Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Air
The vast majority of international flights come to Tehran. However, some travellers are
choosing to start or end their trip in Shiraz, saving some backtracking.
Airports & Airlines
Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) sees most of Iran's international air
traffic. It's small, so delays are possible. Elsewhere, Shiraz, Esfahan, Bandar Abbas and
Kish are (in that order) potentially useful arrival or departure points, while Abadan,
Ahvaz, Mashhad, Tabriz and Zahedan are less useful. See the Getting There & Away sec-
tions of these destinations for specific airport information.
Iran Air is the national airline and has the Homa, a mythical bird, as its symbol. As the
government-owned carrier, it offers service with an Islamic flavour (ie no pork, no alcohol
and no exposed hair on the hostesses).
The following airlines fly to/from Iran. Note that Caspian Airlines, Kish Air and Taban
Air have all had fatal crashes in the past 10 years.
IRANIAN AIRLINES & THEIR INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS
All airlines are based in Tehran except for Taban Air, which is in Mashhad.
Caspian Airlines
(
www.caspian.aer
o)
Flights to Damascus, Dubai, İstanbul, Kiev,
Yerevan.
Iran Air
(
www.iranair.com
)
Amsterdam, Ankara, Baku, Beijing, Beirut, Cologne, Copen-
hagen, Damascus, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Hamburg, İstanbul, Karachi, Ku-
ala Lumpur, Kuwait, London, Milan, Mumbai, Paris, Stockholm, Tashkent, Vienna.
Kish Air
(
www.kishairline.com
)
Damascus, Dubai, İstanbul.
Mahan Air
(
www.mahan.aer
o
)
Almaty, Baghdad, Bangkok, Birmingham, Damascus,
Delhi, Dubai, Dusseldorf, İstanbul, Kabul, Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, Shanghai.
Taban Air
(
www.tabanair.ir
)
Almaty, Baghdad, Bishkek, Damascus, Delhi, Dubai,
Jaipur, Konya, St Petersburg, Sofia, Tashkent.
FOREIGN AIRLINES & THEIR MAIN DESTINATIONS
Aeroflot
(
www.aeroflot.com
)
Moscow.
Air Arabia
(
www.airarabia.com
)
Sharjah.
Air Asia X
(
www.airasia.com
)
Kuala Lumpur, twice weekly.
Air India
(
www.airindia.com
)
Delhi.
Alitalia
(
www.alitalia.com
)
Rome.
