Sharjah International Airport
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Sharjah International Airport | |||
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IATA: SHJ - ICAO: OMSJ | |||
Summary | |||
Airport type | MIlitary/Public | ||
Operator | Sharjah International Airport | ||
Serves | 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.
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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 |
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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
The following passenger airlines fly to Sharjah Airport:
- African Express Airways (Nairobi)
- Air Algerie (Algiers, Amman) [2]
- Air Arabia (Aleppo, Alexandria, Almaty, Amman, Asyut, Astana, Bahrain, Beirut, Chennai, Colombo, Damascus, Dammam, Doha, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Jaipur, Jeddah, Kabul, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kochi, Kuwait, Latakia, Luxor, Mumbai, Muscat, Nagpur, Riyadh, Sanaa, Sharm-el-Sheik, Tehran, Thiruvananthapuram, Yerevan)
- Air India Express (Kozhikode, Kochi)
- Air Italy (Male, Verona)
- Airlines 400 (Adler-Sochi, Kabul)
- Airwest (Kabul, Khartoum)
- Anikay Air (Bishkek)
- Aria Tour (Bandar Abbas)
- Ariana Afghan Airlines (Jeddah, Kabul, Riyadh)
- Ave.com (Chelyabinsk, Samara)
- Belair (Basel/Mulhouse, Goa)
- British Gulf International Airlines (Baghdad, Kandahar)
- China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou)
- Click Airways (Baghdad)
- Condor Airlines (Frankfurt, Munich)
- Dagestan Airlines (Makhachkala)
- Djibouti Airlines (Djibouti)
- Egyptair (Cairo, Mumbai)
- Elbrus-Avia (Nalchik)
- Georgian National Airlines (Baghdad)
- Imtrec Aviation (Kabul)
- Indian Airlines (Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kochi)
- Kish Air (Bandar Abbas, Kish Island)
- Kuban Airlines (Krasnodar)
- Luxor Air (Alexandria Borg el Arab)
- Mak Air (Karaganda)
- Martinair (Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Sydney)
- MyTravel Airways (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Orbit Aviation (Gwadar, Turbat)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Lahore)
- Royal Brunei Airlines (Bandar Seri Begawan, Frankfurt, Jeddah)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Medina, Muscat)
- Sudan Airways (Khartoum)
- Sudanese State Aviation (Khartoum)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus, Delhi)
- Tajikistan Airlines (Dushanbe)
- Tenir Airlines (Baghdad)
- Tiramavia (Kabul)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
Cargo airlines:
- Azza Transport
- Cathay Pacific
- Cargolux
- EVA Air
- Kalitta Air (Amsterdam)
- Lufthansa Cargo
- Malaysia Airlines
- Singapore Airlines
[edit] Incidents
On 10 February 2004, a Kish Airlines Fokker F-50 crashed, killing 43 of its 46 occupants, which consisted of 6 crew and 40 passengers.
[edit] External links
- Sharjah Airport
- Sharjah International Airport
- World Aero Data airport information for OMSJ