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Algiers, Algeria · Africa
Algiers’ three-hall hub: international lives in 2019 Terminal 4, the SNTF train is 80 dinars, Uber is not a thing, and more than 10 million is 2025 traffic — not T4’s 10-million capacity leftover.
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Algiers, Algeria · Africa
Algiers’ three-hall hub: international lives in 2019 Terminal 4, the SNTF train is 80 dinars, Uber is not a thing, and more than 10 million is 2025 traffic — not T4’s 10-million capacity leftover.
An editorial 0–10 score. The overall is exactly the weighted sum of six traveler categories — not a Google rating and not a poll.
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Air Algérie opens ALG counters 4 hours before departure (3 hours at other Algerian airports). International HLE is 90 minutes; domestic 45 minutes; gate 30 minutes. Web check-in 24 hours–3 hours.
The English Air Algérie check-in page leftover “4 hours on all our lines” is leftover-conflicting with the French ALG-specific 4-hour / other-stations 3-hour split — sit the French airport page and the FAQ table. The web receipt is not a boarding pass.
Terminal 4 / Terminal Ouest opened 29 April 2019 and is the live international hall. Terminal 1 is the older campus (domestic and Omra). Terminal 3 is not live. Confirm the airline’s terminal — SGSIA announced a low-cost move into T1 from September 2026.
Do not copy leftover guides that number the 2019 CSCEC hall as “T1”. Wikipedia leftover Hall 1 domestic / Hall 2 Gulf on T1 is older than the 2024–2026 SGSIA split (T1 national + Omra, T2 charter/Omra, T4 international).
SGSIA does not publish an airside fountain map or a bottle tariff. Air Algérie / Première Classe water is the quality pick with access. Otherwise buy a sealed bottle airside in Terminal 4 near duty-free.
Skip leftover SEO dinar bottle prices. Do not invent a refill fountain this pass.
prioritypass.com has no ALG lounge this pass. SEO aggregators leftover-claiming Airport Authority / Première Classe as Priority Pass are leftover-wrong. Air Algérie J/F uses the T4 Hall 2 room. Walk-in leftover 2,700 DA HT.
Live and Let's Fly (17 Nov 2022) found showers, stale pastry, and 0.2 Mbps Wi-Fi in the Air Algérie T4 room. Treat showers as 2022-observed, not a 2026 facility list.
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Houari Boumediene Airport and the Algiers city center
4 ways into the city, compared on time, cost, and luggage.
3 lounges with access rules, hours, and verdicts.
Do not quote leftover 9,151,517 as 2025 traffic, leftover 10 million as 2024 actuals, leftover 8.8 million as the airport, or leftover T4 10 million / 22 million as a year. Sit more than 10 million (2025) for the airport and 9,151,517 only as 2024 ACS.
6 rated amenities — food, Wi-Fi, quiet spots, family, and sleep.
Where to refill for free, and where a bottle costs the least airside.
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Houari Boumediene Airport and the Algiers city center
Compare prepaid private transfers to Algiers — useful overnight, with luggage, or when you want a locked-in fare before you land.
National rail from Agha via El Harrach and Bab Ezzouar. Opened 29 April 2019 with Terminal 4.
Tip: 80 DA adult; child leftover 40 DA from the launch communiqué. Station is by the older halls — leftover ~15 min walk to Terminal 4. Keep the ticket for the exit check. November 2025 leftover Agha 04:40–21:50 / airport 05:20–22:25.
Line 100 to Place des Martyrs; line 178 to Kharouba / Caroubier bus station. NAVIGUI accepted.
Tip: 50 DA. ETUSA June 2025 leftover: city→airport 05:00–23:00 hourly; airport→city 06:00–00:00 hourly. Hourly is not a metro.
Signed rank outside the halls. Not touts in arrivals. Yassir is the local e-hail; Uber and Bolt are not.
Tip: Typical 2,000 DZD / 20–50 min to central Algiers; traveler leftover February 2025 paid 2,000 DZD. SGSIA’s CEO called 2,500 DA excessive in April 2024. Cash in dinars. Agree the price at the official rank.
SGSIA lots at Terminal 4. Horizons leftover 4,500 West-terminal spaces.
Tip: P1/P2/P4/P5: 30 min free, 100 DA to 1 h, 200 DA to 3 h, then 100 DA/h; leftover 2,000 DA / 24 h. P6 leftover 500 DA / 24 h. This is not a T1 lot.
