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126,700[ 2] King Abdulaziz International Airport[ a] ( IATA: JED, ICAO: OEJN, colloquially referred to as Jeddah Airport, Jeddah International Airport, or KAIA ), is a major international airport serving the cities of Jeddah and Mecca in Saudi Arabia, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Jeddah and covering an area of 105 square kilometres ...
A Saudia domestic flight coming from Riyadh landed at 11 a.m. at the new Prince Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz International Airport in Madinah, marking the start of the airport's test run operations. Flight SV1435 was the first to land at the airport. Another aircraft, flight SV1476, then took off at 11:45, the first ever to take off from the new ...
In aviation, a flight information region ( FIR) is a specified region of airspace in which a flight information service and an alerting service (ALRS) are provided. [ 1] The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) delegates which country is responsible for the operational control of a given FIR. FIRs are the largest regular division of ...
Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 was a chartered passenger flight from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Sokoto, Nigeria, on 11 July 1991, which caught fire shortly after takeoff from King Abdulaziz International Airport and crashed while attempting to return for an emergency landing, killing all 247 passengers and 14 crew members on board. [ 1][ 2] The ...
King Fahd International Airport. Jeddah. Makkah (Mecca) OEJN. JED. King Abdulaziz International Airport. Ha'il.
UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2019; Aviation Safety Network - IATA and ICAO airport codes; Great Circle Mapper - IATA, ICAO and FAA airport codes
A flight information display system ( FIDS) is a computer system used in airports to display flight information to passengers, in which a computer system controls mechanical or electronic display boards or monitors in order to display arriving and departing flight information in real-time. The displays are located inside or around an airport ...
On 23 April 2017, a Saudia Airbus A330-300 (registration HZ-AQK) operating as Flight 768 from Jeddah to Chennai International Airport diverted to King Fahd International Airport after the pilots received indication of a landing gear malfunction approximately 180 nmi (330 km; 210 mi) east-southeast of Dammam. The flight entered a holding pattern ...