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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, Aeroflot2,512 km1,561 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 miMost destinationsMahan Air 17Qeshm Air 7Meraj Airlines 7Iran Air 6Iran Airtour 5Sepehran Airlines 5
Straight 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.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 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