In 1998, it handled just more than eight million passengers and had 60,000 aircraft movements.īy 2003, this figure had almost doubled to more than 14 million passengers and 124,516 aircraft movements. King Khaled International Airport has witnessed a steady increase in passengers during the last two decades. The airport is currently operated by the international airport management company Fraport AG, which is most well-known for managing Frankfurt Airport. The triangular base of each terminal measures 47,500m². Each building is 168m in length.Įach of the triangular-shaped terminals has eight gates, which all have air bridges installed to facilitate transfers between the terminal buildings and waiting aircraft. King Khaled Airport is designed with all four terminals within one main building, which are connected to each other by three linking buildings. Design of King Khaled International Airport The expansion is part of a larger $4.4bn development and expansion programme by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). It also includes 30 counters for departure and 48 counters for passport control. The project is a part of the Riyadh Development Projects and includes 14 travel gates and 80 check-in counters. The underground service tunnel under the tarmac T is also completed and the project rate completion was 11.65% in November 2019.
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The $1.45bn contract includes the redesign, upgrade and expansion of Terminals 3 and 4, and demolition and refurbishment of the other airport infrastructure.ĭemolition and removal work was completed by November 2019. The joint venture of Hochtief, Shapoorji Pallonji Mideast and Nahdat Al Emaar was selected as the technical and commercial lead of the expansion project in June 2015. King Khaled International Airport expansion project The new Terminal 5 was inaugurated in 2016 to handle more than 12 million passengers per year. With a total of four terminals, one of the world’s tallest air control towers, a mosque and two parallel 4,205m-long runways, King Khaled Airport serves as the gateway to Saudi Arabia’s largest city. When the airport opened in 1983, it became the largest in the world in terms of ground area, originally covering 225km², only to be surpassed in 1999 by another Saudi Arabian airport, Dammam’s King Fahd International. It was designed by the US-based architecture-engineering firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK). King Khaled International Airport is located 35km north of Saudi Arabia’s capital city Riyadh.
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