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King Khalid International Airport (Arabic: مطار الملك خالد الدولي Maṭār al-Malik Khālid al-Duwaliyy, IATA: RUH, ICAO: OERK) is an international airport located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, [3] designed by the architectural firm HOK, and Arabian Bechtel Company Limited served as the construction manager on behalf of the Saudi government.
This is a list of airports in Saudi Arabia, grouped by type and sorted by location. Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the largest Arab country of the Middle East . It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait , Qatar , Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and ...
King Salman International Airport ( IATA: none, ICAO: none) is a proposed international airport project, which will serve the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. [ 1] The airport will span 57 km 2. (22 sq.mi.) in area, and will have six parallel runways. [ 2] The airport aims to have capacity for 120 million annual passengers by 2030, and 185 ...
King Salman Air Base ( ICAO: OERY, Arabic: قاعدة الملك سلمان الجوية ), formerly known as Riyadh Air Base until 2015 with the commencement of "Decisive Storm" and formerly known as Riyadh International Airport from its opening in 1946 until 1983, was a military air base in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was originally used by ...
Riyadh Airports Company (RAC) ( Arabic: شركة مطارات الرياض ), or simply Riyadh Airports ( Arabic: مطارات الرياض ), is a state-owned airport management company and a subsidiary of Matarat Holding that operates and provides aviation related services to the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
On 10 November 1970, a Douglas DC-3 on a flight from Amman Civil Airport, Jordan to King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was hijacked and diverted to Damascus Airport, Syria. [60] On 11 July 1972, a Douglas C-47B (reg. HZ-AAK) was damaged beyond economic repair in an accident at Tabuk Airport. [61]
126,700[ 2] 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 105 square kilometres ...
Saudi Arabia Standard Time ( Arabic: التوقيت القياسي السعودي, romanized : At-Tawqīt al-qiyāsiyy as-suʿūdiyy ), abbreviated as SAST, is the standard time zone of Saudi Arabia. The time zone is 3 hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+03:00) with no daylight savings. [ 1] SAST is defined by the 45th Meridian East. Before a standardized ...