Hamad International Airport

Hamad International Airport
مطار حمد الدولي
Maṭār Ḥamad al-Duwalī
Summary
Owner Qatar Civil Aviation Authority
Operator Qatar Airways
Serves Doha, Qatar
Location Doha, Qatar
Opened 30 April 2014
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 4 m / 13 ft
Coordinates 25°16′23″N 51°36′29″E / 25.27306°N 51.60806°E / 25.27306; 51.60806Coordinates: 25°16′23″N 51°36′29″E / 25.27306°N 51.60806°E / 25.27306; 51.60806
Website dohahamadairport.com
Map
DOH/OTHH

Location in Qatar

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16R/34L 4,250 13,944 Asphalt
16L/34R 4,850 15,912 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passenger movements 37,322,843 Increase20.4%
Aircraft movements 265,793 Increase15.8%
Cargo tonnage 1,758,075 Increase20.8%
Source:CAA QATAR[1]

Hamad International Airport (IATA: DOH, ICAO: OTHH) (Arabic: مطار حمد الدولي‎‎, Maṭār Ḥamad al-Duwalī) is the international airport of Doha, the capital city of Qatar. It replaced the former Doha International Airport as Qatar's principal airport.

Formerly known as New Doha International Airport (NDIA), Hamad International Airport was originally scheduled to open in 2009, but after a series of costly delays, the airport finally opened on 30 April 2014 with a ceremonial Qatar Airways flight landing from nearby Doha International. National carrier Qatar Airways and all other carriers formally relocated to the new airport on 27 May 2014.[2]

History

Planning and construction

Planning took place in 2003 and construction began in 2005. The airport (terminal and runway) has been built 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of the older Doha International Airport. It is spread over an area of 2,200 hectares (5,500 acres), and was set to initially serve airlines that will not utilize lounge access.

Hamad International Airport was designed to cater for a projected ongoing increase in the volume of traffic. The airport has an initial annual capacity of 29 million passengers, three times the current volume. Upon completion, it will be able to handle 50 million passengers per year, although some estimates suggest the airport could handle up to 93 million per year, making it the second largest airport in the region after Dubai.[3] It is also expected to handle 320,000 aircraft movements and 2 million tonnes of cargo annually. The check-in and retail areas are expected to be 12 times larger than those at the current airport. The airport will be two-thirds the size of Doha city.[4] The airport has an oasis theme. Many of the buildings have a water motif, with wave-styled roofs and desert plants growing in recycled water.[5] The airport is built over 22 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi), half of which is on reclaimed land.[6]

The Steering Committee awarded the contract for the development of the airport to Bechtel. The contract includes the design, construction management and project management of the facilities.[7] The terminal and concourses were designed by the architecture firm HOK. Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract for Phase I and II were undertaken by Turkish TAV Construction and Japanese Taisei Corporation.

Opening

Cargo operations began from 1 December 2013, with an inaugural flight by Qatar Airways Cargo arriving from Europe.[8] The original soft launch on 2 April 2013 was cancelled just a few hours prior, and was postponed indefinitely due to unsatisfactory safety related issues that needed further reviewing taking nine months to address.[9] Hamad International Airport was then set to begin passenger operations in January 2014, with a soft opening.[10]

Qatar Airways threatened a $600 million lawsuit against the joint venture contractor Lindner Depa Interiors for delaying the opening of the airport by failing to complete its lounges on time; LDI stated that it was delayed due to inadequate site access. Qatar Airways later blamed Bechtel for the opening delay in April 2013, citing failures to meet regulatory requirements.[11]

Hamad International Airport finally began passenger operations on 30 April 2014, with ten initial airlines operating.[12] Qatar Airways and remaining airlines started operations to Hamad Airport on 27 May 2014 at 09:00 (Qatar time).

An expansion plan announced in September 2015 called for an extension of the check-in area, an expansion of concourses D and E into a 1.3 km long concourse, a new passenger amenity area in the D/E complex with lounges, shops and restaurants, and a connection to the Doha Metro.[13][14]

Awards and Ranking

On 5 January 2017, Hamad International Airport (HIA) joined the top tier of global airports becoming the sixth airport in the world to receive the ‘5-Star Airport’ designation by Skytrax. This makes HIA the first ever airport in the Middle East to earn this acclaimed title.[15]

Facilities

Interior of Concourse C
Qatar Airways aircraft on the apron

Terminal 1

Concourse D & Concourse E are due to be extended with a possible Concourse F although plans are still to be finalised.[16] Terminal 1 features First and Business Class lounges which were opened by Qatar Airways CEO, Akbar Al Baker on 20 June 2014.

