Bahrain International Airport opens new terminal

On 28 January, Bahrain International Airport opened its new terminal with Gulf Air being the first airline to use the facility. The new terminal replaces the 1961-vintage terminal.

With the new terminal the airport is now able to handle up to fourteen million passengers per year and is four times bigger than the old terminal. The project costed 1.1 billion US dollars. The new terminal features 104 check-in counters, 36 passport control booths and 24 security screening points. It also has 10,000 m2 of retail space.

Pre-COVID, Bahrain International Airport handled almost ten million passengers. Gulf Air is responsbile for 67% of the weekly passenger-flights to and from to the airport.

Photo by Bahrain International Airport.