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Abu Dhabi International Airport

IATA: AUH ICAO: OMAA
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Abu Dhabi Airports Company
Serves Abu Dhabi
Hub for
Etihad Airways
Rotana Jet
Time zone UAE Standard Time
(UTC+04:00)
Elevation AMSL 88 ft / 27 m
Coordinates 242559N 0543904E
Website www.abudhabiairport.ae
(http://www.abudhabiairport.ae/
)
Map
Location in the UAE
The duty-free area in Terminal 3
Abu Dhabi International Airport
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abu Dhabi International Airport (Arabic: ) (IATA: AUH, ICAO: OMAA) is an airport in
the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It is one of the fastest growing airports in the
world in passengers (+34% in Q1:2008), new airline operators, and infrastructure development. The airport is
now undergoing a AED 25 billion (US$6.8 billion) expansion. As of January 2012, 53 airlines offered service to
85 destinations in 49 countries.
The airport, 16.5 nautical miles (30.6 km; 19.0 mi) southeast
[2]
of Abu Dhabi city, is the second largest in the
UAE, serving over 12 million passengers in 2010. It has three operational passenger terminalsTerminal 1
(divided into Terminals 1A and 1B), Terminal 2, Terminal 3. Abu Dhabi International Airport is spread over an
area of 60 square kilometres (15,000 acres). Its terminal spaces are dominated by Etihad Airways, which is the
United Arab Emirates' second largest air carrier after Emirates.
The new Terminal 3, a AED 1 billion (US$270 million) interim facility, was designed to allow for the airport's
passenger growth before the planned opening of the new Midfield Terminal on July 17, 2017 at 7 AM. Used
predominantly by Etihad Airways, the terminal boosted the airport's seven million passenger per year capacity to
12 million. It also added 10 new gates, two of which are Airbus A380 compatible.
[3]
Contents
1 History
2 Expansion
3 City terminal
4 Pre-clearance
5 Airlines and destinations
5.1 Passenger
5.2 Cargo
6 Ground transportation
7 Runways
8 Competition
9 Accolades
10 References
11 External links
History
The Al Bateen Airport on Abu Dhabi Island previously served as Abu
Dhabi's main airport and consisted of a single airstrip with minimal
facilities. Prior to this, smaller aircraft would land on an unsealed runway
located not too far from Al Bateen, and the passengers would be
processed in a tiny makeshift building. Limited flights were operated
from Al Bateen and included flights to other Middle Eastern cities and
Mumbai International Airport (then known as Bombay International
Airport). After many years of operations, the airport was shifted to the
mainland in 1982. Bateen Airport is presently used as a dedicated
business jet airport.
The new airport included a circular satellite terminal (with aerobridges)
with a single connection to a semi-circular terminal.
[4][5]
This design
allowed more aircraft to park simultaneously. During the late 1990s and
early 2000s, substantial work was carried out on the satellite terminal,
to cater for the increase in passenger numbers, including widening the
passenger waiting areas and creating extra parking spots. The main
terminal also underwent some external changes, especially on the outer
facade. Additionally, Terminal 2 was created to relieve the pressure of
the main terminal. Terminal 2, however, does not have aerobridges and
uses buses to move passengers between aircraft and the terminal.
Terminal 3, was constructed over the past five years and this is mainly used by Etihad.
During the early years of operation, there were no means of getting to the airport from the cities except for private
vehicle or taxis. With the creation of Abu Dhabi's bus network, city-to-airport bus services were introduced.
[6]
With the withdrawal of support for regional airline Gulf Air after nearly five decades, Etihad became the new
airline to be based at the airport. It received full support from the UAE government and has come a long way
since its inaugural flight in 2003. Previous Gulf Air CEO James Hogan also transferred to Etihad, bringing aviation
industry knowledge and experience.
Coordinat es: 242559N 0543904E
OMAA
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13R/31L 4,260 13,976 Asphalt
13L/31R 4,260 13,976 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers 14.7 million
Economic impact (2012)
$3.5 billion
[1]
Social impact (2012)
66.5 thousand
[1]
Sources:
UAE

AIP
[2]
Duty Free in Terminal 1
The airport celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012.
