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Tsing Yi North Coastal Road

Tsing Yi North Coastal Road, also abbreviated as TYNCR, is a dual carriageway in Tsing Yi, Hong Kong. The road starts at Tsing Tsuen Road, where it travels through the northern part of the island. It ends at Route 3 and Route 8 on the western side of the island at a left-in/left-out interchange, 2.2 km from its eastern terminus. The road was first planned in 1998 to relieve traffic coming from Lantau. It was constructed in 1999, and was opened on 2 February 2002.

Description
The road starts at the border of the Tsing Ma Control Area, on the eastern exit ramps of the Tam Kon Shan Interchange and the western terminus of Tsing Tsuen Road. The road travels westward, with ramps reemerging from the interchange, which is surrounded by noise barriers. TYNCR then travels across multiple viaducts on the northern side of Tsing Yi, with hills south of the road, and the coastline north of it. About 1.4 km from the eastern terminus, TYNCR travels to Tam Kon Shan Road, near a shipyard and a cement factory. The exit ramp is accessible from westbound lanes, and the entrance ramp from Tam Kon Shan Road to eastbound lanes. The road continues eastward and ends at a left-in/left-out intersection, located east of the Lantau Link Visitors Centre. The interchange then connects to Routes 3 and 8.

In 2018, 23,440 vehicles travelled the part of the road between Tam Kon Shan Interchange West End and the slip roads to and from Tam Kon Shan Road which is classified as a Primary Distributor (PD) by the Transport Department, while 14,400 vehicles travelled the part of the road between Tsing Tsuen Road and Tam Kon Shan Interchange West End which is classified as a District Distributor (DD). The data are measured in average annual daily traffic (AADT), which measures the amount of traffic daily on average.

History
Planning for the road began around 1996, as part of the Tsing Ma Control Area, a small region of highways with special management. The road was to relieve the higher traffic traveling through Tsing Yi, especially with the new Hong Kong International Airport and developments in Lantau being built. The project included the road and its ramps, pedestrian pathways, noise barriers around the highway, surveillance system, and a maintenance centre in Tsing Yi. The Highways Department signed a contract with Gammon Construction Limited for HKD$775.6 million in February 1999, after it invited qualified contractors in October 1998. Construction began later that month.

During construction, techniques were used to prevent air pollution. Water was sprayed on roads, vehicles, and other areas to keep dust from leaving the site. Multiple viaducts, road embankments, and retaining walls were constructed in the project, with a set of walls replaced after its footings were damaged. Construction of the traffic control system began in November 2000, after the Transport Department signed an agreement with ABB Industrial and Building Systems Limited. The road was opened on 2 February 2002, after Donald Tsang inaugurated the road in a ceremony on February 1. New speed limits were set to 70 km/h upon opening.

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Laa an der Thaya

Laa an der Thaya is a town in the Mistelbach District of Lower Austria in Austria, near the Czech border. The population in 2016 was 6,224.

Geography
The town is located in the northern Weinviertel region, near the Thaya river, directly at the border with South Moravia. The municipal area includes the cadastral communities of Hanfthal, Kottingneusiedl, Pernhofen, Ungerndorf, and Wulzeshofen.

History
A settlement at a ford across the Thaya existed already in the 12th century, before the estates were acquired by the Babenberg dukes of Austria about 1190. Duke Leopold VI of Austria about 1230 had the walled town of Laa laid out as a strategic outpost at the border with the Kingdom of Bohemia in the north. His successor Duke Frederick the Warlike used it as a military base for his Bohemian campaigns, until he was finally killed in battle in 1246. The erection of the St Vitus parish church was begun about 1240, it is today one of the largest preserved Romanesque church buildings in Lower Austria.

Laa's town privileges were confirmed when the Austrian lands had passed to King Ottokar II of Bohemia, and again in 1281 by the Habsburg ruler King Rudolph I of Germany after his victory in the Battle on the Marchfeld. Nevertheless, the town's significance decreased over the following decades, it was devastated by the troops of Margrave Jobst of Moravia in 1407 and again in 1426 by Hussite forces. According to legend, the later Pope Pius II (Enea Silvio Piccolomini) worked as a priest at the Laa parish church from 1442, actually he served as papal legate to the Imperial Diet and counsellor of Emperor Frederick III. To improve Laa's economy, the citizens were granted the privilege of brewing in 1454.

