Iğdır Airport () is a public airport in

Iğdır Iğdır (; or ; ; or ) is a city in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. It is the seat of Iğdır Province and Iğdır District.

Iğdır Province Iğdır Province (, , , ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province in eastern Turkey, located along the borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan (the area of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic), and Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars Province, Kars to the north ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. 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:

Traffic Statistics

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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Iğdır Iğdır (; or ; ; or ) is a city in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. It is the seat of Iğdır Province and Iğdır District.

to explore Noah's Ark."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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