Qasem Soleimani International Airport

ICAO OIAW31.3364°N 48.7638°E20 m / 66 ftLarge airport

Qasem Soleimani International Airport (IATA: AWZ, ICAO: OIAW) is a large airport in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, Iran. It has one runway, 3,398 m (11,149 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Iranian Airports Holding Company. In 2019 it handled 2.4 million passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

12/30124° / 304° · LIT

LENGTH3,398 m11,149 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2019

1.9M

2.1M

1.9M

2.2M

2.7M

2.9M

2.3M

2.4M

111213141516171819

Routes

23 destinations · 5 countries

Year-round21

Seasonal2

MEDPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz AirportSaudi Arabia · Iran Air1,166 km725 mi JEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Iran Air1,436 km892 mi

Most destinationsKarun Airlines 16Iran Air 6Pars Air 5Zagros Airlines 4Mahan Air 4Qeshm Air 4

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from AWZ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Qasem Soleimani International Airport” (revision of 22 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers2.4M (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#528of 3,974 · #26 Middle East · #6 IR Longest runway3,398 m11,149 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#620of 29,823 · #77 Middle East · #25 IR Elevation20 m66 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,288of 43,341 · =379 Middle East · #136 IR Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =72 Middle East · =23 IR

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels

ATISATIS126.400

GND121.100

TWR120.850