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Sharjah International Airport

مطار الشارقة الدولي
File:Sharjah IA Logo.png
  • IATA: SHJ
  • ICAO: OMSJ
    SHJ is located in United Arab Emirates
    SHJ
    SHJ
    Location of airport in UAE
Summary
Airport typeMilitary/Public
OperatorSharjah International Airport
ServesSharjah
LocationSharjah, UAE
Hub for
Elevation AMSL111 ft / 34 m
Coordinates25°19′43″N 055°31′02″E / 25.32861°N 55.51722°E / 25.32861; 55.51722
Websitewww.shj-airport.gov.ae
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 13,123 4,000 Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Passengers6,634,570

Sharjah International Airport (Arabic: مطار الشارقة الدولي) (IATA: SHJ, ICAO: OMSJ) is located in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It is spread over an area of 4,000 acres (1,600 ha)

Sharjah Airport is the second largest Middle East Airfreight Hub in terms of cargo tonnage, according to official 2009 statistics from Airports Council International. Ground services company, Sharjah Aviation Services, handled 421,398 tonnes in 2009 - a 16.1% increase year on year. It has one passenger terminal with an area of 135,000 m2 (1,450,000 sq ft).

Sharjah International Airport is home base of the low-cost carrier Air Arabia. The headquarters of Air Arabia is in the Sharjah Freight Center,[1] on the property of the airport[2] in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.[1] The center is an old cargo terminal.[2]

The airport is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) away from central Dubai; a drive that ought to take 15 minutes can take up to two hours in rush hour traffic.[2]

History

The current Sharjah Airport was built in the 1970s and was opened on 1 January 1977. It replaced RAF Sharjah which was closer to the city and had been opened in 1932 which was the first Airport in UAE and GCC, for use by Imperial Airways, and which was subsequently used by the RAF until 14 December 1971.[3] The reason for the move was development pressure from the city of Sharjah. The old airport's runway is now part of King Abdul Aziz Street in the city centre.[4][5][6] The airport was used by the United States Air Force 926th Tactical Fighter Group during Operation Desert Shield/Storm.[7] Approximately 450 members of the unit were stationed at the airport, which flew A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft during the conflict in late 1990 and early 1991.

Airlines and destinations

Air Arabia Airbus A320 landing at Sharjah International Airport.
Uzbekistan Airways Boeing 767 landing at Sharjah International Airport.
Syrian Air Boeing 747SP landing at Sharjah International Airport.
AirlinesDestinations
African Express Airways Berbera, Mogadishu, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, Wajir
Air Arabia Abha (begins 23 May 2013), [8] Ahmedabad, Alexandria-Borg el Arab, Almaty, Amman-Queen Alia, Assiut, Astana,[9] Baghdad,[10] Bahrain, Bangalore, Basra, Beirut, Chennai, Chittagong, Cochin, Coimbatore, Colombo, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Donetsk, Erbil, Ercan, Gassim, Goa, Hambantota,[11] Hyderabad, Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen, Jaipur, Jeddah, Kabul, Karachi, Kathmandu, Kazan,[12] Kharkiv, Khartoum, Kiev-Boryspil, Kozhikode, Kuwait, Luxor, Madinah, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Muscat, Nagpur, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, Najaf, Odessa, Peshawar, Riyadh, Rostov-on-Don, Salalah, Sana'a, Shiraz, Sialkot,[13] Sohag, Ta’if, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Thiruvanathapuram, Ufa, Yanbu, Yekaterinburg
Airblue Islamabad, Lahore
Air India Amritsar, Chennai, Cochin, Kozhikode, Thiruvanathapuram
Air India Express Cochin, Kozhikode, Thiruvanathapuram
Air Via Sofia
Condor Frankfurt, Dusseldorf
EgyptAir Cairo
Felix Airways Aden, Riyan Mukalla
Jet Airways Cochin, Mumbai[14]
Kish Air Kish Island
Mihin Lanka Colombo
Nas Air Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh
Pakistan International Airlines Islamabad, Sialkot, Turbat
Orenair Moscow-Sheremetyevo, St Petersburg, Volgograd
Primera Air Malmö
RusLine Makhachkala[15]
Saudia Jeddah, Riyadh
SCAT Almaty, Astana
Shaheen Air Peshawar, Sialkot
SpiceJetLucknow,[16] Varanasi[16]
Sudan Airways Khartoum
Syrian Air Aleppo, Damascus
Tajik Air Dushanbe
Thai AirAsia Bangkok-Don Mueng, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi
Tiger Airways Singapore
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent

