Queen Alia International Airport
| Queen Alia International Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | OJAI |
| IATA code | AMM |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 730 m (2395 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 35 km south of Amman |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1983 |
| operator | Civil Aviation Authority |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 7,089,000 (2014) |
| Flight movements |
73.125 |
| Capacity ( PAX per year) |
9 million |
| Runways | |
| 08R / 26L | 3660 m × 61 m concrete |
| 08L / 26R | 3660 m × 61 m asphalt |
The Queen Alia International Airport ( Arabic مطار الملكة علياء الدولي, DMG Maṭār al-Malika ʿAlyāʾ ad-Duwalī ; IATA : AMM, ICAO : OJAI) is a civil airport 35 km south of Amman in Jordan . The airport is named after Queen Alya Baha 'ad-Din Tuqan , the third wife of King Hussein of Jordan , who was killed in a helicopter crash .
Since the Amman-Marka inner-city airport, which opened in 1950, had exceeded its capacity limits, Queen Alia Airport was built 25 kilometers outside the city center. The airport was opened on May 25, 1983 and today has a passenger volume of around four million passengers and around 45,500 aircraft movements. The airport has two parallel runways (08R / 26L and 08L / 26R) with a length of 3600 m each. More than half of the four million passengers flying with Royal Jordanian Airlines , which at this airport located is, to and from Amman. The airport is one of the airports that can handle the A380 , the largest passenger aircraft in the world. There is a half-hourly bus connection from the airport to the Jordanian capital. Taxi transfer is also available, the cost is around 20 JOD.
The airport is also used by the military and is therefore under military surveillance.
New terminal
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On March 21, 2013 a new terminal was put into operation which can handle a passenger volume of nine million passengers annually. In a further construction phase 2, an expansion to a capacity of twelve million passengers per year is due.
The renovation and expansion of the airport is being carried out by the Airport International Group (AIG), a Jordanian consortium of companies. This includes regional investors and international experts. This consortium will build and operate the new terminal for a period of 25 years. The order was placed directly by the Kingdom of Jordan.
A rail connection to connect the airport with downtown Amman is still under construction.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See slideshow 1
- ↑ New QAIA Terminal Officially Launches Full Operations. In: aig.aero. Airport International Group, March 21, 2013, accessed April 24, 2014 .