During the Thirty Years' War, the town was first occupied by Bohemian troops until the 1620 Battle of White Mountain, later by Swedish forces, who left Laa in a desolate condition. It remained a sedate county town when Napoleon marched through in 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition. However, Laa's development was promoted by the opening of a railway connection to Austria's capital Vienna in 1869, with a branch line of the Eastern Railway which led on to Hevlín and Brno (Brünn) in Moravia. Another branch via Pulkau to Zellerndorf which connected to the Vienna-Znojmo railway line opened in 1873.

Laa again became a border town after World War I with the establishment of the First Czechoslovak Republic; at the end of World War II it bordered the "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe. In June 2005, about 250 townspeople and 80 visitors from the US, Israel and Europe with historical family links to former Jewish citizens of Laa an der Thaya assembled with Mayor Fass to dedicate a memorial to the members of 33 Jewish families of Laa murdered by the SS in Auschwitz. This memorial was only the second official memorial dedicated to the memory of Austria's Jews.

Politics
Since October 7, 2015 Brigitte Ribisch is the mayor of Laa an der Thaya. Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeinderat) elections:
 * Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 13
 * Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 6
 * proLAA (Independent): 8
 * Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ): 2

Twin towns — sister cities
Laa an der Thaya is twinned with:
 * 🇩🇪 Garching an der Alz, Germany, since 2003
 * 🇵🇱 Świętochłowice, Poland, since 2004
 * 🇨🇿 Chrlice district of Brno, Czech Republic, since 2005

Notable people

 * Paul Löwinger (1904–1988), actor
 * Michael Bindlechner (born 1957), director
 * Gerd Wimmer (born 1977), footballer

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Talk:Aldebaran

Clarify
I removed It is the sun in the Arabian mythology. If someone can clarify the significance of this statement, I think it would fit nicely in the paragraph about astrological & mythological significance. Lusanaherandraton 13:17, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Aldebaran Ab?
This object is not listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia, even in the unconfirmed/controversial/retracted list. The best I've managed to come up with is a paper "Long-period radial velocity variations in three K giants" which suggests that the variation is intrinsic to the star rather than a companion. Chaos syndrome 18:30, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It was listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia before but I guess that Jean Schneider removes from the list the objects that are clearly proved not to be planets. The object should be mentioned in the article, but it doesn't deserve a section, let alone a copyrighted image.--Jyril 06:07, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
 * The companion seems to get mentioned on several sites about Aldebaran, e.g., so might as well discuss it. The designation "Aldebaran Ab" on the other hand seems fictitious - it isn't used in the papers published about it. Chaos syndrome 19:01, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

In the light of the comments above the sentence "In 1997, a possible large planet..." (while literally true in the sense that a planet was reported) should not be allowed to stand unqualified, even though the paragraphs further down indicate that it is not now accepteted that a large planet has been detected. I'll add a reference to the talk page but also ask that somebody with more authoritative knowledge to update this. EdDavies 17:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

persian names of 4 royal stars
please notify that in "star names they lore and meaning" written by richard hickney allen the four royal stars named as following:

Hastorang tasheter Vanant Satevis

this last is for considering put on the article, please check the book mentioned

thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.49.165.171 (talk • contribs).

In Fiction
I think that the Enya song Aldebaran was ment as the fallen angel Aldebaran, so I think that hould be taken out of the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.180.59.72 (talk • contribs).

Aldebaran in astrology and mysticism section?
First of all, this section is currently tagged as violating factuality or NPOV, but there's no discussion here of why or how it might be improved. At the very least, this discussion section should cover that.

Secondly, though, and more broadly, this section and the one below it ("Aldeberan in other cultures") seem a bit out of step with the way many other astronomical pages are set up. The information provided about "royal stars" and the like seems, to me, to be a bit out of scope of this article.

For example, Betelgeuse seems to have some significance to astrology, but has no section about its astrological significance, and includes the historical and cultural information under the topic "Origin of the name 'Betelgeuse'".

