Sana'a International Airport

El Rahaba Airport (Sana'a International)
IATA: SAH – ICAO: OYSN SAH Location of airport in Yemen
Summary
Airport type		Military/Public
Operator		N/A
Location		Sana'a
Hub for		Yemenia
Elevation AMSL		7,216 ft / 2,199 m
Coordinates		15°28′35″N 044°13′11″E / 15.47639°N 44.21972°E / 15.47639; 44.21972Coordinates: 15°28′35″N 044°13′11″E / 15.47639°N 44.21972°E / 15.47639; 44.21972
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
18/36	10,669	3,252	Asphalt

Sana'a International Airport or El Rahaba Airport (Sana'a International) (IATA: SAH, ICAO: OYSN) is an international airport located in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen. The runway is shared with a large military base with several fighter jets and transport aircraft of the Yemeni Air Force.

Airlines and destinations

Three Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft of Yemenia parked at Sana'a International Airport (2005).

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia	Sharjah
EgyptAir	Cairo
Emirates	Dubai
Felix Airways	Aden, Al Ghaydah Al Hudaydah, Riyan Mukalla, Seiyun, Sharjah, Socotra, Ta'izz, Salalah
Gulf Air	Bahrain
Qatar Airways	Doha
Royal Jordanian	Amman-Queen Alia
Saudi Arabian Airlines	Jeddah
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk
Yemenia	Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Aden, Amman, Asmara, Bahrain, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Dhaka, Djibouti, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hodeidah, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Khartoum, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Moroni, Mumbai, Riyadh, Riyan Mukalla, Seiyun, Socotra, Ta'izz

• Note: All flights operate from a single terminal. A second terminal was expected to open in 2009, but is still under construction as at January 2011.

Accidents and incidents

• On June 30, 2009, Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310^[1], flight number IY626, departed from Sana'a International Airport, en route to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport in Moroni, Comoros. Reportedly with 11 crew and 142 passengers aboard, including 66 French nationals, the aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean on approach to the destination airport. A twelve-year-old girl was the only survivor.

• On October 30, 2011, a shelling attack by opposition tribesmen on the neighboring Air Force base damaged the airport's runway, forcing incoming flights to be diverted to Aden. There were no reports of casualties, although an ammunition storage and two fighter jets were destroyed.^[2]

References

1. ^ Yemeni plane crashes with 150 aboard
2. ^ "UPDATE 2 — Mortar shells hit Yemeni Air Force Base, destroying two fighter jets". BNO News. http://wireupdate.com/news/update-2-mortar-shells-hit-yemeni-air-force-base-destroying-two-fighter-jets.html. Retrieved 31 October 2011. 

External links

	Middle East portal
	Aviation portal

• Accident history for SAH at Aviation Safety Network
• Airport information for OYSN at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
• Current weather for OYSN at NOAA/NWS
• Airport information for OYSN at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.