IKA
Imam Khomeini International Airport
Imam Khomeini International Airport (IATA: IKA, ICAO: OIIE) is a large airport in Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran. It opened on 8 May 2004. It has 2 runways; the longest is 4,198 m (13,772 ft). It is operated by Imam Khomeini Airport City. In 2024 it handled 7.7 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 2004–200408 MAY 2004
OpenedImam Khomeini International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap11L/29R109° / 289° · LIT
LENGTH4,198 m13,772 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
11R/29L109° / 289° · LIT
LENGTH4,092 m13,425 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2012–20244.4M
4.8M
6.2M
6.9M
7.4M
8.5M
6.8M
6.0M
4.0M
6.3M
7.4M
7.7M
121314151617181921222324
Routes
39 destinations · 23 countriesYear-round36
ISUJalal Talabani International AirportIraq · Mahan Air529 km329 miGYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · Iran Airtour, Azerbaijan Airlines, Iran Air570 km354 miEBLErbil International AirportIraq · Mahan Air656 km408 miBGWBaghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air BaseIraq · Mahan Air, Taban Air, Sepehran Airlines +3679 km422 miNJFAl Najaf International AirportIraq · Taban Air, Zagros Airlines, Qeshm Air +4731 km454 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · Jazeera Airways, ATA Airlines (Iran), Kuwait Airways750 km466 miEVNZvartnots International AirportArmenia · Sepehran Airlines, Qeshm Air, Armenia Airways793 km493 miTBSTbilisi International AirportGeorgia · Sepehran Airlines, Qeshm Air879 km546 miGRVAkhmat Kadyrov Grozny International AirportRussia · Mahan Air1,002 km623 miBUSAlexander Kartveli Batumi International AirportGeorgia · Varesh Airlines1,078 km670 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways1,129 km702 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia1,197 km744 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Mahan Air, Iran Airtour +41,200 km746 miMZRMazar-i-Sharif International AirportAfghanistan · Meraj Airlines1,449 km900 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Taban Air, SalamAir, Sepehran Airlines +21,483 km921 miDYUDushanbe International AirportTajikistan · Somon Air, Varesh Airlines1,605 km997 miKBLKabul International AirportAfghanistan · Mahan Air, Iran Airtour, Varesh Airlines1,646 km1,023 miESBEsenboğa International AirportTürkiye · Mahan Air, AJet1,676 km1,041 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Zagros Airlines1,705 km1,059 miKHIJinnah International AirportPakistan · Taban Air1,928 km1,198 miISBIslamabad International AirportPakistan · Mahan Air, Iran Airtour1,993 km1,238 miSAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International AirportTürkiye · AJet1,999 km1,242 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Mahan Air, Turkish Airlines2,054 km1,276 miLHEAllama Iqbal International AirportPakistan · Mahan Air2,194 km1,363 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · Qeshm Air2,382 km1,480 miSVOSheremetyevo International AirportRussia · Mahan Air, Aeroflot2,513 km1,562 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Mahan Air2,554 km1,587 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Iran Air2,799 km1,739 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Austrian Airlines3,161 km1,964 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa3,775 km2,346 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Mahan Air5,647 km3,509 miHKTPhuket International AirportThailand · Mahan Air5,663 km3,519 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Mahan Air6,069 km3,771 miSZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · Mahan Air6,154 km3,824 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Iran Airtour6,336 km3,937 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · Mahan Air6,443 km4,003 miStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from IKA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Imam Khomeini International Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Airlines
28 airlines · destinations from IKAPassenger22
—Pars Air7B9Iran Airtour5ISSepehran Airlines5HHTaban Air4TKAJet2I3ATA Airlines2IAIraqi Airways2QRQatar Airways2ZOZagros Airlines2SUAeroflot1G9Air Arabia16AArmenia Airways1OSAustrian Airlines1J2Azerbaijan Airlines1EKEmirates1FZflydubai1J9Jazeera Airways1KUKuwait Airways1LHLufthansa1OVSalamAir1SZSomon Air1TKTurkish Airlines1Cargo1
LHLufthansa Cargo1Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from IKA. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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 channelsATISATIS127.200
GNDGND121.600
TWRTWR118.700