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Imam Khomeini
International Airport (IKIA)

فرودگاه بین‌المللی امام خمینی
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerIranian Airports Holding Company
OperatorIran Civil Aviation Organization
ServesTehran, Karaj, Iran
LocationAhmadabad, Iran
Opened8 May 2004
Hub for
Time zoneIRST (UTC+3:30)
 • Summer (DST)IRDT (UTC+04:30)
Elevation AMSL3,305 ft / 1,007 m
Coordinates35°24′58″N 051°09′08″E / 35.41611°N 51.15222°E / 35.41611; 51.15222
Websiteikia.airport.ir
Map
IKA is located in Iran
IKA
IKA
Location within Iran
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
11L/29R 13,772 4,198 Asphalt
11R/29L
Closed 		13,940 4,249 Asphalt
Statistics (۱۳۹۳ - 2014)
Aircraft Movements45,069 Increase 22.3%
Passengers6,393,695 Increase 28.2%
Cargo120,954 tons Increase 22.3%
Source: Iranian Airports Holding Company[1]

Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport[2] (Persian: فرودگاه بین‌المللی امام خمینی) (IATA: IKA, ICAO: OIIE), also known as Tehran-IKIA or IKIA, is the main international airport of Iran, located 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of the city of Tehran, near the localities of Robat-Karim and Eslamshahr, on a 13,500-hectare (135 km2) site. It was designed to replace Mehrabad International Airport, which is in the west of the city, now inside the city boundaries. The airport was originally designated as Ahmadabad but was later renamed to "Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport". It is capable of handling wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 super heavy aircraft.

The airport, operated by the Iranian Airports Holding Company, is the home base of Iran Air, Meraj Airlines, Mahan Air, Iran Aseman Airlines, Qeshm Airlines, Taban Air, and Zagros Airlines. As of August 2014, Imam Khomeini International Airport serves more than 40 airlines operating over 850 of weekly flights connecting Tehran to cities in over 30 countries and territories worldwide.

History

Terminal building
Baggage claim area

Construction and inauguration

The construction began before the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The original designers were TAMS, a consortium of US designers. A local joint venture was formed and was called TAMS-AFFA, Aziz FarmanFarmaian and Associates, the firm created by Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian, to carry out the full design and supervision of construction.

After the Iranian Revolution, the project was abandoned until the government of Iran decided to design and build the airport using local know-how. The French firm ADP was selected to head the local designers and engineering firms. A turnkey design and build contract was awarded to a local general contractor company, Kayson, to carry out and manage the construction. After two years this contract was abandoned and was awarded to a Bonyad, the Mostazafan & Janbazan (M&J Foundation), a public cartel.[3]

After construction of the main terminal was finished by M&J Foundation, the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization decided to turn the management of operations along with the construction of the second terminal to the TAV (Tepe-Akfen-Vie) consortium of two Turkish (Tepe and Akfen) and an Austrian (Vie) companies.

The original opening was scheduled for 11 February 2004, the onset of the auspicious "Ten-Day Dawn" (1–11 February) celebrations, marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

There were numerous issues surrounding the construction of the airport including the supply of fuel to the new airport, and a delay in signing a deal with the Iranian oil ministry forced a delay in the opening of the airport until 8 May 2004.

Just prior to the opening on 8 May, two local airlines refused to switch to the new airport. Economic Hayat-e No daily quoted Ali Abedzadeh, director of semi-privately-owned Iran Aseman Airlines, as saying "We are not flying from an airport run by foreigners." TAV officials were ordered to withdraw their personnel and equipment from the airport on 7 May 2004, and operations were handed over to Iran Air.

"I think they (the armed forces) were given false reports that the Turks were still on the site, while they had all evacuated the airport by Friday," airport manager Hossein Pirouzi said. However, on 8 May, a few hours after the opening of airport, the Revolutionary Guards of the Iranian Armed Forces closed it, citing security fears over the use of foreigners in the running of the airport. Only one Emirates flight from Dubai was allowed to land. The second flight from Dubai, which was an Iran Air flight, was forced to land in Isfahan International Airport, because the Mehrabad Airport did not allow it to land there after the Imam Khomeini airport was closed by the armed forces. The rest of the flights were diverted to Mehrabad.

On 11 May, in a meeting of the Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ugur Ziyal and Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, the Turkish expressed uneasiness about the actions of the Iranian armed forces. The airport reopened on 13 May, as deputy head of Iran's Joint Chiefs of staff Brigadier-General Alireza Afshar stated "because foreign companies will no longer be in charge of the airport's operation, security obstacles are removed."

