Aden International Airport ADE / OYAA

Subsidiary of national carrier Yemenia (yemeniaghc.com). Two UN procurement notices confirm Aden-specific presence: UNGM 155111 ("Ground Handling Services at Yemen International Airports") names Yemenia Ground Handling as the required incumbent at Sana'a and Aden, and UNGM 284212 ("Provision of Ground Handling Services at Yemen International Airports: Sana'a, Aden, Seyoun and Mukalla") calls YGHC "the sole ground handling service provider in Yemen" and projects roughly 100 turnaround services per year specifically at Aden International Airport, covering passenger/baggage handling, ramp/turnaround, load control and GSE provision.

State oil company's Aden branch (ypcaden.com) runs the Aviation Refueling Department that has supplied Jet A-1 into-plane at Aden International Airport since January 2009 per its own ARD page; that page is indexed by search engines but returned 403/denied to both direct fetch and a live browser, so the description rests on the indexed summary and no company-published phone or email could be captured. It is the only fuel supplier documented at OYAA (CAMA's airport profile lists Jet A-1; the Logistics Cluster's Yemen LCA, also inaccessible here, is summarised as reporting Jet A1 and AVGAS with one 10,000 imperial-gallon and three 4,000 imperial-gallon fuel tankers). Supply is fragile: Yemen Online reported on 30 April 2026 that the company had warned Yemenia in an official memo of a possible halt of Jet A-1 supplies within 72 hours because of delivery delays linked to the war involving Iran, instructing aircraft to refuel at neighbouring-country airports from 00:01 on 27 April 2026 as a temporary measure until new shipments arrived, and an April 2026 Aden meeting chaired by the Minister of Transport with the YPC Aden director general, civil aviation and Yemenia set new jet-fuel pricing to stabilise flights (Yemen Monitor). Whether normal uplift has since been restored was not confirmed - verify fuel availability or plan tankering before dispatch.

Aden is Yemenia's main operating base for its remaining fleet of about four A320-200s (Wikipedia: three airframes destroyed at Sana'a on 6 May 2025 and one more plus the sole A330 on 28 May 2025). Because the Houthis seized Yemenia's Sana'a repair facilities in June 2024, any in-house line maintenance on the government-side fleet necessarily takes place at Aden, and the aircraft struck by a passenger-stair vehicle at Aden on or before 25 June 2025 was grounded there for technical repairs (Yemen Online). However no Aden hangar, CAMA or foreign Part-145 approval, or engineering contact is published - Getty imagery of Yemenia maintenance shows only the Sana'a hangar - and third-party line-maintenance availability for visiting operators is not documented. The airline's Aden station was reorganised on 25 June 2025 (Chairman Nasser Mahmoud appointed a new Aden station manager and station-affairs head alongside new leadership of Yemenia Ground Services in Aden, i.e. YGHC, after repeated failures). The phone shown is the company's general number published on yemenia.com; the Aden office locator on that site requires an interactive search and could not be read.

YGHC's Fleet Solutions division (yemeniaghc.com) advertises cabin cleaning, turnaround cleaning and toilet/water servicing for "thousands of flights per year across Yemen airports," but names no specific airport. No Aden-specific confirmation was found; since YGHC is the documented sole ground handler at Aden, this service is plausibly extended there as part of standard turnaround handling, but that is an inference, not a direct citation.

Yemenia's own cargo station locator (yemenia.com/cargo) lists Aden among its served Yemen stations, alongside Sana'a, Riyan, Hodeidah, Taiz, Seiyun, Marib, Al-Mukalla and Socotra; YGHC's published service list separately includes dedicated Cargo Services and Load Control. Terminal/warehouse-level detail for Aden specifically is not published, so station-level cargo handling is confirmed while facility specifics remain unconfirmed.

Light cargo is carried on UNHAS flights through Aden subject to available space, charged at USD 5 per kg in the September 2026 schedule (USD 3 per kg in the January 2025 schedule), requested via the UNHAS Yemen email; humanitarian consignments only.

