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Abu Dhabi International Airport

مطار أبوظبي الدولي
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  • IATA: AUH
  • ICAO: OMAA
    AUH is located in United Arab Emirates
    AUH
    AUH
    Location of airport in UAE
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorAbu Dhabi Airports Company
ServesAbu Dhabi
Hub for
Elevation AMSL27 m / 88 ft
Coordinates24°25′41″N 54°38′49″E / 24.42806°N 54.64694°E / 24.42806; 54.64694
Websitewww.abudhabiairport.ae
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13R/31L 4,200 13,800 Asphalt
13L/31R 4,200 13,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Passengers12.4 million

Abu Dhabi International Airport (Template:Lang-ar) (IATA: AUH, ICAO: OMAA) is an airport in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The airport is one of the fastest growing airports in the world in terms of passengers (+34% in Q1:2008), new airline operators, and infrastructural development. The airport is now undergoing a AED 25 billion (US$6.8 billion) expansion. As of January 2012, 53 airlines offered service to 85 destinations in 49 countries.

The airport is the second largest in the UAE, serving over 10 million passengers in 2010. It has three operational passenger terminals – Terminal 1 (330,000 m2 or 3,600,000 sq ft), Terminal 2 (380,000 m2 or 4,100,000 sq ft), and Terminal 3 (444,000 m2 or 4,780,000 sq ft) spread over an area of 5,760 acres (2,330 ha). Its terminal spaces are dominated by Etihad Airways, which is the United Arab Emirates' second largest air carrier after Emirates.

The new Terminal 3, an AED 1 billion (US$270 million) interim facility, was designed to allow for the airport's passenger growth before the planned opening of the new Midfield Terminal in 2014. Used predominantly by Etihad Airways, the terminal boosted the airport's seven million passenger per year capacity to 12 million. It also added 10 new gates, two of which are Airbus A380 compatible.[1]

Expansion

Development work has started on a new passenger terminal, the main building and centre-piece of the new airport, to be situated between the two runways and known as the Midfield Terminal. Upon completion in 2017, the Midfield Terminal will increase the airport’s passenger capacity to more than 30 million per year, with options for this to double in capacity to 60 million.[2] An additional facility is also under consideration that would take the capacity to 80 million.

The expansion master plan projects also include a third 4,200 m parallel runway, 2 km from the existing 2 runways , a new 110 m (360 ft) tower between the two runways with the new Air Traffic Control centre, enhanced cargo and maintenance facilities, and other commercial developments on the land immediately adjacent to and north of the existing airport.

The project will provide a home base for the UAE's national carrier, Etihad Airways, which will be a major user of new cargo facilities with an ultimate handling capacity of around two million tonnes of freight a year. Close to the new cargo facilities, land has been allocated for commercial activities, business parks, and property developments. Aircraft maintenance facilities will continue to be concentrated on the south side of the existing airport. The plan also sets aside land for the growth of other operators such as Royal Jet and Abu Dhabi Aviation.

Among other aspects of the project, when completed, are the design of remote aircraft stands complete with airfield ground lighting and hydrant fuel.

Pre-Clearance

In December 2011, the government of Abu Dhabi signed a letter of intent to build a terminal where American officers will clear passengers to enter the United States, similar to pre-clearance customs facilities in Canada, the Bahamas, and Ireland.[3]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

An A380-800 painted in Etihad colours at Abu Dhabi International Airport. The airline has not yet received its ordered aircraft.
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A Boeing 737-200Adv being serviced at Abu Dhabi International Airport, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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International Terminal 1
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The interior of Terminal 1
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The exterior of the airport seen from the runway
Passport stamps from Abu Dhabi International Airport.
AirlinesDestinationsTerminal
AeroflotMoscow-Sheremetyevo3
Air AstanaAlmaty, Astana1
Air AustralSaint-Denis de la Réunion2
Air BerlinBerlin-Tegel, Dusseldorf, Phuket3
Air BlueIslamabad, Lahore, Peshawar1
Air China Chengdu2
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle(begins 15 May 2013)[4]3
Air IndiaDelhi, Mumbai2
Air India ExpressKochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Thiruvananthapuram2
Air MauritiusMauritius2
Air Seychelles operated by Etihad Airways Hong Kong, Mahė3
AlitaliaRome-Fiumicino 1
All Nippon AirwaysTokyo-Narita2
Biman Bangladesh AirlinesChittagong, Dhaka2
British AirwaysLondon-Heathrow, Muscat1
Cathay PacificBahrain, Hong Kong1
China Eastern AirlinesShanghai-Pudong, Guangzhou3
Czech AirlinesPrague2
EgyptAirCairo1
Ethiopian AirlinesAddis Ababa2
Etihad AirwaysAhmedabad, Almaty, Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam (begins 15 May 2013),[5] Astana, Athens, Baghdad, Bahrain, Baku, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Basra, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade (begins 15 June 2013),[6] Brisbane, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Chengdu, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Chittagong, Colombo, Damascus, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Erbil, Frankfurt, Geneva, Ho Chi Minh City (begins 1 October 2013),[7] Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kochi, Kozhikode, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, London-Heathrow, Mahé, Malé, Manchester, Manila, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk-National, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagoya-Centrair, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Peshawar, Riyadh, Sana'a (begins 1 September 2013),[8] Sao Paulo-Guarulhos (begins 1 June 2013),[9] Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sydney, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli, Washington-Dulles1, 3
Garuda Indonesia Amsterdam, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta1
Gulf AirBahrain1
Hainan AirlinesBeijing-Capital, Luanda1
Jet AirwaysDelhi, Mumbai, Kuwait (begins 16 May 2013), Kochi (begins 16 May 2013)1
Kenya AirwaysNairobi (begins 1 July 2013) [10]1
Kish AirKish2
KLMAmsterdam, Bahrain1
Kuwait AirwaysKuwait1
LufthansaFrankfurt, Muscat1
Middle East AirlinesBeirut1
Nas AirJeddah, Medina2
Oman AirMuscat1
Pakistan International AirlinesFaisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Rahim Yar Khan2
Philippine AirlinesManila (resumes 1 October 2013)[11]1
Qatar AirwaysDoha1
Rotana JetAl Ain, Fujairah2
Royal JordanianAmman-Queen Alia1
SaudiaJeddah, Riyadh1
Shaheen Air InternationalIslamabad, Lahore, Peshawar1
Singapore Airlines Singapore3
SriLankan AirlinesColombo1
Sudan AirwaysKhartoum1
Thai AirAsiaBangkok-Don Mueng1
Thai Airways International Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi2
TransaeroMoscow-Domodedovo[12]1
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul-Atatürk1
Turkmenistan AirlinesAshgabat2
Ukraine International AirlinesKiev-Boryspil1
Virgin AustraliaSydney3
YemeniaAden, Sana'a1