Generally, however, I suspect that these stars' pages have not been nearly as completely hashed over as the planets' pages, which have much more general interest for both astrologers and astronomers. The article for Mars, for example, includes a short "Mars in Human Culture" section which covers the planet's history in several cultures, and mentions astrology only in the sentence which begins "Its symbol, derived from the astrological symbol of Mars..." The article for Jupiter has no section about historical or cultural significance at all. Both of these pages, however, do link to the appropriate section of Planets_in_astrology in their "See Also" section.

Given the way other astronomical pages are set up, I'd suggest combining "Aldebaran in astrology and mysticism" and "Aldebaran in other cultures" into "Aldeberan in human culture" ("Aldeberan in other cultures" is western-centric, anyway), and moving the astrology-specific things to the already existent Stars_in_astrology. I'd also note that these two sections are poorly sourced in general, and part of such a cleanup should be to find citations for their parts (or to remove the unsourced parts).

Brett A. Thomas 14:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Apparent magnitude
The paragraph about numerical parameters contained the sentence "Taken together this distance and brightness makes it the 14th brightest star, having an apparent magnitude of 0.87." This formulation could be confusing to laymen, as it tends to suggest that apparent magnitude is computed as a function of distance and brightness. In fact, apparent magnitude ***is*** the observed brightness of the object, with a correction for atmospheric attenuation. Although it is a consequence of distance and ***luminosity*** (a parameter that should not be confused with brightness), it is not determined by a computation involving distance, but by observation. I have rewritten the sentence. Piperh 05:13, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I am doing a report and i CAN NOT find when Aldebaran is brightest....help?!?!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.225.91.170 (talk) 22:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Size of Aldebaran
While reading this article I noted a discrepancy. In the article itself (part: Physical properties) it states the size of the main star to be 38x that of the Sun. On the right side under Observation data it gives a radius of only 25x that of the Sun. Which is correct?--Interested66 (talk) 13:06, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The right side infobox now has 44.2, so someone must have fixed that. In the Physical properties section I have just now changed the 38 to 44.2 to match what the 2005 citation stated (and I added a note on how the derived diameter value is verified from the angular diameter and distance). 84user (talk) 21:07, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Relevance of Pioneer 10 reference?
I'm not sure why someone decided it was important to tell us that Pioneer 10 will pass Aldebaran in 2 million years. First of all, this is a gross assumption - we have no idea what will become of Pioneer in that length of time. Secondly, this bit of information does not tell us anything helpful about Aldebaran, though it might be useful in the article about Pioneer 10. 67.68.46.238 (talk) 14:29, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

The statement in this article about Pioneer 10 is especially problematic since Aldebaran is moving away from us much faster than Pioneer is moving towards it. I'm going to change it to be less commital about Pioneer actually making there. --Jleon (talk) 19:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

This short sentence in the introduction is trivia. The Pioneer 10 article says only that the now inactive probe is heading in that general direction in the sky. This has nothing to do with the star. Aldebaran66 (talk) 18:18, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Proposed merge
I propose that the article Aldebaran b should be merged into the radial velocity variations section, and the Aldebaran b article replaced with a redirect. The existence of the object has not been confirmed, so giving it its own article gives it far too much attention when a redirect to this article would suffice. In fact, it looks like the Aldebaran b article is not giving any information that is not already being presented in more detail here. Icalanise (talk) 16:44, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Not sure if we have a protocol on it but I agree it seems like a good idea. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:15, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

 * I have taken the liberty and redirected the planet's page into its own section on the star's article. Hope you don't mind. —  Nuclear  Vacuum  17:36, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Gnosticism is neo-nazi?
Under the subsection Gnosticism there is a only a paragraph which describes a "neo-Nazi esoteric Nazi Gnostic" group. Whether this group and its beliefs belong here or not i think should be decided by consensus however it certainly is not Gnosticism nor Marcionism. I suggest it either gets deleted or the heading renamed. Xaghan (talk) 20:13, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

The bit about "Nazi Flying Saucers from Antarctica" indicates this is a hoax/joke/vandalism to the entry. I second deletion. (talk) 00:12, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I have copied the Gnostic Nazi section, to preserve it now that it has been (correctly) deleted from the article. It is just too hilarious to lose entirely. Aldebaran66 (talk) 07:01, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Neo-Nazis A neo-Nazi sect called the Tempelhofgesellschaft believes that Aldebaran is the original source of the Aryan race and that an enormous space fleet from Aldebaran is on its way to Earth to join forces with the Nazi Flying Saucers from Antarctica to establish the Western Imperium.

