Sohag International Airport

Sohag International Airport (HMB) serves the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag from a site on the west bank of the Nile about 170 mi (275 km) north of Luxor. Opened in 2000 and progressively upgraded since, it is one of Egypt's newer regional international fields and was created specifically to divert expatriate-worker and pilgrimage flows away from congested Cairo (CAI) and Luxor (LXR). The airport operates a 9,843 ft (3,000 m) asphalt runway capable of handling narrow-body widebodies on long, over-water sectors, and a modern terminal block funded in part by Gulf Cooperation Council partners. Scheduled services concentrate on Egyptian and Gulf carriers – Egypt Air, Nile Air, flynas and flydubai among them – operating to Jeddah (JED), Riyadh (RUH), Medina (MED), Kuwait (KWI), Dubai (DXB) and Cairo (CAI), with seasonal spikes around the Hajj and Umrah seasons that can dominate the annual traffic profile. Within the Upper Egyptian aviation network HMB ranks as the principal gateway between the mid-Nile Valley and the Gulf labour markets, complementing Luxor's more tourism-oriented role. The airport also supports cargo and charter operations tied to local agriculture, textiles and phosphate exports from the Sohag governorate, making it a quietly strategic node in Egypt's regional airport hierarchy rather than a high-profile tourist gateway.