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King Khaled Airport
Airport Directory » Saudi Arabia » Riyadh » King Khaled AirportKing Khalid International Airport (IATA: RUH, ICAO: OERK) (Arabic: مطار الملك خالد الدولي) is turn up 35 kilometres (approximately 21.75 land mile) northward of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, projected by the architectural company HOK.
The airport includes the depots, mosque, the control tower and 2 parallel landing track, each 4200 metres long. It has been build to see the increasing international and local air transport demands for Riyadh district.
It is an alternative districting location for NASA's Space Shuttle.
Air Traffic Control Tower
Centrally turn up in the rider depot complex, between the Royal Pavilion and the mosque is the air traffic control tower. At 81 metres high, it is amongst the tallest control tower in the world.
There are 19 separate floor stages in the tower, including the functioning area at the ground of the tower and a aggregative of 1,230 square meter of floor infinite. Six of the 19 flooring are see independent flooring. These include the operational stage at the ground of the tower, 2 equipment flooring, an observation floor, a service floor and the taxi floor at the top of the tower from which the air traffic comptrollers overlook the entire airport. The functioning floor houses the radio detection and ranging control centre for the airport as good as conference appartment, business office and a preparation area . The 2 equipment stage incorporate mechanical and electrical equipment and cables, and the service floor incorporates a kitchen, lounge and cans for force on responsibility in the taxi. The taxi itself incorporates comptroller functioning places and electronic and communication equipment. The tower is provided with 2 beginning of standby influence should the regular begin of influence be cut off. Once begin is the standby influence provide at the central influence constitute – 3 diesel motor generators. In addition, a 300 kW diesel motor turn up in the tower itself is able to supply a secondary begin of pinch influence. The tower is fit out with the most progressed electronic microwave radar systems and data functioning equipment available.
Transportation
Moving pavements
Passengers travel from 1 depot to another at King Khalid International Airport is able to apply locomoting pavements for transportation system. The travel paseos, the 1st to be set up at anybody Saudi airport, are turn up in the 3 link up constructions that link up the International and Domestic depots.
There is a aggregative of 1,196 m of the walks, which are really broad transporter which function at floor stage and travel at a velocity of close to 1 m per 2nd.
Additional rider conveniences in the depot complex include 80 lifts and moving staircase. In the parkland garages, 16 moving staircase are supplied and 2 assist the mosque.
The lifts, moving staircase and travel paseos all have the latest safety equipment set up. Should a fire hap, the lifts would automatically be call up to the independent flooring and the doors opened. The moving staircase and travel pavements are fit out with fire and fume sensors which will do them to halt automatically should a fire be observed.
Parking Facilities
Two big three-level garages have been build direct in front end of the rider depots, 1 on either side of the airport mosque. They are linked to the depots and to the mosque by pedestrian walks under the reaches stage roadway. The project capacity of the garages is 11,600 vehicles. The garages are made of cast-in-place concrete and each covered stage is four metres high. Escalators and lifts are available in these garages, as good as staircases between the different stages.
Airbridges
KKIA was the 1st airport in the Kingdom to set up airbridges, to accelerate deal and turnaround times. Each depot has 8 entrances with airbridges efficaciously extinguishing the take for coach journeying between the depot constructions and waiting aircraft.
Statistics
King Khalid International Airport has had steadily increasing rider figure.
| Year | Total Passengers | Total Aircraft Movements |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 8,021,000 | 60,464 |
| 1999 | 8,200,000 | 63,106 |
| 2000 | 9,379,000 | 84,881 |
| 2001 | 11,702,000 | 94,797 |
| 2002 | 12,021,000 | 104,886 |
| 2003 | 14,138,000 | 124,516 |
| 2010 ESTIMATE | 22,138,000 | 174,516 |
The Mosque
The project of KKIA Mosque is 1 of the most distinct landmarks in the airport by moral excellence of its Islamic architecture. It is able to adapt 5,000 worshippers inside and another 5,000 in the shopping centre outside. Its place in the centre of the rider depot constitutes it as the most eminent building on the airport and makes it the 1st sight visitants see as they go forth the reaching area . The bonce is 33 m in diam and towers 40 m above the reaches stage roadway, higher than all of the other building in the rider complex with the exclusion of the control tower and minaret.
In the northeast corner of the mosque shopping mall, a minaret arises 39 m above the shopping center stage. A spiral staircase inside the minaret furnishes access to speaker unit that broadcast the daily 5 clips name supplications. There are 5030 square meter of floor infinite on the independent floor of the mosque and another 765 square meter on the entresol. A Koranic library off of the independent mosque floor has 50 square meter of user infinite and the same amount of money for storage infinite. The library, private business office and cans are turn up alongside the southeastward on southwest walls.
Landscaping
KKIA has more than 500,000 square meter of landscaping. Over 225,000 trees, vines, bushes and groundcover constitutes were used to landscape the airport location and the inside courts. A factor in the landscape project was the limited accessibility of irrigation water. All of the constitutes pick out for the location are tolerant of heat energy, air current and dry grunge statuses. Wherever possible, constitutes with a history of successful development in the Riyadh area or similar environments were take.
