Berbera Airport guide

Berbera International Airport serves the port city of Berbera in the Sahil region of Somaliland, on the Gulf of Aden. Its ICAO code is HCMI. The airport sits at an elevation of 9 metres.

The Soviet Union built the single asphalt runway, 05/23, in the mid-1970s. It lies on a northeast to southwest heading. At 4,140 metres it is among the longest on the continent. NASA rented the runway through the 1980s and kept it as an emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle until 1991. The airport has no instrument landing system.

A new terminal and a 12 km perimeter fence were inaugurated in March 2015. A UAE-backed renovation by Dubai-based Transport Infrastructure Services Limited followed, and the airport reopened to international passengers on 20 November 2021. Ethiopian Airlines flies scheduled services from Berbera. Somaliland Airlines was named the national carrier in 2024. The airport is used by both civilian and military aircraft.