Sharjah International Airport
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| Sharjah International Airport مطار الشارقة الدولي |
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| IATA: SHJ – ICAO: OMSJ | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Military/Public | ||
| Operator | Sharjah International Airport | ||
| Location | Sharjah | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 111 ft / 34 m | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 12/30 | 13,320 | 4,060 | Asphalt |
Sharjah International Airport (Arabic: مطار الشارقة الدولي) (IATA: SHJ, ICAO: OMSJ) is located in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
It is an important cargo airport and home base of the low-cost carrier Air Arabia.
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[edit] Statistics
The number of passengers passing through Sharjah International Airport has drastically increased in the past decade. [1]
| Year | Total Passengers | Total Aircraft Movements |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1,001,852 | 27,577 |
| 2000 | 948,207 | 25,997 |
| 2001 | 861,478 | 24,431 |
| 2002 | 1,028,624 | 24,803 |
| 2003 | 1,247,458 | 28,017 |
| 2004 | 1,661,941 | 32,334 |
| 2005 | 2,237,646 | 38,699 |
| 2006 | 3,064,396 | 44,182 |
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- African Express Airways (Nairobi)
- Air Arabia (Ahmedabad, Aleppo, Alexandria, Almaty, Amman, Asyut, Astana, Bahrain, Bangalore; Beirut, Chennai, Chittagong, Coimbatore, Colombo, Damascus, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Jaipur, Jeddah, Kabul , Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kochi, Kozhikode, Kuwait, Latakia, Luxor, Mumbai, Muscat, Nagpur, Peshawar, Riyadh, Sanaa, Sharm-el-Sheik, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Thiruvananthapuram, Yerevan)
- Air India
- Air India Express (Kozhikode, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram)
- Indian Airlines (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai)
- Air Italy (Male, Verona)
- Airlines 400 (Adler-Sochi, Kabul)
- Airwest (Kabul, Khartoum)
- Anikay Air (Bishkek)
- Aria Tour (Bandar Abbas)
- AVE.com (Chelyabinsk, Samara)
- Belair (Basel/Mulhouse, Goa)
- British Gulf International Airlines (Baghdad, Kandahar)
- China Southern Airlines (Jeddah, Urumqi)
- Click Airways (Baghdad)
- Dagestan Airlines (Makhachkala)
- Djibouti Airlines (Djibouti)
- Egyptair (Cairo)
- Elbrus Avia (Nalchik)
- Imtrec Aviation (Kabul)
- Jubba Airways (Mogadishu)
- Kam Air (Kabul)
- Kish Air (Bandar Abbas, Kish Island)
- Kuban Airlines (Krasnodar)
- Luxor Air (Alexandria, Borg el Arab)
- Mak Air (Karaganda)
- MyTravel Airways (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda, Gothenburg, Malmö, Phuket, Goa, Krabi only charter. Will end 2008)
- Orbit Aviation (Gwadar, Turbat)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Lahore, Turbat)
- Royal Brunei Airlines (Bandar Seri Begawan, Jeddah)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Medina, Muscat)
- Sudan Airways (Khartoum)
- Sudanese State Aviation (Khartoum)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus, Delhi)
- Tajik Air (Dushanbe)
- Tenir Airlines (Baghdad)
- Tiramavia (Kabul)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
[edit] Cargo airlines
- Azza Transport
- Cathay Pacific Cargo
- Cargoitalia
- Cargolux
- Egyptair Cargo
- Kalitta Air (Amsterdam)
- Lufthansa Cargo
- Martinair Cargo Cargo Hub (Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Sydney)
- Singapore Airlines Cargo
[edit] Incidents
On 10 February 2004, a Kish Air Fokker F50 crashed at approach, killing 43 of its 46 occupants, which consisted of 6 crew and 40 passengers[2].
[edit] References
- ^ statistics on the official site
- ^ Khaleej Times Online: article about Kish Air crash
[edit] External links
- Sharjah Airport
- Sharjah International Airport
- Airport information for OMSJ at World Aero Data