[7]
Expansion
Development work has started on a new passenger terminal, the main building and centerpiece of the new airport,
to be between the two runways and known as the Midfield Terminal. Upon completion in 2017, the Midfield
Terminal will increase the airports passenger capacity to more than 20 million per year, with options for this to
double in capacity to 40 million.
[8]
An additional facility is under consideration that would take the capacity to 50
million.
The expansion master plan projects include a third 4,260 m (13,976 ft) parallel runway, 2,000 m (6,562 ft) from
the existing runways, a new 110 m (360 ft) tower between the two runways with the new Air Traffic Control
centre, enhanced cargo and maintenance facilities, and other commercial developments on the land immediately
adjacent to and north of the airport.
The project will provide a home base for the UAE's national carrier, Etihad Airways, which will be a major user
of new cargo facilities with an ultimate handling capacity of around two million tonnes of freight a year. Close to
the new cargo facilities, land has been allocated for commercial activities, business parks, and property
developments. Aircraft maintenance facilities will continue to be concentrated on the south side of the existing
airport. The plan sets aside land for the growth of other operators such as Royal Jet and Abu Dhabi Aviation.
Among other aspects of the project, when completed, are the design of remote aircraft stands complete with
airfield ground lighting and hydrant fuel.
The general exterior of the terminal resembles that of the new terminal being built at Mumbai Airport because it
was designed by the same architect, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
The central hall of the donnut shaped Terminal 1 at Abu Dhabi International Airport
City terminal
A check-in facility exists in downtown Abu Dhabi, for travelers who want to check in before they fly. This facility, known as the City Terminal, resembles an airport and
has cafe and transport facilities. On reaching the airport, travelers only need to go through customs and immigration.
Pre-clearance
In December 2011, the government of Abu Dhabi signed a letter of intent to build a United States border preclearance facility similar to pre-clearance customs facilities
in Canada, Australia, the Bahamas, and Ireland.
[9]
Etihad operated its first flight to the U.S. from the facility January 25, 2014.
[10][11]
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
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Terminal 1 consists of 18 gates
Terminal 1
The departures area of Terminal 1
Air Seychelles Airbus A330-200 at
AUH
The walkway connecting Terminal 1
and 3 together at Abu Dhabi Airport
Immigration at Abu Dhabi Airport
Airlines Destinations Terminal
Aegean Airlines Athens 1
Air Astana Almaty, Astana 1
Air Berlin
Berlin-Tegel, Dsseldorf, Phuket (ends 25 October 2014),
[12]
Stuttgart (begins 1 December 2014)
[13]
1
Air India Delhi, Mumbai 2
Air India Express Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Thiruvananthapuram 2
Air Serbia Belgrade 3
Air Seychelles
Hong Kong, Mah, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
[14]
3
airBaltic Riga 1
airblue Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar 1
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino 1
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet 2
British Airways London-Heathrow, Muscat 1
EgyptAir Cairo 1
Etihad Airways
Ahmedabad, Algiers (begins 17 June 2015),
[15]
Almaty, Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Astana, Athens, Baghdad,
Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Basra, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Brisbane, Brussels, Cairo,
Casablanca, Chengdu, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Colombo, Dallas/Fort Worth (begins 3 December 2014),
[16]
Dammam,
Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dublin, Dsseldorf, Edinburgh (begins 8 June 2015),
[17]
Erbil, Frankfurt, Geneva, Ho Chi Minh City,
Hong Kong (begins 15 June 2015),
[18]
Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatrk, Jaipur,
[19]
Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta,
Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kochi, Kolkata (begins 15 February 2015),
[20]
Kozhikode, Kuala
Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid (begins 29 March 2015),
[21]
Mah,
Mal, Manchester, Manila, Medina, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk-National, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai,
Munich, Muscat, Nagoya-Centrair, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perth, Phuket
(begins 26 October 2014),
[22]
