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Abu Dhabi International Airportمطار أبوظبي الدولي

IATA: AUH – ICAO: OMAA

Summary

Airport type Public

Operator Abu Dhabi Airports Company

Serves Abu Dhabi

Hub forEtihad Airways

Rotana Jet

Time zone UAE Standard Time

(UTC+04:00)

Elevation AMSL 88 ft / 27 m

Coordinates 24°25′59″N 054°39′04″E

Website www.abudhabiairport.ae

(http://www.abudhabiairport.ae/

)

Map

Location in the UAE

The duty-free area in Terminal 3

Abu Dhabi International AirportFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Abu Dhabi International Airport (Arabic: مطار أبو ظبي الدولي) (IATA: AUH, ICAO: OMAA) is an airport inthe Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It is one of the fastest growing airports in theworld in passengers (+34% in Q1:2008), new airline operators, and infrastructure development. The airport isnow undergoing a AED 25 billion (US$6.8 billion) expansion. As of January 2012, 53 airlines offered service to85 destinations in 49 countries.

The airport, 16.5 nautical miles (30.6 km; 19.0 mi) southeast[2] of Abu Dhabi city, is the second largest in theUAE, serving over 12 million passengers in 2010. It has three operational passenger terminals—Terminal 1(divided into Terminals 1A and 1B), Terminal 2, Terminal 3. Abu Dhabi International Airport is spread over anarea of 60 square kilometres (15,000 acres). Its terminal spaces are dominated by Etihad Airways, which is theUnited Arab Emirates' second largest air carrier after Emirates.

The new Terminal 3, a AED 1 billion (US$270 million) interim facility, was designed to allow for the airport'spassenger growth before the planned opening of the new Midfield Terminal on July 17, 2017 at 7 AM. Usedpredominantly by Etihad Airways, the terminal boosted the airport's seven million passenger per year capacity to

12 million. It also added 10 new gates, two of which are Airbus A380 compatible.[3]

Contents

1 History

2 Expansion

3 City terminal

4 Pre-clearance

5 Airlines and destinations

5.1 Passenger

5.2 Cargo

6 Ground transportation

7 Runways

8 Competition

9 Accolades

10 References

11 External links

History

The Al Bateen Airport on Abu Dhabi Island previously served as AbuDhabi's main airport and consisted of a single airstrip with minimalfacilities. Prior to this, smaller aircraft would land on an unsealed runwaylocated not too far from Al Bateen, and the passengers would beprocessed in a tiny makeshift building. Limited flights were operatedfrom Al Bateen and included flights to other Middle Eastern cities andMumbai International Airport (then known as Bombay InternationalAirport). After many years of operations, the airport was shifted to themainland in 1982. Bateen Airport is presently used as a dedicatedbusiness jet airport.

The new airport included a circular satellite terminal (with aerobridges)

with a single connection to a semi-circular terminal.[4][5] This designallowed more aircraft to park simultaneously. During the late 1990s andearly 2000s, substantial work was carried out on the satellite terminal,to cater for the increase in passenger numbers, including widening thepassenger waiting areas and creating extra parking spots. The mainterminal also underwent some external changes, especially on the outerfacade. Additionally, Terminal 2 was created to relieve the pressure ofthe main terminal. Terminal 2, however, does not have aerobridges anduses buses to move passengers between aircraft and the terminal.

Terminal 3, was constructed over the past five years and this is mainly used by Etihad.

During the early years of operation, there were no means of getting to the airport from the cities except for private

vehicle or taxis. With the creation of Abu Dhabi's bus network, city-to-airport bus services were introduced.[6]

With the withdrawal of support for regional airline Gulf Air after nearly five decades, Etihad became the newairline to be based at the airport. It received full support from the UAE government and has come a long waysince its inaugural flight in 2003. Previous Gulf Air CEO James Hogan also transferred to Etihad, bringing aviationindustry knowledge and experience.

Coordinates: 24°25′59″N 054°39′04″E

OMAA

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Runways

Direction Length Surface

m ft

13R/31L 4,260 13,976 Asphalt

13L/31R 4,260 13,976 Asphalt

Statistics (2012)

Passengers 14.7 million

Economic impact (2012) $3.5 billion[1]

Social impact (2012) 66.5 thousand[1]

Sources: UAE AIP [2]

Duty Free in Terminal 1

The airport celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012.[7]

Expansion

Development work has started on a new passenger terminal, the main building and centerpiece of the new airport,to be between the two runways and known as the Midfield Terminal. Upon completion in 2017, the MidfieldTerminal will increase the airport’s passenger capacity to more than 20 million per year, with options for this to

double in capacity to 40 million.[8] An additional facility is under consideration that would take the capacity to 50million.

The expansion master plan projects include a third 4,260 m (13,976 ft) parallel runway, 2,000 m (6,562 ft) fromthe existing runways, a new 110 m (360 ft) tower between the two runways with the new Air Traffic Controlcentre, enhanced cargo and maintenance facilities, and other commercial developments on the land immediatelyadjacent to and north of the airport.

