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	Airport Technology - Imam Khomeini International Airport (OIIE), Tehran, Iran
		Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) in Tehran, Iran, opened on 8 May 2004 and was immediately closed by the Sepah Pasdaran (Islamic Revolutionary Guard) amid security concerns over foreigners running the airport.
		The airport had been due to open in February 2004, but this was delayed because of a failure of the operating consortium to sign a deal with the Iranian oil ministry to supply the airport with fuel.
		Imam Khomeini International Airport is named after the revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini of the 1979 Iranian revolution, which overthrew the Shah.
	www.airport-technology.com /projects/tehran (1585 words)

	Imam Khomeini International Airport (Tehran) Passenger Opinions about Imam Khomeini International Airport (Tehran) ...
		Airport is very clean, immigration quick and efficient, then went to collect my checked bag downstairs.
		The airport is a good one and half hours from Tehran city, if the traffic is not too bad.
		Teheran's new airport is an excellent transit point to Europe from East Asia.It is currently served by gulf carriers especially Mahan Air.
	www.airlinequality.com /Airports/Airport_forum/ika.htm (514 words)

	Minister says Iran's Imam Khomeini International Airport to open soon
		IKIA's Terminal 1, located in the middle of an uninhabited land about 45 kilometers (30 miles) south of the capital, was built at a cost of 350 million dollars.
		Officials, at the time the airport was completed, said that it will eventually be able to handle 40 million passengers a year, making Tehran a regional transport hub.
		Iran Air had commissioned the operation of the airport to a Turkish-Austrian consortium, but the armed forces say this is jeopardizing the country's 'security' as well as 'dignity'.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/jul/1012.html (451 words)

	Iran's President inaugurates Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport
		Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport was formally inaugurated by President Mohammad Khatami Sunday, IRNA reported.
		The airport has been built on an area of 13,500 hectares of land at a total cost of over 2,600 billion rials (one dollar is equal to 8,350 rials) plus dlrs 60 million.
		Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA), he lauded the noteworthy attempts of the offsprings of the country in building up their land including the IKIA project.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/feb/1008.html (519 words)

	Imam Khomeini International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original opening was scheduled for February 1, 2004, the onset of the auspicious 'Ten-Day Dawn' (February 1-11) celebrations, marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
		There were numerous issues surrounding the construction of the airport including the supply of fuel to the new airport, and a delay in signing a deal with the Iranian oil ministry forced a delay in the opening of the airport until May 8, 2004.
		The second flight from Dubai, which was an Iran Air flight, was forced to land in Isfahan International Airport, because the Mehrabad Airport didn't allow it to land there after the Imam Khomeini airport was closed by the armed forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imam_Khomeini_International_Airport (741 words)

	Tehran's new airport reopens to fresh controversy - Business - Middle East Times
		Iran opened its new main international airport despite warnings from at least two countries that the runway may be unsafe.
		Officials hope that the airport, spread over 40,000 hectares and situated 50 kilometers (30 miles) by road from the center of Tehran, will eventually be able to handle 40 million passengers a year.
		Tehran's current international airport, Mehrabad, situated close to the city center, doubles up as a military airstrip and is badly overstretched.
	www.metimes.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20050502-062926-1833r (687 words)

	Safety fears at new Iran airport \| WORLD \| NEWS \| tvnz.co.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"We are aware of reports that the runway at the new Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran may not yet be suitable for use," the British Foreign Office said of the airport, due to open on Saturday.
		The opening of the Imam Khomeini International Airport, built to serve the capital Tehran, has already been aborted once, when military vehicles swarmed onto the runway and closed it down a year ago after an inaugural flight had landed.
		Flights to and from the airport, 45 km south of Tehran and designed to replace the ageing Mehrabad International Airport close to the city centre, were due to resume on Saturday afternoon with carriers serving the nearby United Arab Emirates.
	tvnz.co.nz /view/news_world_story_skin/528440?format=html (424 words)

	elog Worldwide Inc- middleastlogistics.com-BUSINESS LEADS, NEWS & FEATURES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
		Officials had hoped the airport, situated on a new site some 35 kilometres south of Tehran, would be inaugurated as part of a series of 25th anniversary celebrations marking the 1979 Islamic revolution in February.
		Tehran’s present airport, Mehrabad, is situated close to the city centre and is used for both civilian and military flights.
		The airport is "set up and ready to go, but it needs more time for the supporting infrastructure," such as bus services and hotels, which need to prepare for prospective guests, said Captain Hisham Halawi.
	www.middleastlogistics.com /airports_mel.htm (2369 words)

