Thursday, November 10, 2011

largest Airport in World


Covering almost 780 square kilometers, the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia is the world's largest airport in terms of land area. 



King Fahd International Airport (KFIA) (Arabicمطار الملك فهد الدولي‎) (IATADMMICAOOEDF) is located 20 kilometers northwest of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It is the largest airport in the world in terms of land area (780 km²). The airport's basic infrastructure was complete by the end of 1990, which allowed the Allied forces engaged in the first Gulf War in early 1991 to use the field for the storage of military aircraft. The General Authority of Civil Aviationof Saudi Arabia finally opened the new Dammam King Fahd International Airport on November 28, 1999 to commercial traffic, and all airlines transferred their operations from Dhahran airport, which had been in use until then. The new Dammam airport serves the entire Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia and in particular the growing urban complex made up of DammamDhahranAl KhobarQatifRas Tanura, while its catchment area also covers Jubail with total population of about 2 million served. The airport is the third major hub for Saudi Arabian Airlines, and furthermore was a hub for the now defunct Sama Airlines.

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