Located 13 km south east of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Sharjah International Airport is an airport spread over an area of 3,800 acres. is the third largest Middle East airfreight hub in cargo tonnage. In 2003, it became the official hub of Air Arabia, the Middle East’s first low-cost carrier, which helped fuel the airport’s traffic as it ventured into new and untapped territories within a five -hour flying radius.