Ta’if Regional Airport

Ta'if Regional Airport
IATA: TIF – ICAO: OETF TIF Location of airport in Saudi Arabia
Summary
Airport type	Military/Public
Operator	Military of Saudi Arabia
Serves	Ta’if
Location	Ta’if, Saudi Arabia
Elevation AMSL	4,848 ft / 1,478 m
Coordinates	21°29′0.24″N 40°32′29.48″E / 21.4834000°N 40.5415222°E
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 07/25 12,254 3,735 Asphalt 17/35 10,991 3,350 Asphalt

Ta’if Regional Airport (IATA: TIF, ICAO: OETF) is an airport in Ta’if, Saudi Arabia. Despite its name, it also offers many international flights as well. The airport is located 30 km to the east of Taif and 70 km from Mecca. The airport is considered important in Saudi aviation history as it witnessed the first landing of Ibn Saud, founder of the Kingdom, plane. It was converted to a regional airport in 2009 when GACA transformed allowed international airlines to operate at the airport as the city's population was increasing and to reduce pressure on the three main airports at the time.^[1]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia	Sharjah[2]
AlMasria Universal Airlines	Cairo
flydubai	Dubai-International
Flynas	Dammam, Kuwait, Riyadh
Gulf Air	Bahrain[3]
Nesma Airlines	Cairo
Nile Air	Cairo
Qatar Airways	Doha[4]
Saudia	Abha, Dammam, Jeddah, Jizan, Riyadh, Sharurah[5]
Turkish Airlines	Asmara, Istanbul-Atatürk

References

1. ar:مطار الطائف الإقليمي
2. Zawya
3. http://www.gulfair.com/English/aboutgulfair/Pages/News.aspx?newsno=756
4. Qatar Air to launch sixth Saudi route in October Arabian Business. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
5. http://airlineroute.net/2015/06/01/sv-jun15/

External links

• Airport information for OETF at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.