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Welcome to Bahrain
Hello guys and welcome to Bahrain International Airport. This Airport serves as the gateway into Bahrain and is home to their national flag carrier Gulf Air with also catering for 38 commercial and cargo airlines. Bahrain International also serves as one of many gateways into the gulf region with GCC counties being within 1 hour of each other. It had 8.7 million passengers pass through its terminal in 2023 along with 130,000 aircraft movements and an impressive 4,700 bags at peak hours.
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HISTORY
It all began for Bahrain International Airport in 1927 when a charted flight arrived. In 2008 the Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) was formed and two years later it took over operations and is now the managing body for BIA which also has a reputation to maintain as it has been an attractive hub for airlines and tourists. In 1932 BIA marked another historic occasion as the first commercial arrived making Bahrain as a whole the first GCC country to operate a commercial international airport, with its geographical location it further cemented themselves as a key aviation hub. Since then BIA has connected the world and served as an important airport in the Middle East with connecting Bahrain to the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
Fun Fact - The Concorde landed in Bahrain in 1976 with HH Shaik Khalifa bin Salman on board as a guest of honour arriving from London with the flight only lasting one and half hours!
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TERMINALS AND GATES
Main/East Apron - All the commercial airlines use the main apron and east apron. Both aprons consist of 42 gates in total. All wide body aircraft must park at the gates ending in Bravo (Figure 1) and narrow bodies will park at gate ending in Alpha or Charlie but they can also use the Bravo gates if permitted.
Figure 1
Red Outline = Main Apron
Blue Circles = Where the wide bodies must park (narrow bodies too)
Green Scribbles = Where narrow bodies can park
The West Apron, Cargo and Executive Apron
The West Apron is where all the cargo and executive flights depart from (Figure 2). There are a total of 9 gates for cargo operations. This apron can even handle both the 747-400 and the 747-8
The Middle Apron
The middle apron in other words is the Awal Private Terminal is where those VIP guests and government officials depart from (Figure 5). There are a total of 5 gates for this luxury terminal
Figure 5
Yellow Outline = Middle Apron Remote
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RUNWAYS
Runways
12L / 30R - ILS Equipped for both ends with a length of 12990 x 196ft, itβs an asphalt runway and the only runway in operation at BIA
12R / 30L - No ILS available both ends with a length of 8297ft x 147ft. This is an asphalt runway. There is an active NOTAM for this runway and in real life this runway is closed and is to be used as taxiway ONLY.
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STARS AND SIDS
SIDS
There are no SIDS due to the fact Dammam and Doha isnβt far from Bahrain which means aircraft will have to make an adjacent turn away from Saudi Arabia to avoid busting with aircraft near Dammam and Doha. Although there are departure charts to follow for pilots for 12L / 30R unless instructed otherwise by ATC.
STARS
There are two STARS available at Bahrain. KOBOK1 Arrival and LADNA1 Arrival.
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AIRLINES AND DESTINATIONS
These are the airlines that serve BIA and their destinations.
Air Arabia
Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Sharjah
Air India
India - Delhi
Air India Express
Delhi, Kannur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Thiruvananthapuram
AJet
Istanbul-Sabina Gâkçen
Azerbaijan Airlines
Baku
British Airways
London Heathrow
Egyptair
Cairo
Emirates
Dubai-International
Ethiopian Airlines
Addis Ababa
Etihad Airways
Abu Dhabi
Fly Dubai
Dubai-International
Fly Jinnah
Islamabad
Flynas
Medina, Riyadh
Gulf Air
Abu Dhabi, Amman, Al-Qassim, Athens, Baku, Bnagalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Bodrum, Cairo, Casablanca, Chennai, Colombo, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai-International, Faisalabad, Frankfurt, Goa, Guangzhou, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jeddah, Karachi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Kuwait City, Lahore, Larnaca, London Heathrow, MalΓ©, Manchester, Manila, Medina, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Multan, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Najaf, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Peshawar, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Shanghai-Pudong, Sialkot, Singapore, Tbilisi,
Sesonal - Alexandria, Al Ula, Geneva, Malaga, Mykonos, Nice, Rhodes, Salalah, Santorini, Sharm El Sheik
Seasonal Charter - Sarajevo, Tirana, Trabzon
Suspended - Tel Aviv
IndiGo
Kochi, Mumbai
Jazeera Airways
Kuwait City
Kuwait Airways
Kuwait City
Oman Air
Muscat
Pakistan International Airlines
Lahore
Pegasus Airlines
Istanbul-Sabiha Gâkçen
Seasonal- Trabzon
Qatar Airways
Doha
Red Wings Airlines
Sochi
Royal Jordanian
Amman-Queen Alia
SalamAir
Muscat, Salalah
Saudia
Jeddah, Riyadh
Smartwings
Seasonal Charter - Bratislava, Prague
(Commences 23 October 2024)
Southwind Airlines
Antalya, Trabzon
SunExpress
Charter - Antalya, Bursa, Istanbul-Sabiha Gâkçen, Trabzon
Turkish Airlines
Istanbul, Trabzon
CARGO
AeroLogic
Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Leipzig/Halle, Singapore
DHL
Abu Dhabi, Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Baghdad, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Brussels, Cairo, Cincinnati, Dubai-International, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jeddah, Kandahar, Karachi, Kuwait City, Lahore, Liège, New York-JFK, Sharjah
Emirates SkyCargo
Dubai-Al Maktoum
Lufthansa Cargo
Frankfurt
Qatar Airways Cargo
Doha
SpiceXpress
Delhi
Turkish Cargo
Istanbul
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Iβll make sure I will keep this thread up to date should there be any changes and donβt hesitate to let me know if theyβre any errors. This is my first guide so I hope you didnβt expect to much. Other than that thanks for your time and reading through my guide!