King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Airport

King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Airport (IATA: GIZ) is one of the international airports in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is located in the city of Jazan, the administrative capital of the Jazan Province, in the extreme southwest of the Kingdom. It is about three km away from the city center, and the airport is managed by the General Authority for Civil Aviation.

King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Airport was established in 1978 and was one of the regional airports of the Kingdom before it became an international airport. This transformation was made to activate the domestic airports of the Kingdom and facilitate travel between different regions.

In 2019, the airport handled 22,703 international and domestic flights, carrying 2,837,000 passengers.

The first phase of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Airport's construction project was inaugurated in 2014. The airport, which is scheduled to be completed in 2022, spans an area of 50,134,155 m and is located near the city of Jazan, which houses basic industries and the Aramco refinery. This makes it one of the most significant drivers pushing forward the economic and tourist development of Jazan Province. The new airport's initial capacity is set to accommodate 6.3 million passengers annually. It consists of thirty-nine buildings designed for future expansion. In contrast, the current airport has a capacity of nine hundred thousand passengers annually.

The new airport is equipped with five departure gates, with two bridges in each gate, making a total of ten passenger bridges connecting the aircraft to the airport. It includes various facilities, including the passenger terminal, the royal terminal, service buildings, parking areas, service and investment facilities, a cooling station, a wastewater treatment plant, a water tank, and a power building. Additionally, the airport is equipped with the latest operating and service systems to ensure the highest levels of comfort and security for passengers and to provide all necessary infrastructure facilities.

In October 2022, the General Authority of Civil Aviation released its monthly report on the performance of the Kingdom's international and domestic airports, according to fourteen basic criteria for measuring performance. This is in line with the strategic directions aimed at improving the services provided to travelers, raising their level, and enhancing the traveler's experience at the Kingdom's airports. In the third category for international airports, where the number of travelers ranges from two to five million passengers annually, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Airport in Jazan came in second with a compliance rate of 88 percent.