Hamad International Airport (HIA) accomplished a new record of passenger traffic and aircraft movements in 2016, handling 37.3 million passengers and 245,800 landings and take-offs during the year. This outstanding performance represents an increase of 20.5% and 15.8% respectively. On the cargo front, airfreight (cargo and mail) also grew by 20.8% reaching a new high of 1.7 million tonnes for the year.
During 2016, HIA invested in increasing its capacity, improving its product offering and redesigning its operational processes to efficiently accommodate the increasing traffic over the coming years, while continuing to upgrade its award-winning services.
Concourses D and E, commissioned in October 2015, became fully utilised in 2016, providing eight more contact gates, bringing the total to 41 gates and increasing the total number of flights departing from contact gates.
