Iğdır Airport | |
Nativename: | Iğdır Şehit Bülent Aydın Havalimanı |
Iata: | IGD |
Icao: | LTCT |
Pushpin Map: | Turkey#Caucasus mountains#Europe |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Turkey |
Pushpin Label: | IGD |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Type: | Public |
Operator: | General Directorate of State Airports Authority |
City-Served: | Iğdır |
Location: | Iğdır, Turkey |
Opened: | [1] [2] |
Elevation-F: | 3100 |
Elevation-M: | 945 |
Coordinates: | [3] |
Metric-Rwy: | 3000 |
R1-Number: | 12/30 |
R1-Length-F: | 9842 |
R1-Length-M: | 3000 |
R1-Surface: | Concrete |
Stat-Year: | 2023 |
Stat1-Header: | Total passengers |
Stat1-Data: | 354,506 |
Stat2-Header: | International passengers |
Stat2-Data: | 2,385 |
Stat3-Header: | Aircraft Operations |
Stat3-Data: | 3,171 |
Stat4-Header: | Cargo tonnage |
Stat4-Data: | 3,576 |
Footnotes: | Source: (Turkish AIP at Eurocontrol) Turkish Airports Authority[4] |
Iğdır Airport (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 16km (10miles) 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]
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Iğdır Airport:
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.
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.[8]
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.[9] [10]