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King Salman to attend inauguration of KAIA project
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 23 - 09 - 2019


Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman is scheduled to attend the formal inauguration of the new King Abdulaziz International Airport (Terminal 1), with the ceremony organized by the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) on Tuesday.
As of Aug. 9, 2019, the new KAIA (Terminal 1) began operating Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) international flights to Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Muscat airports, bringing the total destinations to 24. Of these, three are international destinations and 21 are domestic.
They are Qurayyat, AlUla, Ar'ar, Baha, Dawadmi, Tabuk, Al-Ahsa, Al-Wajh, Turaif, Qaissoumah, Yanbu, Sharourah, Taif, Bisha, Rafha, Al-Jouf, Wadi Al-Dawasir, Hail, Najran, Jazan and Abha.
After completion of the 24 domestic destinations, the number of passengers is expected to reach 147,184 while luggage pieces will total 50,746 on board 1,158 weekly flights.
The King Abdulaziz International Airport Project includes a 3-story hotel having 120 rooms, 81 prayer areas, a sophisticated system for handling passengers' luggage with a total length of conveyor belts reaching 34 km, green areas totaling 18,000 sq. meters inside the terminals.
The designs and technologies of the new airport are derived from the Kingdom's environment in general and the environment of Historical Jeddah, in particular.
The total area of the new King Abdulaziz International Airport project is approximately 105 sq. km. Phase One of the airport project comprises important and mega utilities.
They include a complex for passenger terminals with a total area of 810 sq. meters that will accommodate all the air carriers to work under one roof. A total area of 27,987 sq. meters inside the terminals complex will be allotted for commercial investment.
The number of services counters total 220, in addition to 80 self-service machines for passenger use. There are 46 gates for international and domestic flights.
Among these are several gates that can accommodate giant aircrafts, in addition to 94 mobile ramps for serving planes of various sizes at the rate of two ramps per gate, five terminals for first and business class passengers, two terminals for passengers departing on international flights, and two terminals for passengers traveling on domestic flights. As to the fifth terminal, it is for transit passengers continuing their journeys on international and domestic flights.
The project has a 136-meter-high control tower, which is one of the highest in the world, and a mosque that can accommodate 3,000 worshipers. It has an external courtyard that can be used for worshipers to pray in.
Apart from these, the new airport project has an advanced luggage handling system with conveyor belts totaling 346 km in length. It is linked to the latest multiple-level security systems. The project has a fish aquarium that is 5.13 meters long and 10 meters wide.
The project has a train station that is linked to the Haramain High Speed Rail, and 4-story short period parking lots that can accommodate 8,200 cars. The public parking lots will be equipped with electronic devices that will enable the car owner to locate his car.
Apart from these, there are the long period parking lots that can accommodate 4,356 vehicles. These are divided into two parts — those for buses and can accommodate 48 buses and the second part is allotted for taxis and can accommodate 651 vehicles, apart from 1,222 vehicles for rent-a-car companies.
There are other parking lots for airport employees and workers, which can accommodate 7,187 cars. The airport project has two fully equipped information centers linked with optic fiber cables and a 36.5 km long road network comprising several tunnels and bridges.
The civil aviation market in the Kingdom has witnessed tremendous growth in air traffic. In this regard, the number of passengers in the Kingdom's airports in 2018 exceeded 98 million, with a 7.4 percent increase compared to the previous year. Similarly, the number of flights in 2018 increased by 3.4 percent compared to the previous year when it reached 773,000 flights.


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