Citation for the Pioneer 10 claim
I have found the Citation for the Pioneer 10 claim that has the (citation needed) label. ^ According to NASA, the Voyager 1 spacecraft reached the termination shock on 2005-05-24, Voyager 2 on 2007-08-30. Both had travelled at that time about 16 000 bil. km. The termination shock lies nearer to the Sun than the heliopause. Pioneer 10 has reached about 15 363 bil. km on 2008-12-01 Pioneer 10 on 2008-12-01 00:00 UTC with the Solar System Simulator/ So, it is clear that it hasn't reached the heliopause since 1st December 2008, and that nobody will ever know when it reaches it, as Pioneer 10 has terminated communication in 2003 This is the footnote from the Pioneer 10 article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.208.34.185 (talk) 23:23, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Popular culture
Im suprised or embarrassed. Is there a Widipedia reference for this star from Rolling Stones song: 2000 light years from home if no reference, how do we add? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.169.40.78 (talk) 04:05, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * See the Aldebaran in fiction article, in the Music section.Aldebaran66 (talk) 05:06, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Myths
The following paragraph was removed from the Myths section of the article for lacking a citation for more than a year and having little to do with the star. I have preserved it here for future reference. This article has similarities to the previously deleted Gnostic Nazi section listed above. Aldebaran66 (talk) 20:36, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

 * The Vril Society was founded as "The All German Society for Metaphysics" in 1921 to explore the origins of the Aryan race. It was formed by a group of female psychic mediums led by the Thule Society medium Marija Oršić (Maria Orshitsch) of Zagreb, who claimed to have received communication from Aryan aliens living on Alpha Tauri, in the Aldebaran system. Allegedly, these aliens had visited Earth and settled in Sumeria, and the word Vril was formed from the ancient Sumerian word "Vri-Il" ("like god"). A second medium was known only as Sigrun, a name etymologically related to Sigrune, a Valkyrie and one of Wotan's nine daughters in Norse legend.

Apparent magnitude
According to the text is -2,1... but this is extremely improbable, as it would be the brightest star on sky. According to es:Aldebaran it's +0.85 -Theklan (talk) 11:44, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

 * The visual apparent magnitude (vmag) is listed as 0.75-0.95. The near-IR J-band magnitude is -2.10 since it is a nearby red giant star. -- Kheider (talk) 14:50, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I thing taht this is very confusing for people that doesn't understand all parameters. If you click over apparent magnitude you get an information that would lead to thing Aldebaran is currently the brightest star on sky, with -2.1. -Theklan (talk) 14:22, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I have modified the intro to apparent magnitude to help explain it somewhat, but I do not want to get too wordy. The average reader just needs to make sure they are comparing vmags and not jmags. The infobox does display (V) and (J) next to the different apmags. -- Kheider (talk) 01:44, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

supernova
Didn't the late Isaac Assimov suggest that Aldebaran was the nearest star that was likely to flare up into a supernova at any time?AT Kunene (talk) 19:10, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The mass is too low for a Type II supernova. It needs to be up around 8+ solar masses. Perhaps you are thinking of Betelgeuse? Praemonitus (talk) 22:40, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Aldebaran B
Seems to have been recovered by Gaia DR2 as Gaia DR2 3313069881589149824. Pllx 47.3417±0.105. Colors indicate a spectral type of M3.5V or so. JamesFox (talk) 11:21, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Surface gravity
The article says " It has a surface gravity of 1.59 cgs, typical for a giant star, but around 25 times lower than the Earth's " Surely the CGS unit of acceleration is cm s^-2, so 1.59 of them is equivalent to 0.0159 m s^-2, or 1/616 of the Earth's gravity? Have I misunderstood something? HairyDan (talk) 21:16, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Surface gravity for stars is usually expressed as a logarithm due to the large range of possible values. This gives a dimensionless number, the cgs just indicates the metric system that was used for the initial acceleration.  log(g) of 1.59 means an acceleration due to gravity of $cm/s2$, approximately $38.9 cm/s2$ compared to the Earth at about $980 cm/s2$.  Using log(g), the Earth's surface gravity is 2.99 cgs, higher than most giant stars but lower than main sequence stars.  In the same system the surface gravity of the Sun is 4.4 cgs.  Lithopsian (talk) 21:28, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Preferred radius
Which radius for Aldebaran should be preferred? 44.13 or 45.1? Nussun05 (talk) 10:34, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Planet Aldebaran b is confirmed
NASA Exoplanet Archive cites Aldebaran b as a confirmed exoplanet. It also cites Aldebaran as a binary star, with a red dwarf companion. InTheAstronomy32 (talk) 17:18, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 * While the Exoplanet Archive is one of the better database sources, it can still have missing or outdated information - published scientific papers should always be preferred over databases. In this case, while Hatzes et al. 2015 found sufficient evidence for a planet for the Exoplanet Archive to add it as "confirmed", this was challenged by Reichert et al. 2019. Both sources are cited in the article, though the latter gets only one sentence - it should probably be better integrated into the article. Another source is Döllinger & Hartmann 2021, which mentions Aldebaran b as one of four questionable planets around giant stars.
 * The companion star is mentioned in the "Visual companions" section but treated as unconfirmed; this could be updated based on e.g. Mugrauer 2019 (the Exoplanet Archive's source). SevenSpheres (talk) 17:01, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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King Fahd International Airport

