Massawa International Airport IATA: MSW, ICAO: HHMS is a newly built international airport with a greater capacity than Asmara. It is the hub of Nasair local airline, the only airline as of March 2011 to use the airport. Nasair has regular international flights out of Massawa to Dubai, Doha, Khartoum, Jeddah and Nairobi. Domestically, Nasair serves the capital Asmara from Massawa. All other international flights to Eritrea Lufthansa from Frankfurt, Egyptair from Cairo and Yemenia from Sanaa land in Asmara's older and smaller airport.
Massawa is accessible from Asmara and the rest of inland Eritrea via the Asmara-Massawa highway. Buses run many times daily before dusk between Asmara and Massawa. Minibuses also run as soon as they are full which takes very little time between the Asmara bus station and Massawa. Regional buses run from the Massawa bus station and around the area a couple of times a week. But other than the long coastal two-day voyage to the other port city of Assab and to the inland via Asmara, there is not much to see beyond Massawa within the region. Massawa also connects to Asmara by narrow gauge rail, but it is not open to any regular service as it is more or less a museum railway with trains running on a steam engine and only open to chartered tours.
