GETTING THERE
With four international airports, there is no shortage of flight connections to Saudi Arabia
King Khaled International Airport (KKIA) located in the capital city of Riyadh was opened on November 26, 1983 as the centre of Saudi Arabia's air trans- portation system. The 225-square-kilometre airport encompasses shopping centres, the royal pavilion, the air cargo building, the post office, the private aviation building, the mosque, the control tower and the aviation square, which contains two parallel runways each measuring 4,200 metres in length.
The air traffic control tower at KKIA, centrally located in the passenger terminal complex between the Royal Pavilion and the mosque, is among the tallest control towers in the world at 81 metres high.
King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) located to the north of Jeddah, is Saudi Arabia's third largest air facility. The airport opened for business on May 31, 1981.
Because of Jeddah's proximity to Islam's holy city of Mecca (Makkah), KAIA is the busiest airport in Saudi Arabia. KAIA has a dedicated Hajj Terminal, built especially to handle foreign pilgrims.
The Hajj Terminal offers pilgrims many facilities, including a mosque and can accommodate 80,000 travellers at the same time.
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KAIA began a major redevelopment in September 2006. Key expansion goals were to include four new terminal buildings, a high-speed rail link and capacity for up to 80 million passengers a year. The project is scheduled for completion in 2014.
King Fahd International Airport is located 20 kilometres northwest of Dammam. It is the largest airport in Saudi Arabia and the largest in the world in terms of total land area at 780 square kilometres.
Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz International Airport is a regional airport in the western city of Medina and the longest established international airport, having opened in 1974. Today, it handles mostly domestic flights, with limited scheduled international services to regional destinations such as Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Istanbul and Kuwait. It also handles international charter flights during the Hajj season.
This Medina airport is the fourth busiest in Saudi Arabia, handling on average 20-25 flights a day and triple the amount during the Hajj season and school holidays. There are plans to upgrade the airport to full international specification to handle the expected increase in passenger traffic to three million passengers a year.
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