Talk:Hamad International Airport

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You could try emailing the architect and construction company to release photos under a free licence. It should be allowed to include their names in the article so they will get some free exposure from all the wikipedias. They can insist on attribution for their photos at commons. This can include a name, company, and/or website. Most countries you just need the photographer or their employer to licence them if they took them on the job. If any people in the images are identifiable they may need to sign permission as well. It may be easiest to ask for images with no people in them. Have them send full size un-cropped and we can adjust if needed at the commons. --Canoe1967 (talk) 14:38, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hectacres/SQ kilometers

The introduction states "The new airport is spread over an area of 3500 hectares", the next section "History", says "The airport is built over 22 square kilometers, half of which is on reclaimed land". That seems to be a conflict? Bullblade (talk) 17:32, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A copy of Chek Lap Kok?

This looks much like a copy of Hong Kong's airport: built out into the sea, a Y-shaped terminal building between two parallel runways. Has it been designed by the same planners or is this a coincidence or inspiration/plagiarism? --Tobias b köhler (talk) 15:52, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hamad International Airport runway is not the longest one in the world

The longest runway in the world is in Qamdo Bangda Airport, which located in Tibet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.193.183.187 (talk) 14:03, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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IATA code

The IATA code for the airport is now "HIA", can anyone provide a source for this? Since the old Doha airport is now closed and no longer in use for commercial flights, wasn't the code "DOH" has been transferred to this airport. Many carriers (i.e. United) still uses the code DOH for its flights. 68.119.73.36 (talk) 05:51, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, a check on the IATA website actually codes DOH as Hamad International and HIA as Huai'an Airport ^[1] Clumsyone (talk) 01:21, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Can some add Ethiopian Airlines to the list as the airline will start service on 2 December 2014. Source: http://www.ethiopianairlines.com/en/news/pressreleases.aspx?hl= 552. 71.12.206.168 (talk) 04:13, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done Stickee (talk) 04:21, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Source/edit request

Currently the article under the Airlines and destinations section states that only Hamad, Dubai, and Tambo fly to all six inhabited continents. I know Abu Dhabi does as well as they have flights to chicago, sao paulo, sydney, cairo, london, and dubai. I don't know of any other airports on the top of my head but I think it is something that should be checked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.186.56.85 (talk) 09:19, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Suspension of flights to Egypt and Saudi Arabia

On 5 June, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt announced they would stop flights to Doha the following day.^[1]

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Qatar

What's with the huge list of destinations for Qatar Airways? Qatar does not fly direct from Hamad to Canberra. Not even on the same flight number. I suggest that someone has just tipped in a bucketload of Qatar's destinations. --Pete (talk) 16:54, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oct. 2, 2020 incident

My recent addition regarding the Oct. 2, 2020 incident where female passengers were forced to undergo a gynecologic examination at the airport was removed because it was deemed to be "not notable". I was not the first to add this to the article, and previous similar additions have been removed. The incident has been widely reported in the international press and has led to some tension between the governments of Qatar and Australia. It also raises questions of privacy and safety of international passengers at airports. I do not think that the incident is "not notable".Ekem (talk) 14:57, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Airports/page_content#Accidents_and_incidents, accidents and incidents should be included if they pass any of these three criteria:

The accident was fatal to either the aircraft occupants or persons on the ground.

The accident involved hull loss or serious damage to the aircraft or airport.

The accident invoked a change in procedures, regulations or process that had a wide effect on other airports or airlines or the aircraft industry.

The mentioned incident does not fall under any of these three criteria. But I do agree, though the guideline says Accidents and incidents, it only gives the inclusion criteria for accidents. Maybe some folks from the project will be able to comment. Pinging Jetstreamer, MilborneOne, Andrewgprout to comment. — LeoFrank ^Talk 15:34, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

For the time being I'd just say WP:WAIT, considering WP:NOTNEWS.--Jetstreamer ^Talk 17:35, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This topic was first reverted a couple of days ago as I see it more because of quality than anything else; the latest addition is of good quality. However I do agree with WP:WAIT - not everything that happens in the world develops into something encyclopaedic. Andrewgprout (talk) 18:50, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder what there is to wait for? This widely reported incident is highly unusual (perhaps unique in the history of aviation?), happened at a global airport hub, and has international repercussions. Reports also point out other issues (passenger rights, abandonment of newborns). I can understand to set up criteria to control influx of unimportant and trivial information but life is strange and events like this are not necessarily foreseeable by people who create the criteria. Ekem (talk) 18:13, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The official response by the government of Qatar is here:[1] Ekem (talk) 00:59, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Okęcie Airport incident does not appear to fall under the WP criteria. Ekem (talk) 03:26, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Renumbering of gates

The gates of former Concourses D and E have now been renumbered as C gates 2A00:23C5:3219:2D01:EC58:84A4:3488:5394 (talk) 00:26, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/code-search.aspx

[2] ttp://www.perthnow.com.au/news/restrictions-cause-chaos-for-qatar-flights/news-story/8e83be3ca5624a7788a12552f0231dab

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