Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Jeddah" in English language version.
Jeddah's first airport at Kandara, located very close to the city center, used to handle all Hajj traffic in addition to normal scheduled operations. But the airport's limited capacity and infrastructure tended to cause tremendous congestion problems, notably when, by 1978, daily aircraft movements during the Hajj season reached a critical level of 600 per day. In May 1981 Kandara was ...
the new airport replaces that of Kandara which had undergone many transformation operations in recent years and is to be converted into a real estate development zone.