In April 2005 the $350 million Imam Khomeini International Airport was reopened under the management of a consortium of four local airlines—Mahan Air, Aseman, Caspian Airlines and Kish Air—although no formal contract appeared to have been awarded. Soon later management of the airport has been transferred to the Iranian Airports Holding Company which in behalf of Iranian Ministry of Roads and Transportation is in charge of operating all civil and governmental Iranian airports except some belongs to special organizations like Oil ministry or Armed Forces.[4]

Further complicating matters, on 29 April 2005, the United Kingdom and Canada warned its citizens against using the airport due to alleged safety concerns concerning the runway, which has been claimed to have been built over ancient qanats (subterranean waterways).[5][6] Iranian officials countered these claims by stating that there are no safety issues and that the International Civil Aviation Organization had inspected and approved the airport.

On 26 October 2007, it was announced that as of 28 October 2007 at midnight, all international flights except those bound to and from Damascus, Jeddah and Medina were transferred to the Imam Khomeini International Airport and the IKA became Tehran's primary international airport. All flights have now been moved to IKA except domestic flights and flights to Saudi Arabia for Hajj and Umrah.[7]

Development since 2009

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About 3 trillion rials (US$335 million) have been sought for completing Phase 1 of Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA), in the next Iranian year to March 2009, announced managing director of the State Airports Company, Asghar Ketabchi. According to a fax sent to Iran Daily by the company's Information Dissemination Department, if the sum is made available and the same amount is earmarked for the year to March 2010, the first phase of the airport would go into operation in the year to March 2009. He said that constructing the second runway, completing Customs Administrations' and a number of other buildings are among the projects for Phase 1 of IKIA. Presently the airport has the capacity to handle 6.5 million passengers per annum, he said and noted that 3 million people will use the airport by 19 March. Given the eight percent growth in flights, it is estimated that IKIA will have moved five million passengers by March 2009. The newly built Imam Khomeini International, the largest airport in Iran, sprawls over an area of 13,500 hectares. About 3.2 trillion rials (US$357 million) will be needed to promote the airport to a world-class level.

The French firm ADPI, subsidiary of the Aéroports de Paris Group has been commissioned for providing a master plan development study, with a second phase of development offering a 26.5 million annual passengers throughput capacity.

Completion part of phase one including cargo terminal and VIP terminal is currently under construction with Haj terminal in engineering phase and airport Hotel in bid to find investor which this latest one transferred to phase 2 package. Phases 2 & 3 of the airport have been designed to extend the airport capacity to 26.5 million and 50 million passengers annually with another possible phase 4 to reaching 90 million per year. Study and design for phase 4 will be done as soon as construction of phase 3 starts. Due to the expectation that airport is quickly reaching its current capacity of 6.5 million per year, a bid to find investors for second phase that has been announced by airport officials. It has partially concluded by selecting NAJA Cooperation Bonyad (a semi-governmental foundation) as the developer of most of phase 2 including a new 238,000 m2 passenger terminal with annual capacity of 20 million, a southern runway, new parking with 2500 cars capacity and a 4-star 250-room airport hotel with some of execution activities have already been started. This phase will cost USD2.2 billion from which USD700 million will be provided by Iranian government and the rest USD1.5 billion was the matter of bid which the winner Bonyad Taavon is committed to invest about US$1.2 billion of that and take at least 36 months to finish its portion.,[8][9]

The airport was equipped with a control tower simulator designed by Iranian knowledge base firm FARAZ GROUP in 2014 for training of ATC staff which is the first time in Iran that an airport has this kind of simulator after Iranian revolution. The first international training course was held in IKA by using this modern simulator for 53 Syrian air traffic controllers by November 2014.

Operations

Imam Khomeini Airport has 15 passenger terminal, with a total annual handling capacity of 6.5 million passengers and 120,000 tonnes of cargo. Terminal 16, the Pilgrimage Terminal, is currently under construction. In 2013, the airport handled 45.826 million passengers, a 20% increase over the previous year. This made it the eleventh busiest airport by international passenger traffic in the Middle East. In addition to being an important passenger hub, the airport is one of the busiest cargo airports in the region, handling 98,904 tonnes of cargo in 2013. The total number of commercial aircraft movements was 36,827 in 2013.[10]


IKA is equipped with the ILS CAT II since August 2009. The second ILS system for serving other runway was purchased seven years ago but the selling firm refused to set it up due to sanctions against Iran. The ILS was installed by Iranian experts but were not operating correctly and switched off.[11]

IKA has obtained the international certificate of Integrated Management System (IMS). IMS includes OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001: 2004 and ISO 9001, which are issued for safety and professional hygiene, protecting the environment and the quality of management respectively.[12] Imam Khomeini International Airport, is also the first busiest international airport in Iran, achieved CAO Airport Certificate on June 10, 2013.

