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Coordinates: 25°16′23″N 51°36′29″E / 25.27306°N 51.60806°E / 25.27306; 51.60806
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This article is about Doha's new international airport. For the old airport which closed in 2014, see Doha International Airport.
Hamad International Airport

مطار حمد الدولي

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Summary
OwnerQatar Civil Aviation Authority
OperatorQatar Airways
ServesDoha, Qatar
LocationDoha, Qatar
Opened30 April 2014
Hub for
Elevation AMSL4 m / 13 ft
Coordinates25°16′23″N 51°36′29″E / 25.27306°N 51.60806°E / 25.27306; 51.60806
Map
DOH/OTHH is located in Qatar
DOH/OTHH
DOH/OTHH
Location in Qatar
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16R/34L 4,250 13,944 Asphalt
16L/34R 4,850 15,912 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passenger movements37,322,843 Increase20.4%
Aircraft movements265,793 Increase15.8%
Cargo tonnage1,758,075 Increase20.8%
Source:CAA QATAR[1]

Hamad International Airport (IATA: DOH, ICAO: OTHH) (Template:Lang-ar, [Maṭār Ḥamad al-Duwalī] Error: {{Transliteration}}: unrecognized transliteration standard: loc (help)) is the international airport of Doha, the capital city of Qatar. It replaced the former Doha International Airport as Qatar's principal airport.

Formerly known as New Doha International Airport (NDIA), Hamad International Airport was originally scheduled to open in 2009, but after a series of costly delays, the airport finally opened on 30 April 2014 with a ceremonial Qatar Airways flight landing from nearby Doha International. National carrier Qatar Airways and all other carriers formally relocated to the new airport on 27 May 2014.[2]

History

Planning and construction

Planning took place in 2003 and construction began in 2005. The airport (terminal and runway) has been built 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of the older Doha International Airport. It is spread over an area of 2,200 hectares (5,500 acres), and was set to initially serve airlines that will not utilize lounge access.

Hamad International Airport was designed to cater for a projected ongoing increase in the volume of traffic. The airport has an initial annual capacity of 29 million passengers, three times the current volume. Upon completion, it will be able to handle 50 million passengers per year, although some estimates suggest the airport could handle up to 93 million per year, making it the second largest airport in the region after Dubai.[3] It is also expected to handle 320,000 aircraft movements and 2 million tonnes of cargo annually. The check-in and retail areas are expected to be 12 times larger than those at the current airport. The airport will be two-thirds the size of Doha city.[4] The airport has an oasis theme. Many of the buildings have a water motif, with wave-styled roofs and desert plants growing in recycled water.[5] The airport is built over 22 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi), half of which is on reclaimed land.[6]

The Steering Committee awarded the contract for the development of the airport to Bechtel. The contract includes the design, construction management and project management of the facilities.[7] The terminal and concourses were designed by the architecture firm HOK. Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract for Phase I and II were undertaken by Turkish TAV Construction and Japanese Taisei Corporation.

Opening

Cargo operations began from 1 December 2013, with an inaugural flight by Qatar Airways Cargo arriving from Europe.[8] The original soft launch on 2 April 2013 was cancelled just a few hours prior, and was postponed indefinitely due to unsatisfactory safety related issues that needed further reviewing taking nine months to address.[9] Hamad International Airport was then set to begin passenger operations in January 2014, with a soft opening.[10]

Qatar Airways threatened a $600 million lawsuit against the joint venture contractor Lindner Depa Interiors for delaying the opening of the airport by failing to complete its lounges on time; LDI stated that it was delayed due to inadequate site access. Qatar Airways later blamed Bechtel for the opening delay in April 2013, citing failures to meet regulatory requirements.[11]

Hamad International Airport finally began passenger operations on 30 April 2014, with ten initial airlines operating.[12] Qatar Airways and remaining airlines started operations to Hamad Airport on 27 May 2014 at 09:00 (Qatar time).

An expansion plan announced in September 2015 called for an extension of the check-in area, an expansion of concourses D and E into a 1.3 km long concourse, a new passenger amenity area in the D/E complex with lounges, shops and restaurants, and a connection to the Doha Metro.[13][14]

Awards and Ranking

In January 5, 2017, Hamad International Airport (HIA) joined the top tier of global airports becoming the sixth airport in the world to receive the ‘5-Star Airport’ designation by Skytrax, the London-based aviation institute and the gold standard for conveying the passenger’s voice in airport and airline rankings. This makes HIA the first ever airport in the Middle East to earn this acclaimed title.[15]

Facilities

Interior of Concourse C
Qatar Airways aircraft on the apron

Terminal 1

  • Concourse A has 10 passenger gates connected to jet bridges and is located west of the check-in area and Main Terminal. Two of the gates are designed to accommodate the Airbus A380.
  • Concourse B has 10 passenger gates connected to jet bridges and is located east of the check-in area. It has opened on April 30, 2014 with 10 airlines transferring operations over from Doha International Airport. Two of the gates are built to accommodate the Airbus A380. There is a small coffee shop located at the end of Concourse B, as well as smoking rooms, family areas, and an express duty-free store. The airport's main duty-free areas are scheduled to be opened before the grand opening on May 27.[16]
  • Concourse C has 13 passenger gates connected to jet bridges, two of them built specifically for the Airbus A380. There are 10 remote gates without a fixed jet bridge link connected to Concourse C. This Concourse has opened on 27 May 2014.

Terminal 1 features First and Business Class lounges which were opened by Qatar Airways CEO, Akbar Al Baker on June 20, 2014.

  • Concourse D Is fully operational. Gates 1-4 are on the first floor and Gates 20-24 on the ground floor.
  • Concourse E Is fully operational. Gates 1-4 are on the first floor and Gates 20-24 on the ground floor.

