Sharjah International Airport  

Sharjah International Airport - airport code SHJ

Sharjah International Airport (airport code SHJ) flight information and guide. Located in the emirate of Sharjah on the Sharjah Airport Road.

Sharjah International Airport

• Sharjah Airport located on the Sharjah Airport Road (E88) from Cultural Square in Sharjah to Al Dhaid, near Sharjah University City.
• One runway, handles 220 flights per day (November 2009).
• Second runway planned, CAT III, length 4000 meters, construction period expected to be from 2010-2012.
• First flights in 1932 when Imperial Airways built a small airfield (which is now the site of the Al Mahatta Museum).
• Current Sharjah Airport built in 1977 (and it looks like a typical 1970s airport with linoleum floors and Jetsons style terminal building).
• Passenger capacity 8 million per year. Passengers handled 5.3 million in 2008, 6 million expected for 2009. Second terminal in planning stages.

Some figures based on Gulf News report of new runway 13 November 2009.

Sharjah Airport traffic growth facts, figures, statistics

• 2009 & 2010 data from WAM news release 24 January 2011. Additional information - marine-air cargo volume 66,665 tonnes, up 32.39% from 50,355 tonnes in 2009.

Flights to and from Sharjah Airport (SHJ)

See also Air Arabia flights. List below is not complete yet.

• Air India Express IX (budget) - CCJ, COK, TRV
• Air India Express Kochi-Sharjah flights suspended from 07 Sep to 31 Oct 2010 due to pilot shortages (Khaleej Times report 06 September 2010). Or not, according to later reports¹. Air India Gulf Regional Manager, Abhay Pathak, was quoted as saying "Cabin crew are not supposed to exceed 1,000 hours of flying in a year. We are doing this rescheduling of flights because of this. We have some commercial requirements as well,"
• AirBlue (Pakistan) - Islamabad (15 Dec 2008), Peshawar (planned).
• Azza Air Transport (Sudan) - banned after Sharjah Airport crash in October 2009. Has been on US blacklist since 1997 after allegedly supplying weapons for the Darfur genocide.
• Eagles Aviation Management, Sharjah International Airport SAIF Zone Block D, office 30, tel +971-6-5576982, email info@eaglesam.com. Not commercial flights, and navigation doesn't appear to be too crash hot - on their website they've got Sharjah between Salalah in Oman and the Yemen border.
• Jet Airways (India) - Kochi daily (01 Sep 2009), Thiruvananthapuram daily (from 30 Oct 2011, announced 28 July 2011).
• Royal Falcon Airlines (Jordan) - Amman ADJ 2x weekly (Mar 2010)
• Safi Airways - Kabul (09 Nov 2007)
• Sun Air (Sudan) - Khartoum KRT
• Yeti Airlines - Kathmandu

1. Air India UAE flight cancellations 2010

• Air India had announced cancellations or reduction in frequencies for the following flights in September and October 2010:
  • Kochi-Sharjah (cancelled)
  • Kozhikode-Sharjah (cancelled?)
  • Thiruvananthapuram-Abu Dhabi (cancelled?)
  • Thiruvananthapuram-Dubai (cancelled?)
• However, Emirates Business 24-7 reported on 08 September that According to Hit FM, a Malayalam radio channel broadcasting from Dubai, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself intervened and assured his cabinet colleagues from Kerala that the decision to cancel flights to the Gulf, especially to Saudi Arabia and the UAE will be reversed.
• Protests in India reportedly led to the destruction of Air India offices in Trivandrum and Cochin, which will no doubt benefit everyone involved.
• It is unclear if the flights really are going to be cancelled or not.

List of Sharjah Airport crashes and accidents - history and timeline

• 21 October 2009 - Azza Air cargo plane operated by Sudan Air (Boeing 707-320C registration number ST-AKW) flight SD2241 crashed into the desert near Dubai shortly after take-off, killing all 6 crew members. Eye-witness reports said aircraft appeared to be overloaded. Blackboxes were either faulty or turned off according to November 2009 reports so cause undetermined. Azza Transport suspended from flying in UAE airspace by the GCAA shortly after accident pending results of investigation.
• 09 January 2009 - British Gulf International Airlines Antonov 12BP (registration S9-SAM) landing gear failed on takeoff causing moderate damage to the plane. No fatalities.
• 07 November 2004 - Lufthansa Boeing 747 (leased from Air Atlanta Cargo) cargo flight DLH8457 aborted takeoff and went off end of runway. Aircraft was written off, no fatalities (there were 4 crew, no passengers).
• 10 February 2004 - Kish Air Fokker-50 flight 7170 (registration EP-LCA) on a 'visa run' flight from Kish Island, Iran, crashed between Ajman and Sharjah on landing approach to Sharjah Airport, with 43 or 44 out of 46 passengers and crew killed, and the other 2 or 3 taken to hospital with serious injuries.
• 15 December 1997 - Tajikistan Airlines Tupolev 154B-1 (registration number EY-85281) flight from Khoujand in Tajikistan to Sharjah crashed on landing approach killing 6 crew and 79 passengers, with one crew member surviving the crash.
• 10 July 1960 - Gulf Aviation Douglas C-47-CL (registration VT-DGS) from Doha, Qatar, disappeared after radio contact on approach to Sharjah airport. No wreckage was found. Three crew and 13 passengers died (presumably).

Sharjah Airport key personnel

• Director General of the Sharjah International Airport Authority (SIAA) - Dr Ghanem Al Hagiri (last checked 24 Jan 2011).

Sharjah Airport contact number and details

Last update Saturday 25-Feb-2012. Page development 1H 2T 3D 4L 5C.

Related pages

• Air Arabia - UAE budget carrier based at Sharjah Airport
• Sharjah - general introduction and information guide
• Sharjah Airport Free Zone
• Visa Sharjah - start here for UAE visa information

Related websites (new window)

• www.shj-airport.gov.ae - Sharjah International Airport official website, in Arabic and English.
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