Yazd Airport

فرودگاه يزد
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGovernment of Iran
OperatorIran Airports Company
ServesYazd
LocationYazd, Iran
Hub for
Elevation AMSL4,054 ft / 1,236 m
Coordinates31°54′18″N 054°16′35″E / 31.90500°N 54.27639°E / 31.90500; 54.27639
Websiteyazd.airport.ir
Map
AZD is located in Iran
AZD
AZD
Location of airport in Iran
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13/31 4,098 13,446 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Aircraft Movements6,413 Increase 5%
Passengers764,074 Increase 14%
Cargo4,972 tonnes Increase 15%

Yazd Airport (Persian: فرودگاه یزد) (IATA: AZD, ICAO: OIYY) is an airport in Yazd, Iran. The airport lies 10 kilometers away from the city center of Yazd and serves the city as well as all of the surrounding counties. The Shahid Sadooghi Airport also serves as a part of the important North-South transportation corridor within the Islamic Republic of Iran.[2] For administrative and census purposes, it is a treated as a village in Fajr Rural District, in the Central District of Yazd County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 127, in 33 families.[3]

The airport was established in 1970 upon 575 hectares of land.[2] Even though the airport does not have an international status, there are occasional charter flights as well as scheduled passenger services to neighboring countries such as Iraq and Syria.[2] Furthermore, the airport provides routine international service to Jeddah and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj season.[2]

Despite operating at 40-50% capacity, a total of 431,500 passengers traveled through Shahid Sadooghi Airport in 2012, making it the eleventh busiest airport in Iran in terms of passenger traffic and number of flight operations.[4]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
ATA Airlines Baghdad, Mashhad, Tehran–Mehrabad
Caspian Airlines Mashhad, Najaf, Tehran–Mehrabad
FlyPersia Mashhad, Tehran–Mehrabad
Iran Air Tehran–Mehrabad
Seasonal: Jeddah, Medina
Iran Aseman Airlines Mashhad, Tehran–Mehrabad
Karun Airlines Ahvaz, Bandar Abbas, Tehran–Mehrabad
Kish Air Kish, Mashhad, Tehran–Mehrabad
Mahan Air Tehran–Mehrabad
Pars Air Kish, Tabriz, Tehran–Mehrabad
Pouya Air Mashhad, Tabriz, Tehran–Mehrabad
Saha Airlines Mashhad, Tehran–Mehrabad
Sepehran Airlines Mashhad, Tehran–Mehrabad
Yazd Airways Mashhad, Tehran–Mehrabad[5]
Varesh Airlines Mashhad

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Traffic Figures". Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "یزد - صفحه نخست".
  3. ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 2011-09-20.
  4. ↑ "جایگاه یازدهم فرودگاه یزد به لحاظ تعداد پرواز و مسافر در کشور". 1 January 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Yazd Air". Retrieved 13 September 2023.


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