Yazd Airport ( Persian : فرودگاه یزد ) ( IATA : AZD , ICAO : OIYY ) 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.
5-496: The airport was established in 1970 upon 575 hectares of land. Even though the airport does not have an international status, there are occasional charter flights as well as scheduled passenger services to neighboring countries such as Iraq and Syria . Furthermore, the airport provides routine international service to Jeddah and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj season. Despite operating at 40-50% capacity,
10-473: A total of 431,500 passengers traveled through Shahid Sadooghi Airport in 2012, making it the eleventh busiest airport in Iran in terms of passenger traffic and number of flight operations. This article about an Iranian airport is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Yazd County location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Air charter Air charter
15-559: Is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering ) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through a traditional airline ). Charter – also called air taxi or ad hoc – flights require certification from the associated country's civil aviation authority . The regulations are differentiated from typical commercial/passenger service by offering a non-scheduled service. Analogous regulations generally also apply to air ambulance and cargo operators, which are often also ad hoc for-hire services. In
20-664: The United States, these flights are regulated under FAA Part 135. There are some cases where a charter operator can sell scheduled flights, but only in limited quantities. As of 2021, the FAA had made it a priority to crack down on unauthorised charter flights, according to industry experts. There are several business models which offer air charter services from the traditional charter operator to brokers and jet card programs: Charter aircraft categories include: There are an estimated 15,000 business jets available for charter in
25-586: The world. The US market is the largest, followed by the European market with growing activity in the Middle East, Asia, and Central America. Some charter airlines have employed other types of jets, including Airbus , Boeing , and McDonnell Douglas mainline airliners such as the Douglas DC-10 and Boeing 747 . Arrow Air of the United States was such an airline. Among other aircraft, it employed
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