<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Asmara International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport was constructed by the Italian colonial authorities in 1922, the first such facility to be opened in Italian Eritrea with the name "Aeroporto di Gura". It served as the main military airport in the territory. In the mid-1930s, the airport (enlarged and now called Aeroporto Civile Umberto Maddalena di Asmarabegan offering civilian and commercial flights.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On 7 July 1935, an agreement was signed with British "Imperial Airways" to connect Asmara to Khartoum. A regular Kassala-Khartoum-Asmara-Massawa 770 km commercial route was subsequently started with a Caproni 133 of the Italian Ala Littoria.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Additionally, a regular Asmara-Assab- Mogadishu commercial route was started in summer 1935, with an Ala Littoria's Caproni Ca.133 providing</p>
<p class="blog-para">13-hour flights from the Mogadishu airport to Italian Eritrea. The aircraft had a maximal capacity of 18 passengers, which at the time was a record.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 1936, Ala Littoria launched an intercontinental connection -called "Linea dell'Impero"- between Mogadishu-Asmara-Khartoum-Tripoli and Rome. The voyage lasted four days and was one of the first long range flights in the world.</p>
<p class="blog-para">During World War II, the airport was nearly destroyed by the British. It was later renovated in the 1950s, and reopened to offer flights to Addis Ababa and other cities in Ethiopia. With Eritrea's independence in the 1990s, the airport became an international portal to the new nation.</p>
<p class="blog-para">During the Eritrean-Ethiopian War, the airport was bombed two times by Ethiopia in 1998and 2000.In April 2003, after improvements to the airport's runways, Eritrean Airlines started regular services between Asmara and Frankfurt, Milan, Nairobi and Rome. In 2004, it served 136,526 passengers (+11.8% vs. 2003). In 2018, after renewed relations with Ethiopia, the airport started accepting flights from Addis Ababa for the first time since the war.</p>
<p><img class="img-fluid p-lg-0 rounded w-100" title=" Asmara International Airport" src="../../../main/img/airport/asma/1.webp" alt=" Asmara International Airport"></p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Facilities Asmara International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport has capacity restrictions due to its small terminal, short runway and high 1.5-mile (2300m.) altitude. Consequently, some large jet aircraft (like an A380, MD-11 or 747) cannot fly to the airport. Unsuitable aircraft would instead need to use the Massawa International Airport on the Eritrean coast. Lufthansa, however, operated Airbus A340 aircraft on a FRA-JED-ASM service as recently as 2012.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Asmara (ASM), Eritrea Asmara International Airport</p>
<p class="blog-para">Asmara Intl (ASM) is the largest airport in Eritrea. You can fly to 4 destinations with 4 airlines in scheduled passenger traffic.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The most frequently departed route is the route to Addis Ababa (ADD) in Ethiopia with an average of 20 flights from Asmara Intl every week which is over 65% of all weekly departures. There are no domestic flights scheduled for departing from Asmara (ASM) as far as we know.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Ethiopian Airlines is the largest airline here by counting the number of departures. With around 20 scheduled take-offs every week, that's about 4 times as many as the second biggest airline, flydubai. A large aircraft operating on this airport is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The aircraft types with most scheduled flights are the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A31X/32X.</p>
<p><img class="img-fluid p-lg-0 rounded w-100" title=" Asmara International Airport" src="../../../main/img/airport/asma/2.webp" alt=" Asmara International Airport"></p>