Mehrabad International Airport
35°41′21″N 051°18′49″E / 35.68917°N 51.31361°E
Mehrabad International Airport فرودگاه بینالمللی مهرآباد | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Joint (Public/Military) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tehran, Iran | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,962 ft / 1,208 m | ||||||||||||||||||
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Mehrabad International Airport (Persian: فرودگاه بینالمللی مهرآباد) (IATA: THR, ICAO: OIII) is an airport that serves Tehran, Iran. It remains the primary airport of Tehran but will soon be replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport that was completed in 2004, although the exact date of the change has been postponed several times. It is located much closer to the city center than Khomeini Airport.
Airport Tax at Mehrabad Airport
Airport tax for every Iranian Passport holder, as of year 2005, has been changed. The fee, regardless of age, is 150,000 Rials for the first time in a year (starting from Farvardin 1st, equivalent to March 21st, and ending the last day of Esfand, equivalent to March 20th)and 200,000 Rials for the second time or more. Note that this is for flights to most of the European countries. However, the tax is more for a couple of European and other countries. The previous fee was less and also, if a family member was on the same passport under a certain age, no fee was required.
Airlines and destinations
All destinations in bold are operated at the Hajj Terminal during Hajj seasons.
Terminal 1
- Iran Air Tours (Mashad, Shiraz, Tabriz)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Terminal 2
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- bmi (London-Heathrow) [begins October 28]
- British Airways
- operated by BMED (London-Heathrow) [ends October 28]
- Iran Air (Amsterdam, Ankara, Beijing, Caracas, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dammam, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Seoul-Incheon, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tokyo-Narita, Vienna)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Madinah)
Terminal 3
Terminal 4
- Air France (Paris Charles De Gaulle)
- Iran Air (Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz)
- Iran Aseman Airlines (Abadan, Ahwaz, Ardabil, Asalouyeh, Bahrain, Bam, Birjand, Bishkek, Bojnord, Bushehr, Doha, Dushanbe, Gheshm, Ilaam, Kabul, Kermanshah, Khoy, Kuwait, Lamerd, Lar, Mashad, Rafsanjan, Ramsar, Rasht, Sabzevar, Sahand, Sanandaj, Shiraz, Tabas, Tabriz, Yasouj, Yazd)
Hajj Terminal
Open at Hajj season only
- Iran Air (Dammam, Jeddah)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Madinah)
Terminal 6
- Iran Air (Kish Island)
- Kish Air (Copenhagen, Kish Island, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev, Tabriz, Dubai, Varna, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Muscat, Damascus )
- Saha Airlines (Asallouyeh , Mashad, Kish Island, Shiraz)
Accidents and incidents
- On Sunday July 3, 1988, towards the end of the Iran Iraq War, the aircraft flying IR655 (a commercial flight operated by Iran Air that flew from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Dubai, UAE) was shot down by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 38 non-Iranians and 66 children. The Vincennes was inside Iranian territorial waters at the time. The case is referred to as Iran Air Flight 655, which overshadowed U.S.-Iran relations for many years.
- On 20 April 2005 a Boeing 707-3J9C had an accident while landing in Mehrabad airport. After touchdown on runway 29L problems with the undercarriage (failure of a landing gear or tyre burst) caused the Boeing 707 to slide off the runway into the Kan River. Three passengers were killed after they fell in the river during the evacuation.
- On 19 June 2005 a Northwest Airlines DC-10 en route from Mumbai to Amsterdam made an emergency landing at Mehrabad Airport due to an indication of a fire in the cargo hold, which turned out to be a false alarm. No American airliners had landed in Iran since the revolution. The plane left 8 hours later without incident.[1]
- On 6 December 2005 an Iranian Air Force C-130 Hercules crashed in Tehran shortly after taking off from the airport.
References
- Mehrabad Airport (official web site)
- A-Z World Airports: Mehrabad Airport (THR/OIII)
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