Sharjah International Airport (Arabic: مطار الشارقة الدولي) (IATA: SHJ, ICAO: OMSJ) is located in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Sharjah Central Souq - Shopping Mall The flag of Sharjah The Emirate of Sharjah (Arabic: الشارقة ash-shaariqah) extends along approximately 16 kilometres of the United Arab Emiratess Persian Gulf coastline and for more than 80 kilometres into the interior. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre (American English:meter) is a measure of length. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre (American English:meter) is a measure of length. ... Asphalt is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Sharjah Central Souq - Shopping Mall The flag of Sharjah The Emirate of Sharjah (Arabic: الشارقة ash-shaariqah) extends along approximately 16 kilometres of the United Arab Emiratess Persian Gulf coastline and for more than 80 kilometres into the interior. ...

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Statistics

The number of passengers passing through Sharjah International Airport has drastically increased in the past decade. ^[1]

Airlines and destinations

• African Express Airways (Nairobi)
• Air Arabia (Aleppo, Alexandria, Almaty, Amman, Asyut, Astana, Bahrain, Beirut, Chennai, Colombo, Damascus, Dammam, Doha, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Jaipur, Jeddah, Kabul, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kochi, Kuwait, Latakia, Luxor, Mumbai, Muscat, Nagpur, Peshawar, Riyadh, Sanaa, Sharm-el-Sheik, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Thiruvananthapuram, Yerevan)
• Air India Express (Kozhikode, Kochi)
• Air Italy (Male, Verona)
• Airlines 400 (Adler-Sochi, Kabul)
• Airwest (Kabul, Khartoum)
• Anikay Air (Bishkek)
• Aria Tour (Bandar Abbas)
• AVE.com (Chelyabinsk, Samara)
• Belair (Basel/Mulhouse, Goa)
• British Gulf International Airlines (Baghdad, Kandahar)
• China Southern Airlines (Jeddah, Urumqi)
• Click Airways (Baghdad)
• Condor Airlines (Frankfurt, Munich)
• Dagestan Airlines (Makhachkala)
• Djibouti Airlines (Djibouti)
• Egyptair (Cairo)
• Elbrus Avia (Nalchik)
• Georgian National Airlines (Baghdad)
• Imtrec Aviation (Kabul)
• Jubba Airways
• Indian Airlines (Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kochi)
• Kish Air (Bandar Abbas, Kish Island)
• Kuban Airlines (Krasnodar)
• Luxor Air (Alexandria, Borg el Arab)
• Mak Air (Karaganda)
• Martinair (Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Sydney)
• MyTravel Airways (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda, Gothenburg, Malmö, only charter)
• Orbit Aviation (Gwadar, Turbat)
• Pakistan International Airlines (Lahore)
• Royal Brunei Airlines (Bandar Seri Begawan, Frankfurt, Jeddah)
• Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Medina, Muscat)
• Sudan Airways (Khartoum)
• Sudanese State Aviation (Khartoum)
• Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus, Delhi)
• Tajik Air (Dushanbe)
• Tenir Airlines (Baghdad)
• Tiramavia (Kabul)
• Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
• Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)

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Cargo airlines

• Azza Transport
• Cathay Pacific Cargo
• Cargoitalia
• Cargolux
• Egyptair Cargo
• Kalitta Air (Amsterdam)
• Lufthansa Cargo
• Singapore Airlines Cargo
• Shub n Sudhir airways (INDIA)

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Incidents

On 10 February 2004, a Kish Air Fokker F50 crashed at approach, killing 43 of its 46 occupants, which consisted of 6 crew and 40 passengers^[2]. is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kish Air (in Persian: کیش ایر) is an airline based in Tehran, Iran. ... Fokker F50 VLM Airlines Fokker F50 The Fokker F50 was a small turboprop-powered airliner designed as a refinement of and successor to the highly successful Fokker Friendship. ...

References

1. ^ statistics on the official site
2. ^ Khaleej Times Online: article about Kish Air crash

External links

• Sharjah Airport
• Sharjah International Airport
• World Aero Data airport information for OMSJ