Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
AUH
Airport information
Zayed International Airport
Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesIATA: AUHICAO: OMAA
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Departures
Live departure times, status, terminal and gate are on the departures page.
Live radar
Live radar around the airport
View current aircraft positions around this airport and find a flight directly on the map.
The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
2 runways · Longest runway: 13,471 ft
- 13R/31L13,471 ft · heading 128/308 degrees
- 13L/31R13,451 ft · heading 128/308 degrees
We currently see no traffic on approach or just after takeoff. That happens at a quiet airport or in the middle of the night.
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
Practical
Plan your trip
Transport by bus and taxi; parking at the airport; picking someone up or dropping them off.
Fly direct
Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
BOMIndia
Mumbai
- Distance
- 1,225 mi
- Estimated duration
- 2h 42m
- Airlines
Air India Express · Akasa Air · +4
Air India Express · Akasa Air · Etihad Airways · IndiGo · National Airlines · SpiceJet
BLRIndia
Bangalore
- Distance
- 1,693 mi
- Estimated duration
- 3h 20m
- Airlines
Air India Express · Akasa Air · +5
Air India Express · Akasa Air · Etihad Airways · IndiGo · National Airlines · Qatar Executive · Saudi Arabian Airlines
LHRUnited Kingdom
London
- Distance
- 3,427 mi
- Estimated duration
- 7h 7m
- Airlines
- British Airways · Etihad Airways
TRVIndia
Trivandrum
- Distance
- 1,837 mi
- Estimated duration
- 3h 46m
- Airlines
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi · Air India Express · +1
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi · Air India Express · Etihad Airways
Airports nearby
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
- Jebel AliAl Maktoum International AirportDWC45 mi73 destinations
- DubaiDubai International AirportDXB72 mi154 destinations
- SharjahSharjah International AirportSHJ82 mi56 destinations
- Ras al-KhaimahRas Al Khaimah International AirportRKT114 mi10 destinations
- DohaHamad International AirportDOH199 mi114 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- Zayed International Airport
- City and country
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- IATA / ICAO
- AUH / OMAA
- Time zone
- Asia/Dubai
- Terminal
- A
- Category
- International hub
Terminals: © OpenStreetMap contributors
Abu Dhabi: the hub of Etihad
Zayed International Airport (IATA AUH, ICAO OMAA), called Abu Dhabi International until 2024, lies about 30 kilometers east of the center of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It is the home hub of Etihad Airways and the third of the great Gulf transfer airports after Dubai and Doha, with connections to India, Southeast Asia, Australia and Africa, and since late 2023 it operates from a single vast new terminal shaped like a dune. For visitors, Abu Dhabi offers the Louvre, the Grand Mosque and Yas Island, and Dubai is an hour and a half down the highway. The live radar on this page shows the traffic around Abu Dhabi; the arrivals and departures pages are linked above it.
Airlines and destinations
Etihad Airways dominates the airport and flies to London, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam, Zurich, Madrid, Rome, Milan and across Europe, to New York, Washington, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and dozens of cities in India and the Middle East. The Indian traffic is enormous, with Air India Express, IndiGo, Akasa Air and Air India; Air Arabia Abu Dhabi is the emirate's low-cost airline. British Airways, Turkish Airlines, Pegasus and Oman Air are among the other carriers. In our route data, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad and Tel Aviv are the most frequently flown connections, and London Heathrow, Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt the busiest European ones.
Getting into the city
Taxis wait outside the terminal, run on the meter and are cheap by European standards; the ride to the city center takes about half an hour, to the Yas Island hotels twenty minutes. Bus A1 runs around the clock to the center but takes well over an hour. Etihad and intercity buses connect Dubai; by taxi the drive is about an hour and a half. Rental cars are available in the arrivals hall, and the Emirates are a driving country with wide, fast highways. Abu Dhabi has no metro.
Good to know
Since late 2023 all traffic uses Terminal A, a single huge building with every airline under one roof; the old terminals are closed. Walks to the gates can be long but the signage is good, and ninety minutes is a comfortable connection with Etihad. Visitors from most of Europe and North America receive a visa on arrival; check the current rules. The time difference with Central Europe is two hours in summer and three in winter, and summer temperatures pass 45 degrees. The alternative in the Gulf is Dubai with Emirates, served from far more cities. Every airport we track is listed in the airport overview.