Sharm El Sheikh International Airport SSH / HESH
Sharm El Sheikh · Egypt · Egyptian Airports Company (EAC), a state-owned subsidiary of the Egyptian Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation (EHCAAN) under the Ministry of Civil Aviation
9.0Mpax · 2025
H24International · customs & immigrationJet A-1
ICAO / IATAHESH / SSH
OperatorEgyptian Airports Company (EAC), a state-owned subsidiary of the Egyptian Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation (EHCAAN) under the Ministry of Civil Aviation
Coordinates27.9772°N, 34.3947°E
Elevation143 ft · 44 m
Time zoneEET (UTC+2, DST reinstated 2023)
Passengers / yr9,046,690 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
Bonded—
AIP referenceHESH — AIP Egypt (NANSC)
Airport mapFive aprons, stands 2–46 · reference only
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Operating hoursH24
TerminalsTwo passenger terminals — T1 (opened May 2007, ~43,000 sqm, ~5m pax/yr design capacity, 40 check-in desks, 8 international + 2 domestic gates) and T2 (the original terminal, modernized 2004, expanded further in Nov 2019 raising airport capacity from 7m to 9m pax/yr and gates from 8 to 12); combined capacity later raised to about 10 million pax/year following runway, taxiway and apron works completed around 2022. A proposed Terminal 3 (announced 2008) has not been built.
Runways (2)
- 04L/22R · 3,081 m / 10,108 ft · 45 m wide · Asphalt · ILS ILS (04L)
- 04R/22L · 3,081 m / 10,108 ft · 45 m wide · Asphalt · ILS ILS (04R)
Airport contact
Egypt's principal Red Sea/Sinai leisure gateway, serving the Sharm el-Sheikh resort area with predominantly European, Gulf and North African scheduled and charter traffic; a base for Air Cairo and other Egyptian carriers, with EgyptAir/Air Cairo domestic links to Cairo. Third-busiest airport in Egypt after Cairo and Hurghada.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available · 6 providers
EgyptAir Ground Services (EGS)
EgyptAir's ground-handling subsidiary; EgyptAir Group's own site states EGS 'was the first ground handling company to operate' across Egypt's airports including Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, Aswan, Luxor, Marsa Matrouh, Taba and Al Arish, and it is listed as the Handler for SSH in the Business Air News airport handbook (tel •••) and the CentreForAviation (CAPA) Sharm el-Sheikh airport supplier profile. As EgyptAir's own ramp/turnaround handler this is the best-established entry in this set; the direct egyptair.com page could not be re-fetched (403), so this rests on the secondary directory corroboration plus general industry record.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Egyptian Aviation Services (EAS)
CONFIRMED directly on eas-eg.com: the company history page states verbatim 'EAS expanded operations to major airports in Egypt, including Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada, and Alexandria' in 1995, and the site's own contact page lists a dedicated Sharm El-Sheikh station (station manager tel •••, email •••) alongside Cairo, Hurghada and Alexandria stations — replacing the draft's null contact with this verified SSH-specific line. Also listed on the CAPA Sharm el-Sheikh airport supplier profile as a ground/cargo handler.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
New Star Aviation Services (NSAS)
CONFIRMED directly on nsas-aviation.com/contact: a dedicated Sharm El Sheikh (HESH) station contact (•••) is listed alongside Cairo, Hurghada, Luxor, Aswan, Asyut, Borg El Arab and Sohag stations. Also listed as a ground/cargo handler and caterer on the CAPA Sharm el-Sheikh airport supplier profile.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Z-Aviation Services (ZAS)
CONFIRMED directly on zasair.com: the airport-locations table explicitly lists 'Sharm El Sheikh International Airport' with IATA SSH / ICAO HESH among the airports ZAS serves, alongside Cairo, Alexandria, Hurghada, Luxor, Aswan, Port Said and Taba. Also listed as Agent/Handler for SSH in the Business Air News airport handbook (tel •••).
