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On Google Earth this airport seems not larger than 8x5 km. How do they calculate 750km²?

I worked on this project many years ago. It was seen as new by the saudi gov. even though all of the systems were years out of date by the time it opened. It had not had proper maintenance for years and NO systems were safe at the time of opening. Hope they have got it right now. They made me live out there at the airport in a wooden cabin and the promise of good housing and a car was just lies. Never trust a contact written in arabic.

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This airport is faily unpopular with locals. It's a long way from Dharan/Dammam/Khobar (The cities it is meant to serve). It is more popular to fly in and out of Bahrain, where they offer special deals on parking and run a bus across the causeway to attract Saudi customers. Plus the added bonus of being able to get a drink at the Bahraini airport is an added bonus... My visit to this airport was interesting in that is was this huge massive cavernous terminal, and it seemed pretty much empty of activity.

Well, a lot of airlines, including British Airways, do not fly to this airport because of the high cost, and few passengers. Still, you've got the largest airport in the world! -- Eagle^a^mⁿ 07:18, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah the airport has had an unhappy time. Delayed, way over budget, and operational problems when it first opened (it had to be closed a week after opening). However, it isn't that far away, it is closer to the city centre than Riyadh airport was from it's respective city centre when it was first opened (the city has cought up now). But it felt far because of poor access (the spur from the highway wasn't complete). This has been addressed but the damage has been done. At least passenger numbers have stablised now. Maybe this is all worthy of a paragraph in the article?

HiJazzey 22:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If you know this information, go ahead and add it to the article. Please cite any available sources you got the info from. -- Eagle^a^mⁿ 00:19, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

done HiJazzey

It is always good to know that there are actually people from Saudi Arabia (other than me) who do care about things like this. -- Eagle^a^mⁿ 00:25, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Sure thing. I try to chip in, although don't expect me to be too prolific. Salam. HiJazzey 18:07, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Airlines

Could we please have a list of airlines that serve it? james_anatidae 14:35, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

References

I've tagged this article as unreferenced. It's in dire need of references, particularly where the sizes are claimed. For example the article claims that the airport is 750 km2, something I doubt, and I can't seem to find any information to back this up. Any help in adding references would be much appreciated. Norman22b (talk) 16:12, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think it needs clearing up on the size. The source (the airport itself) that is referenced (now?) says the total airport area is 77,600 hectares. When interpreting the "," as a "thousands delimiter", this means that its area is roughly the same as the area of a square with each edge/side being something like 28 km, or 17 miles. A square being 28 kilometres (17 miles) on each side? Sure, maybe this is the entire area that is OWNED by the airport, but the same source (the airport itself) states "Total 4,265 hectares" and "Airport 3,675 hectares". Those figures seem much more "real" to me as to the "real" size of the airport, not the area around it that may be used for cows now, grazing grass, or is just empty, or something, until the airport decides to expand into that. But I am just trying to interpret the meaning of the things stated on that referenced page... wjmt (talk) 21:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Though I have absolutely no reason to challenge the fact that this airport is indeed the largest in the world "by area", the figures do seem unbelievably exaggerated. I had replaced a FACT-tag with a reference and updated figures on June 29, but the reference I provided was later replaced by a web-page written entirely in Arabic. Rather than revert or edit-war over it, I decided to compromise by replacing it with an English language page from the same web-site, which appears to have some usable data. But like yourself, I admit having no idea how to utilise this data in a sensible manner. The source-figure "77,600 Hectares" does however convert to 776km² or 299.62mi² (as the article states), so I figured I should just leave it alone. 142.68.84.18 (talk) 23:36, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is the site in the reference deffinately the official site? Just seems like very much an amature job to me. I've tried to find reliable data on the size of the airport before but not gotten anywhere. I really can't beleive the figure of 750 km2. As unscientific as this is, if you compare the size of it on google earth in comparsion to other large areas (cities, other areas etc) it doesn't look that large. If it really were that big, it would be comparable to most of southern England (I think...). The size provided by the first reference seems more believable, although it's difficult to tell wether it's reliable or not. We could do with a third source.Norman22b (talk) 14:50, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]