Mashhad International Airport

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Mashhad International Airport Shahid Hashemi Nejad Airport
IATA: MHD - ICAO: OIMM
Summary
Airport type		Military/Public
Operator		Military of Iran
Serves		Mashhad
Elevation AMSL		3,263 ft (995 m)
Coordinates		36°14′06″N, 59°38′27″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14R/32L	12,877	3,925	Asphalt
14L/32R	12,503	3,811	Asphalt

Mashhad International Airport or Shahid Hashemi Nejad Airport (IATA: MHD, ICAO: OIMM) is located in Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran.

It has frequent flights to several cities within Iran and also international flights mostly to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Afghanistan. The Airport is currently under an expansion project. By March 2008 it will have 20000 square meters of passenger terminal building, 18 or 19 aircraft parking positions, 2 or 3 more taxiways and 40000 square meters of car parking space added.

1 Airlines
- 1.1 Domestic
- 1.2 International
2 Accidents and incidents
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Airlines

[edit] Domestic

Aria Air (Tehran)
Caspian Airlines (Tehran)
Eram Air (Tabriz)
Iran Air (Tehran, Bandar Abbas)
Iran Air Tours (Abadan, Ahwaz, Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Isfahan, Khorramabad, Rasht, Sari, Shahrekord, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Urmia, Yazd, Zahedan)
Iran Aseman Airlines (Tehran, Kermanshah, Shiraz)
Kish Air (Kish Island, Tehran, Isfahan)
Mahan Airlines (Tehran, Kerman, Shiraz, Zabol)
Saha Airlines (Tehran)
Taban Airlines (Tehran, Isfahan, Zahedan, Kish Island)

[edit] International

Bahrain Air (Bahrain)
Caspian Airlines (Damascus)
Emirates Airline (Dubai) [begins late 2009]
Galaxy Air (Bishkek)
Gulf Air (Bahrain)
Iran Air (Kuwait City, Beirut, Bahrain, Jeddah, Dammam)
Iran Air Tours (Dubai)
Iran Aseman Airlines (Kabul, Kuwait City, Dubai, Dushanbe, Bishkek, Bahrain)
Jazeera Airways (Dubai, Kuwait)
Kam Air (Kabul)
Kish Air (Damascus)
Qatar Airways (Doha)
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jizan) (Seasonal only)
Taban Airlines (Damascus, Dubai, Almaty, Istanbul)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk) (starts in 2008)

[edit] Accidents and incidents

On September 1, 2006, an Iran Air Tours Tu-154 skidded off the runway as it was landing in Mashhad International Airport and caught fire. A tire had blown on the aircraft during landing. The aircraft was carrying 147 passengers, 29 of them died in the accident. The Tu-154 was flying from Bandar Abbas to Mashhad.