Combining and shortening prayers for one who intends to travel from the airport

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, if a person intends to travel and goes to King Khalid Airport, is he permitted to combine the two prayers and shorten them?

The Shaykh:
King Khalid Airport and others. If the airport is outside the town, outside the built-up area of the town, then if the prayer becomes obligatory for him while he is at the airport, he shortens it because he has left the town. However, if the prayer became obligatory for him before he left the town, he prays it in full if it became obligatory before he left the town. Likewise, if the airport is inside the town, within the town’s perimeter and within the built-up area, he also completes the prayer and does not combine it, because he is still in the town and has not traveled.

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.

The Shaykh:
As for King Khalid Airport, it appears to me, and Allah knows best, that it is outside the town. There is a distance between it and the town, so it is outside the town.