LXRHELX

Luxor International Airport

Luxor, Egypt · Africa

Africa Africa/Cairo

23direct destinations

16airlines

1runway

3,000 mLongest runway

Luxor International Airport (IATA: LXR, ICAO: HELX) is the main airport serving the city of Luxor, Egypt. It is located 6 km (4 miles) east of the city. Many charter airlines use the airport, as it is a popular tourist destination for those visiting the River Nile and the Valley of the Kings.

Location

25.671°N, 32.706°E · 84 m s. n. m. (276 ft)

General data

CountryEgypt

CityLuxor

IATA codeLXR

ICAO codeHELX

Coordinates25.671°N, 32.706°E

Elevation84 m s. n. m. (276 ft)

Time zoneAfrica/Cairo

Runways1

Longest runway3,000 m

OperatorEgyptian Airports Company

Direct destinations23

Official website

Runways · 1

02/20

Length3,000 m9,843 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 3

Tower

119.900

Ground

121.900

Approach

124.300RADAR

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

Airlines operating here · 16

Other airlines with direct routes

Air Cairo EgyptAir easyJet Nile Air TUI Airways Aegean Airlines Air Arabia Edelweiss Air Jazeera Airways Kuwait Airways Neos Pegasus Airlines Transavia Transavia France TUI fly Belgium TUI fly Deutschland

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Olaf Tausch · CC BY 3.0 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Luxor International Airport (LXR). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LXR

MLA

“Luxor International Airport (LXR).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LXR. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Luxor International Airport (LXR).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LXR.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Luxor International Airport (LXR). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LXR (Accessed: 17 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_lxr,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Luxor International Airport (LXR)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LXR},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LXR}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

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