Doha International Airport
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| Doha International Airport مطار الدوحة الدولى |
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| IATA: DOH – ICAO: OTBD | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public / Military | ||
| Operator | Qatar Civil Aviation Authority | ||
| Location | Doha, Qatar | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 35 ft / 11 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 16/34 | 4,572 | 15,000 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2005) | |||
| Passengers | 9,377,003 | ||
| Cargo (tons) | 207,988 | ||
| Aircraft Movements | 59,671 | ||
| Source: DAFIF[1][2] | |||
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Doha International Airport (IATA: DOH, ICAO: OTBD) (Arabic: مطار الدوحة الدولى) is the only airport in Qatar. It has three mosques, free Wi-Fi, a large duty-free area, a few eateries and 44 airline stands. Its 15,000 ft. runway is one of the longest at a civil airport. It is the main base of Qatar Airways. In the past, the airport was mostly used by Qatari Holiday makers and foreign workers coming for the oil and gas sector, now the airport is attracting more people to use the airport such as holiday makers and transit travelers, it is also growing as Qatar Airways is expanding more rapidly. British Airways used to use Concords when landing in Doha.
The existing airport will be replaced in late 2009 or early 2010 when the first phase of New Doha International Airport is expected to open.
The airport is currently ranked as a 3 star by skytrax.[3]
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[edit] Statistics
Since 1998, the number of passengers and total cargo load has significantly increased.[4]
| Year | Total Passengers | Total Cargo (tons) | Aircraft Movements |
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| 1998 | 2,100,000 | 86,854 | |
| 1999 | 2,300,000 | 62,591 | |
| 2002 | 4,406,304 | 90,879 | 77,402 |
| 2003 | 5,245,364 | 118,406 | 42,130 |
| 2004 | 7,079,540 | 160,088 | 51,830 |
| 2005 | 9,377,003 | 207,988 | 59,671 |
| 2007 | >10,000,000 |
As of 2007, the airport handle more than 10 million passengers [5]
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Aero Asia International (Karachi)
- Air Arabia (Sharjah)
- Air India
- Air India Express (Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Mumbai, Trivandrum)
- Indian Airlines (Bahrain, Calicut, Kochi)
- Ariana Afghan Airlines (Kabul, Kuwait)
- Bahrain Air (Bahrain)
- Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Chittagong, Dhaka, Dubai, Sylhet)
- British Airways (Bahrain, London-Heathrow)
- EgyptAir (Alexandria, Cairo)
- EgyptAir Express (Sharm el-Sheikh)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
- Falcon Express (Dubai)
- Fly Yeti (Kathmandu)
- Garuda Indonesia (Jakarta)
- GMG Airlines (Dhaka) [Begins December 2008]
- Gulf Air (Bahrain)
- Iran Air (Shiraz, Tehran-Imam-Khomeini)
- Iran Aseman Airlines (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
- Jet Airways (Calicut, Mumbai)
- Jordan Aviation (Aqaba)
- KLM (Amsterdam, Dammam)
- Kuwait Airways (Kuwait)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Muscat)
- Middle East Airlines (Beirut) [begins Summer 2008]
- Oman Air (Muscat)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Bahrain, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar)
- Qatar Airways (Abu Dhabi, Ahmedabad, Alexandria, Algiers, Amman, Athens, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing, Beirut, Berlin-Tegel, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Cebu, Chennai, Colombo, Damascus, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Denpasar/Bali, Dhaka, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental [begins November 10][6], Ho Chi Minh City, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kochi, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Luxor, Madrid, Male, Manama, Manchester, Manila, Mashad, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagpur, Nairobi, Newark, Oran [Begins 2008], Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Peshawar, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Sanaa, Seoul-Incheon, Seychelles, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Stockholm-Arlanda, Surabaya, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tripoli, Trivandum, Tunis, Vienna, Washington-Dulles, Zurich)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
- Shaheen Air International (Karachi, Lahore)
- Srilankan Airlines (Bahrain, Colombo)
- Sudan Airways (Dubai, Khartoum)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- Turkish Airlines (Bahrain, Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
- World Airways (Various)
- Yemenia (Aden, Sanaa)
[edit] Cargo airlines
- Martinair Cargo
- Qatar Airways Cargo
- Falcon Air Express
- DHL Cargo
- Srilankan cargo
- Cargolux
- Atlas Air
- FedEx Cargo
- Falcon Express Cargo Airlines
- Irwin International Freightways
- Arnold Shipping Incorporated
[edit] Former Airlines
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Airport information for OTBD at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for DOH at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ http://www.airlinequality.com/AirportRanking/doh.htm
- ^ http://www.azworldairports.com/airports/a2340doh.cfm
- ^ http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=201026&version=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56
- ^ Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - First Page
[edit] External links
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