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Aqaba Airport ❲also known as King Hussein Int'l Airport (IATA: AQJ, ICAO: OJAQ)❳ (Arabic: مطارالملك الحسين الدولي) is an airport located in the vicinity of Industrial City (Aqaba International Industrial Estate – مدينة العقبة الصناعية الدولية), northern suburb of Aqaba in Jordan.

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King Hussein International Airport مطار الملك حسين الدولي Maṭār al-Malik Ḥusayn al-Duwalī
IATA: AQJ ICAO: OJAQ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aqaba Airports Company
Serves	Aqaba, Jordan
Focus city for	Royal Jordanian
Elevation AMSL	173 ft / 53 m
Coordinates	29°36′41.83″N 35°1′5.04″E
Website	www.aac.jo
Map
AQJ Location of airport in Jordan
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 01/19 9,842 3,000 Asphalt

Overview

The location of Aqaba is unusual, for within a 15 miles (24 km) radius there are three other countries, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel. The airport has a single runway equipped with a category 1 instrument landing system (ILS). Thanks to its normally excellent weather conditions, the airport is rarely closed, though strong southerly winds bring sandstorms across the Red Sea from Egypt.

The airport has a single 28,000 sq ft (2,600 m²) terminal building with just one departure gate and one baggage carousel, though the building is being extended. The facilities can cope when there is one aircraft to be handled, but on some occasions when there are three aircraft being turned around simultaneously things can become somewhat crowded. The capacity of the Terminal at present is 1.5 million passengers a year. There are also separate buildings for General Aviation and a Royal Pavilion – King Abdullah II owns a palace along the shoreline and regularly visits. The Royal Jordanian Air Academy are regular visitors on land-away cross country training exercises. Annual passenger figures have risen from around 20,000 per year in the early days to over 90,000 in the year 2000. There are currently around 3,000 aircraft movements a year. A significant proportion of these are training flights, including those of the Royal Jordanian Air Force.

The largest operator at Aqaba is Royal Jordanian. It operates about 10 flights a week to Amman, though extras are frequently scheduled, sometimes to coincide with passenger changeover on cruise ships. The airline operates Embraer E175 Regional Jets that undertake the journey in 45 minutes. These jets have replaced the Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft used by the Royal Wings subsidiary and have a total of 72 seats, 10 of which are business class. The airline also undertakes about six charter flights to Europe, with European charter airlines adding a further dozen. Aqaba is an airport that can handle the largest jets.

Just across the border in Israel and nominally serving Eilat a new airport called Ramon Airport opened in 2019 despite earlier proposals to jointly develop airport infrastructure in the region following the Israel Jordan Peace Treaty of 1994.[1][2]

Facilities

Annual Capacity 1,000,000, The airport has 4 check-in desks, 2 gates, a cargo building and a cargo apron together with a parallel taxiway. The airport has one baggage claim belt, 200 short-term parking spaces, a post office, bank, cafeterias, VIP lounge, duty-free shop, and gift shops, and a clinic. The airport includes also buildings for the Ayla Aviation Academy, the Royal Jordanian Academy, the Aero Wings for Industry's assembly plant for light planes, the Jordan Private Jets Services (JPJets)'s private jet terminal, and the Al Baddad International Group's maintenance centre.[3] A new cargo terminal (6000 m²) and a new cargo apron (220 m × 600 m) opened in January 2005.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Aqaba Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
easyJet	Seasonal: Berlin, Geneva, London–Gatwick
Edelweiss Air	Zurich (begins 2 February 2023)[4]
European Air Charter	Seasonal charter: Sofia[5]
Nordwind Airlines	Seasonal charter: Moscow–Sheremetyevo[6]
Royal Jordanian	Amman–Queen Alia
Ryanair	Seasonal: Bergamo, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Rome–Ciampino, Sofia, Vienna
Smartwings	Seasonal charter: Bratislava[citation needed]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul
Ural Airlines	Seasonal charter: Moscow–Domodedovo[7]
Wizz Air	Abu Dhabi[8] Seasonal: Bucharest,[9] Budapest,[9] Warsaw–Chopin (begins 13 December 2022)[10]

References

External links

• King Hussein International Airport - Jordan Airport Global Website
• Official facebook page

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Akaba

Der Flughafen Akaba, offiziell King Hussein International Airport (arabisch مطار الملك حسين الدولي, DMG Maṭar al-Malik Ḥusain ad-Duwalī genannt; ICAO-Code OJAQ, IATA-Code AQJ), ist der Flughafen nahe der jordanischen Stadt Akaba am Roten Meer.

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- [en] King Hussein International Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto Internacional Rey Husein

El Aeropuerto Internacional Rey Husein[1] (en árabe: مطار الملك حسين الدولي; IATA: AQJ, ICAO: OJAQ) es un aeropuerto situado en las inmediaciones de la Ciudad Industrial, suburbio norte de la Aqaba en Jordania.[2][3][4] La ubicación en Aqaba es algo inusual pues, dentro de un radio de 24 km (15 millas) se encuentran las fronteras de tres países: Israel, Arabia Saudita y Egipto. El aeropuerto cuenta con una pista equipada con un sistema de aterrizajes por instrumentos de categoría 1 (ILS). Gracias a sus prevalentes buenas condiciones climáticas, el aeropuerto casi siempre está operativo y rara veces ha debido ser cerrado, y solo por fuertes vientos del sur que arrastran ocasionales tormentas de arena que atraviesan el Mar Rojo desde Egipto. El aeropuerto Rey Husein dispone de una terminal de pasajeros de 2.600 m² (28 000 pies cuadrados), con banda carrusel de entrega de equipaje. El edificio se encuentra en proceso de ampliación. La capacidad de la terminal área en la actualidad permite el transporte de 1,5 millones de viajeros al año.

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[fr] Aéroport international Roi-Hussein

L'aéroport international Roi-Hussein (code IATA : AQJ • code OACI : OJAQ), est un aéroport situé à Aqaba, en Jordanie.

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