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Iğdır Airport

Coordinates: 39°58′36″N 43°52′36″E / 39.97667°N 43.87667°E / 39.97667; 43.87667
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Iğdır Airport

Iğdır Şehit Bülent Aydın Havalimanı
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorGeneral Directorate of State Airports Authority
ServesIğdır
LocationTurkey Iğdır, Turkey
Opened13 July 2012; 12 years ago (2012-07-13)[1][2]
Elevation AMSL3,100 ft / 945 m
Coordinates39°58′36″N 43°52′36″E / 39.97667°N 43.87667°E / 39.97667; 43.87667[3]
WebsiteIğdır Airport
Map
IGD is located in Turkey
IGD
IGD
Location of airport in Turkey
IGD is located in Caucasus Mountains
IGD
IGD
IGD (Caucasus Mountains)
IGD is located in Europe
IGD
IGD
IGD (Europe)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 3,000 9,842 Concrete
Statistics (2023)
Total passengers354,506
International passengers2,385
Aircraft Operations3,171
Cargo tonnage3,576

Iğdır Airport (IATA: IGD, ICAO: LTCT) (Turkish: Iğdır Şehit Bülent Aydın Havalimanı) is a public airport in Iğdır, located in Iğdır Province, Turkey. Opened to civil air traffic in July 2012, the airport is 16 km (9.9 mi) away from Iğdır city centre.[5] The airport is a member of the Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe) and also participates in the Airport Carbon Accreditation Programme.[6][7]

Airlines and destinations

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

AirlinesDestinations
AJet Ankara,[8] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[9]
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[10]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[11]

Statistics

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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.

Annual passenger traffic at IGD airport. See Wikidata query.

Passenger numbers

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Annual passenger statistics[12]
Year Passengers
2012
55,225
2013
216,715
2014
198,270
2015
212,104
2016
216,252
2017
248,005
2018
289,251
2019
261,255
2020
134,472
2021
191,870
2022
213,136
2023
354,506

Trivia

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The airport was depicted in a Turkish Airlines 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.[13]

The airport was depicted also in Turkish Airlines commercial series of "Delightful Stories" (2014), where András Földvári, then head of marketing in Turkish Airlines' Hungary Office, flew from Budapest to Iğdır to explore Noah's Ark.[14][15]

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References

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  1. ^ "Iğdır Havalimanı".
  2. ^ "Iğdır Havalimanının Açılışı Yapıldı".
  3. ^ fallingrain.com
  4. ^ "İstatistikler".
  5. ^ [1] (in Turkish)
  6. ^ https://www.aci-europe.org/downloads/members/2023%2028%2006%20ACI%20EUROPE%20LIST%20OF%20MEMBERS.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. ^ "Accredited Airports".
  8. ^ "AJet NS24 New Flight Number Designations – 12MAR24". Aeroroutes.
  9. ^ "AJet NS24 New Flight Number Designations – 12MAR24". Aeroroutes.
  10. ^ "Pegasus Hava Yolları 7 Mayıs'ta İstanbul Sabiha Gökçen-Iğdır seferlerine başlayacak". 2 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Istanbul New Airport Transition Delayed Until April 5, 2019 (At The Earliest)". 9 April 2019.
  12. ^ "Air Traffic Report". Turkish Airports Authority.
  13. ^ Turkish Airlines Ad on Igdir Airport
  14. ^ "Andras Foldvari - A Wanderer Devoted to Exploring New Worlds | #DelightfulStories - Turkish Airlines", YouTube
  15. ^ "Iğdır: The 500th Airport"
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