Sabha Airport
{{Infobox airport
| name = Sabha International Airport
| nativename-a =
| image =
| IATA = SEB
| ICAO = HLLS
| type = Public/Military
| owner =
| operator = Civil Aviation and Meteorology Bureau
| city-served = Sabha, Libya
| elevation-f = 1427
| elevation-m =
| coordinates = {{coord|27|00|00|N|14|27|40|E|region:LY-MRA|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map = Libya
| pushpin_label = SEB
| pushpin_map_caption = Location within Libya
| website =
| metric-rwy = y
| r1-number = 13/31
| r1-length-m = 3600
| r1-surface = Asphalt
| footnotes = Sources: GCM{{GCM|SEB|Sebha Airport}} SkyVector{{cite web |title=Sebha Airport |url=https://skyvector.com/airport/HLLS/Sebha-Airport |website=SkyVector |accessdate=17 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917143214/https://skyvector.com/airport/HLLS/Sebha-Airport |archive-date=17 September 2018 |url-status=live }}
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Sebha International Airport {{airport codes|SEB|HLLS}} is an airport serving Sabha, capital of the Sabha District of Libya. The airport is {{convert|4|km}} southeast of the city.
The airport shares its runway with Sabha Airbase, which has operations on the southwest side of the airport.
Plans
The airport underwent expansion in the 1970s to upgrade it to an international airport.{{cite book |title=Translations on Near East and North Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q_O5AAAAIAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=Joint Publications Research Service |page=31}}
A LD600 million contract was signed (20 May 2008) with a joint venture comprising Lebanon's CCC and a new Libyan investment and development company for a new passenger terminal at Sabha Airport. It would have a capacity of 3 million passengers, and, like the new terminals at Tripoli International and Benina International, be designed by Aéroports de Paris Engineering.(20 May 2008), Endres, Gunter, [https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/libya-to-restructure-air-transport-sector-223823/ Libya to restructure air transport sector] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226023730/http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/libya-to-restructure-air-transport-sector-223823/ |date=26 February 2015 }}, FlightGlobal. Retrieved 20 May 2008 This development was not completed due to the Libyan Civil War.{{cite news |url=https://www.libyaobserver.ly/economy/libya-avoids-paying-80-million-euros-turkish-compensation-lawsuit |title=Libya avoids paying 80 million euros in Turkish compensation lawsuit |website=Libya Observer |date=30 July 2018 |accessdate=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801155219/https://www.libyaobserver.ly/economy/libya-avoids-paying-80-million-euros-turkish-compensation-lawsuit |archive-date=1 August 2018 |url-status=live }}
In March 2017, it was announced that the airport had reopened to commercial traffic after closing in 2014 due to the continuing civil war.{{Cite news |url=http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/54050-sebha-libya-reopens-to-commercial-traffic-after-closure |title=Sebha, Libya reopens to commercial traffic after closure |work=ch-aviation |access-date=21 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801220945/https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/54050-sebha-libya-reopens-to-commercial-traffic-after-closure |archive-date=1 August 2018 |url-status=live }}
Airlines and destinations
See also
References
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External links
- {{ASN|SEB|Sabha Airport}}
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