Damascus International Airport

Damascus International Airport
Damascus International Airport
مطار دمشق الدولي
Damascus International Airport.jpg
IATA: DAMICAO: OSDI
DAM is located in Syria
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DAM
Location of airport in Syria
Summary
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°E / 33.4115222; 36.5155583Coordinates: 33°24′41.48″N 36°30′56.01″E / 33.4115222°N 36.5155583°E / 33.4115222; 36.5155583
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: DAMICAO: 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

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

External links

Media related to Damascus International Airport at Wikimedia Commons


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