	Iran's new airport to reopen April 30 - but no foreign help -- Middle East Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Iran's showpiece new airport will finally reopen on April 30 after being dramatically shut down by the Revolutionary Guards last year over the involvement of a Turkish consortium, the country's transport minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
		The Revolutionary Guards argued that TAV also had dealings with archenemy Israel, and charged that their presence at the airport in the middle of the desert, south of the capital, was a threat to national security.
		The airport - a project first launched three decades ago - was built at a cost of $350 million with a capacity of 2.5 million international and 4 million domestic passengers a year.
	www.metimes.com /print.php?StoryID=20050405-065151-5617r (341 words)

	Flight Times: February 2006 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Imam Khomeini International Airport announced less than two months ago that it requires a budget of 1.2-trillion rials for the year to March 2007.
		The report indicated that unless the airportâs financial requirements are met, as was the case the previous year, the airportâs development projects will not proceed as per schedule.
		The airportâs current expenses stand at 20 billion rials per month, the report said, adding that the IKIA does not generate new revenues as it is handling the same foreign flights that used to be conducted via Tehranâs Mehrabad International Airport.
	www.flight-times.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /2006_02_01_times.html (3505 words)

	Atieh Bahar: News
		Exactly halfway between the vibrant metropolis of Tehran and the cloistered holy city of Qom, the new Imam Khomeini International Airport appears a fitting marker for the ambivalence the nation shows a world steadily knitting itself together beyond Iran's borders.
		What's more, the airport was to be run by a company with roots both in Turkey and Austria, a foreign partnership that promised to invest almost $200 million in an additional terminal.
		A pending solution to the airport standoff appears to accommodate the contending interests within the government: TAV would retain its 11-year concession but would outsource ground handling, presumably to an Iranian company, according to TAV's chief executive, Sani Sener.
	www.atiehbahar.com /InTheNews/CollisionCourse.htm (953 words)

	TehranAvenue \| Cafe \| âHoz-e Soltan,â Imam Airport, and the End of Road-Food Nightmare
		The recently-built Imam Khomeini Airport, or simply, IKIA (Imam Khomeini International Airport) is also along this freeway.
		The fact that a mass of officials were sent to formally close down the airport shortly after its inauguration was considered to be a powerful political move by Revolutionary Guard hardliners against {Mohammad Khatami}âs administration and an excuse to expose Iranâs former president as incompetent.
		Those who are flying with Arab airlines must make the long trek to this far-flung airport and those who choose to return or travel to Iran with a similar airline must pass over the salty lakes on their way to Tehran.
	www.tehranavenue.com /article.php?id=445 (1371 words)

	Iran Opens New Airport Despite Safety Warnings
		Iran opened its new international airport in Tehran on Saturday, despite warnings from at least two countries that the runway may be unsafe.
		The Imam Khomeini International Airport, built to serve the capital Tehran, received a first commercial flight from Dubai almost exactly a year after its inauguration was aborted when the military closed it down because of concern over security.
		An official of airline Emirates, which has a flight to the new airport in the early hours of Sunday, said his company was satisfied its safety standards met international guidelines.
	news.airwise.com /story/view/1114991588.html (473 words)

	AIRPORTS
		There are thirty airports in active use, eight of which are suitable for international flights.
		There is a major project for the construction of Tehran's second international airport (Imam Khomeini International Airport), which will handle about 30 million passengers a year when completed.
		The expansion of airports in recent years has provided the possibility of air communication between various cities on a wide and popular scale.
	www.salamiran.org /CT/Tourism/airports.html (357 words)

	FT.com / World / International economy - Low-key opening for Tehran airport reflects political sensitivities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The grand opening of Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport was abruptly halted on "security grounds" a year ago when Revolutionary Guards tanks rolled on to the runway.
		The airport is a gleaming symbol of Iran's international ambitions.
		The hardliners' move to prevent the airport's opening scuppered the government's $193m (€150m, £100m) deal with TAV, and management is now with a consortium of four local Iranian airlines - Mahan, Aseman, Caspian Air and Kish Air.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/76a8e306-bb74-11d9-911a-00000e2511c8.html (715 words)

	Tehran's New Int'l Airport; IKIA - SkyscraperCity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) is equipped with advanced aviation technology and is estimated to have cost almost $1 billion.
		Imam Khomeini International Airport is located in a 15 hectare area located some 30km to the south of Tehran on the Tehran-Qom highway.
		the current dubai airport is at the same size as this one, and it will be bigger once the new extentions are completed (note that the new extentions are as big as the current one).
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=220941 (1280 words)

	Iran Daily
		He stressed that all major international airlines have accepted that the IKIA is now ready for operation.
		Hassan Hajalifard told ISNA that airports in Tehran are responsible for handling some 75 percent of the country's air traffic.
		He said the critics of the BOT contract with a Turkish company for the completion of Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) have not even bothered to study the terms of this contract, stressing that an erroneous impression has led to an all-out campaign for terminating the deal.
	www.iran-daily.com /1383/2099/html/economy.htm (2415 words)