Concourse D & Concourse E are due to be extended with a possible Concourse F although plans are still to be finalised[17]

Planned Terminal 2

Qatar plans to build a second terminal only if the present passenger growth outnumbers the projected figures. This looks to be more of a certainty, as some of articles say that terminal two is a confirmed project due to the anticipated passenger load from the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[18]

Runways

The airport has two parallel runways, located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from each other, which are designed for simultaneous take-offs and landings. The first is 4,850 m × 60 m (15,910 ft × 200 ft) and is considered to be the longest runway in Western Asia, and also one of the longest runways in the world. The second runway is 4,250 m × 60 m (13,940 ft × 200 ft).[19]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinationsConcourse
Air Arabia Ras al Khaimah, Sharjah B
Air Arabia Egypt Alexandria–Borg el Arab B
Air Cairo Alexandria–Borg el Arab, Assiut, Sohag A
Air India Express Kozhikode, Mangalore, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram A
AtlasGlobal Istanbul–Atatürk B
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Chittagong, Dhaka, Sylhet1 B
British Airways London–Heathrow B
Cebu Pacific Manila B
Cham Wings Airlines Damascus B
EgyptAir Cairo B
Emirates Dubai–International B
Ethiopian AirlinesAddis Ababa B
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi B
flydubai Dubai–Al Maktoum, Dubai–International B
Gulf Air Bahrain B
Himalaya Airlines Kathmandu B
IndiGoChennai (begins 20 July 2017),[20] Delhi, Kozhikode (begins 20 July 2017),[21] Mumbai B
Iran Air Lar, Shiraz B
Iran Aseman Airlines Bandar Abbas, Lamerd, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Lar B
Jet Airways Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram B
Kuwait Airways Kuwait B
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Kuwait B
Middle East Airlines BeirutB
Nepal Airlines Kathmandu B
Oman Air Muscat B
Pakistan International Airlines Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar B
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen B
Philippine Airlines Manila B
Qatar Airways Abu Dhabi, Abha, Addis Ababa, Adelaide, Ahmedabad, Alexandria–Borg el Arab, Algiers, Amman–Queen Alia, Amritsar, Amsterdam, Ankara, Athens, Atlanta, Auckland,[22] Baghdad, Bahrain, Baku, Bangalore, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi , Barcelona, Basra, Beijing–Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin–Tegel, Birmingham, Boston, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza, Buraydah, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Chiang Mai (begins 31 October 2017),[23] Chengdu, Chennai, Chicago–O'Hare, Chongqing, Clark, Cochin, Colombo, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Denpasar/Bali, Dhaka, Djibouti, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Dubai–International, Dublin (begins 12 June 2017),[24] Durban, Edinburgh, Entebbe, Erbil, Faisalabad, Frankfurt, Gassim, Geneva, Goa, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Hofuf, Houston–Intercontinental, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul–Atatürk, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Jakarta–Soekarno–Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg-OR Tambo, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kigali, Kilimanjaro, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Krabi, Kuala Lumpur–International, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Luxor, Madinah, Madrid, Mahé, Malé, Manchester, Manila , Maputo, Marrakech, Mashhad, Melbourne, Miami, Milan–Malpensa, Montréal–Trudeau, Moscow–Domodedovo, Multan, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta, Najaf, New York–JFK, Nagpur, Nice (begins 4 July 2017),[23] Oslo–Gardermoen, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Perth, Peshawar, Philadelphia, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Pisa, Ras Al Khaimah, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão (begins 30 January, 2018),[23], Riyadh, Rome–Fiumicino, Salalah, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Sharjah, Shiraz, Sialkot, Singapore, Skopje (begins 17 July 2017), Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Sulaymaniah, Sydney, Tabuk (begins 19 June 2017)[25] Ta'if, Tbilisi, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita, Tunis, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw–Chopin, Washington–Dulles, Windhoek–Hosea Kutako, Yangon, Yanbu. Yerevan, Zanzibar, Zagreb, Zürich A, B, C, D, E
Regent Airways Dhaka (begins 19 May 2017)[26] TBA
Rotana Jet Abu Dhabi B
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca B
Royal Jordanian Airlines Amman–Queen Alia B
Saudia Jeddah, Riyadh B
SriLankan Airlines Colombo B
Sudan Airways Khartoum B
Syrian Air Damascus B
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk B
Notes
  • ^1 Biman Bangladesh Airlines' flight from Doha to Dhaka makes a stop at Sylhet. However, the flight from Dhaka to Doha is non-stop.

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Cargolux[27] Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Hanoi
DHL International Aviation ME Bahrain, Dubai–International
Etihad Cargo[28] Abu Dhabi, Sharjah
Falcon Express Cargo Airlines[29] Dubai–International
Iran Air Cargo Lar, Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Lufthansa Cargo[30] Frankfurt, Sharjah
MNG Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk , Tekirdağ
Qatar Airways Cargo[31] Accra, Ahmedabad, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bahrain, Bangalore, Beirut, Basel/Mulhouse, Brussels, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza,[32] Campinas, Chennai, Chicago–O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dhaka, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Entebbe, Erbil, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Halifax, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Istanbul–Atatürk, Jeddah, Johannesburg-OR Tambo, Karachi, Khartoum, Kolkata, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Liege, Lima, London Heathrow (begins 3 June 2017),[33] London–Stansted, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Lima, Madrid, Mexico City,Miami, Milan–Malpensa, Mumbai, Muscat, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta, New York–JFK, Oslo, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Quito, São Paulo-Guarulhos,[32]Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Sialkot, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Zaragoza
Saudia Cargo[34] Amsterdam, Frankfurt
Turkish Airlines Cargo[35] Istanbul–Atatürk

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