Yazd Airport ( fa, فرودگاه یزد) is an airport in

Yazd Yazd ( fa, یزد ), formerly also known as Yezd, is the capital of Yazd Province, Iran. The city is located southeast of Isfahan. At the 2016 census, the population was 1,138,533. Since 2017, the historical city of Yazd is recognized as a Wor ...

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. The airport lies 10 kilometers away from the city center of

and serves the city as well as all of the surrounding counties. The Shahid Sadooghi Airport also serves as a part of the important North-South transportation corridor within the

Islamic Republic of Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. For administrative and census purposes, it is a treated as a village in Fajr Rural District, in the Central District of Yazd County, Yazd Province,

. At the 2006 census, its population was 127, in 33 families. The airport was established in 1970 upon 575 hectares of land. Even though the airport does not have an ''international'' status, there are occasional charter flights as well as scheduled passenger services to neighboring countries such as

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and Syria. Furthermore, the airport provides routine international service to Jeddah and

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for the annual Hajj season. Despite operating at 40-50% capacity, a total of 431,500 passengers traveled through Shahid Sadooghi Airport in 2012, making it the eleventh busiest airport in

in terms of passenger traffic and number of flight operations.

Airlines and destinations

See also