Cargo airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Atlas Air Hong Kong, Lagos
Avient Aviation Freetown, Lagos, Liège, Monrovia [17]
British Airways World Cargo Dammam, London-Stansted, Shanghai-Pudong
British Gulf International Airlines Kandahar
Cargolux Karachi, Luxembourg
EgyptAir Cargo Cairo
Etihad Crystal Cargo Abu Dhabi, Kabul [18]
Kalitta Air Amsterdam, Bahrain
Lufthansa Cargo Bangalore, Chennai, Dammam, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jeddah, Kolkata, Mumbai, Riyadh
Martinair Cargo / KLM Amsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dammam, Delhi, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Mumbai, Muscat [19]
MASkargo Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Kuala Lumpur [20]
Midex Airlines Kabul, Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif
Qatar Airways Cargo Doha
Saudia Cargo Jeddah, Lagos, N'Djamena, Riyadh
Singapore Airlines Cargo Amsterdam, Bangalore, Brussels, Chennai, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort, Hong Kong, Lagos, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, Singapore
Southern Air Hong Kong, Leipzig/Halle
TMA Cargo Amsterdam, Beirut, Riyadh, Tripoli [21]

Statistics

The number of passengers passing through Sharjah International Airport has drastically increased in the past decade.[22][23]

Growth in traffic at Sharjah International Airport
Year Total Passengers Total Cargo Total Aircraft Movements
1999 1,001,852 580,550 27,577
2000 948,207 475,122 25,997
2001 861,478 415,587 24,431
2002 1,028,624 497,010 24,803
2003 1,247,458 507,644 28,017
2004 1,661,941 500,927 32,334
2005 2,237,646 505,392 38,699
2006 3,064,396 569,511 44,182
2007 4,324,313 570,363 51,314
2008 5,280,445 586,677 60,813
2009 5,764,098 501,824 61,451
2011 6,600,000 n/a 63,737
2012 7,516,538 419,076 65,975

Incidents and accidents

  • On 15 December 1997 a Tupolev Tu-154 from Tajik Air flight 3183 crashed on approach to SHJ. Some 13 km from Sharjah the plane ran into terrain and 85 of the 86 occupants died. One of the seven crew members survived the disaster.[24]
  • On 10 February 2004, Kish Air Flight 7170, operated by a Fokker 50 crashed on approach, killing 43 of its 46 occupants, which consisted of 6 crew and 40 passengers.[25][26]
  • On 7 November 2004 a Boeing 747-230 Freighter was damaged beyond repair due to an aborted take-off with insufficient length runway remaining. None of the 4 crew were injured. The take-off was aborted after a report of smoke from the tower and hearing a loud bang in the cockpit.[27]
  • On 21 October 2009, Azza Transport Flight 2241, operated by a Boeing 707-320 crashed on take-off. The flight was carrying cargo only and all six crew were killed.[28][29]

References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  1. ^ a b "Contact Info." Air Arabia. Retrieved on 21 June 2010. "Air Arabia (UAE) Air Arabia Head Quarters Sharjah Freight Center (Cargo), near Sharjah International Airport P.O. Box 132 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates"
  2. ^ a b c Sobie, Brendan. "Low cost & regionals: Arabian pioneers." Flight International. April 23, 2007. Retrieved on February 8, 2011. "Air Arabia's headquarters is hidden in a dated cargo terminal at Sharjah airport, a 15km (9 miles) drive from central Dubai, which should take 15 minutes but can take up to two hours during rush hour."
  3. ^ Stations-S
  4. ^ "Airports and ATC: nothing but the best", Flight International, 30 July 1977, p.354 (online archive version). Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  5. ^ History of Sharjah. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  6. ^ Sharjah - How to Get There. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  7. ^ USAF Historical Research Agency Document 00874269
  8. ^ Air Arabia begin Sharjah-Abha service from May 2013
  9. ^ "Air Arabia adds Astana to Kazakhstan network". Al Bawaba. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  10. ^ Air Arabia start Sharjah-Baghdad route from March 2013
  11. ^ Air Arabia launching new Sri Lankan destination
  12. ^ "Air Arabia launches service to Kazan". Arabian Aerospace. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  13. ^ Air Arabia launching Sialkot
  14. ^ Our Bureau. "Business Line : Industry & Economy / Logistics : Jet Airways to launch Mumbai-Sharjah service from Oct 18". Thehindubusinessline.com. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
  15. ^ L, J (11 April 2013). "RusLine Adds New Service to Sharjah & Tel Aviv from April 2013". Routesonline / Routes. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  16. ^ a b http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/spicejet-fly-sharjah-lucknow-varanasi-050535103.html
  17. ^ Avient Aviation Schedule from Sharjah
  18. ^ Etihad Crystal Cargo Schedule
  19. ^ MP Cargo winter 2012 timetable
  20. ^ Article mentions MH to SHJ
  21. ^ TMA Cargo Schedule Destinations
  22. ^ statistics on the official site[dead link]
  23. ^ http://www.khaleejtimes.com/biz/inside.asp?section=uaebusiness&xfile=/data/uaebusiness/2013/January/uaebusiness_January237.xml
  24. ^ AviationSafety.net database on EY85281, retrieved 9 May 2009
  25. ^ Khaleej Times Online: article about Kish Air crash
  26. ^ "AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT 01/04" (PDF). General Civil Aviation Authority of the UAE. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  27. ^ AviationSafety.net database on plane:TF-APR, retrieved 9 May 2009
  28. ^ "Six dead as cargo plane crashes at Sharjah Airport". Arabian Business. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
  29. ^ "UAE crashed cargo plane owned by Sudan's Azza Air". Reuters. 21 October 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
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