Muscat International Airport
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| Muscat International Airport | |||
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| IATA: MCT – ICAO: OOMS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Military/Public | ||
| Operator | Oman Airports Management Company | ||
| Serves | Muscat | ||
| Location | Muscat, Oman | ||
| Hub for | Oman Air | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 08/26 | 11,758 | 3,584 | Asphalt |
| 02/20 | 2,461 | 750 | Soil |
| Statistics (2011) | |||
| Total Passengers | 6,479,860 | ||
| Total Freight Handled | 98,780 tons | ||
| Total Aircraft Movements | 68,696 | ||
Muscat International Airport is the largest airport in Oman and the main hub of the national carrier Oman Air. Situated 32 km from Muscat, the capital of Oman, the airport currently has one terminal with another due to be completed in 2014. The new terminal with have capacity of 12 million passengers a year.
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[edit] History
Inaugurated on 23 December 1973 the airport was originally named Seeb International Airport and was managed by BAA between 2002 and 2004. It was renamed Muscat International Airport on 1 February 2008.
[edit] Traffic Statistic
| Year | Total Passengers | Total Freight including Mail in Tons | Total Civil Aircraft Movements |
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| 2011 | 6,479,860 | 98,780 | 68,696 |
| 2010 | 5,751,516 | 96,390 | 67,160 |
| 2009 | 4,556,502 | 64,419 | 55,330 |
| 2008 | 4,002,121 | 58,486 | 45,600 |
| 2007 | 4,220,429 | 77,292 | 45,655 |
| 2006 | 4,777,747 | 99,529 | 46,319 |
| 2005 | 3,778,218 | 76,044 | 40,192 |
| 2004 | 3,461,982 | 68,411 | 40,297 |
| 2003 | 2,884,814 | 50,598 | 36,389 |
| 2002 | 2,446,610 | 50,008 | 33,509 |
| 2001 | 2,700,992 | 71,830 | 35,064 |
| 2000 | 2,721,393 | 69,696 | 36,082 |
[edit] Airlines and Destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Arabia | Sharjah |
| Air Blue | Islamabad |
| Air India | Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai |
| Air India Express | Calicut, Cochin, Mangalore, Trivandrum |
| Biman Bangladesh | Dhaka, Chittagong |
| British Airways | Abu Dhabi, London-Heathrow |
| Egypt Air | Cairo |
| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa |
| Emirates | Dubai |
| Etihad | Abu Dhabi |
| FlyDubai | Dubai |
| Gulf Air | Bahrain |
| IndiGo | Mumbai |
| Jet Airways | Cochin, Mumbai, Trivandrum |
| Kenya Airways | Nairobi |
| KLM | Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam |
| Lufthansa | Doha, Frankfurt |
| Oman Air | Amman, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cairo, Calicut, Chennai, Chittagong, Cochin, Colombo, Dammam, Dar Es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Jaipur, Jeddah, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khasab, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lahore, London Heathrow, Lucknow, Male, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Salalah, Trivandrum, Zanzibar, Zurich |
| Pakistan International Airlines | Islamabad |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Medinah, Riyadh |
| Shaheen Air | Karachi |
| SriLankan Airlines | Colombo |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Dubai, Zurich |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Karachi |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| United Airways | Dhaka |
[edit] External links
- Muscat International Airport on Airport Technology.com
- Official website
- Oman Airports traffic statistics
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