Seeb International Airport
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| Seeb International Airport | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: MCT - ICAO: OOMS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Military/Public | ||
| Operator | Oman Airports Management Company | ||
| Serves | Muscat, Oman | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 48 ft (15 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 02/20 | 2,461 | 750 | Earth/Grass |
| 08/26 | 11,775 | 3,589 | Asphalt |
Seeb International Airport (IATA: MCT, ICAO: OOMS) is the main airport in Muscat, Oman. It is a hub for Gulf Air, as well as Oman Air, the national carrier of Oman. The distance from Old Muscat is 30 km and it is 15km from the main residential localities. At the moment the airport is being expanded and modernized. The airport will be upgraded to 12 million passengers during the initial stage and subsequently to 48 million.[1] The initial stage is scheduled for completion in 2010.
In 2006, the airport experienced increases in the total number of passengers, cargo volume, and number of flights.[2]
- Total number of passengers: 4,777 million. (
26.4%) - Number of arriving passengers: 2,278 million. (
34.4%) - Number of departing passengers: 2,243 million. (
32.5%) - Number of transit passengers: 255,900. (
34.3%)
- Cargo traffic volume: 99,580 million kg. (
29.3%) - Import cargo volumes: 56,897 million kg. (
27.1%) - Export Cargo volumes: 42,683 million kg. (
32.3%)
- Aero Asia International (Karachi, Lahore)
- Air Arabia (Sharjah)
- Air India (Abu Dhabi, Delhi, Mumbai)
- Air India Express (Kozhikode, Kochi,Abu Dhabi, Mangalore, Trivandrum)
- Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Chittagong, Dhaka)
- British Airways (Abu Dhabi, London-Heathrow)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Falcon Express(Karachi)
- Gulf Air (Abu Dhabi, Amman, Athens, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok, Chennai, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jeddah, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kochi, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lahore, London-Heathrow, Manila, Mumbai, Peshawar, Riyadh, Trivandrum)
- Indian Airlines (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi)
- Iran Aseman Airlines (Shiraz, Chah Bahar)
- Jazeera Airways (Dubai) [from March 27th]
- Kish Air (Dubai)
- Kuwait Airways (Dubai, Kuwait)
- Lufthansa (Dubai, Frankfurt, Riyadh)
- Martinair Cargo (Hong Kong)
- Oman Air (Amman, Bahrain, Beirut, Cairo, Chennai, Damascus [from May 2007], Delhi, Doha, Dubai, Hyderabad, Jaipur [from June 2007], Khasab, Kochi, Lucknow [from June 2007], Mumbai, Salalah, Trivandrum)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Gwadar, Karachi, Lahore)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
- Shaheen Air International (Karachi)
- SriLankan Airlines (Colombo)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Dubai, Zürich)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok, Karachi)
- Turkish Airlines (Abu Dhabi, Istanbul-Atatürk)
- About Seeb Airport
- World Aero Data airport information for OOMS
- Article
- Oman Airports