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Damascus International Airport

Coordinates: 33°24′41.48″N 36°30′56.01″E / 33.4115222°N 36.5155583°E / 33.4115222; 36.5155583
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Damascus International Airport

مطار دمشق الدولي
  • IATA: DAM
  • ICAO: OSDI
    DAM is located in Syria
    DAM
    DAM
    Location of airport in Syria
Summary
Airport typeJoint (Civil and Military)
OperatorDirectorate General of Civil Aviation
LocationDamascus
Hub forSyrian Air
Elevation AMSL2,020 ft / 616 m
Coordinates33°24′41.48″N 36°30′56.01″E / 33.4115222°N 36.5155583°E / 33.4115222; 36.5155583
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05R/23L 11,811 3,600 Asphalt
05L/23R 11,804 3,598 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers5,500,000

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]

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

AirlinesDestinations
AeroflotMoscow-Sheremetyevo
Air AlgérieAlgiers
Air ArabiaSharjah
Air FranceParis-Charles de Gaulle
AlitaliaRome-Fiumicino
Austrian AirlinesVienna [resumes 25 March 2012]
bmiLondon-Heathrow
Caspian AirlinesTabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Cham Wings AirlinesBaghdad, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Malmö, Najaf, Sharm el-Sheikh
ConviasaCaracas [resumes 29 January 2012]
EgyptAirCairo
EmiratesDubai
Etihad AirwaysAbu Dhabi
flydubaiDubai
Gulf AirBahrain
Iran Aseman AirlinesShiraz
Iran AirTehran-Imam Khomeini
Iraqi AirwaysArbil, Baghdad, Najaf
Jazeera AirwaysKuwait
Kish AirTabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Kuwait AirwaysKuwait
Libyan AirlinesBenghazi, Tripoli
Mahan AirTehran-Imam Khomeini
Malev Hungarian AirlinesBudapest
Nas AirRiyadh
Qatar AirwaysDoha
Royal JordanianAmman-Queen Alia
Saudi Arabian AirlinesDammam, Jeddah, Riyadh
Sudan AirwaysKhartoum
Syrian AirAbu Dhabi, Aleppo, Algiers, Amsterdam, Antalya, Athens, Bahrain, Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Cairo, Copenhagen, Dammam, Deir el Zor, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Gurayat, Istanbul-Ataturk, Jeddah, Kameshli, Khartoum, Kuwait, Larnaca, Latakia, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Moscow-Vnukovo, Paris-Orly, Rafha, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Vienna
Syrian PearlAleppo, Deir El Zor, Kameshli
Taban AirIsfahan
TunisairTunis
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul-Atatürk
UM AirlinesKiev-Boryspil
YemeniaSana'a

Cargo airlines

Damascus International Airport
AirlinesDestinations
CargoluxManila, Sharjah, Luxembourg
DHL Express
Fedex Express
Turkish Airlines CargoIstanbul-Ataturk

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

  1. ^ "The Report: Syria 2010",
  2. ^ "Hijacking description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 20 October 2010.

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