| Muscat International Airport مطار مسقط الدولي |
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| IATA: MCT – ICAO: OOMS
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Military/Public | ||
| Operator | Oman Airports Management Company S.A.O.C. | ||
| Location | Muscat, Oman | ||
| Hub for | Oman Air | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 48 ft / 15 m | ||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 02/20 | 2,461 | 750 | Soil |
| 08/26 | 10,365 | 3,160 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2009) | |||
| Passengers | 4,558,838 | ||
Muscat International Airport (formerly Seeb Airport[1]) (IATA: MCT, ICAO: OOMS) is the main airport in Muscat, Oman. It is the hub for the national carrier Oman Air. The distance from Old Muscat is 30 km and it is 15 km from the main residential localities. At the moment the airport is being expanded and modernized. The airport will be upgraded to 12 million-passenger capacity during the initial stage and subsequently to 48 million. The initial stage is scheduled for completion in 2011. The airport was renamed on 11 February 2008 from the previous name, Seeb International Airport, to Muscat International Airport[1]. The airport was named the tenth fastest growing airport in the world by Airports Council International for the year 2011.
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The expansion project for the airport will include a new modern terminal and a new runway that can handle the new Airbus A380. It will include a new control tower with a height of 101 meters,[2] 32 aerobridges, a new cargo termial to handle 200,000 tons of cargo annually, and extra 6,000 car spaces. The new terminal will be built between the two parallel runways.[2] The new terminal building will have a net floor area of 290,000 sqm.[2] Once the construction of the new runway is completed, upgrade work will progress on the existing one, in order to allow it to handle the larger aircraft.
The first phase of the airport expansion, the new terminal building, is expected to be completed by 2014, which will have a capacity to handle 12 million passengers a year.[2] The final phase, which will expand the airport to handle 48 million passengers a year, is expected to be completed by 2015.[2]
Several site preparatory steps are underway. Work to protect the airport and the runways from water damage that occurs during the very rare rains is the first phase.[2] The grounds are raised by three meters for this purpose, by driving 10-12 million cubic meters of desert sand and crushed rock into the site.[2]
On 8 August 2008, Cowi Group has announced that the designing phase of the airport has reached a major milestone which allows the construction of the new terminal to start in early 2009 [3]
The new terminal at Muscat International Airport would be completed by 2014 and will have the capacity to handle 12 million passengers annually. Further expansions planned in three subsequent phases will ultimately boost the airport’ capacity to 24, 36 and 48 million passengers when the demand is required.
New Muscat Airport Location Muscat International Airport is situated approximately 32 km west of Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman. Muscat International Airport is the primary gateway to Oman and provides excellent connections to a number of International destinations particularly in the Gulf, Middle East, Europe and the Far East. The airport is the hub base for Oman Air, 5.7 m passengers traveled through Muscat International Airport during 2010.
The passenger terminal building of Muscat International Airport consists of departures, arrivals, transfer area and duty free shopping, a separate VIP building is located next to the passenger terminal and is used for high ranking dignitaries, a separate dedicated Cargo terminal building is located on the airport premises and used for handling international and domestic air freight import and export services.
Apart from the civil operations at Muscat International Airport, the airport is a joint user facility for the Royal Flight, Royal Air Force and Royal Oman Police Aviation, these units are located alongside the terminal and are self contained, each with its own road access, terminal and aircraft apron, but sharing the emergency services, air traffic control facilities, taxiways and runway.
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Air Arabia | Sharjah |
| Air Blue | Lahore |
| Air India | Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mumbai |
| Air India Express | Abu Dhabi, Amritsar, Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Trivandrum |
| Bahrain Air | Bahrain |
| Biman Bangladesh Airlines | Chittagong, Dhaka, Sylhet |
| British Airways | Abu Dhabi, London-Heathrow |
| EgyptAir | Cairo |
| Emirates | Dubai |
| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa |
| Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi |
| Flydubai | Dubai |
| Gulf Air | Bahrain |
| IndiGo | Mumbai |
| Kenya Airways | Nairobi |
| Jet Airways | Cochin, Mumbai, Trivandrum |
| KLM | Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam |
| Kuwait Airways | Dubai, Kuwait |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Oman Air | Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Amman, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beirut, Cairo, Chittagong, Chennai, Colombo, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Jaipur, Jeddah, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khasab, Kochi, Kozhikode, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lahore, Lucknow, London-Heathrow, Malé, Milan-Malpensa, Mumbai, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Ras al Khaimah, Riyadh, Salalah, Trivandrum, Zanzibar, Zurich |
| Pakistan International Airlines | Gwadar, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Sialkot, Turbat |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Riyadh |
| Shaheen Air | Lahore, Peshawar, Sialkot |
| SriLankan Airlines | Colombo |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Dubai, Zürich |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Karachi |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| United Airways | Dhaka |
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Martinair Cargo | Amsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Sharjah[4] |
The airport houses the head office of Oman Air.[5]
| Year | Total Passengers | Freight (tons) | Total Aircraft Movements |
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| 2000 | 2,720,983 | 68,639 | 38,184 |
| 2001 | 2,697,032 | 73,078 | 38,955 |
| 2002 | 2,450,422 | 46,934 | 39,555 |
| 2003 | 2,886,487 | 48,630 | 42,330 |
| 2004 | 3,461,982 | 67,151 | 43,622 |
| 2005 | 3,778,578 | 76,043 | 44,445 |
| 2006 | 4,777,747 | 99,582 | 53,695 |
| 2007 | 4,218,498 | 77,391 | 58,903 |
| 2008 | 4,002,121 | 58,000 | 58,346 |
| 2009 | 4,558,838 | 64,452 | 56,084 |
| 2010 | 5,751,516 | 96,390 | 67,160 |
