Iğdır Airport ( tr, Iğdır Şehit Bülent Aydın Havalimanı) is a public airport in

Iğdır Iğdır ( Turkish ; ku, Îdir or ; hy, Իգդիր, Igdir, also ) is the capital of Iğdır Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. History Iğdır went by the Armenian name of Tsolakert during the Middle Ages. s.v. "Igdir," Armenia ...

, located in Iğdır Province,

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. Opened to civil air traffic in July 2012, the airport is away from Iğdır city centre. The airport is a member of the

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(ACI Europe) and also participates in the Airport Carbon Accreditation Programme.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Iğdır Airport:

Statistics

Iğdır Airport ranked 32nd among Turkish airports at the end of 2023 in terms of total passenger traffic with almost 355 thousand passengers. Although there are no scheduled international flights as of June 2024, it handled some international passenger traffic in 2023 according to the Turkish Airports Authority.

Passenger numbers

Trivia

The airport was depicted in a

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advertisement in 2014, where a group of kids trying to ask the Turkish Airlines aircraft to land at their town (and their own made airport), and little to their knowledge that a real airport was constructed. The airport was depicted also in

commercial series of "Delightful Stories" (2014), where András Földvári, then head of marketing in Turkish Airlines' Hungary Office, flew from

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to explore

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."Iğdır: The 500th Airport"
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External links

* http://airlineroute.net/2012/07/19/tk7-igd-jul12/ * http://www.airporthaber.com/havacilik-haberleri/igdir-havalimani-cuma-gunu-aciliyor.html * http://www.airporthaber.com/havacilik-haberleri/basbakandan-kuleden-ucaga-anons.html * http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eastern-province-of-igdir-welcomes-airport.aspx?pageID=238&nID=25463&NewsCatID=345 * http://www.turkishairlines.com/tr-tr/kurumsal/haberler/13092/yeni-ucuslarimiz-igdir

References

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