Sharjah International Airport

Sharjah International Airport
مطار الشارقة الدولي
IATA: SHJ – ICAO: OMSJ
SHJ
Location of airport in UAE
Summary
Airport type Military/Public
Operator Sharjah International Airport
Location Sharjah
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 111 ft / 34 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 12,303 3,750 Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Passengers 5,764,098

Sharjah International Airport (Arabic: مطار الشارقة الدولي‎) (Urdu:شارجہ بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا) (IATA: SHJ, ICAO: OMSJ) is located in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Sharjah Airport is the second largest Middle East Airfreight Hub in terms of cargo tonnage, according to official 2009 statistics from Airports Council International. Ground services company, Sharjah Aviation Services, handled 421,398 tonnes in 2009 - a 16.1% increase year on year.

Sharjah International Airport is home base of the low-cost carrier Air Arabia. The headquarters of Air Arabia is in the Sharjah Freight Center,[1] on the property of the airport.[2] in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.[1] The center is an old cargo terminal.[2]

The airport is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) away from central Dubai; a drive that ought to take 15 minutes can take up to two hours in rush hour traffic.[2]

Contents

History

The current Sharjah Airport was built in the 1970s and was opened on 1 January 1977, replacing an airport closer to the city that had been opened in 1932 for use by Imperial Airways and which was subsequently used by the RAF until 14 December 1971.[3] The reason for the move was development pressure from the city of Sharjah. The old airport's runway is now part of King Abdul Aziz Street in the city centre.[4][5][6] The airport was used by the United States Air Force 926th Tactical Fighter Group during Operation Desert Shield/Storm.[7] Approximately 450 members of the unit were stationed at the airport, which flew A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft during the conflict in late 1990 and early 1991.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
African Express Airways Aden, Berbera, Mogadishu, Nairobi
Air Algérie Seasonal: Algiers
Air Arabia Ahmedabad, Aleppo, Alexandria-El Nouzha, Almaty, Amman-Queen Alia, Assiut, Bahrain, Bangalore, Beirut, Casablanca, Chennai, Chittagong, Coimbatore, Colombo, Damascus, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Goa, Hyderabad, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Jaipur, Jeddah, Kabul, Kandahar, Karachi, Kathmandu, Kharkiv, Khartoum, Kochi, Kozhikode, Kuwait, Kiev-Boryspil, Latakia, Luxor, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Muscat, Nairobi, Nagpur, Najaf, Peshawar, Qassim, Riyadh, Samara, Sana'a, Sohag, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Thiruvananthapuram, Yanbu, Yekaterinburg
Air Blue Islamabad, Lahore
Air India Amritsar, Kochi, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram
Air India Express Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram
Anikay Air Bishkek
Aria Tour Bandar Abbas
AVE.com Chelyabinsk, Samara
BH Air Seasonal: Sofia
Condor Frankfurt
EgyptAir Cairo
Jet Airways Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram
Jubba Airways Mogadishu
Kam Air Kabul
Kish Air Bandar Abbas, Kish Island
Kuban Airlines Krasnodar
Mark Air Karaganda
Mihin Lanka Colombo
Onur Air Istanbul-Ataturk
Nas Air Jeddah, Medina, Riyadh
Pakistan International Airlines Islamabad, Sialkot
Primera Air Stockholm-Arlanda
Royal Falcon Amman-Marka
Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah, Medina, Muscat
Shaheen Air Peshawar, Sialkot
South East Airlines Seasonal: Makhachkala
Sudan Airways Khartoum
Tajik Air Dushanbe
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent

Cargo airlines

Airlines Destinations
Avient Aviation Accra, Kano, Kinshasa, Lagos, Ouagadougou, Pointe-Noire
British Gulf International Airlines Baghdad, Kandahar
Click Airways Baghdad, Bagram, Kabul, Kandahar, Bishkek, Djibouti
EgyptAir Cargo Cairo
Etihad Crystal Cargo
operated by World Airways Cargo		 Abu Dhabi, Kabul
Kalitta Air Amsterdam, Bahrain
Lufthansa Cargo Frankfurt
Martinair Cargo Amsterdam, Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Chennai, Delhi, Doha, Hong Kong, Muscat, Riyadh, Singapore
Saudi Arabian Airlines Cargo Jeddah, Riyadh
Singapore Airlines Cargo Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bangalore, Brussels, Chennai, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Luanda, Nairobi, Singapore
Turkish Airlines Cargo Istanbul-Ataturk [8]
Yanda Airlines Coimbatore, Pune

Statistics

The number of passengers passing through Sharjah International Airport has drastically increased in the past decade.[9]

Growth in traffic at Sharjah International Airport
Year Total Passengers Total Cargo Total Aircraft Movements
1999 1,001,852 580,550 27,577
2000 948,207 475,122 25,997
2001 861,478 415,587 24,431
2002 1,028,624 497,010 24,803
2003 1,247,458 507,644 28,017
2004 1,661,941 500,927 32,334
2005 2,237,646 505,392 38,699
2006 3,064,396 569,511 44,182
2007 4,324,313 570,363 51,314
2008 5,280,445 586,677 60,813
2009 5,764,098 501,824 61,451

Incidents and accidents

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

  1. ^ a b "Contact Info." Air Arabia. Retrieved on 21 June 2010. "Air Arabia (UAE) Air Arabia Head Quarters Sharjah Freight Center (Cargo), near Sharjah International Airport P.O. Box 132 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates"
  2. ^ a b c Sobie, Brendan. "Low cost & regionals: Arabian pioneers." Flight International. April 23, 2007. Retrieved on February 8, 2011. "Air Arabia's headquarters is hidden in a dated cargo terminal at Sharjah airport, a 15km (9 miles) drive from central Dubai, which should take 15 minutes but can take up to two hours during rush hour."
  3. ^ Stations-S
  4. ^ "Airports and ATC: nothing but the best", Flight International, 30 July 1977, p.354 (online archive version). Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  5. ^ History of Sharjah. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  6. ^ Sharjah - How to Get There. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  7. ^ USAF Historical Research Agency Document 00874269
  8. ^ TK cargo to SHJ
  9. ^ statistics on the official site
  10. ^ AviationSafety.net database on EY85281, retrieved 9 May 2009
  11. ^ Khaleej Times Online: article about Kish Air crash
  12. ^ "AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT 01/04". General Civil Aviation Authority of the UAE. http://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/677.pdf. Retrieved 21 August 2009. 
  13. ^ AviationSafety.net database on plane:TF-APR, retrieved 9 May 2009
  14. ^ "Six dead as cargo plane crashes at Sharjah Airport". Arabian Business. http://www.arabianbusiness.com/571237-cargo-plane-crashes-at-sharjah-airport. Retrieved 21 October 2009. 
  15. ^ "UAE crashed cargo plane owned by Sudan's Azza Air". Reuters. 21 October 2009. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLL45439920091021. Retrieved 21 October 2009. 

External links