Lackluster Days at Imam Khomeini Airport

The departure board at Imam Khomeini Airport presents a distressing picture of one of Iran's most important air gateways to the world. On one day, only seven outbound flights were recorded at this airport, and among the arrivals, only seven foreign origins appeared.

Ambassador Arjan: The flight board of Imam Khomeini Airport has displayed a disturbing image of one of the most important gateways of Iran's air communication with the world. In one day, only seven departure flights were registered from this airport, and among the incoming flights, only the names of seven foreign destinations can be seen.

Messiah Heydarian; Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran has been known as the main gateway for Iran's international flights for many years; A complex with large halls, runways and passenger capacity on an international scale. In the middle of the Iran-US war, the tightening of sanctions on the aviation industry and the suspension of foreign companies' flights to Iran, Tehran's sky has become more isolated and dependent on domestic airlines for foreign flights than in the past.

Ambassador Arjan's investigations of Imam Khomeini Airport (RA) indicate that this airport has become quieter than ever due to the tightening of sanctions. The airport, which once witnessed the take-off and landing of international airlines, now only sees the landing and take-off of Iranian airlines for limited destinations.

Below you can see pictures of the list of flights departing from Imam airport.

The information and videos sent by one of the audience of Ambassador Arjan from the flight board of Imam Khomeini International Airport show that on one of the days of the week, only seven outgoing flights were recorded in the flight information board, and all these flights were made by Iranian airlines.

These flights were directed to Najaf, Yerevan, Istanbul, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh and Beijing. In the incoming flights section, the names of seven origins including Istanbul, Yerevan, Najaf, Ankara, Dushanbe, Tashkent and Moscow were seen.

As can be seen in the video, there are no foreign flights from/to the origin and destination of Tehran and neighboring countries.

List of incoming flights to Imam Khomeini Airport

In the following, images of Imam Airport being empty of its regular passengers were sent to Ambassador Arjan, which makes the shadow of sanctions on the skies of Iran more visible.

According to Ambassador Arjan, the continuation of this trend and the avoidance of foreign airlines from Iran's skies, in addition to making foreign trips more difficult for passengers, has kept the revenues of Iran's aviation industry at zero. In such a situation, the future of this industry is more than ever tied to the reduction of international restrictions, the return of foreign airlines and the establishment of stability in the country's political and security environment.