The project will provide a home base for the UAE's national carrier, Etihad Airways, which will be a major userof new cargo facilities with an ultimate handling capacity of around two million tonnes of freight a year. Close tothe new cargo facilities, land has been allocated for commercial activities, business parks, and propertydevelopments. Aircraft maintenance facilities will continue to be concentrated on the south side of the existingairport. The plan sets aside land for the growth of other operators such as Royal Jet and Abu Dhabi Aviation.

Among other aspects of the project, when completed, are the design of remote aircraft stands complete withairfield ground lighting and hydrant fuel.

The general exterior of the terminal resembles that of the new terminal being built at Mumbai Airport because itwas designed by the same architect, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

The central hall of the donnut shaped Terminal 1 at Abu Dhabi International Airport

City terminal

A check-in facility exists in downtown Abu Dhabi, for travelers who want to check in before they fly. This facility, known as the City Terminal, resembles an airport andhas cafe and transport facilities. On reaching the airport, travelers only need to go through customs and immigration.

Pre-clearance

In December 2011, the government of Abu Dhabi signed a letter of intent to build a United States border preclearance facility similar to pre-clearance customs facilities

in Canada, Australia, the Bahamas, and Ireland.[9]

Etihad operated its first flight to the U.S. from the facility January 25, 2014.[10][11]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

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Terminal 1 consists of 18 gates

Terminal 1

The departures area of Terminal 1

Air Seychelles Airbus A330-200 at

AUH

The walkway connecting Terminal 1

and 3 together at Abu Dhabi Airport

Immigration at Abu Dhabi Airport

Airlines Destinations Terminal

Aegean Airlines Athens 1

Air Astana Almaty, Astana 1

Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Phuket (ends 25 October 2014),[12] Stuttgart (begins 1 December 2014)[13] 1

Air India Delhi, Mumbai 2

Air India Express Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Thiruvananthapuram 2

Air Serbia Belgrade 3

Air Seychelles Hong Kong, Mahė, Paris-Charles de Gaulle[14] 3

airBaltic Riga 1

airblue Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar 1

Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino 1

Biman Bangladesh Airlines Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet 2

British Airways London-Heathrow, Muscat 1

EgyptAir Cairo 1

Etihad Airways

Ahmedabad, Algiers (begins 17 June 2015),[15] Almaty, Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Astana, Athens, Baghdad,Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Basra, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Brisbane, Brussels, Cairo,

Casablanca, Chengdu, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Colombo, Dallas/Fort Worth (begins 3 December 2014),[16] Dammam,

Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh (begins 8 June 2015),[17] Erbil, Frankfurt, Geneva, Ho Chi Minh City,

Hong Kong (begins 15 June 2015),[18] Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jaipur,[19] Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta,

Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kochi, Kolkata (begins 15 February 2015),[20] Kozhikode, Kuala

Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid (begins 29 March 2015),[21] Mahé,Malé, Manchester, Manila, Medina, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk-National, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai,Munich, Muscat, Nagoya-Centrair, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perth, Phuket

(begins 26 October 2014),[22] Peshawar, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino,[23] Sana'a, San Francisco (begins 18 November

2014),[24] São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sydney, Tehran-Imam Khomeini,

Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan,[25] Zurich

1, 3

Flynas Jeddah, Medina 2

Gulf Air Bahrain 1

Jet Airways Bangalore, Chennai, Dammam, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kuwait, Mumbai, New York-JFK 1

Kish Air Kish Island 2

KLM Amsterdam, Bahrain 1

Kuwait Airways Kuwait 1

Lufthansa Frankfurt, Muscat 1

Middle East Airlines Beirut 1

Niki Vienna (begins 24 November 2014)[13] 1

Oman Air Muscat 1

Pakistan International Airlines Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Rahim Yar Khan 2

Philippine Airlines Manila 1

Qatar Airways Doha 1

Rotana Jet Al Ain, Colombo, Fujairah, Hambantota 2

Royal Jordanian Amman-Queen Alia 1

Saudia Jeddah, Riyadh 1

Shaheen Air International Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar 1

SriLankan Airlines Colombo 1

Sudan Airways Khartoum 1

Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk 1

Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat 2

Virgin Australia Kuala Lumpur2, Sydney 3

Yemenia Aden, Sana'a 1

Cargo

Airlines Destinations

Cargolux Luxembourg

China Airlines Cargo Amsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Frankfurt, Ho Chi Minh City, Luxembourg, Prague, Taipei-Taoyuan

Etihad Cargo

Addis Ababa, Almaty, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Beijing-Capital, Benghazi, Campinas,[26] Chicago,[26]

Chittagong, Chennai, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Djibouti, Doha-Hamad, Dubai-Al Maktoum, Eldoret, Erbil,

Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Houston,[27] Johannesburg, Kabul, Khartoum, Kuwait, Lagos, Milan-

Malpensa, Miami,[26] Mumbai, Nairobi, N'Djamena, Quito,[26] Shanghai-Pudong, Sharjah, Singapore,

Tbilisi, Vienna[28][29]

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Air Berlin A330 in Abu Dhabi Airport

