Mehrabad International Airport

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Mehrabad International Airport
IATA: THR - ICAO: OIII
Summary
Airport type		Joint (Civil and Military)
Serves		Tehran, Iran
Elevation AMSL		3,962 ft (1,208 m)
Coordinates		35°41′21″N, 51°18′49″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
11L/29R	13,248	4,038	Asphalt
11R/29L	13,098	3,992	Asphalt
09/27	1,554	474	Concrete

Mehrabad International Airport (IATA: THR, ICAO: OIII) is an airport that serves Tehran, Iran. It remains the primary airport of Tehran but will soon be replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport that was completed in 2004, although the exact date of the change has been postponed several times. It is located much closer to the city center than Khomeini Airport.

[edit] Airlines

Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
British Airways
- operated by BMED (London-Heathrow)
Iran Air (Ankara, Beijing, Caracas, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dammam, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Isfahan, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Seoul-Incheon, Shiraz, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tabriz, Tokyo-Narita, Vienna)
Iran Aseman Airlines (Abadan, Ahwaz, Ardabil, Asalouyeh, Bahrain, Bam, Birjand, Bishkek, Bojnord, Bushehr, Doha, Dushanbe, Gheshm, Ilaam, Kabul, Kermanshah, Khoy, Kuwait, Lamerd, Lar, Mashad, Rafsanjan, Ramsar, Rasht, Sabzevar, Sahand, Sanandaj, Shiraz, Tabas, Tabriz, Yasouj, Yazd)
Kish Air (Kish Island, Tabriz)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
Egypt Air (Cairo)
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Madinah)
Saha Airlines
Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
Tajikistan Airlines (Dushanbe)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)

[edit] Accidents and incidents

On 20 April 2005 a Boeing 707-3J9C had an accident while landing in Mehrabad airport. After touchdown on runway 29L problems with the undercarriage (failure of a landing gear or tyre burst) caused the Boeing 707 to slide off the runway into the Kan River. Three passengers were killed after they fell in the river during the evacuation.

On 19 June 2005 a Northwest Airlines DC-10 en route from Mumbai to Amsterdam made an emergency landing at Mehrabad Airport due to an indication of a fire in the cargo hold, which turned out to be a false alarm. No American airliners had landed in Iran since the revolution. The plane left 8 hours later without incident.[1]