King Fahd International Airport (مطار الملك فهد الدولي; abbr. KFIA), also known as Dammam International Airport or simply Dammam Airport or King Fahd Airport, is the international airport serving Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The airport is located 31 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of downtown Dammam and is named after the former King of Saudi Arabia, Fahd ibn Abdulaziz (1921–2005). The airport serves the entire Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and is one of the four primary international airports in the kingdom.

Formerly a US airbase used primarily during the Gulf War, the airport has been overseeing commercial operations since 28 November 1999 and has since expanded to provide connections to 43 destinations. Before King Fahd International, the primary airport serving the region was the much busier Dhahran International Airport, which has since been converted for military use and is now designated the King Abdulaziz Air Base. Since 1 July 2017, the airport has been operated and managed by the Dammam Airports Company (DACO). Commercial transport was only halted once throughout the history of the airport when, on 21 March 2020, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) announced the suspension of all domestic and international travel both within and to and from the kingdom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Domestic operations were reinitiated on 31 May 2020, and international operations resumed on 17 May 2021.

The third largest airport in the kingdom by passenger volume, more than 10 million passengers use King Fahd International each year, and 37 airlines operate flights in and out of the airport. The airport serves as a hub to Flynas and Flyadeal. It previously served as a hub to Saudia as well as the now defunct Sama airline and SaudiGulf Airlines. In addition to these airlines, Saudi Aramco Aviation, the airline operated by Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil giant, uses it to transport employees in and out of strategic locations such as Yanbu, Tanajib and Shaybah.

The airport is served by two runways; both 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) long, and consists of three terminal buildings: the Passenger Terminal serves mainstream passengers, the Aramco Terminal is used exclusively by Aramco employees to board Saudi Aramco Aviation flights and the Royal Terminal is reserved for use by the Saudi royal family. The busiest route operated between Dammam and another city is to and from Dubai, with 70 weekly flights, an average of 10 flights a day.

History

The airport is named for King Fahd ((r. 1982 – 2005)), under whose reign it was constructed and inaugurated. Design of the airport building began in 1976. The site master plan was created by architecture firm Yamasaki & Associates and Boeing and completed in 1977, with construction beginning in 1983. The basic infrastructure of the airport was complete by the end of 1990, which allowed the U.S-led coalition forces to use the airport during the Gulf War in early 1991 for the storage of military aircraft, including 144 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, among other aircraft such as the AH-64 Apaches and CH-47 Chinooks of the 101st Airborne Division, before operations were transferred to the Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait.

The General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia inaugurated the King Fahd International Airport and opened it to commercial traffic on 28 November 1999, and all airlines transferred their operations from the Dhahran International Airport, which had been in use until then. Dhahran International has since been converted for military usage and was designated the King Abdulaziz Air Base.

As part of the Saudi Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program, King Fahd International was corporatized in July 2017 under the Dammam Airports Company (DACO), which operates and maintains the airport. In an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, all domestic and international flights were suspended until further notice on 21 March 2020. Following strict curfews and lowering in case numbers, domestic flights were allowed to operate once again on 31 May 2020. International flights were finally resumed on 18 May 2021.

