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Damascus International Airport
مطار دمشق الدولي
IATA: DAM – ICAO: OSDI Location of airport in Syria
DAMSummary Airport type Joint (Civil and Military) Operator Directorate General of Civil Aviation Location Damascus Hub for Syrian Air Elevation AMSL 2,020 ft / 616 m Coordinates 33°24′41.48″N 36°30′56.01″E / 33.4115222°N 36.5155583°ECoordinates: 33°24′41.48″N 36°30′56.01″E / 33.4115222°N 36.5155583°E Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 05R/23L 11,811 3,600 Asphalt 05L/23R 11,804 3,598 Asphalt Statistics (2010) Passengers 5,500,000 Damascus International Airport (Arabic, مطار دمشق الدولي) (IATA: DAM, ICAO: OSDI) is a public airport located in Damascus, the capital of Syria. Officially opened in the mid 1970s, DAM is Syria's busiest international airport. The airport is experiencing significant annual passenger growth rates. In 2010, an estimated 5.5 million passengers used the airport, an increase of more than 50% since 2004.[1]
Contents
Duty Free outlets
The airport features two duty-free outlets. The largest of these, operated by Syrian company Ramak. The departures hall also includes an in-house coffee shop, several souvenir shops, three restaurants, and a business/first-class lounge.
City Transport
Transport to central Damascus is offered by a taxi company. A private bus company also offers service between the airport and Baramkeh in central Damascus.
Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo Air Algérie Algiers Air Arabia Sharjah Air France Amman-Queen Alia, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino Austrian Airlines Vienna bmi London-Heathrow Caspian Airlines Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini Cham Wings Airlines Baghdad, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Malmö, Najaf, Sharm el-Sheikh Conviasa Caracas EgyptAir Cairo Emirates Dubai Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi flydubai Dubai Gulf Air Bahrain Iran Aseman Airlines Shiraz Iran Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini Iraqi Airways Arbil, Baghdad, Najaf Jazeera Airways Kuwait Kish Air Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini Kuwait Airways Kuwait Libyan Airlines Benghazi, Tripoli Mahan Air Mashhad, Tehran-Imam Khomeini Malev Hungarian Airlines Budapest Nas Air Riyadh Qatar Airways Doha Royal Jordanian Amman-Queen Alia Saudi Arabian Airlines Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh Sudan Airways Khartoum Syrian Air Abu Dhabi, Aleppo, Algiers, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain , Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Cairo, Copenhagen, Dammam, Deir el Zor, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Kameshli, Khartoum, Kuwait, Larnaca, Latakia, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Vnukovo, Paris-Orly, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Vienna Syrian Pearl Aleppo, Deir El Zor, Kameshli Taban Air Isfahan Tunisair Tunis Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk UM Airlines Kiev-Boryspil Yemenia Sana'a Cargo airlines
Damascus International Airport
Airlines Destinations Cargolux Manila, Sharjah, Luxembourg DHL Express Fedex Express Accidents and incidents
- On 10 November 1970, a Douglas DC-3 of Saudi Arabian Airlines on a flight from Amman Civil Airport, Jordan to King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh Saudi Arabia was hijacked and diverted to Damascus Airport.[2]
Projects
Renovation of Terminal 1 to handle 3.5 million passengers per year.
Construction of a railway connecting the airport to Hijaz station in Damascus.
Construction of a new terminal with the ability to handle 7 million passengers per year.
References
- ^ "The Report: Syria 2010",
- ^ "Hijacking description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19701110-0. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
External links
Media related to Damascus International Airport at Wikimedia Commons- Accident history for DAM at Aviation Safety Network
- Airport information for OSDI at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- Current weather for OSDI at NOAA/NWS
- Airport information for OSDI at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- Map from Multimap
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