Damascus International Airport

Damascus International Airport مطار دمشق الدولي
IATA: DAM – ICAO: OSDI DAM Location of airport in Syria
Summary
Airport type		Joint (Civil and Military)
Operator		Directorate General of Civil Aviation
Location		Damascus
Hub for		Syrian Air
Elevation AMSL		2,020 ft / 616 m
Coordinates		33°24′41.48″N 36°30′56.01″E / 33.4115222°N 36.5155583°E / 33.4115222; 36.5155583Coordinates: 33°24′41.48″N 36°30′56.01″E / 33.4115222°N 36.5155583°E / 33.4115222; 36.5155583
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
05R/23L	11,811	3,600	Asphalt
05L/23R	11,804	3,598	Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers			5,500,000

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

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Air Algérie	Algiers
Air Arabia	Sharjah
Air France	Amman-Queen Alia, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
bmi	London-Heathrow
Caspian Airlines	Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Cham Wings Airlines	Baghdad, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Malmö, Najaf, Sharm el-Sheikh
Conviasa	Caracas
EgyptAir	Cairo
Emirates	Dubai
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi
flydubai	Dubai
Gulf Air	Bahrain
Iran Aseman Airlines	Shiraz
Iran Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Iraqi Airways	Arbil, Baghdad, Najaf
Jazeera Airways	Kuwait
Kish Air	Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Kuwait Airways	Kuwait
Libyan Airlines	Benghazi, Tripoli
Mahan Air	Mashhad, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Malev Hungarian Airlines	Budapest
Nas Air	Riyadh
Qatar Airways	Doha
Royal Jordanian	Amman-Queen Alia
Saudi Arabian Airlines	Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh
Sudan Airways	Khartoum
Syrian Air	Abu Dhabi, Aleppo, Algiers, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain , Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Cairo, Copenhagen, Dammam, Deir el Zor, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Kameshli, Khartoum, Kuwait, Larnaca, Latakia, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Vnukovo, Paris-Orly, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Vienna
Syrian Pearl	Aleppo, Deir El Zor, Kameshli
Taban Air	Isfahan
Tunisair	Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk
UM Airlines	Kiev-Boryspil
Yemenia	Sana'a

Cargo airlines

Damascus International Airport

Airlines	Destinations
Cargolux	Manila, Sharjah, Luxembourg
DHL Express
Fedex Express

Accidents and incidents

• On 10 November 1970, a Douglas DC-3 of Saudi Arabian Airlines on a flight from Amman Civil Airport, Jordan to King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh Saudi Arabia was hijacked and diverted to Damascus Airport.^[2]

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. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19701110-0. Retrieved 20 October 2010. 

External links

	Syria portal
	Aviation portal

Media related to Damascus International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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