Qaisumah Domestic Airport (IATA: AQI, ICAO: OEPA) is an airport in Qaisumah, Hafar Al-Batin, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Its official name is Hafar Al-Batin Domestic Airport.
The airport began in 1962 as a dusty runway for a Dakota aircraft which was used at that time for transporting Saudi Aramco employees between stations in the northern region. Today, the airport has a 3000 meters runway capable of handling Boeing 737, a total of 11 million square meter area, a passenger terminal, a sewage system and a water treatment and stand-by power plant.
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