Safety
This installation has 5 separate Fire Houses, with several modern fire contending vehicles, and prepared fire-eater. The place also has security equipment and a private security force.
History
The United States Air Force efficaciously took over these installations temporarily from August 1990 through May 1991 as an airbase for forward pass refueling tank ship functioning in back up of the Gulf War. The armed forces unit found here was the 1703rd Air Refueling Wing (Provisional).
The 1703rd ARW(P) was consisted primarily of KC-135 Stratotankers and used the northward western fire station as its home base of air functioning. These tank ship functioning were back up by Patriot Missile battery components of the United States Army's fifth Battalion 52d Air Defense Artillery, a big contingent of Security Forces from F. E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as good as little French and New Zealand armed forces contingents of the Gulf conflict alliance.
In addition, during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the airport was the place to 205 General Evacuation Hospital RAMC of the British Army, who were adapted at the nearby Singles Compound.
Commercial depots
Terminal one
This depot is used for international voyages:
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Air Arabia | Sharjah |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air India | Calicut, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Trivandrum |
| Ariana Afghan Airlines | Kabul |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna |
| Biman Bangladesh Airlines | Dhaka |
| bmi | London-Heathrow |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow |
| Cathay Pacific | Hong Kong |
| Cyprus Airways | Larnaca |
| EgyptAir | Alexandria, Cairo |
| Emirates | Dubai |
| Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi |
| Garuda Indonesia | Jakarta |
| Gulf Air | Bahrain, Kathmandu |
| Jazeera Airways | Kuwait |
| Jet Airways | Mumbai |
| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Doha |
| Middle East Airlines | Beirut |
| Nas Air (Saudi Arabia) | Damascus |
| Oman Air | Muscat |
| Pakistan International Airlines | Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar |
| Pamir Airways | Dubai, Kabul |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca, Cairo |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman |
| Sama Airlines | Amman |
| Singapore Airlines | Dubai, Singapore |
| Srilankan Airlines | Colombo |
| Sudan Airways | Khartoum |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich |
| Syrian Arab Airlines | Damascus |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| Yemenia | Sana'a |
Terminal two
This depot is used by Saudi Arabian Airlines international voyages:
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Alexandria, Algiers, Amman, Asmara, Athens, Bahrain, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Cairo, Casablanca, Chennai, Colombo, Dakar, Damascus, Delhi, Dhaka, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kochi, Kuala Lumpur-Sepang, Kuwait, Lahore, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Manila, Milan-Malpensa, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Doha, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Peshawar, Rome-Fiumicino, Salalah, Sana'a, Sharjah, Singapore, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tunis, Vienna, Washington-Dulles |
Terminal three
This Terminal is used by Saudi Arabian Airlines domestic voyages:
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Nas Air (Saudi Arabia) | Dammam, Gurayat, Jeddah, Madinah |
| Sama Airlines | Jeddah, Dammam, Medinah, Gizan |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Abha, AlAhsa, AlBaha, Arar, Bisha, Dammam, Dawadmi, Gassim, Gurayat, Hafar Al-Batin, Ha'il, Jizan, Jeddah, Jouf, King Khalid Military City, Madinah, Najran, Qaisumah, Rafha, Sharurah, Tabuk, Taif, Turaif, Wadi Ad Dawasir, Wedjh, Yanbu |
Terminal four
Currently unused (Closed).
All these depots are plugged in to each other by averages of 3 link up constructions, These constructions are 168 metres long. Each depot is triangularly characteristic, it has a triangular ground of 47,500 sq m area . The complex includes a modern VIPs depot plus eating house, cafeterias, air hose business office, government department, hotels and rent-a-car corporations counters, banks, 1st help clinics and commercial stores.
Other Terminals
The Royal Terminal
Heads of province and other high-ranking VIP visitants to the Kingdom are recognised in the Royal Pavilion. The Royal Pavilion has open infinites, garden area , and fountains. A ceremonial hallway 12.5 m broad and 390 metres long links it to the mosque. The project and geometry of the construction are like to those of the other depots architecturally and in the esthetic regard. Arriving invitees is able to use either air spans or moving stairway to move into the construction from the aircraft parking area . The ceremonial area on the airside has infinite for special responses regarding guard of honor and sets. Like the rider depots, the Royal Pavilion has a triangular programme, with a roof composed of 33 curved subdivisions come up to a high point 30 m above the ground stage. Glass walls and windows light up the inside of the construction.
General Aviation Terminal
A General Aviation Complex has been build northward of landing track number one for use by private aircraft and is hit by a special slip road which runs northward from the airport access main road. The civil aviation installation includes a rider depot, aircraft parkland and care installations, taxi strip and parking for visitants, renters and staff. In addition to privately-owned aircraft, this installation adapts Saudia’s special voyage services group. It's also place to Al-Salam Aircraft Corporation. Programmed Depot Maintenance (PDM) on Royal Saudi Air Force aircraft is do at the unambiguously projected installation.
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