Sharjah International Airport

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Sharjah International Airport مطار الشارقة الدولي
IATA: SHJ – ICAO: OMSJ
Summary
Airport type		Military/Public
Operator		Sharjah International Airport
Location		Sharjah
Elevation AMSL		111 ft / 34 m
Coordinates		25°19′43″N 055°31′02″E / 25.32861, 55.51722
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
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.

1 Statistics
2 Airlines and destinations
- 2.1 Cargo airlines
3 Incidents
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Statistics

The number of passengers passing through Sharjah International Airport has drastically increased in the past decade. ^[1]

Statistics for **Sharjah International Airport**
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)