1 – Abu Dhabi International Airport
2 – Dubai International Airport
3 – Bahrain International Airport
4 – Doha International Airport
5 – Muscat International Airport
6 – Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport
7 – Kuwait International Airport
8 – Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport
9 – Riyadh King Khalid International Airport
10 – Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport
I love Qatar Airways but their Doha airport is just depressingly cramped and crowded all the time. I’d even go as far as saying I prefer Kuwaits Airport. For the list of best airports around the world click [Here]
Note: Image above is of the Kuwait Airport when first constructed. More pictures can be seen [Here] For pictures of the new Kuwait Airport that will hopefully be built one day click [Here]
15 replies on “Best Airports in the Middle East”
Bahrain no.3? I guess cause they have a Dairy Queen there…….
They have McD and other franchises as well but even Dairy Queen would beat the fake A&W’s at Doha Airport.
Maybe because of the Jasmi’s at the airport!
Kuwait Airport is a joke. The staff are ridiculously arrogant. My parents were travelling by Kuwait Airways and I went to drop them off. The guy manning the X-Ray machine was yelling and abusing my dad, who is physically challenged and cannot understand Arabic because he set off the alarm since he had a few coins in his pocket which he forgot to remove. They deserve to have at least basic training in customer service and perhaps a crash course in speaking politely with other humans.
Agree.
The decorum of the airport staff is appalling. I watched these new airport staff employees line up this Egypt Air flight like they were cows, yet every Kuwaiti could go to the gate. Some of the Egyptians were sitting on the floor and were yelled at but they were being asked to stand for long periods of time in an area with lack of seating. Unbeknowest to them they were all about to walk into a revolution and worked hard for their tickets home. If he would have had a whip, he would have used it, I called him the airport nazi to the man sitting next to me. I watched this for an hour. It is not their fault that the addition to the airport was poorly designed with no gates upstairs, but only 4 in the basement. It is a nightmare right now at KIA, and it is all due to mismanagment. But they could be a little more civil to foreigners, but then again, Kuwait was voted the most unfriendliest country for tourists.
I didn’t finish the story….so after barricadding the gates downstairs and lining the people up for an hour, yelling at them, here comes an Egypt Air staff member who proceeds to stand next to the KIA airport staff member and in a broad voice politely tells the people to line up because the plane was boarding and proceed downstairs. Ironically, the chaos sort of quelled and people followed his directions. Multiple boarding gates have been closed in this airport a month prior to the peak summer months, as well as the upstairs to this section where the boarding gate was located. A waste of a building because boarding gates were not built upstairs which would have assisted this airport during this timeframe. Many airlines refused to continue to fly out of this airport like, Singapore Airways, Air France, many airlines state they fly out of this airport, but co-share with Kuwait Airways, which would have offered additional flights to travellers, but we have to deal with an over demand in a market that could be accommodated if the airport was run for passengers and airlines and passengers were respected.
African Airports are not included, just saying.
Actualy only Egypt is missing as it’s the only country in Africa that’s considered in the Midde east.
Rumor has it that there is a tunnel under the departure corridor which was meant for arrivals. During construction that tunnel got cemented and blocked. I hope it’s just a rumor otherwise no reason why they don’t reopen it and help with the crowding problem at the departure gates.
Otherwise Just build another corridor above the existing departures one to separate the two. If the structure doesn’t allow so, there has to be a way to make it happen even if it affects the already ruined aesthetics looks of the airport. At this point I’d take practicality over architectural beauty.
@Loomi -Definately with a good architect, they can make adjustments to this airport to correct/improve the logistics of the airport. Firstly I would ditch the mall, really? Also, it appears to me there are more people not travelling in this airport, than travellers. I might consider moving immigration forward, increasing the departure area, moving a small Debanhams, bookstore after immigration and putting in more check-in desk areas. Also I would ditch the xrays at immigration and move them further to the front of the airport closing the airport to visitors and closing the escalators to the arrivals area. There is too much traffic allowed between arrivals and departures, how is that allowed? Bottom-line they need to minimize the retail in this airport Bye-Bye Key money!
The new Queen Aliaa’ airport in Amman, Jordan is amazing !
I’ve seen Abu Dhabi’s airport it’s good but Amman’s is better. I guess they didn’t include it in the list coz it has just opened like 3 months ago..
+100
Just opened should be in top 5 easily
Kuwait Airport and Kuwait Airways and Kuwait Airport staff is not number one. What an unexpected surprise.
i’m sorry but have ever been to jeddah airport???
it is smaller than a jam3iyya in kuwait !!