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Sphinx International Airport (SPX)

Al Jiza, Egypt · ICAO HESX · IATA SPX

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Sphinx International Airport (HESX)16R34L
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Al Jiza, Egypt
ICAO code
HESX
IATA code
SPX
Elevation
510 ft
Longest runway
11,975 ft (16R/34L)
Runways
1
Size class
Large
Position
30.1082, 30.8957

About HESX

Sphinx International Airport (SPX) is a large airport in Al Jiza, Egypt, with the ICAO code HESX. It has one runway, 16R/34L, 11,975 ft long and 197 ft wide, with a hard surface. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 95 taxiway segments, 5 aprons and 2 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 20 airlines have 138 routes through HESX. Its most frequent links are Ferno (MXP), Luton (LTN) and Rome (FCO).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
16R / 34L11,975 ft197 ftHardLit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • Wizz WZZ14 routes
  • Pegasus PGT13 routes
  • easyJet Europe EJU10 routes
  • Wizz UK WUK9 routes
  • easyJet EZY8 routes
  • flydubai FDB8 routes
  • easyJet Swiss EZS6 routes
  • Air Arabia ABY4 routes
  • Condor CFG2 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: WMT, NMA, KNE, JZR, ADY, MSC.

Connected airports

Nearby airports with maps

The closest airports that have a map and a page here.

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.