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Airport map

Four separate buildings along a single access road, not one building with four wings. That one fact explains most of what confuses people here.

Verified in August 2026

How the airport is laid out

Four separate buildings along a single access road, not one building with four wings. That single fact explains most of what confuses people here.

12R/30L · 3500 m 12L/30R · 2900 m Terminal 1 Terminal 3 Terminal 4 Terminal 2 Drawn to scale from OpenStreetMap data (ODbL) · gates and buildings as mapped
Terminal buildingBoarding gateRunwayApron

Drawn to scale from mapped geometry. Every building outline, both runways and all 60 boarding gates are in their real positions, so the distances between terminals on this map are the distances you will actually walk or ride. North is to the upper left: the map is turned to put the runways flat, which is how an airport is normally read.

The four terminals — verified 2026-09-14
TerminalStatusGatesWhat uses it
T1 Operating 7 planned Regional and charter
T2 Operating 22 Domestic and international
T3 Operating 21 C4–C24 International
T4 Operating 14 plus jetways International

They are connected by a free shuttle running every 10 to 15 minutes. Walking between them is not practical: it is an access road with traffic, not a footpath.

What the inside of a terminal looks like

Every operating terminal follows the same shape, which makes it easy to orient yourself even in one you have never used.

Arrivals · ground floor Immigration, baggage reclaim and customs, then the hall and the exit doors. One-way: you cannot go back in.
Departures · upper floor Check-in desks, then security, then the gates, shops and food.
Parking · in front Directly outside each terminal building. Rates and how payment works.
Transport · outside arrivals Taxi counter inside, ADO stop and shuttle stop outside, transfer meeting point past the doors.

Why there is no floor plan here. The diagram above is a sequence, not a scale drawing, and that is deliberate. The published plans of this airport are outline shapes with two labels on them — entrance and check-in — and none at all for the upper level. Redrawing them would add nothing, and inventing an interior we have not walked and measured would be worse. What we can state with confidence is the order of the steps and how long each one takes, which is also what people actually ask.

Orienting yourself when you land

  • Terminal numbers are signed everywhere, including on the shuttle stops. If you know your number you cannot really get lost.
  • The exit is one-way. Once you are through the arrivals doors you cannot go back through them, so do not walk out before your group is together.
  • Meeting someone? Agree a landmark inside the hall, not «outside». There is more than one outside.
  • Wrong terminal? The shuttle fixes it in under half an hour, free.
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