Bandar Abbas International Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین المللی بندرعباس) is an international airport located in 12 kilometers east of the city of
Bandar Abbas,
Hormozgan Province, in southern
Iran. The airport has flight connections to different parts of
Iran and countries of south of
Persian Gulf, and about 1,289,000 passengers passed through it in 2017. This airport is able to handle widebody aircraft such as
Boeing 777 or
Boeing 747
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After introducing the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet times its size, t ...
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Airlines and destinations
Incidents
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Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down after departing from Bandar Abbas in 1988.
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F-4 Phantom II
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crashed near Bandar Abbas on October 14, 2012, killing two airmen.
Gallery
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See also
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Iran Civil Aviation Organization
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Transport in Iran
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List of airports in Iran
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List of the busiest airports in Iran
2019 Statistics
2018 Statistics
Notes
:1.The results had been converted from a report generated in Persian Solar Hijri calendar
:2.The reports of the airports in Iranian islands had not been published since 2017; All the existing reports ...
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List of airlines of Iran
Iran has several private and public airline companies in operation. The oldest is the Iranian Airways Company, founded in 1944 (known as Iran Air since 1961).
As of June 2009, Iranian planes fly 45 international flight routes. Most of the fleet o ...
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Bandar Abbas
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Iran
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Airports in Iran
Transportation in Hormozgan Province
Buildings and structures in Hormozgan Province
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