Luxor International Airport LXR / HELX

Egypt's key gateway for Nile Valley/Upper Egypt tourism (Valley of the Kings, Karnak and Luxor temples). EgyptAir's daily ~1hr Cairo shuttle is the busiest single scheduled route, alongside smaller scheduled service (e.g. Air Cairo) to other domestic and Middle East points, plus a heavily seasonal book of European leisure charters concentrated October-April. CY2024 traffic is cited here at roughly 1.33 million passengers, but this figure could not be independently confirmed against a primary statistical source in this verification pass and should be checked against EHCAAN or CAPMAS data before publishing; CY2025 is an unverified planning estimate (around 1.6 million) reflecting continued recovery of Upper Egypt tourism, not a confirmed full-year total. The single runway 02/20 carries ILS CAT I on RWY 02 only per commonly cited aviation databases, so RWY 20 arrivals rely on non-precision or visual approaches.