State airport operator; CAMA's own site (cama.gov.ye) lists an Aviation Security General Directorate alongside its Airports Sector, so screening, access control and apron policing at Aden sit with CAMA aviation-security staff, with the perimeter of this joint civil-military field guarded by Yemeni military units (a Yemeni Air Force squadron is based here). Security context: government (PLC) forces secured full control of the airport on 7 January 2026 after retaking the city from the Southern Transitional Council, ending eight years of STC administration; the airport has been a repeated target during the war (2015 battle, the 30 December 2020 arrival-hall attack), and FAA and EASA conflict-zone advisories for Yemeni airspace remain in force - check current NOTAMs and advisories before operating. The contact shown is the chairman's international-relations office published on cama.gov.ye, whose stated headquarters is Zubairi Street, Sana'a; Yemen has had parallel civil-aviation administrations since 2015 (Sana'a under de facto Houthi authorities, the internationally recognised government's CAMA operating from Aden), so confirm which administration is handling your OYAA request. The site also returned a certificate error on one of two domains during.

The hotel's site states it maintains a reception hall at the airport to receive VIP guests and transport them to the hotel, and lists airport transfers among its services; arranged with the front office (•••). No independent transport company serving crews at ADE was identified - hotel-arranged or handler-arranged transfers are the documented option.

Aden is the operational hub and booking-office location of UNHAS Yemen: the Logistics Cluster's Yemen operation page (logcluster.org) publishes the UNHAS Yemen Booking Office in Aden (•••, •••) and a CATO contact (Mahfudh Omar). The September 2026 monthly schedule (published 6 Aug 2026 on logcluster.org, read directly from the PDF) shows every route touching Aden: Amman-Aden (UNO 136H, Embraer ERJ-145XR, 45 seats, occasionally transiting Djibouti), Djibouti-Aden (UNO 132H, Beechcraft 1900D, 16 seats), Aden-Sana'a, and Aden-Marib (Safer)/Riyan-Mukalla/Seiyun loops operated subject to passenger demand and final flight clearance. Regular bookings go through the UN Booking Hub (unbooking.org) with a three-day deadline; late bookings, special flights and cancellations by email; fees USD 350 per ticket (Amman USD 450; diplomatic/donor organisations USD 600); passengers report two hours before departure. Eligibility is restricted to humanitarian staff (non-staff only for emergency medical travel), so this is not a service available to commercial operators. Turnaround handling of UNHAS aircraft at Aden is understood to be by YGHC (UNGM tender notices), not by UNHAS itself.

CAMA is the permit authority for OYAA: landing permits and parking slots are required for non-scheduled and private/charter flights (Universal Weather's public airport data flags a landing permit as potentially required by FAR type; broker pages uniformly state permit plus parking slot are mandatory), and CAMA's published profile gives H24 operations with ILS, VOR/DME and NDB. Lead times and fees are not published by CAMA; no public eAIP exists, so NOTAM/AIS confirmation is via CAMA's AIS office. · H24 per CAMA profile; subject to NOTAM

Real, long-established hotel on Gold Mohur Bay in Aden — historically the city's best-known international-standard hotel, and the site of a notable 29 December 1992 bombing (per Wikipedia). A hotel website (goldmohurhotel.com) is referenced in general sources but did not resolve at verification. No independent source confirming a formal airline/crew-rate contract or actual crew usage was found; the only such claim traced back to a "Flytag" citation, which is not an aviation trip-support company (flytag.com is an unrelated drone-mapping software vendor) — that sourcing was discarded as unreliable, and this entry is retained only on the hotel's own independently confirmed existence in Aden.

Five-star hotel on Khormaksar Coastal Road about 2 km from Aden International Airport - the closest international-standard property to the field and Tripadvisor's top-ranked of only three listed hotels in Aden. Its own site (coral-aden.com) publishes a 24-hour front desk, free high-speed internet, restaurant and cafe, health club, meeting halls, and car parking secured by security guards. No airline crew contract or UN/NGO block-booking is documented, so crew usage is inferred from location only; Tripadvisor carries an advisory against non-essential travel to the area.

Accor-branded four-star hotel at Crater Road, Aden 70302 (Crater/Al-Tawahi side of the peninsula), listed on Trip.com and other booking platforms as about 6 km / 11 minutes by car from Aden International Airport and still accepting bookings for September 2026. Accor's own property page could not be located (all.accor.com country page returned 404), so its current status under the Mercure brand, contact details and any crew or NGO usage are unconfirmed; retained as a real, currently bookable Aden hotel.

Small beachfront resort on Elephant Bay in Al-Tawahi (Gold Mohur side of the Aden peninsula, further from Khormaksar than the airport-district hotels; distance not published), listed on Tripadvisor with an outdoor pool, bar, terrace and beach access. It has no official website (per the kupi.com listing), and the +967 2 phone circulating on Bing Maps and third-party listings is not company-published, so it is omitted. No crew or NGO usage documented; listed only on its independently confirmed existence as an operating Aden hotel.