Muscat: Abu Dhabi International Airport will undergo a name change in February next year, following the opening of the new Terminal A.
Under the directives of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, the aviation hub’s new official name will be Zayed International Airport.
The new Terminal A, which will start functioning on November 1, spans 742,000 square meters and has an annual capacity of 45 million passengers, with the ability to accommodate 79 aircraft at a time.
The new airport was also featured in Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One’.
Airlines will transition into Terminal A in 3 phases over a period of 2 weeks.
Terminal A is one of the largest airport terminals in the world. The Terminal will double the current airport capacity, which can accommodate up to 45 million passengers per year. At triple the size of the previous Terminal, and with flights to 117 destinations worldwide, it will increase both the frequency and reach of flights to and from Abu Dhabi.
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