Planned Terminal 2

Qatar plans to build a second terminal only if the present passenger growth outnumbers the projected figures. This looks to be more of a certainty, as some of articles say that terminal two is a confirmed project due to the anticipated passenger load from the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[17]

Runways

The airport has two parallel runways, located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from each other, which are designed for simultaneous take-offs and landings. The first is 4,850 m × 60 m (15,910 ft × 200 ft) and is considered to be the longest runway in Western Asia, and also one of the longest runways in the world. The second runway is 4,250 m × 60 m (13,940 ft × 200 ft).[18]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Air India Express Kozhikode, Mangalore, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram
AtlasGlobal Istanbul–Atatürk
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Chittagong, Dhaka, Sylhet1
British Airways London–Heathrow
Cham Wings Airlines Damascus
Ethiopian AirlinesAddis Ababa
Himalaya Airlines Kathmandu
IndiGoChennai, Delhi, Kozhikode, Mumbai
Iran Air Lar, Shiraz
Jet Airways Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram
Kuwait Airways Kuwait
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Kuwait
Middle East Airlines Beirut
Nepal Airlines Kathmandu
Oman Air Muscat
Pakistan International Airlines Peshawar
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Philippine Airlines Manila
Qatar Airways Addis Ababa, Adelaide, Ahmedabad, Algiers, Amman–Queen Alia, Amritsar, Amsterdam, Ankara, Athens, Atlanta, Auckland, Baghdad, Baku, Bangalore, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi , Barcelona, Basra, Beijing–Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin–Tegel, Birmingham, Boston, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza, Canberra (begins 12 February 2018),[19] Cape Town, Casablanca, Chiang Mai (begins 31 October 2017), Chengdu, Chennai, Chicago–O'Hare, Chongqing, Clark, Cochin, Colombo, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Denpasar/Bali, Dhaka, Djibouti, Dublin, Durban, Edinburgh, Entebbe, Erbil, Faisalabad, Frankfurt, Geneva, Goa, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hanoi, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston–Intercontinental, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul–Atatürk, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Jakarta–Soekarno–Hatta, Johannesburg-OR Tambo, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kiev-Boryspil (begins 28 August 2017),[20] Kigali (resumes 1 September 2017)[21], Kilimanjaro, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Krabi, Kuala Lumpur–International, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, Las Vegas (begins 27 June 2018),[22] London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahé, Malé, Manchester, Manila , Maputo, Marrakech, Mashhad, Melbourne, Miami, Milan–Malpensa, Montréal–Trudeau, Moscow–Domodedovo, Multan, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta, Najaf, New York–JFK, Nagpur, Nice, Oslo–Gardermoen, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Perth, Peshawar, Philadelphia, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Pisa, Prague (begins 21 August 2017),[23] Rio de Janeiro-Galeão (begins 30 January 2018), Rome–Fiumicino, Salalah, Santiago de Chile (begins 30 January 2018), São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sarajevo (begins 31 October 2017), Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Shiraz, Sialkot, Singapore, Skopje, Sofia, Sohar, Stockholm–Arlanda, Sulaymaniah, Sydney, Tbilisi, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita, Tunis, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw–Chopin, Washington–Dulles, Windhoek–Hosea Kutako, Yangon, Yerevan, Zanzibar, Zagreb, Zürich
Regent Airways Dhaka[24]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Royal Jordanian Airlines Amman–Queen Alia
SriLankan Airlines Colombo
Sudan Airways Khartoum
Syrian Air Damascus
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk
US-Bangla Airlines Chittagong, Dhaka (begins 1 October 2017)[25]

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Cargolux[26] Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Hanoi
DHL International Aviation ME Bahrain (suspended), Dubai–International (suspended)
Etihad Cargo[27] Abu Dhabi (suspended), Sharjah (suspended)
Falcon Express Cargo Airlines[28] Dubai–International (suspended)
Iran Air Cargo Shiraz, Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Lufthansa Cargo[29] Frankfurt, Sharjah (suspended)
MNG Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk, Tekirdağ
Qatar Airways Cargo[30] Accra, Ahmedabad, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bahrain (suspended), Bangalore, Beirut, Basel/Mulhouse, Brussels, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza,[31] Campinas, Casablanca, Chennai, Chicago–O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dhaka, Dubai–Al Maktoum (suspended), Entebbe, Erbil, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Halifax, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Istanbul–Atatürk, Jeddah (suspended), Johannesburg-OR Tambo, Karachi, Khartoum, Kolkata, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Liege, Lima, London Heathrow,[32] Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Lima, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Milan–Malpensa, Mumbai, Muscat, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta, New York–JFK, Oslo, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Quito, São Paulo-Guarulhos,[31]Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Sialkot, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Zaragoza
Saudia Cargo[33] Amsterdam, Frankfurt
Turkish Airlines Cargo[34] Istanbul–Atatürk

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