Shahid Sadooghi Airport

Shahid Sadooghi Airport فرودگاه يزد
IATA: AZD – ICAO: OIYY AZD Location of airport in Iran
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Iranian Airports Holding Company
Operator	Iranian Airports Holding Company
Serves	Yazd
Location	Yazd, Iran
Elevation AMSL	4,054 ft / 1,236 m
Coordinates	31°54′18″N 054°16′35″E / 31.90500°N 54.27639°E
Website	yazd.airport.ir
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 13/31 4,098 13,446 Asphalt
Statistics (۱۳۹۲ - 2013)
Aircraft Movements 4,889 Passengers 471,164 Cargo 3,225 tonnes
Source: Iranian Airports Holding Company[1]

Yazd Airport فرودگاه يزد
airport
Country	Iran
Province	Yazd
County	Yazd
Bakhsh	Central
Rural District	Fajr
Time zone	IRST (UTC+3:30)
• Summer (DST)	IRDT (UTC+4:30)

Yazd-Shahid Ayatollah Sadooghi Airport (Persian: فرودگاه شهید آيت‌اللّه صدوقی 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.^[4] 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.^[5] Furthermore, the airport provides routine international service to Jeddah and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj season.^[6]

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.^[7]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Iran Air	Baghdad,[8] Mashhad, Tehran-Mehrabad
Iran Airtour Airline	Mashhad, Tehran-Mehrabad
Iran Aseman Airlines	Bandar Abbas, Mashhad, Tehran-Mehrabad
Iranian Naft Airlines	Ahwaz,[9] Tehran-Mehrabad Seasonal: Kish[10]
Kish Air	Mashhad, Seasonal: Kish[11]
Saudia	Hajj: Jeddah,[12] King Khalid international airportt
Riyadh]][13]

Statistics

Busiest routes out of Yazd

Busiest routes from Yazd (Weekly)^[14][15]

Rank	City	(#) of Flights per Week	Carriers
1	Tehran, Iran	30	Iran Air, Iran Airtour Airline, Iran Aseman Airlines, Iranian Naft Airlines
2	Mashhad, Iran	7	Iran Air, Iran Airtour Airline, Iran Aseman Airlines
3	Bandar Abbas, Iran	2	Iran Aseman Airlines
4	Medina, Saudi Arabia	2	Saudia Airlines
5	Baghdad, Iraq	1	Iran Air

Aircraft Serving Yazd

Operating Aircraft Fleet at Shahid Sadooghi Airport ^[16][17][18]

Aircraft	Approx. (#) of Passengers	Carriers	Notes
Airbus A300B4	248	Iran Air	Used on Yazd-Baghdad route
Airbus A320	147	Iran Air	Used on Yazd-Tehran route
Airbus A330-300	298	Saudia Airlines
Airbus A340-300	295	Saudia Airlines
Boeing 727-200	175	Iran Aseman Airlines	Used on Yazd-Mashhad route
Fokker 100	107	Iran Air, Iran Aseman Airlines, Iranian Naft Airlines, Kish Air	Serves the bulk of flight operations at airport
McDonnell Douglas MD-82	160	Iran Airtour Airline	Replaced the banned Tupolev Tu-154M
McDonnell Douglas MD-83	162	Kish Air	Used on Yazd-Kish Island route

See also

• List of longest runways

References

3. "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)". Islamic Republic of Iran. Archived from the original (Excel) on 2011-11-11.

External links

• Airport information for OIYY at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.