Middle East has a new secondary airport in Jordan

The Middle East has few multi-airport cities, but Amman, Jordan, will soon join Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in offering airlines a choice of an airport with the re-opening of Amman Civil Airport (ADJ), also known as Marka International Airport. The revived airport will operate in parallel with the existing Queen Alia International Airport (AMM).

After signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in December 2025, Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways announced today that it would move all flights from AMM to the newly reopened ADJ. The Kuwaiti low-cost carrier will begin flights to the latter on February 1 with an initial 10 weekly flights from Kuwait International Airport (KWI).

Later the same day, ADJ confirmed that Air Cairo will be launching flights from Assiut Airport (ATZ) to ADJ on January 23. The route will be operated twice per week, the airport said.

The new service may be a boon for passengers. In addition to its closer proximity to the city centre, Jazeera Airways is offering attractive fares on flights to the new airport. In the first week of February, fares on select flights from ADJ to KWI are available from JD88.190 ($124.39).

This is substantially cheaper than Jazeera Airways’ lowest available fare of JD158.7 ($223.84) from AMM to KWI in the last week of January.

Which other airlines will operate at ADJ?

While Air Cairo and Jazeera Airways are so far the only airlines to have announced services to ADJ, AMM is currently served by a number of other low-cost carriers, including Pegasus Airlines, Ryanair, and Wizz Air, which could potentially be interested in relocating.

Ryanair announced in October 2025 that it would “launch new flights” to ADJ as part of its plan to expand its annual capacity to Jordan to 3 million seats.

However, the airline has yet to release flights for sale to the new airport.

Traffic to Amman is rebounding after regional instability

For the eleven months to November 2025, AMM recorded 8.9 million passengers, growing by 10% compared to the same period in 2024. Passenger traffic in the month of November 2025 itself grew by 26% year-on-year (YoY).