Air side Hotels

For the first time since the 1979 revolution international hotels are opening outlets in the country, with the French chains Novotel and Ibis inaugurating air side facilities at Imam Khomeini Airport in October 2015.[13]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinationsTerminal
Aegean Airlines Athens 1 A & B
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 1 A & B
Air Arabia Sharjah 1 A & B
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle (resumes 18 April 2016)[14] 1 A & B
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino 1 A & B
Ata Airlines Batumi,[15] Tbilisi [16] 1 A & B
AtlasGlobal Adana, Ercan, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir 1 A & B
Austrian Airlines Vienna 1 A & B
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku 1 A & B
Belavia Seasonal: Minsk-National 1 A & B
Bulgarian Air Charter Seasonal charter: Varna 1 A & B
Caspian Airlines Damascus, Dubai-International, Isparta, Najaf, Sulaimaniyah 1 A & B
China Southern Airlines Ürümqi 1 A & B
Corendon Airlines Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen 1 A & B
Emirates Dubai-International1 A & B
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi 1 A & B
flydubai Dubai-International 1 A & B
Freebird Airlines Seasonal: Adana, Bursa, Gaziantep, Izmir 1 A & B
Eurowings
operated by SunExpress Deutschland 		Cologne/Bonn (begins 29 March 2016) [17] 1 A & B
Germania[18]Berlin-Schönefeld,[19] Düsseldorf (ends 5 January 2016)[19] 1 A & B
Gulf Air Bahrain[20] 1 A & B
Iran Air Amsterdam, Ankara, Baghdad, Baku, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Cologne/Bonn, Damascus, Dubai-International, Frankfurt, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Mumbai, Moscow-Sheremetyevo,[21] Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tashkent, Vienna 1 A & B
Iran Air Tours Seasonal: Adana, Doha, Dubai-International, Isparta 1 A & B
Iran Aseman Airlines Dubai-International, Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif, Sulaimaniyah, Tashkent, Yerevan
Seasonal charter: Isparta, Izmir, Varna		 1 A & B
Iraqi Airways Baghdad, Najaf[22] 1 A & B
Kam Air Kabul, [23] Mazar-i-Sharif [24] 1 A & B
Kish Air Najaf 1 A & B
Kuwait Airways Kuwait 1 A & B
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich (begins 15 April 2016)[25] 1 A & B
Mahan Air[26] Almaty, Ankara, Athens,[27] Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Copenhagen (begins 3 March 2016), [28] Dammam, Delhi, Dubai-International, Düsseldorf, Erbil, Guangzhou, Isparta, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Kabul, Kiev-Boryspil, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Milan-Malpensa,[27] Moscow-Vnukovo, Munich, Saint Petersburg,[29] Shanghai-Pudong, Sochi,[29] Yerevan
Seasonal charter: Antalya, Bucharest, Burgas, Colombo, Goa, Konya, Larnaca, Malé, Mauritius, Medina, Najaf, Phuket, Varna 		1 A & B
Meraj Airlines Ankara, Isparta, Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Kuwait, Najaf
Seasonal: Antalya, Baghdad, Dubai-International, Konya, Varna		 1 A & B
Nouvelair Seasonal charter: Enfidha, Monastir, Tunis 1 A & B
Oman Air Muscat1 A & B
Onur Air Seasonal: Adana1 A & B
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Seasonal: Adana, Alanya, Gaziantep 		1 A & B
Qatar Airways Doha 1 A & B
Qeshm Airlines Baghdad, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi,[30] Dubai-International, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Najaf, Sulaimaniyah
Seasonal charter: Bucharest, Isparta, Konya, Larnaca, Saint Petersburg, Varna		 1 A & B
Syrian Air Damascus 1 A & B
Taban Air Dushanbe, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Moscow-Domodedovo, Najaf
Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil, Karachi, Saint Petersburg 		1 A & B
Tailwind Airlines Seasonal: Adana, Antalya 1 A & B
Tajik Air Dushanbe 1 A & B
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen 1 A & B
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil 1 A & B
UM Airlines Kiev-Boryspil 1 A & B
Zagros Airlines Baghdad, Bahrain, Isparta, Izmir 1 A & B

Cargo

AirlinesDestinationsTerminal
Iran Air Cargo Amsterdam, Ankara, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dammam, Dubai-International, Doha, Frankfurt, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tashkent, Vienna Cargo A
Lufthansa Cargo Frankfurt Cargo B
Pegasus Cargo Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen Cargo B
Turkish Airlines Cargo Hanoi, Istanbul-Atatürk, Karachi Cargo B
Qatar Airways Cargo Doha, Hong Kong Cargo B

Ground transportation

See also: Transport in Iran

Imam Khomeini Airport is accessible from Tehran by car, taxi and bus via the Tehran-Qom Freeway. An airport access road connects the freeway to the airport terminal, continuing to serve Robat-Karim via an interchange with Saidi Highway. An extension to the southern part of Line 1 of Tehran Metro for IKA airport is currently under construction. There is also plan to have Line 3 of the Tehran Metro to reach its southern terminus at IKA in future.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 4 January 2008, an Iran Air Boeing 747-100B had three of its engines catch fire whilst landing at Imam Khomeini Airport. Heavy snowfall managed to extinguish the fires and the airplane returned to service two days after the incident.[citation needed]

See also

References

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