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King Abdulaziz International Airport is a major aviation hub in Saudi Arabia, which is popularly known as Jeddah Airport, which his situated at about 19 km from the Jeedah city. Jeddah is the capital city of Saudi, an a large number of people from all over the world come to this destination yearly.
Jeddah Airport operations
Jeddah Airport is the busiest among the airports in Saudi Arabia and there are a huge number of flights operating from here to different parts of the world. The airport is named after King Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and was opened in year 1981.
Jeddah Airport is the third largest airport in the Kingdom of Saudi. The total area of the airport is about 15 square kilometers and the airport also consists of a royal terminal and also functions as the base of Royal Saudi Air Force. Many leading global airliners operates from this airport, offering excellent connectivity to the rest of the world
Hajj Terminal
Jeddah is very close to Mecca, which is the holy city of the global Muslim community. A large number of pilgrims comes to Mecca every year for Hajj and majority of them flies to Jeddah International Airport. During the time of Hajj and Ramadan, many chartered flights are also operated to Jeddah from different parts of the world.
There is a special Hajj Terminal in the Jeddah Airport, which is specially designed to handle the pilgrims and for the users to perform the rituals related to the holy Hajj. The terminal has the capacity to accommodate more than about 80,000 people at a time. Learn more about Jeddah Airport at Cleartrip.