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Aerial view with old South Terminal, the new Terminal 1 can be seen in the background. King Abdulaziz International Airport [a] (IATA: JED, ICAO: OEJN, colloquially referred to as Jeddah Airport, Jeddah International Airport, or KAIA), is a major international airport serving the cities of Jeddah and Mecca in Saudi Arabia, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Jeddah and covering an area of ...
Due to the airport's deficient capacity, it experienced heavy congestion during Hajj seasons peaking 600 aircraft movements daily by 1978. [1] [17] On April 1, 1981, King Abdulaziz International Airport was inaugurated, and opened in May 31st, and Jiddah International Airport was shortly closed afterwards. It was given the ICAO code OEJN, which ...
Flight SV1435 was the first to land at the airport. Another aircraft, flight SV1476, then took off at 11:45, the first ever to take off from the new facility. [6] Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz International Airport was officially inaugurated by King Salman on 2 July 2015. [7]
King Fahd International Airport: Jeddah: Makkah (Mecca) OEJN JED King Abdulaziz International Airport: Ha'il: Ha'il: OEHL HAS Ha’il International Airport: Medina (Madinah) Al Madinah: OEMA MED Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport: Neom: Tabuk: OENN NUM Neom Bay Airport: Riyadh: Riyadh: OERK RUH King Khalid International Airport ...
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Airport (IATA: GIZ [3], ICAO: OEGN), also known as Jizan Regional Airport, is an airport serving Jizan (also spelled Gizan), the capital city of the Jizan Province in Saudi Arabia. It is named after King Abdullah.
Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 was a chartered passenger flight from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Sokoto, Nigeria, on 11 July 1991, which caught fire shortly after takeoff from King Abdulaziz International Airport and crashed while attempting to return for an emergency landing, killing all 247 passengers and 14 crew members on board.
K. Kandara Airport; Khafji Airport; Khasm Alan Air Base; Khurais Airport; Khurais Airport (old) King Abdulaziz Air Base; King Abdulaziz International Airport
It was renamed Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz International Airport by royal decree by King Abdullah on 5 July 2012 in memory of former Crown Prince Naif who died in June 2012. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] Prince Sultan , then crown prince and minister of defense and aviation, launched an expansion project of the royal terminal at the airport in 2003.