Riyadh airport
| King Khalid International Airport مطار الملك خالد الدولي |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | OERK |
| IATA code | RUH |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 625 m (2051 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 25 km north of Riyadh |
| Street | 30 km |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1983 |
| surface | 22,500 ha |
| Terminals | 4th |
| Passengers | 18,585,000 (2013) over 26 mil. (2018) |
| Air freight | 191,290 t (2006) |
| Flight movements |
94,252 (2006) 212,632 (2018) |
| Capacity ( PAX per year) |
about 25 million |
| Runways | |
| 15R / 33L | 4205 m × 60 m asphalt |
| 15L / 33R | 4205 m × 60 m asphalt |
The Riyadh Airport . (Engl King Khalid International Airport ; Arabic مطار الملك خالد الدولي Matār al-Malik Chālid ad-Duwalī ; ICAO : OERK , IATA : RUH ) is an international airport around 30 kilometers north of the capital Riyadh ( Saudi Arabia ). It is named after Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz .
The facility has two asphalt runways with a length of 4205 m each at a height of 625 m.
The airport, designed by the American architects Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum and completed on November 26, 1983, has an unusually large area of 225 km², of which only about a quarter is currently in use. Its planned capacity of around 25 million passengers ( PAX ) per year was only half used in 2006, just reached in 2017 and significantly exceeded in 2018 with 26 million. The control tower is 81 m high and is one of the highest in the world, it has 19 floors and a working area of 1230 m².
While the space shuttle was in operation, the airport was a possible emergency landing site in the event of an unscheduled landing.
Airport infrastructure
There are 1,196 m of moving walks and 80 elevators. The airport has a large terminal with four check-in halls, only three of which are used. Hall 1 is used for foreign airlines. Hall 2 is used for international flights by Saudi Arabian Airlines and Hall 3 for their domestic flights. Numerous greening has been carried out on the desert-like airport area; there are 225,000 plants. The airport has a large mosque that can accommodate 5000 worshipers inside and another 5000 outside. The dome has a diameter of 33 m and is 40 m high, the minaret is 39 m high.
expansion
In July 2014, the German construction company Hochtief won the $ 2.9 billion tender for the expansion of the airport. Among other things, a fifth terminal is to be constructed by May 2019.
Incidents
- On August 19, 1980, a Saudi Arabian Airlines L-1011-200 burned out after an emergency landing at Riyadh airport. After the aircraft made an emergency landing, all 301 people on board were killed due to incorrect reactions from the crew and ground crews after landing. Among other things, the captain failed to bring the aircraft to a stop in time and to evacuate it (see also Saudi Arabian Airlines flight 163 ) .
- On July 27, 2010 a Lufthansa Cargo cargo plane of the type McDonnell Douglas MD-11 came off the runway after landing and broke into two parts. The plane burned out, the two injured pilots survived.
Web links
- Riyadh King Khalid International Airport Unofficial third party website
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c [1]
- ↑ a b c 26 million passengers visit Riyadh airport in 2018 , Arab News, accessed February 20, 2019
- ^ Space Shuttle Emergency Landing Sites. GlobalSecurity.org, accessed October 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Hochtief wins $ 2.9bn Riyadh airport expansion. Global Construction View, July 23, 2014, accessed April 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Hochtief wins major airport contract in Saudi Arabia. airliners.de, June 30, 2015, accessed April 7, 2016 .
- ^ Accident report L-1011 HZ-AHK , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 3, 2019.
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)