Iran: Does Tehran have one airport with two separate terminals or two separate airports for serving international and domestic flights (1989)
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 March 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | IRN4594 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Iran: Does Tehran have one airport with two separate terminals or two separate airports for serving international and domestic flights (1989), 1 March 1990, IRN4594, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aab5df.html [accessed 30 May 2023] |
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According to the Middle East Relations Division of External Affairs Canada, as reported by the Iranian Embassy on the date indicated above, Mehrabad airport at Tehran serves both international and domestic flights and uses two separate terminals, one for international and one for domestic flights. In 1985, according to The Stateman's Yearbook 1988-89 (Suffolk: MacMillan Press Ltd, 1988) p. 703, Mehrabad airport received 1,157,000 passengers from domestic flights and 313,000 from international flights, while 1,516,000 departed from the airport for both domestic and international flights.
The International Aviation office of Transport Canada confirmed that Mehrabad airport serves both domestic and international flights. It also stated that most major cities have alternate nearby airfields which are normally closed or do not have heavy traffic and serve for local or domestic flights, Tehran possibly being one such city.
The Encyclopedia of the Third World (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1987), p. 951, reports that Iran had, in 1982, 158 airfields (location not given), 10 of them with scheduled flights, 128 in usable condition, 75 with permanent runways and 16 with runways over 2,500 metres.
According to The Europa Year Book 1989 (London: Europa Publications, 1989), p. 1365, the construction of a new international airport 40 kms. South of Tehran was started under the government of the Shah, but was halted with the Islamic Revolution; work on the airport was, according to the source, "due to be resumed in the mid-1980s".
