List of the busiest airports in the Middle East
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This is a list of the busiest airports in the Middle East (handling more than 10,000,000 passengers per year), ranked by total passengers per year, including both terminal and transit passengers.
The tables also show the percentage change in total passengers for each airport over the last year. Data is sourced individually for each airport and normally originates from national aviation authority statistics, or those of the airport operator or international civil aviation authorities.
2022 statistics
| Rank | Airport | Location | Country | Code (IATA/ICAO) |
Total passengers |
Rank change |
% change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Dubai International Airport |
Garhoud, Dubai | United Arab Emirates | DXB/OMDB | 66,069,981[1] |  1 |
127.0%
|
| 2. |  Istanbul Airport |
Arnavutköy, Istanbul | Turkey | IST/LTFM | 64,289,107[1] |  1 |
73.8%
|
| 3. |  Hamad International Airport |
Doha | Qatar | DOH/OTHH | 35,730,482[1] | 3 |
101.8%
|
| 4. |  King Abdulaziz International Airport |
Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | JED/OEJN | 31,648,324[1] | 3 |
134.6%
|
| 5. | Antalya Airport |
Antalya | Turkey | AYT/LTAI | 31,228,377[1] | 1 |
41.7%
|
| 6. | Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport |
Pendik, Istanbul | Turkey | SAW/LTFJ | 30,780,357[1] | 3 |
23.2%
|
| 7. | King Khalid International Airport |
Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | RUH/OERK | 26,299,612[1] | 2 |
63.5%
|
| 8. |  Ben Gurion International Airport |
Tel Aviv | Israel | TLV/LLBG | 20,008,532[2] | TBU | 197.8%
|
| 9. |  Cairo International Airport |
Cairo | Egypt | CAI/HECA | 20,000,000[3] | TBU | 76.4%
|
| 10. | Abu Dhabi International Airport |
Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | AUH/OMAA | 15,540,000[4] | TBU | 202.0%
|
| 11. | Sharjah International Airport |
Sharjah | United Arab Emirates | SHJ/OMSJ | 13,000,000[5] | TBU | 84.7%
|
| 12. |  Mehrabad International Airport |
Tehran | Iran | THR/OIII | 12,430,000[6] | TBU | 13.0%
|
| 13. | King Fahd International Airport |
Dammam | Saudi Arabia | DMM/OEDF | 10,000,000[7] | TBU | 66.7%
|
See also
- List of the busiest airports in Iran
- List of the busiest airports in Israel
- List of the busiest airports in Turkey
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "2022 Airport Traffic Report" (PDF). Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. April 2023. p. 32.
- ^ "Annual Report" (PDF). Ben Gurion International Airport. Israel Airport Authority. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
- ^ "AACO | Egyptian airports handle 38 million passengers in 2022". AACO: Arab Air Carriers Organization - الإتحاد العربي للنقل الجوي. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
- ^ "Abu Dhabi International Airport passenger numbers reach 74% of 2019 levels in 2022". The Moodie Davitt Report. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
- ^ "Recording over 13 million passengers in 2022 Sharjah Airport secures leading position among airports that have returned to pre-pandemic operating levels | Sharjah Airport". www.sharjahairport.ae. 8 February 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
- ^ "Mehrabad Top Airport in Domestic Passenger Number". Financial Tribune. 23 May 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
- ^ Fatima, Sakina (7 April 2023). "88M passengers travelled through Saudi airports in 2022". The Siasat Daily. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
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