Older Hall 2 room on a Terminal 1 boarding pass. A Terminal 4 boarding pass cannot walk here airside. Not Priority Pass.
Full access guide
Add a photoFlag-carrier room in Terminal 4 Hall 2. Live and Let's Fly (17 November 2022) found it almost empty, with decent coffee, a shower stall, stale pastry, and 0.2 Mbps Wi-Fi. Not Priority Pass.
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Add a photoSGSIA paid room in Terminal 4 Hall 2. aeroport-alger.com leftover lists 2,700 DA HT per international passage. Confirm at the desk. Not Priority Pass.
Full access guide
Add a photoOpened 29 April 2019 with Terminal 4. 80 DA adult. About 20 minutes to Agha. Station is by the older halls — leftover ~15 min walk to T4.
Opened 24 April 2019, connected to Terminal 4. 320 rooms leftover. Landside hotel, not an airside transit hotel.
Terminal 4 Hall 2 for Air Algérie J/F. 2022 visit: showers, decent coffee, poor food and 0.2 Mbps Wi-Fi. Not Priority Pass.
50 DA to Place des Martyrs (100) or Kharouba (178). Hourly. Airport departures 06:00–00:00 leftover June 2025.
P1/P2/P4/P5: 30 min free, 100 DA to 1 h, 200 DA to 3 h, then 100 DA/h. P6 leftover 500 DA / 24 h.
Paid Hall 2 international room. Leftover 2,700 DA HT per passage. Not Priority Pass.
International check-in is Terminal 4 / Terminal Ouest. Terminal 1 is the older domestic/Omra campus. Terminal 3 is not live.
T4 opened 29 April 2019 (first flight AH 1002 to CDG). SGSIA announced Transavia, ASL, Volotea, Vueling, Pegasus and AJet moving into T1 from September 2026 so T4 keeps long-haul — confirm the airline’s terminal. Leftover blogs that number the CSCEC hall as T1 are leftover-wrong.
T4 is a real 2019 international hall with the Hyatt next door.
A T4 boarding pass cannot walk airside to the T1 Gate 21 lounge.
Algeria is not a general visa-on-arrival country. Air Algérie ALG counters open 4 hours out; international HLE is 90 minutes.
Apply at an Algerian consulate (MFA / UK FCDO). Exceptional south-Sahara regularisation is not an Algiers city VOA. Yellow-fever certificate only from WHO risk countries (or >12 h transit). Foreigners declare cash above €5,000. Air Algérie web check-in 24 h–3 h; the receipt is not a boarding pass.
The French Air Algérie FAQ table is explicit: ALG 4 h open, 90 min international HLE, 45 min domestic, gate 30 min.
There is no VOA desk that will save a missing visa.
The airport train is 80 dinars. ETUSA buses are 50. Uber and Bolt are not in Algeria. The metro is 2027.
SNTF Agha–Aéroport opened with T4 on 29 April 2019. Typical taxi leftover 2,000 DZD to the centre; agree at the official rank. Yassir leftover wants an Algerian SIM. Parking P1–P5: 30 min free then 100 DA to 1 h. El Harrach–airport metro delivery is June/July 2027.
80 DA rail is the public-transport win if you can walk leftover ~15 min from the station to T4.
Uber will not open. 2019 ‘métro’ photos are the SNTF railway station.
prioritypass.com has no ALG lounge this pass. J/F uses the T4 Air Algérie room. Walk-in leftover 2,700 DA HT.
Live and Let's Fly (17 Nov 2022) found showers, stale pastry and 0.2 Mbps Wi-Fi in the Air Algérie Hall 2 room. SEO aggregators leftover-claiming Airport Authority / Première Classe as Priority Pass are leftover-wrong. T1 Gate 21 is a different building.
The T4 Air Algérie room had a shower stall in 2022.
A Priority Pass card will be turned away.
Air Algérie VIP Lounge, Terminal 4 Hall 2 after the escalator
Poured or sealed water once you are in the Air Algérie room. Quality pick if you already hold J/F access.
SGSIA Salon Première Classe, Terminal 4 Hall 2 international
Lounge water if you paid the SGSIA passage or hold a contracted J ticket. Same building as the Air Algérie room, not Terminal 1.
Airside Terminal 4 shops near duty-free before the gate piers
Certainty pick because SGSIA does not publish a fountain map or a bottle price. Skip leftover SEO dinar figures.
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