Airport Map of Qatar Features Hamad International Airport. It is located in the south of its capital, Doha. The Airport replaced the former Doha International Airport In 2014 as Qatar’s principal airport. In 2016, the airport was the 50th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, serving 37,283,987 passengers, a 20.2% increase from 2015. National carrier Qatar Airways and all other carriers formally relocated to the new airport on 27 May 2014. The airport is named after the previous Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
The airport has two parallel runways, located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from each other. Qatar Airways is one of the largest airlines in the world. It serves in six continents connecting more than 160 destinations every day. Besides, it has won Airline of the Year in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2019 due to its outstanding performance and employs more than 46,000 professionals.