Al Massira Airport in Agadir is located in the city of Agadir in Morocco. Annually this airport serves around 16 million passengers. One of the booming industries and business in Agadir has been tourism. In result flights were introduced to Al Massira from new airports from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Plans were made to create a new brand terminal, opening the life for the people of Agadir.
The runway in the airport runs in the direction of 10/28. It has a length of 3200 meter with a width of 45 meters. Any craft of the size of Boeing 747 can also land on the airport. Parking space provided for the aircraft is around 170,000 square meters that can house 10 Boeing 737 and 3 Boeing 747 at one point of time. Total terminal area is 25,550 square meters and the projected capacity of the terminal is around three million passengers annually. A large waiting room that is divided into two providing for national flights as well as international flights can pass through passport control in Agadir. The airport has an ILS Class II certification.
The airport has flight connections with Dublin, Paris, Nuremberg, Warsaw, Berlin, Luxemburg, Brussels, Casablanca, Amsterdam and many other parts of Europe. The traffic movement has been on constant rise over the years. Number of passengers who availed the services of Al Massira Airport rose to over 1.45 million against only nine hundred thousand in 2002. However there has been a downward trend in freight movement from 1708.7 tons in 2002 to 1165.8 tons in 2008
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