Facilities
The airport is classified as Code E by the ICAO which means aircraft such as the Boeing 747-400 and A340-600 could be easily accommodated. It is practically possible for an A380 to use the airport, but this is not recommended, as, in order to accommodate such aircraft, an airport is required to be Code F; only the runways at Dammam Airport meet Code F requirements; the taxiways and gates do not.

Terminals
The six-story main terminal building has a total area of 327,000 m2. Approximately 247,500 m2 were built in the first phase, in addition to 11 fixed passenger boarding bridges serving 15 gates. The original design included 31 fixed boarding bridges. The departure terminal is equipped with several customer counters of which 66 were allocated to Saudia (now shared with flynas), 44 to foreign airlines, and the rest for customs and immigration.

King Fahd International Airport was the first Saudi airport to adopt duty-free stores. In addition to the spaces allocated to duty-free stores, the airport has a separate area for shops specializing in the sale of gifts and all passenger-related goods. This area includes restaurants, cafeterias, and banks, and is located on the arrivals level.

The private airline operated by Saudi Aramco, Saudi Aramco Aviation, operates out of the Aramco Terminal, providing connections to its employees to faraway company locations such as in Yanbu, Tanajib, Shaybah and Haradh, in addition to some remote pump stations, using their own fleet of Boeing 737s and Embraer ERJ-170LRs.

The Royal Terminal is reserved for the royal family of Saudi Arabia, government personnel, and official guests. It covers an area of 16,400 m2 and has four bridges linking the terminal to aircraft. It is luxuriously furnished and decorated, and includes extensively landscaped exteriors and grounds. Despite its specialized purpose, the terminal is rarely used by the royal family, who generally prefer to utilize a similar special terminal at King Abdulaziz Air Base.

Runways
The airport has two parallel runways with a length of 4000 m each: 16L/34R and 16R/34L, in addition to taxiways parallel to the runways and a cross taxiway to connect the two runways. The two runways are separated by 2146 m. The east runway is generally used by Saudi Aramco while commercial airlines use the west one.

Ground transportation
The terminal can only be accessed via Route 605, a secondary expressway linking the cities of Khobar and Dammam in the south, and Qatif in the north; to the airport. Route 6466, a minor road and spur of Highway 40, links the highway to Route 605 and the airport. SAPTCO offers bus connections from Khobar and Dammam to the airport. Taxis are available at fixed prices to every major city and town in the kingdom, with private companies such as Careem, a subsidiary of Uber, providing similar services.

The total area of the parking complex is 176752 m2, distributed among three covered floors, with a maximum capacity of 4,930 cars. Two open parking areas are available beside the rentals to accommodate additional cars.

Other facilities
The Airport Mosque was built on the roof of the car park and in the middle of a landscaped area of 46,200 m2 (497,292 ft²). The architecture of the mosque is an amalgamation of modern architecture with traditional Islamic architectural elements. The mosque can accommodate up to 2,000 worshippers and access to it can be easily gained from the passenger terminal through two enclosed, air-conditioned bridges equipped with moving belts, in addition to a third open bridge.

The airport has its own plant nursery with a total area of 215579 m2, which encompasses three greenhouses and 36400 m2 of green fields. The nursery supplies the airport gardens and planted areas with trees and plants. The control tower stands 85.5 m high. The height allows visibility of all operational parts of the airport.

Statistics
At present, around 9.7 million passengers use King Fahd International Airport annually.

Records

 * King Fahd International has been cited as the largest airport in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records. At 776 square kilometres (300 mi2), the property is larger than the neighbouring country of Bahrain. The official website of the airport reports a utilized area of 3675 ha, or 36.75 square kilometres, making the airport the sixth-largest in the world.
 * One of the world's shortest international flights is operated between King Fahd International in Dammam and Bahrain International in Manama, covering a distance of 76 km; it takes just 45 minutes from gate to gate.

Accidents and incidents

 * On 1 February 2020, Saudia Flight 919, a Boeing 747-400F operated by Air ACT and destined for Zaragoza, Spain, suffered a tail strike upon takeoff from the airport. The aircraft entered a holding pattern west of the airport before diverting to Jeddah, landing at King Abdulaziz International Airport three hours later.

title: King Fahd International Airport