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title: "AMM — Queen Alia Airport, Amman · Orbit"
description: "Queen Alia International Airport (AMM/OJAI) serves Amman, Jordan. Opened 1983, named after Queen Alia of Jordan, 7.8 million passengers in 2022, 26 km from Amman."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/amm
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Amman · Jordan · Asia

# AMM — Queen Alia

Queen Alia International Airport serves Amman, Jordan, 26 km from the city centre, and sits at 31.7°N, 36.0°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
AMM
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
OJAI
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1983
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
7.8M
in 2022

## History & name

Named after Queen Alia of Jordan, Queen Consort of Jordan from 1972 to 1977, Queen Alia International Airport opened in 1983\. It lies 26 km from Amman at 2,395 feet, has two runways up to 3,660 m, and handled 7.8 million passengers in 2022.

Named after **Queen Alia of Jordan** — Queen Consort of Jordan (1972-1977)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%5FAlia%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721494)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Queen Alia International Airport

**Serves**
Amman, Jordan

**City centre**
26 km from Amman

**Opened**
1983

**Passengers**
7.8 million in 2022

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,660 m

**Elevation**
2,395 ft (730 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=31.72260,35.99320)

## Where it sits

31.7°N, 36.0°E puts AMM in the northern hemisphere, 3,527 km from the equator and 6,480 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **289th** most northerly, which makes it the 373rd most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 31.7°S, 144.0°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Fa'a'ā (PPT) in French Polynesia, still 1,673 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Ben Gurion** (TLV), 109 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from AMM

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-amm) | LHR | 3,683 km | 5h 05m    |

[Distance from AMM to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=AMM&to=LHR) [Map a trip from AMM →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=AMM-LHR)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure AMM to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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