Runway

Abu Dhabi Airport has two runways which are 4,200 m (13,800 ft) length and width of 60 m (200 ft). The runway is equipped to operate any type of aircraft in commercial service.


Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
CargoluxLuxembourg
China Airlines CargoAmsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Frankfurt, Ho Chi Minh City, Luxembourg,Prague, Taipei-Taoyuan
Etihad CargoAddis Ababa, Almaty, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Beijing-Capital, Benghazi, Chennai, Dammam, Delhi, Doha, Eldoret, Erbil, Frankfurt, Guangzhou,[13] Johannesburg, Khartoum, Kuwait, Lagos, Milan-Malpensa, Mumbai, Nairobi, Shanghai-Pudong, Tripoli,[14] Washington-Dulles[15]
Etihad Cargo
operated by Atlas Air		Chennai, Dhaka, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Kabul, Karachi, Lahore, Shanghai-Pudong, Sharjah [14]
Etihad Cargo
operated by Martinair/KLM Cargo		Amsterdam, Dhaka, Frankfurt, Hong Kong [16]

Ground transportation

Etihad Airways provides bus coaches between Dubai and Abu Dhabi International Airport for Etihad customers, as well as a coach service to Al Ain .[17] A city bus also connects the airport to Abu Dhabi city centre.[18]

Competition

The rapid growth of Etihad Airways, Emirates Airline, and Qatar Airways has pressed for major expansion in airports of the region. In the UAE alone, Abu Dhabi International Airport must compete with Dubai International Airport, about an hour and a half away by road, which is the busiest airport within the UAE. Based out of Dubai International is Etihad's main competitor, Emirates Airline, which is the largest airline in the Middle East and North Africa and one of the largest in the world. Although many that this proximity may mean ambiguous prospects for Abu Dhabi International Airport, this is unlikely due to the healthy nature of competition between all three airlines.

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Air Berlin A330 in Abu Dhabi Airport

Additionally, an hour's flight away is Doha International Airport, home of Qatar Airways, which is the fastest growing full service airline in Asia, and one of the fastest growing in the world. Competition on both sides bodes well for Abu Dhabi's airport and its allure to other airlines, as the two other airlines both successfully operate out of other airports. Abu Dhabi International Airport, combined with Dubai and Doha, make for a formidable tri-hub for global air passenger and cargo traffic, which may be boosted by the completion of Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central around 2028. Within five to six years the three airlines, airports, will have a greater carrying capacity than Charles de Gaulle, Heathrow, and Frankfurt all combined.

Accolades

References

  1. ^ "Abu Dhabi International Airport". Abu Dhabi International Airport. 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  2. ^ http://www.abudhabiairport.ae/english/airport-information/about-abu-dhabi-airport/midfield-terminal-complex-development.aspx
  3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/world/europe/us-security-has-beachhead-at-foreign-airports.html?_r=1
  4. ^ http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/etihad-air-france-klm-boost-paris-abu-dhabi-000600972.html
  5. ^ http://www.arabianbusiness.com/etihad-set-launch-amsterdam-flights-in-may-485881.html
  6. ^ http://www.etihad.com/en-us/about-us/news/archive/2013/etihad-launch-abu-dhabi-belgrade-flights/
  7. ^ http://www.boarding.no/art.asp?id=50659
  8. ^ http://www.menafn.com/menafn/1093627744/UAE-Etihad-Airways-to-launch-direct-flight-to-Sanaa?src=RSS
  9. ^ http://www.etihadairways.com/sites/Etihad/us/en/aboutetihad/mediacenter/newslisting/newsdetails/Pages/etihad-to-fly-to-brazil-jun12.aspx?fromNewsListing=true
  10. ^ Kenya Airways begin Nairobi-Abu Dhabi service from July 2013
  11. ^ http://business.inquirer.net/110945/pal-launches-new-routes-to-australia-china-middle-east
  12. ^ Transaero to Abu Dhabi
  13. ^ http://www.joc.com/air-cargo/cargo-airlines/etihad-airways/etihad-cargo-launch-abu-dhabi-guangzhou-service_20130110.html
  14. ^ a b Etihad Cargo schedule
  15. ^ http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/etihad-cargo-broadens-network-east-west-000000907.html
  16. ^ EY lease KLM 747 freighter
  17. ^ Dubai." Retrieved on 6 February 2009.
  18. ^ Welcome To Abu Dhabi International Airport
  19. ^ "ASQ Award for Best Airport in Middle East" Airports Council International. 14 February 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-13
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