	:: Pendar.net : IranAir and Turkish Airways Reached a Reconciliation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Now the Turkish Airline flights, which were supposed to be transferred to Imam Khomeini Airport, will be done from Mehrabad Airport in Tehran as usual, due to the oppositions from the two sides.
		Sabiha Gocken International Airport is 80 miles far from Istanbul city, which will compel Iran Air’s passengers to pay an extra 50 to 60 US dollar for transportation.
		Experts believe that the delay in commissioning the airport has caused the country to lose one million dollar per day which it could other wise have obtained from receiving transit fees from planes belonging to various airlines of the world which fly through the Iranian airspace everyday.
	www.pendar.net /en/main1.asp?a_id=172 (508 words)

	Iranian Army To Allow Tehran Airport To Open
		Iran's military, which blocked the runway at Tehran's new international airport on its first day of operations on Saturday, has given its go-ahead for the terminal to re-open, local media reported on Tuesday.
		The long-awaited opening of the new airport, located 45 km (28 miles) south of Tehran, descended into chaos on Saturday when Revolutionary Guards vehicles were driven onto the runway after just one of six scheduled international flights had arrived.
		The next flight was diverted to an airport in central Iran while the rest were sent to Tehran's Mehrabad Airport, which the new airport is designed to replace.
	news.airwise.com /stories/2004/05/1084272209.html (418 words)

	CNN.com - Iran and UK in row over airport - May 1, 2005
		Britain and Canada issued warnings on Friday to travellers to avoid using the Imam Khomeini International Airport, which opened on Saturday, due to concerns the runway may be unsafe.
		Hardline politicians ignored the dispute over safety and focused their ire on an alleged request by London that the name of the airport, dedicated to the founding father of the 1979 Islamic revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, be changed.
		The first flights to and from the airport, located 30 miles (48 km) south of Tehran, began on Saturday with routes serving the nearby Gulf city of Dubai.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/TRAVEL/05/01/iran.airport (381 words)

	Irankicks Football Talk - Iran to reopen Imam Khomeini airport
		According to civil aviation authorities on Wednesday, Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) will initially handle all flights on the route between Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
		The sole control of the airport is in the hands of sepahe pasdaran based on the news I read and the first time there was the chemical spill that took place when some stuff were brougth over.
		Why does a country like Dubai have huge internation airport hub, and Iran has a glass shack in the middle of desert.
	www.irankicks.com /ikboard/printthread.php?t=30055 (895 words)

	Iran Daily
		IKIA is the country's most important airport and its security issues are being pursued with much
		But as regards the Tav contract (for development of the Imam Khomeini International Airport, south of Tehran), the situation is rather more complex.
		This is because the IKIA is the country's most important airport and its security issues are being pursued with much sensitivity like in any other country.
	www.iran-daily.com /1383/2155/html/focus.htm (1589 words)

	Terminal safety » 7DAYS General and Local News, Dubai, Abu Dhabi UAE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Imam Khomeini International Airport, built to serve the capital
		Further flights to and from Dubai are due to use the new airport in
		Airport in Tehran may not yet be suitable for use," the British Foreign
	www.7days.ae /2005/05/01/terminal-safety.html (452 words)

	Controversy over Iran’s new airport -DAWN - International; 1 May 2005
		TEHRAN, April 30: The Iranian capital’s new showpiece international airport finally reopened on Saturday a year after being shut down by the armed forces, but was immediately hit by fresh controversy amid warnings its runway may not yet be safe.
		The warnings were the latest in a series of setbacks to the new airport, which has been decades in the making and which Iran hopes will one day rival Dubai as a regional transport hub.
		For now there is no role at the airport for a foreign company, and TAV is still waiting to see what will happen to the 15 million dollars it has invested.
	www.dawn.com /2005/05/01/int3.htm (448 words)

	IranExpert: Iran investor confidence damaged following abrupt closure of new Tehran airport
		The Iranian army's abrupt closure of a new Tehran airport in a military operation because of the use of a foreign operator has dealt a blow to investor confidence in the Islamic Republic.
		According to press reports, military vehicles blocked off the runway, an approaching plane was diverted with a warning of anti-aircraft fire, and the army scrambled jets.
		The airport, located 30 kilometers south of Tehran, was due to start operations before the start of the current Iranian year, but a number of problems delayed the airport's operation.
	www.iranexpert.com /2004/airport12may.htm (245 words)

	Airliners.net Articles: A Guide to Traveling and Flying in Iran (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The rule of thumb basically is that all international flights to the Middle East operate from the new Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) — IATA code IKA, except flights to/from Turkey.
		IKIA is a long, long way from Tehran and from the other airport (I’d be guessing 75km?), so if you plan on transiting flights or going into Tehran, give yourself plenty of time.
		I’m not aware of other cities with 2 airports, but quite often the International terminal is far removed from the Domestic one, and domestic arrivals and departures are also often split (though never seemingly that far apart).
	www.airliners.net.cob-web.org:8888 /articles/read.main?id=88 (4368 words)

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