King Fahd International Airport has three separate terminals, and ordinary passengers use only one of them. The Main Terminal handles every scheduled domestic and international flight. The Aramco Terminal is closed to the public. The Royal Terminal is closed to almost everybody.
Dammam Airport Code: DMM and OEDF
The IATA code for King Fahd International Airport is DMM. The ICAO code is OEDF.
DMM is the three-letter code on your ticket, your boarding pass and your baggage tags. OEDF is the four-letter code used in flight plans and by air traffic control, and it follows the regional pattern: OE for Saudi Arabia, DF for this airport. Passengers never need it, but it is what appears on tracking sites and in cockpit paperwork.
The Main Terminal
This is the terminal every passenger means when they say Dammam Airport. It is a six-storey building of 327,000 square metres, and it handles domestic and international flights under one roof, with separate halls rather than separate buildings.
Saudia, Flynas and Flyadeal carry most of the domestic traffic. International carriers work the same terminal, with Dubai the busiest route on the board at around seventy flights a week.
The map above covers the departures concourse and the landside kerb. Gates 15 to 27 run along a single finger with aircraft parked on the apron beside it, and the icons mark the lounges, food outlets, shops, baggage reclaim belts, information desk and car hire counters along the way. On the landside edge, the pick-up and drop-off lane sits between the taxi ranks and the bus stops, with the car park behind them, which is the sequence to expect when you walk out of arrivals.
The full airport, including the aprons and both runways, is on the wider airport map.
The Aramco Terminal
Saudi Aramco runs its own air operation from its own terminal at King Fahd, and it is not open to the public.
The airline is Saudi Aramco Aviation, operating as Mukamalah. It exists to move Aramco employees and contractors between Dammam and the company’s remote sites: Yanbu on the Red Sea coast, Tanajib in the north east, and Shaybah deep in the Empty Quarter. These are places with no useful commercial service, which is why a private oil company ended up running a scheduled airline.
Two things follow from that, and both catch people out. You cannot buy a ticket on an Aramco flight, and arriving at the Aramco Terminal without a company badge or a sponsored booking will not get you airside. And a search for “Aramco airport” in the Eastern Province usually means King Fahd itself rather than the terminal, because locals have used the name for the whole airport for decades.
If you are flying Aramco, your departure point is the Aramco Terminal, not the Main Terminal, and the two are separate buildings on an enormous site. Confirm which one before you set off.
The Royal Terminal
Reserved for the Saudi royal family, senior government officials and visiting heads of state. It covers around 16,400 square metres and has four of its own boarding bridges.
It sees very little use. Its aircraft stands are counted among the airport’s thirty remote positions, which is the only way most passengers will ever encounter it: as a set of parked aircraft seen from a taxiway.
What Is Inside the Main Terminal
Food and coffee run around the clock, which is unusual for an airport this size, and the duty-free store operates on both the departures and the arrivals levels. The outlets, the queue to plan for and the arrivals purchase limits are set out in the guide to duty free and eating at the airport.
Lounges include Plaza Premium alongside airline-operated rooms. Banking is covered by ATMs and currency exchange counters landside. The mosque holds 2,000.
Getting here and away: the covered car park connects to the terminal by walkway, and taxis, ride-hailing and SAPTCO buses all work the kerb outside. Arriving passengers clear passport control, collect bags, then pass customs into the arrivals hall.
Times on the board move. Check live arrivals before setting out to meet anyone.
Last reviewed: August 2026.