Sharjah International Airport in a nutshell
Sharjah Airport is the main low-cost airport in the United Arab Emirates and the largest headquarters of Air Arabia, a major multinational low-cost airline. Due to its location, it serves as one of the three airports of Dubai, the centre of which is located approximately 30 km to the southwest.
A large number of routes are mainly to India, Pakistan, Egypt, Sri Lanka and the countries around the Persian Gulf. Flights to Sharjah also come from North Africa, Turkey, the Balkans and Central Asia.
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I just flew with Air Arabia via Sharjah airport, so for info some observations (March 2025).
If you want out of the airport, they have conventional counters and automatic gates. If you've already been to Emirates with an existing passport, you can use the automatic gate with passport scanning. We changed planes here twice, and went out twice, and the first time I waited two hours at immigration, and the second time immigration was just completely empty.
I didn't want to rely on Uber/taxis, so I booked a ride to and from the hotel through Booking. It came out to Deira (Radisson Deira Creek) when booked about 12 hours in advance for both trips at about 1100,- and the trip took 30 minutes and the driver was always waiting, it was completely hassle free (a month before I was offered it for about 1700,-). Otherwise it was about three minutes from the hotel to the metro station (red line to Dubai Mall), so ideal location.
With a seven-hour transfer day, we didn't go anywhere through the two-hour wait at immigration, but I still felt like there was nowhere to go. But it was definitely better to wait in the public area of the airport (leather seating and empty at the Happiness Center) than in the transit area because they had extremely loud announcements every half minute, I almost didn't make it there mentally for two hours with earplugs.