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Riyan International Airport

Airport in Yemen

Field	Value
name	Riyan International Airport
nativename	ar
image	Mukulla Riyan airport (6407124711).jpg
image-width	250
IATA	RIY
ICAO	OYRN
pushpin_map	Yemen
pushpin_map_caption	Location of airport in Yemen
pushpin_label	RIY
pushpin_label_position	right
type	Public
city-served	Mukalla
location	Mukalla, Hadhramaut, Yemen
elevation-m	16
elevation-f	54
coordinates
metric-elev	yes
metric-rwy	yes
r1-number	06/24
r1-length-m	3,000
r1-surface	Asphalt
built	1930s (original form)
1982 (current form)

| image-width = 250 | city-served = Mukalla | elevation-m = 16 | elevation-f = 54 | metric-elev = yes | metric-rwy = yes | r1-number = 06/24 | r1-length-m = 3,000 | r1-length-f = | r1-surface = Asphalt 1982 (current form) Riyan International Airport (), also known as the Riyan Mukalla International Airport (), is an international airport in Mukalla, Yemen. It is not to be confused with the former RAF Riyan, which was located closer to Mukalla.

History

The original airport was built around the 1930s. The airport got rebuilt after the government of Democratic Yemen received a loan from Kuwait. The new airport got built with the consultation of a West German company. The construction of the new airport finished on May 1982.

In 2001, the airport got renamed from "Riyan Airport" to "Mukalla Airport," but its old name remained in use in international civil aviation documents and navigational devices operating at the airport still broadcast its international definition of "Riyan Airport."

In 2008, the airport's Air traffic control and Airport security systems got upgraded and the first ever flight academy in Yemen, Golden Way Academy, got opened.

Flights were suspended in March 2015 as a result of the Yemeni civil war which led Al Qaeda militants to take advantage of the turmoil and control Mukalla. A no-fly zone over Yemen was imposed by the Saudi Arabian-led intervention due to the military conflict. Mukalla was later liberated from Al Qaeda, but the airport remained closed until the Emirates Red Crescent funded the building of new terminals and renovated the old airport at a cost of AED 25 million.

In January 2018, the Airport got renamed back to "Riyan International Airport."****

On November 27, 2019, the airport was reopened with the support of the Emirates Red Crescent. The Governor of Hadramawt province, Maj Gen Faraj Al Bahsani, said he was optimistic that the return of flights would bring economic benefits. On 9 April 2021, Yemenia, the Yemeni flag carrier, restarted flights to Socotra and Aden.

Airlines and destinations

|Yemenia|Aden, Cairo, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Jeddah, Socotra

References

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