Martinair Cargo1 Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Doha-Hamad, Hong Kong, Muscat, Mumbai, Sharjah, Singapore

1 Martinair Cargo uses KLM Cargo aircraft on these routes 2 Virgin Australia operate one service weekly with a Virgin Australia product for Etihad Airways

Ground transportation

Etihad Airways provides buses between Dubai and Abu Dhabi International Airport for their customers, as well as a coach service to Al Ain.[30] A city bus also

connects the airport to Abu Dhabi city centre.[31]

Runways

Abu Dhabi International Airport has two parallel runways, 13R/31L and 13L/31R. Both are 4,260 m × 60 m (13,976 ft × 197 ft).[32]

Competition

The rapid growth of Etihad Airways, Emirates, and Qatar Airways has pressed for major expansion in airports of the region. In the UAE alone, Abu Dhabi InternationalAirport must compete with Dubai International Airport, about an hour and a half away by road, which is the busiest airport in the UAE. Based out of Dubai Internationalis Etihad's main competitor, Emirates Airline, which is the largest airline in the Middle East and North Africa and one of the largest in the world. Although this proximitycould mean doubtful prospects for Abu Dhabi International Airport, this is unlikely due to the healthy nature of competition between all three airlines.

Additionally, an hour's flight away is Doha International Airport, home of Qatar Airways, which is the fastest growing fullservice airline in Asia, and one of the fastest growing in the world. Competition on both sides bodes well for Abu Dhabi'sairport and its allure to other airlines, as the two other airlines successfully operate out of other airports. Abu DhabiInternational Airport, combined with Dubai and Doha, make for a formidable tri-hub for global air passenger and cargo traffic,which may be boosted by the completion of Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central around 2028. Withinfive to six years, the three airports, will have a greater carrying capacity than Charles de Gaulle, Heathrow, and Frankfurtcombined.

Accolades

2011: 2nd Best Airport in Middle East of the Airport Service Quality Awards by Airports Council International[33]

References

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african-network/) on 14 July 2014.

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worth-service-from-abu-dhabi-next-december.html/)

17. ^ "Etihad Airways to start daily Edinburgh flights in 2015" (http://web.archive.org/web/20140714154300/http://www.etihad.com/en-us/about-us/news/archive/2014/etihad-

airways-to-start-daily-edinburgh-flights-in-2015/) (Press release). Etihad Airways. 10 July 2014. Archived from the original (http://www.etihad.com/en-us/about-

us/news/archive/2014/etihad-airways-to-start-daily-edinburgh-flights-in-2015/) on 14 July 2014.

18. ^ "Etihad Airways to launch flights between Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong" (http://web.archive.org/web/20140714160402/http://www.etihad.com/en-us/about-

us/news/archive/2014/etihad-airways-to-launch-flights-between-abu-dhabi-and-hong-kong/) (Press release). Etihad Airways. 10 July 2014. Archived from the original

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expands-india-operations/) (Press release). Etihad Airways. 10 July 2014. Archived from the original (http://www.etihad.com/en-us/about-us/news/archive/2014/etihad-

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External links

Abu Dhabi International Airport (http://www.abudhabiairport.ae/) Official website

The Abu Dhabi Pre-clearance Facility: Implications for U.S. Businesses and National Security: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,

and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, July 10, 2013

(http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo40151)

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airways-expands-india-operations/) on 14 July 2014.

21. ^ "Etihad Airways enters Spanish market" (http://web.archive.org/web/20140714160115/http://www.etihad.com/en-us/about-us/news/archive/2014/etihad-airways-enters-

spanish-market/) (Press release). Etihad Airways. 10 July 2014. Archived from the original (http://www.etihad.com/en-us/about-us/news/archive/2014/etihad-airways-

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23. ^ http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upi20131216-180542-6269

24. ^ http://airlineroute.net/2014/07/14/ey-auhsfo-w14/

25. ^ http://news.am/eng/news/185590.html

26. ̂a b c d round the world service listing Chicago, Miami, Campinas and Quito, these do not appear in Etihad Cargo schedules (http://www.aircargoweek.com/Etihad/Atlas)

27. ^ Etihad Cargo freighter deployment map listing Houston, this does not appear in their schedules

(http://www.etihadcargo.com/productservices/charter%20service%20library/freighter%20update.pdf)

28. ^ Timetable | Etihad Cargo (http://etihadcargo.innosked.com/%28S%28pdthk045v0211wronc4mmneh%29%29/timetable.aspx?

fromMap=YES&dst=AUH&src=HHN&car=EY&via=)

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30. ^ "Dubai (http://www.etihadairways.com/sites/etihad/global/en/home/Pages/flights-to-dubai.aspx). Retrieved on 6 February 2009.

31. ^ Welcome To Abu Dhabi International Airport (http://www.abudhabiairport.ae/services/transportation.asp)

32. ^ United Arab Emirates AIP (http://www.gcaa.gov.ae/aip/AIPSUP2013/UAE_AIP.html) (login required)

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2012. Retrieved 2012-04-13