Peshawar, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino,
[23]
Sana'a, San Francisco (begins 18 November
2014),
[24]
So Paulo-Guarulhos, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sydney, Tehran-Imam Khomeini,
Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan,
[25]
Zurich
1, 3
Flynas Jeddah, Medina 2
Gulf Air Bahrain 1
Jet Airways Bangalore, Chennai, Dammam, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kuwait, Mumbai, New York-JFK 1
Kish Air Kish Island 2
KLM Amsterdam, Bahrain 1
Kuwait Airways Kuwait 1
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Muscat 1
Middle East Airlines Beirut 1
Niki
Vienna (begins 24 November 2014)
[13]
1
Oman Air Muscat 1
Pakistan International Airlines Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Rahim Yar Khan 2
Philippine Airlines Manila 1
Qatar Airways Doha 1
Rotana Jet Al Ain, Colombo, Fujairah, Hambantota 2
Royal Jordanian Amman-Queen Alia 1
Saudia Jeddah, Riyadh 1
Shaheen Air International Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar 1
SriLankan Airlines Colombo 1
Sudan Airways Khartoum 1
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatrk 1
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat 2
Virgin Australia
Kuala Lumpur
2
, Sydney
3
Yemenia Aden, Sana'a 1
Cargo
Airlines Destinations
Cargolux Luxembourg
China Airlines Cargo Amsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Frankfurt, Ho Chi Minh City, Luxembourg, Prague, Taipei-Taoyuan
Etihad Cargo
Addis Ababa, Almaty, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Beijing-Capital, Benghazi, Campinas,
[26]
Chicago,
[26]
Chittagong, Chennai, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Djibouti, Doha-Hamad, Dubai-Al Maktoum, Eldoret, Erbil,
Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Houston,
[27]
Johannesburg, Kabul, Khartoum, Kuwait, Lagos, Milan-
Malpensa, Miami,
[26]
Mumbai, Nairobi, N'Djamena, Quito,
[26]
Shanghai-Pudong, Sharjah, Singapore,
Tbilisi, Vienna
[28][29]
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Air Berlin A330 in Abu Dhabi Airport
Martinair Cargo
1
Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Doha-Hamad, Hong Kong, Muscat, Mumbai, Sharjah, Singapore
1
Martinair Cargo uses KLM Cargo aircraft on these routes
2
Virgin Australia operate one service weekly with a Virgin Australia product for Etihad Airways
Ground transportation
Etihad Airways provides buses between Dubai and Abu Dhabi International Airport for their customers, as well as a coach service to Al Ain.
[30]
A city bus also
connects the airport to Abu Dhabi city centre.
[31]
Runways
Abu Dhabi International Airport has two parallel runways, 13R/31L and 13L/31R. Both are 4,260 m 60 m (13,976 ft 197 ft).
[32]
Competition
The rapid growth of Etihad Airways, Emirates, and Qatar Airways has pressed for major expansion in airports of the region. In the UAE alone, Abu Dhabi International
Airport must compete with Dubai International Airport, about an hour and a half away by road, which is the busiest airport in the UAE. Based out of Dubai International
is Etihad's main competitor, Emirates Airline, which is the largest airline in the Middle East and North Africa and one of the largest in the world. Although this proximity
could mean doubtful prospects for Abu Dhabi International Airport, this is unlikely due to the healthy nature of competition between all three airlines.
Additionally, an hour's flight away is Doha International Airport, home of Qatar Airways, which is the fastest growing full
service airline in Asia, and one of the fastest growing in the world. Competition on both sides bodes well for Abu Dhabi's
airport and its allure to other airlines, as the two other airlines successfully operate out of other airports. Abu Dhabi
International Airport, combined with Dubai and Doha, make for a formidable tri-hub for global air passenger and cargo traffic,
which may be boosted by the completion of Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central around 2028. Within
five to six years, the three airports, will have a greater carrying capacity than Charles de Gaulle, Heathrow, and Frankfurt
combined.
Accolades
2011: 2nd Best Airport in Middle East of the Airport Service Quality Awards by Airports Council International
[33]
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External links
Abu Dhabi International Airport (http://www.abudhabiairport.ae/) Official website
The Abu Dhabi Pre-clearance Facility: Implications for U.S. Businesses and National Security: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,
and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, July 10, 2013
(http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo40151)
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