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'''King Khalid International Airport''' ({{lang-ar|مطار الملك خالد الدولي}} ''{{transliteration|ar|Maṭār al-Malik Khālid al-Duwaliyy}}'', {{airport codes|RUH|OERK|p=n}}) is an [[international airport]] located about {{convert|35|km}} north of [[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]],<ref name="flights">{{cite web |title=King Khaled International Airport Overview |url=http://www.flightstats.com/go/Airport/airportDetails.do?airportCode=RUH |access-date=9 August 2012 |publisher=Flight Stats |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225193648/https://www.flightstats.com/v2/airport-conditions/RUH |url-status=dead }}</ref> designed by the architectural firm [[HOK (firm)|HOK]], and Arabian [[Bechtel]] Company Limited served as the [[construction manager]] on behalf of the Saudi government. |
'''King Khalid International Airport''' ({{lang-ar|مطار الملك خالد الدولي}} ''{{transliteration|ar|Maṭār al-Malik Khālid al-Duwaliyy}}'', {{airport codes|RUH|OERK|p=n}}) is an [[international airport]] located about {{convert|35|km}} north of [[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]],<ref name="flights">{{cite web |title=King Khaled International Airport Overview |url=http://www.flightstats.com/go/Airport/airportDetails.do?airportCode=RUH |access-date=9 August 2012 |publisher=Flight Stats |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225193648/https://www.flightstats.com/v2/airport-conditions/RUH |url-status=dead }}</ref> designed by the architectural firm [[HOK (firm)|HOK]], and Arabian [[Bechtel]] Company Limited served as the [[construction manager]] on behalf of the Saudi government. |
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This airport consists of five passenger terminals (only three of which are in use), with eight [[aero-bridge]]s each, a [[mosque]], covered and uncovered car parking for 11,600 vehicles, an additional Royal Terminal (for the kingdom's guests, government heads, and Saudi royal family use), a central control tower (one of the world's tallest), and two parallel runways, each {{convert|4260|m|ft}} long. Formerly the largest airport in the world in terms of ground area, the land area allocated for KKIA is the second-largest in the world, after [[King Fahd International Airport]]<ref name="Airport Technology">{{cite web |title=King Khaled International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |url=https://www.airport-technology.com/projects/king-khaled/ |access-date=11 June 2020 |website=Airport Technology |publisher=Verdict Media Limited}}</ref> |
This airport consists of five passenger terminals (only three of which are in use), with eight [[aero-bridge]]s each, a [[mosque]], covered and uncovered car parking for 11,600 vehicles, an additional Royal Terminal (for the kingdom's guests, government heads, and Saudi royal family use), a central control tower (one of the world's tallest), and two parallel runways, each {{convert|4260|m|ft}} long. Formerly the largest airport in the world in terms of ground area, the land area allocated for KKIA is the second-largest in the world, after [[King Fahd International Airport]]<ref name="Airport Technology">{{cite web |title=King Khaled International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |url=https://www.airport-technology.com/projects/king-khaled/ |access-date=11 June 2020 |website=Airport Technology |publisher=Verdict Media Limited}}</ref> one of [[List of the busiest airports in the Middle East|the busiest airports in the Middle East]]. The airport is managed and operated by [[Riyadh Airports Company]]. The Royal Mosque was designed with a significant programme of integral art; the stained glass, by British architectural artist [[Brian Clarke]], was a landmark work in the history of the medium, considered to be the largest and technically most advanced stained glass project of the modern period.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Amaya |first=Mario |author-link=Mario Amaya |date=June 1984 |title=Clarke's New Constructivism |journal=[[Studio International]] |volume=197 |issue=1005}}</ref> |
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