Mashhad International Airport or Shahid Hashemi Nejad Airport Vorlage:Airport codes is located in Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran.
It has frequent flights to several cities within Iran and also international flights mostly to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Afghanistan. The Airport is currently under an expansion project. By March 2008 it will have 20000 square meters of passenger terminal building, 18 or 19 aircraft parking positions, 2 or 3 more taxiways and 40000 square meters of car parking space added.
Airlines
Domestic
- Aria Air (Tehran-mehrabad)
- Caspian Airlines (Tehran-mehrabad)
- Eram Air (Tabriz)
- Iran Air (Tehran-mehrabad, Bandar Abbas)
- Iran Air Tours (Abadan, Ahwaz, Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Isfahan, Khorramabad, Rasht, Sari, Shahrekord, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran-mehrabad, Urmia, Yazd, Zahedan)
- Iran Aseman Airlines (Tehran-mehrabad, Kermanshah, Shiraz)
- Kish Air (Kish Island, Tehran-mehrabad, Isfahan)
- Mahan Airlines (Tehran-mehrabad, Kerman, Shiraz, Zabol)
- Saha Airlines (Tehran-mehrabad)
- Taban Airlines (Tehran-mehrabad, Isfahan, Zahedan, Kish Island)
International
- Bahrain Air (Bahrain)
- Caspian Airlines (Damascus)
- Emirates Airline (Dubai) [begins late 2009]
- Galaxy Air (Bishkek)
- Gulf Air (Bahrain)
- Iran Air (Kuwait City, Beirut, Bahrain, Jeddah, Dammam)
- Iran Air Tours (Dubai)
- Iran Aseman Airlines (Kabul, Kuwait City, Dubai, Dushanbe, Bishkek, Bahrain)
- Jazeera Airways (Dubai, Kuwait)
- Kam Air (Kabul)
- Kish Air (Damascus)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jizan) (Seasonal only)
- Taban Airlines (Damascus, Dubai, Almaty, Istanbul)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk) (starts in 2008)
Accidents and incidents
- On September 1, 2006, an Iran Air Tours Tu-154 skidded off the runway as it was landing in Mashhad International Airport and caught fire. A tire had blown on the aircraft during landing. The aircraft was carrying 147 passengers, 29 of them died in the accident. The Tu-154 was flying from Bandar Abbas to Mashhad.
See also
External links
- Flughafendaten auf World Aero Data (englisch, Stand 2006). Nicht mehr online verfügbar. (Suche in Webarchiven)