge building and a new runway.
The Prime Minister listened to a briefing from Major General Ahmed Sorour on the various components of the project, who explained that the Al Arish International Airport development project involves building the civil airfield on an area of 823 feddans.
Major General Ahmed Sorour noted that the project includes a number of components, among them a passenger terminal with a capacity of 800 passengers/hour and an area of 17,500 square meters, consisting of a departures hall, an arrivals hall, a VIP lounge and a Hajj pilgrims' hall.
The project also includes a VIP building with an area of 3,500 square meters, with a private gate and a private aircraft parking apron, an independent road and a hall for international conferences with simultaneous interpretation. In addition, the airport development project includes a greeters' and well-wishers' hall that accommodates 190 visitors, with an area of 480 square meters.
The Assistant Director of the Military Engineers Department added that it includes a mosque with an area of 605 meters accommodating 400 worshippers, as well as a bus and car park that accommodates 85 buses and 350 cars.
He explained that the Al Arish International Airport development project includes building 2 meteorological stations, an upper-air observation station and a surface observation station, as well as building 30 administrative and service buildings for the airport (policewomen's accommodation, a soldiers' mess, an armory, a warehouse building, a maintenance building, a garage building, a waste building, a substation for the passenger terminal, a chillers yard building, a power plant, 4 electrical substations and two runway lighting stations).
Major General Ahmed Sorour gave an explanation of the roads included in the project, explaining that there is (a main runway 3 km long and 45 meters wide, a parallel taxiway 3 km long and 30 meters wide, links 1 km long, a main apron with an area of 86,892 square meters accommodating 10 design aircraft (A-320) and service roads 14.6 km long), for a total airfield area of 480,000 square meters.
The Assistant Director of the Military Engineers Department spoke about the general site landscaping works and the infrastructure and networks works, noting that all networks (water, irrigation, fire, stormwater drainage, telecommunications and electricity) have been built, according to the official page of the Egyptian Cabinet on Facebook.
