Zayed International Airport
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Zayed International Airport (IATA: AUH), also known as Abu Dhabi International Airport, is the main airport of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It lies about 30 km east of the city and is the hub of Etihad Airways and an operating base for Air Arabia Abu Dhabi. Only Dubai International is busier in the UAE.
Travel + Leisure readers ranked Zayed International No. 4 among international airports in the World's Best Awards in both 2025 and 2026. Its reader score was 89.48 in 2025 and 91.24 in 2026. The passages from the magazine are ranking lists and add no further description.
The airport was planned in 1974, built from 1979 and opened on 2 January 1982, when Gulf Air chose it as one of its four hubs. Etihad Airways was founded there in 2003, and a second runway followed in 2008. On 9 February 2024 it was renamed after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father and first President of the UAE. Today 24 airlines fly from it to 128 destinations.
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