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Tiger Aviation Services (TAS)
Contact details CONFIRMED directly on tigeraviation.aero (email •••, phone •••, HQ 'Sheraton Buildings, Square 1164, Building 7, Cairo'; site states '25 years of aviation experience'). The site's branch list did not itemise station cities, so SSH presence itself still rests on the Business Air News handler page (listing TAS at Sharm El Sheikh International, Luxor International, Aswan and Alexandria) and CAPA's TAS supplier profile. Phone/email are TAS's Cairo head-office contacts; a separate SSH station line was not published.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Egypt Jet Aviation
CORRECTION: eja.com.eg's own contact page lists only a Cairo office (Departure Hall 1, Cairo International Airport; email •••, phone •••) with no Sharm El Sheikh line published there — the draft's email '•••' could not be found on the company's own site and has been replaced with the verified general-ops address. SSH presence itself is corroborated by CAPA's supplier profile (founded 1987, 'provides a range of ground handling services at Egyptian airports including passenger, ramp and cargo') and Paramount Business Jets' SSH airport page, which lists a dedicated on-airport office ('Sharm Airport Room Nbr 213'); Business Air News also lists it as Agent for SSH.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aircraft fuel
Available · 2 providers
Misr Petroleum (Ser-Aviation)
Misr Petroleum's own site confirms an active aviation-fuel division (Services > Aviation) supplying Egyptian airports (its news section names Taba specifically as a recently opened station); Sharm el-Sheikh was not visible in the page excerpt fetched, so the SSH-specific claim still rests on the EVO Jet Services fuel-refueling directory, which names 'MISR Petroleum' as a primary Jet A-1 into-plane supplier at HESH/SSH alongside Air BP and Oilibya.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Air BP
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
De-icing
Not listed
Part-145 line maintenance
Not listed
Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Available
New Star Aviation Services (NSAS)
NSAS's own site lists catering ('top quality catering for commercial and private flights') as a core network-wide service; NSAS also appears in CAPA's list of caterers servicing Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport. Not itemised as SSH-specific beyond the confirmed HESH station existing.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aircraft cleaning
Not listed
Ground support equipment
Not listed
Cargo handling
Available · 2 providers
Egyptian Aviation Services (EAS)
CONFIRMED directly on eas-eg.com: the history timeline states 'EAS broadened its range of services by introducing Cargo Handling, Catering Coordination, and DCS' in 2005, by which point Sharm El-Sheikh was already an active EAS station (since 1995); the current site's service menu (Load Control & Communication, Ramp Handling) still reflects cargo/load capability. Cargo is not itemised per-station on the site, so scope at the SSH station specifically remains reasonably inferred rather than separately itemised.
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New Star Aviation Services (NSAS)
Cargo handling is listed as a core NSAS service on its own site, and NSAS appears on CAPA's Sharm el-Sheikh 'Ground/Cargo Handlers' list.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aviation security
On request
New Star Aviation Services (NSAS)
NSAS's own site states it provides security services to 'a high standard... following the ICAO recommendations' as part of its ground-handling scope; not independently confirmed as a distinct SSH-station capability.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Passenger & crew transport
On request
New Star Aviation Services (NSAS)
NSAS's service list includes 'Ground Transportation' and 'Hotel Accommodation' coordination for crews/passengers alongside its ground-handling package; not confirmed as a standalone SSH-specific offering.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Flight support
Available · 4 providers
Z-Aviation Services (ZAS)
fbo-finder.com lists ZAS as a 'ground handler and FBO at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport, part of ZAS's multi-airport Egyptian network,' and a Sharm El Sheikh travel-services page notes ZAS providing customs-clearance assistance for private/executive flights. Not beyond the confirmed SSH ground-handling presence above, which makes an FBO/trip-support desk plausible.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Tiger Aviation Services (TAS)
Acukwik and FlightBridge list Tiger Aviation Services as the FBO/Handler at Sharm El Sheikh (HESH-SSH), offering FBO/handler services, pilot services, aircraft services and fuel arrangement for business aviation.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Egypt Jet Aviation
Listed as an 'Agent' (FBO/handling-agent role) for Sharm El Sheikh International Airport in the Business Air News airport handbook, with a dedicated on-airport office room per Paramount Business Jets; typical of the trip-support/permits/FBO desk role alongside its ground handling.
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International Aviation Business
Listed as an 'Agent' for Sharm El Sheikh International Airport in the Business Air News SSH airport handbook page with the phone number above; likely a trip-support/handling-agent desk, but no independent second source or service-scope detail was found to corroborate beyond this single directory listing. Kept per instructions (single-source listing is grounds for 'unconfirmed', not deletion) rather than dropped.
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Hotel & travel
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