Access

There is no scheduled passenger rail: every journey inside the country is by road, and Aqaba is reached by air, road or sea. The airport figures are checked against the national total of the aviation regulator and sit below it, never above.

AirportPassengersRole
Queen Alia International AMM9,789,851main hub
King Hussein International, Aqaba AQJ213,000 estimateregional
Amman City Airport (formerly Marka) ADJnot publishedlow-cost carriers

National total, all airports, 2025: 10,013,942. On file: 10,002,851.

By road from Amman

TokmTimeRoad
Petra2353 hDesert Highway 15
Petra2744–4.5 hKing's Highway 35
Wadi Rum—3.5 h—
Aqaba—4 hJETT bus, tourist class

No official journey time is published for Dead Sea, Jerash, Madaba, Ma'in, Ajloun.

By sea

Ferries from Aqaba to Nuweiba and Taba carried 317,000 passengers in 2025; the cruise terminal received 19,687 cruise tourists.

The air situation in 2026