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Shahid Sadooghi Airport

Yazd, Iran

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Gateway to Yazd, Iran's ancient desert city.

Location

Yazd, Iran

Shahid Sadooghi Airport (IATA: AZD, ICAO: OIYY) serves Yazd, a UNESCO-listed city in central Iran renowned for its historic Zoroastrian heritage and distinctive mud-brick architecture. The airport provides essential domestic connectivity for Yazd Province and supports the region's growing tourism sector. Named after Mohammad Sadooghi, a prominent cleric and martyr of the Islamic Revolution, the airport handles primarily domestic traffic with periodic international charter operations. It sits at an elevation suited to the high desert plateau surrounding Yazd.

Terminals

The airport operates a single passenger terminal handling both domestic arrivals and departures.

Getting to & from

Taxis and private vehicles are the primary means of ground transport connecting the airport to central Yazd, approximately 10 kilometres away.

Airlines here

Iran Air, Mahan Air, and other Iranian domestic carriers operate scheduled services to and from Shahid Sadooghi Airport.

Notable facts

›The airport is named after Shahid Mohammad Sadooghi, a martyred cleric from the Islamic Revolution.
›Yazd is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the airport supports its heritage tourism industry.
›The airport primarily serves domestic routes connecting Yazd to Tehran, Mashhad, and other Iranian cities.
›Yazd sits on a high desert plateau, and the airport elevation reflects the region's arid geography.
›International scheduled services are limited due to Iran's broader air connectivity constraints.

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Airlines serving this airport

Air Bangladesh

Iran Aseman Airlines

Iran Air

Saudi Arabian Airlines

Saudia

Routes

AZD → MHDB9 · M82

AZD → BNDEP · 100

AZD → MHDEP · 100

AZD → THREP · 100

AZD → THRIR · 100 M82 AB4 320

AZD → MHDIR · M82 100

AZD → MEDSV · AB6

Aircraft operating here

Fokker 1005 routes McDonnell Douglas MD-823 routes AB41 routes Airbus A3201 routes Airbus A300-6001 routes

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Encyclopaedia

Yazd Airport is an airport in Yazd, Iran. The airport lies 10 kilometers away from the city center of Yazd 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. 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, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 127, in 33 families.

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