Damascus International Airport مطار دمشق الدولي Maṭār Dimašq al-Duwaliyy | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Joint (civil and military air base) | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Syria | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Directorate General of Civil Aviation | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Damascus, Syria | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1973[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Built | 1965 | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | AST (UTC+03:00) | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 616 m / 2,020 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°24′41″N 36°30′56″E / 33.41139°N 36.51556°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Damascus International Airport (Arabic: مَطَار دِمَشْق الدَّوْلِيّ, romanized: Maṭār Dimašq ad-Duwaliyy) (IATA: DAM, ICAO: OSDI) is the international airport of Damascus, the capital of Syria. Inaugurated in the mid-1970s, it also was the country's busiest airport. In 2010, an estimated 5.5 million passengers used the airport, an increase of more than 50% since 2004.[2] The ongoing civil war has caused many airlines to terminate their flights to and from Damascus, cutting much of the city's population off from international flights.
The airport has also been previously damaged many times in airstrikes carried out by the Israel Air Force. Damascus International Airport serves as a primary gateway to Syria and is one of the largest airports in the country along with Aleppo International Airport and Bassel Al-Assad International Airport.
- ^ "New Damascus International Airport". centreforaviation.com. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ "The Report: Syria 2010" Archived 29 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine,