Pictures of IKIA's terminal extension

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http://www.bolandpayeh.com/projects/terminal-emam-airport/index.html (in Persian)

Great news!! Thanks

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All this projects are probably going to build next to IKA airport just check this website out for more projects and Ikia's expansion plan
http://ikia.airport.ir/HomePage.aspx?TabID=7782&Site=ikia.airport&Lang=fa-IR

I never knew of these commercial/administrative township plans. Sounds great if the metro will extend to IKIA.

they look fantastic. so they are building a new city around the airport. when is construction going to begin?
but isnt an airport ment to be out of a city..and they are building a city around it?? dosnt make sense.

IKIA Airport expansion ( UC)

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looks great!! good update

i just hope they dont build behind the airport, the part with the gates, it allways nice seeing the desert horizon when leaving the plain, it feels so weird and sad, that ur leaving, and exotic :) ive got memories with that view haha :)

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This is how the airport will look like:

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May I ask what is IKIA?

^^^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Imam_Khomeini_International_Airport

May I ask what is IKIA?

it is imam khomeini international airport.

ew the hajj terminal is such a waste and in my belief unislamic to the max

ew the hajj terminal is such a waste and in my belief unislamic to the max
well they are building a second terminal and a hajj terminall next to it, I think it's a good ideo because there are a huge number of Iranians who go to Mekka/Madineh for hajj also it's good because in that way all Saudi Arabian flights from Jeddah can move to this terminal and in the hajj period they have like 4 daily flights to Tehran and the same for Iran Air, Mahan Air who also go to Jeddah couple of times daily in the hajj period :)

not that many people go, and most people that go are older people, and maybe in 20 years the amount of hajjis is going to dramatically decrease

i think its wrong to have a "special" section for the hajjis
but anyway, its a terminal, the building is allways there they can justt change the function whenever they can

not that many people go, and most people that go are older people, and maybe in 20 years the amount of hajjis is going to dramatically decrease

i think its wrong to have a "special" section for the hajjis
but anyway, its a terminal, the building is allways there they can justt change the function whenever they can
actually many people go I don't want to talk about religion but don't forget Iran still has a huge amount of muslims and love their religion regardless their government and I know many 40 year old people who goes...also people from the age of 25+....
many Iranians go to Makkeh, Karbala and to the holy shirine of Mashad :)
I don't see the problem..it's a good thing because the flights to Jeddah are many from Tehran and they can also use the terminal for the Iraq flights to Najaf and Karbala :)
it would be good for the organisation of the airport! and maybe IKA will be a worldclass airport someday :)

i know theres a descent population im just saying that theres not soo many to make a special terminal for them, if the terminal is small then thats fine, but i dunko how large it is

thanks for the info.the projects look awesome

not that many people go, and most people that go are older people, and maybe in 20 years the amount of hajjis is going to dramatically decrease

i think its wrong to have a "special" section for the hajjis
but anyway, its a terminal, the building is allways there they can justt change the function whenever they can

Go to the hajj terminal at Mehrabad. It is always crowded. Trust me there literally millions taking that flight every year from Iran.!

IKIA (Imam Khomeyni International Airport) Pilgrimage Terminal.

CategoryFuture Projects - Competition entries

LocationTehran, Iran

ArchitectsNEGIN SHAHR AYANDEH (NESHA) Consulting Engineers, Tehran, Iran

Negin shahr, Iran

WAF Entry2010

Competition Description
IKIA Pilgrimage Terminal design competition commenced with 5 invited practices including 4 local consultants with GMP architects. ABNIEH TARAHAN ALBORZ (ATA) Consulting Engineers + NEGIN SHAHR AYANDEH Architects (Architectural joint venture) was announced as the 1st prize of this competition by jury.
Project Requirements
-Designing a Terminal in International Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran
-1,600,000 annual passengers
-4 accompanies per passenger
-3 receptionists per passenger
-2 air bridges supporting six hundred-passenger flights at the peek time.
-The airports physical program is as follow:
-48000 sqm Gross area including Departure (18000 sqm), Arrival (17000 m2) and the Service zones (13000 m2).
-2000 cars Parking lots capacity
Design Ideas
International airport terminals are one of the most critical buildings in each country, as they are the first place to be visited by the tourists and passengers. International terminals, thereby, express the identity of the country in which the airport is located. On the contrary, this terminal attempts to express the identity of the destination, as it is a platform from which passengers travel to a sacred destination for solely religious purposes. Considering to terminal design methodology and the purpose of HAJ (Muslim’s pilgrimage), there are some spatial and functional ideas for the terminal designing:
1. Spatial interaction
The volume of the terminal has been divided in two parts. Northern part , including public areas with multiple floors, has been separated from southern HAJI’s (pilgrims’) area. southern section of the building has been oriented toward KIBLAH, the direction toward which Muslim prays. It benefits from very hight ceiling reinforcing spatial quality of the interior spaces. The gap between these two main sections, allow for natural day-light penetration into the building. this has been improved by placing triangular openings on the roof.
Shadows casted by the openings define the direction of the Kiblah( destination) .

2. Purity and simplicity
Minimal aspect of design without any extra decorations is one of the most important ideas to have mystical ambiance over terminal space. Shape of envelop has been inspired from EHRAM which is the pilgrim’s white dress. It is comprised a pair of folded surfaces, separating internal from public spaces.

3. Transparency
The terminal spaces have been designed to maximize the transparency and view, from the from the entrance to the exit gates and vice gate. It allows the visitors to find their way to the exit for arrivals and to the gates for departure passengers.

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Looks Amazing! Thanks!

i like how the pilgrimage terminal is 9328832 times better looking than the other ones

I like the idea of transparency, very aesthetically pleasing. It'd be nice to see the other entries too.

I like the idea of transparency, very aesthetically pleasing. It'd be nice to see the other entries too.
yes, I know there is one other passenger terminal bigger than the one we have now, I think it's U/C now, also 2 others are proposed I thought with 3 or 4 other runways which will bring the capacity of IKIA to 90 million passengers a year.

ew the hajj terminal is such a waste and in my belief unislamic to the max

I totally agree its a waste of public money. Bsides hardly any international airlines fly to Tehran anywayz leave for a few of Middle Eastern ones.:ohno:

yes, I know there is one other passenger terminal bigger than the one we have now, I think it's U/C now, also 2 others are proposed I thought with 3 or 4 other runways which will bring the capacity of IKIA to 90 million passengers a year.

90 million????????????????? mage che khabare?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

^^Tarhe poroje in forudgah male bish az 30 sale pish hast, zamane shah. Oonmoghe, Tehran beonvane yek shahre transiti estefade mishod (bekhatere jayegahe strategici goghrafish; beyne shargho gharb). Ba inke badha dige bishtari havapeymaha emkane parvaz be har makani dar donya bedoone neshastan shodan, in naghsh yekam kamrangtar shod. Vali baz ham gharar bood ke in forudgah mesle Dubai alan, estefade beshe. Bara hamin ham gharar bood, bad az etmame poroje ta saliane 90/95mio nafar ro ja-be-ja kone. Be khatere enghelabo, jango, chizhaye dige in poroje kheili be tavigh oftad. Magarna Dubai chi dare ke Tehran nadashte bashe? Gheyr az inke taze Tehran az nazare goghrafi jash behtare. Mogheyy ke in poroje ro tarahi mikardan, Dubai hichi nabood... .

@Soroush Persepolis, yes because they want to move all the domestic flights to IKIA too, we should be glad this gov has some ambitious plans and we can get finally a world class airport :)

@Shapoor I agree

I totally agree its a waste of public money. Bsides hardly any international airlines fly to Tehran anywayz leave for a few of Middle Eastern ones.:ohno:
you are wrong many european and asian and ME carriers have flights to Iranian cities ;)
here are the airlines and frequency:
The red signed are Iranian carriers.

Aeroflot-Moscow-Sheremetyevo A320-200/321-200 5x
Air Arabia-Sharjah A320-200 4x
Air Batumi-Batumi, Tbilisi A310-300 seasonal
AirAsia X-Kuala Lumpur A330-300 3x
Alitalia-Rome-Fiumicino A320-200 4x
Ariana Afghan Airlines-Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif B727-200 4x
Armavia-Yerevan A320-200 4x
Atlasjet-Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Konya, Gaziantep A320-200 seasonal
Austrian Airlines-Vienna A320-200 5x
Azerbaijan Airlines-Baku A320-200 7x
Belavia-Minsk B737-300 3x
BMI-London-Heathrow A321-200 7x
Bulgaria Air-Varna, Sofia B737-500 seasonal
Caspian Airlines-Damascus, Dubai, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Minsk, Yerevan
China Southern Airlines-Beijing-Capital, Urumqi B737-700/B757-200 4x
Corendon Airlines-Antalya, Gaziantep, Izmir, Istanbul-Atatürk B737-800 seasonal
Emirates-Dubai A330-200/B777-200/B777-300 23x
Eram Air-Damascus, Izmir, Isparta
Etihad Airways-Abu Dhabi A320-200 3x
Freebird Airlines-Izmir A321-200 seasonal
Georgian International Airlines-Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi B737-300 4x
Gulf Air-Bahrain A320-200/A340-300 4x
Iran Air-Amsterdam, Ankara, Bahrain, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, London-Heathrow, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tashkent, Tokyo-Narita, Vienna
Iran Aseman Airlines-Bishkek, Dubai, Dushanbe
Iraqi Airways-Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil B727-200/B737-700 14x
Kam Air-Kabul MD83 seasonal
Kish Air-Damascus, Dubai, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir
KLM-Amsterdam MD11 6x
Kuwait Airways-Kuwait A320-200/A300-600 4x
Lufthansa-Frankfurt A340-600/B747-400 7x
Mahan Air-Almaty, Amritsar, Baghdad, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Birmingham, Damascus, Dammam, Delhi, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Istanbul-Atatürk, Muscat, Phuket (planned)
Nouvel Air-Monastir A320-200 seasonal
Onur Air-Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir 320-200 seasonal
Pegasus Airlines-Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Konya B737-800 5x
Qatar Airways-Doha A321-200/330-300 4x
Sky Airlines-Nevsehir, Gaziantep B737-800 seasonal
SunExpress-Antalya, Adana B737-800 seasonal
Syrian Air-Damascus A320-200 5x
Taban Air-Damascus, Dubai TU154M
Tailwind Airlines-Izmir B737-400 seasonal
Tajik Air-Dushanbe B737-200 3x
Turkish Airlines-Istanbul-Atatürk, Ankara A320-200/A321-200/A330-200/B737-800
AnadoluJet-Ankara B737-800 seasonal
Turkuaz Airlines-Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir A320-200 seasonal
UM Airlines-Kiev-Boryspil MD80 4x

Note: Kish Air has planned a new route: Cairo
From mehrabad you can fly also to international routes with: Saudi Arabian Airlines-Jeddah B747-400/B777-200 10x Hajj
From Mashad you can fly with Mahan Air to Kuala Lumpur and BangKOK, it has also flight's with Iran Air to Frankfurt seasonally, also Emirates, Gulf Air, Shaheen Air, Bahrain Air, Kuwait Airways and... fly's to Mashad from Shiraz you can fly with Mahan to Kuala Lumpur and froim Tabriz with Turkish Airlines B737-800 to Istanbul and Ankara, and the list goes on and on so you see we have many flights in Iran and also we are the second biggest domestic flight country in Asia after China

^^Tarhe poroje in forudgah male bish az 30 sale pish hast, zamane shah. Oonmoghe, Tehran beonvane yek shahre transiti estefade mishod (bekhatere jayegahe strategici goghrafish; beyne shargho gharb). Ba inke badha dige bishtari havapeymaha emkane parvaz be har makani dar donya bedoone neshastan shodan, in naghsh yekam kamrangtar shod. Vali baz ham gharar bood ke in forudgah mesle Dubai alan, estefade beshe. Bara hamin ham gharar bood, bad az etmame poroje ta saliane 90/95mio nafar ro ja-be-ja kone. Be khatere enghelabo, jango, chizhaye dige in poroje kheili be tavigh oftad. Magarna Dubai chi dare ke Tehran nadashte bashe? Gheyr az inke taze Tehran az nazare goghrafi jash behtare. Mogheyy ke in poroje ro tarahi mikardan, Dubai hichi nabood... .
after the revolution the changed the Airport's design, this Airport was based on Dallas FW int'l Airport, but now they changed it and I'm glad cause I don't like the Dallas one...
also Tehran can be used as a regional hub for the Middle East, also Airplanes can save fuel if they fly to Tehran because Tehran is closer to the west and closer to the east and north on the other hand Dubai is closer to the south....
Tehran can easely even reach 100 million passengers a year if they continue promoting Iran as a tourist destination and switch the domestic flights to IKIA also which is planned :) they also began with phase 2 let's hope they finish it soon they are now designing phase 3 as soon as phase 2 has finished the construction of phase 3 will start :)

^^I know they changed it, but not mainly! Of course Tehran can still get a big hub for all airlines. As I said the geographical situation of Tehran is much better than Dubai. We have the potential, but I don't want to get into a discussion whether the current operator and builder (both the same) can manage this. =)), but generally speaking Tehran would serve great as a hub!

^^I know they changed it, but not mainly! Of course Tehran can still get a big hub for all airlines. As I said the geographical situation of Tehran is much better than Dubai. We have the potential, but I don't want to get into a discussion whether the current operator and builder (both the same) can manage this. =)), but generally speaking Tehran would serve great as a hub!
yes indeed I don't know sure about an international hub since the dress code and non-alcohohol drinks, transiters wants to be comfortabel, but it would do great for regional purpose (atleast now) but even than we can easely get the 90 million a year :)

yea the project just like many others was from zamane shah


and yea dubai is the hub its hard for tehran to compete with the stupid rules we have

yes indeed I don't know sure about an international hub since the dress code and non-alcohohol drinks, transiters wants to be comfortabel, but it would do great for regional purpose (atleast now) but even than we can easely get the 90 million a year :)
Yes, on the one hand the rules and on the other hand I rather meant really the operator which is incapable. Even now with about 4/5mio passengers annualy they face big problems! Have you ever seen those long queues?!
I really doubt that they can get 90mio passengers annualy and that only from the region!! Dubai with passengers from all over the world transfered "only" 40.9 million passengers in 2009!
yea the project just like many others was from zamane shah


and yea dubai is the hub its hard for tehran to compete with the stupid rules we have
As said, it's not just the rules...

any cool updates, especially from those construction photos?? :)

you are wrong many european and asian and ME carriers have flights to Iranian cities ;)
here are the airlines and frequency:
The red signed are Iranian carriers.

Aeroflot-Moscow-Sheremetyevo A320-200/321-200 5x
Air Arabia-Sharjah A320-200 4x
Air Batumi-Batumi, Tbilisi A310-300 seasonal
AirAsia X-Kuala Lumpur A330-300 3x
Alitalia-Rome-Fiumicino A320-200 4x
Ariana Afghan Airlines-Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif B727-200 4x
Armavia-Yerevan A320-200 4x
Atlasjet-Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Konya, Gaziantep A320-200 seasonal
Austrian Airlines-Vienna A320-200 5x
Azerbaijan Airlines-Baku A320-200 7x
Belavia-Minsk B737-300 3x
BMI-London-Heathrow A321-200 7x
Bulgaria Air-Varna, Sofia B737-500 seasonal
Caspian Airlines-Damascus, Dubai, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Minsk, Yerevan
China Southern Airlines-Beijing-Capital, Urumqi B737-700/B757-200 4x
Corendon Airlines-Antalya, Gaziantep, Izmir, Istanbul-Atatürk B737-800 seasonal
Emirates-Dubai A330-200/B777-200/B777-300 23x
Eram Air-Damascus, Izmir, Isparta
Etihad Airways-Abu Dhabi A320-200 3x
Freebird Airlines-Izmir A321-200 seasonal
Georgian International Airlines-Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi B737-300 4x
Gulf Air-Bahrain A320-200/A340-300 4x
Iran Air-Amsterdam, Ankara, Bahrain, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, London-Heathrow, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tashkent, Tokyo-Narita, Vienna
Iran Aseman Airlines-Bishkek, Dubai, Dushanbe
Iraqi Airways-Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil B727-200/B737-700 14x
Kam Air-Kabul MD83 seasonal
Kish Air-Damascus, Dubai, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir
KLM-Amsterdam MD11 6x
Kuwait Airways-Kuwait A320-200/A300-600 4x
Lufthansa-Frankfurt A340-600/B747-400 7x
Mahan Air-Almaty, Amritsar, Baghdad, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Birmingham, Damascus, Dammam, Delhi, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Istanbul-Atatürk, Muscat, Phuket (planned)
Nouvel Air-Monastir A320-200 seasonal
Onur Air-Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir 320-200 seasonal
Pegasus Airlines-Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Konya B737-800 5x
Qatar Airways-Doha A321-200/330-300 4x
Sky Airlines-Nevsehir, Gaziantep B737-800 seasonal
SunExpress-Antalya, Adana B737-800 seasonal
Syrian Air-Damascus A320-200 5x
Taban Air-Damascus, Dubai TU154M
Tailwind Airlines-Izmir B737-400 seasonal
Tajik Air-Dushanbe B737-200 3x
Turkish Airlines-Istanbul-Atatürk, Ankara A320-200/A321-200/A330-200/B737-800
AnadoluJet-Ankara B737-800 seasonal
Turkuaz Airlines-Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir A320-200 seasonal
UM Airlines-Kiev-Boryspil MD80 4x

Note: Kish Air has planned a new route: Cairo
From mehrabad you can fly also to international routes with: Saudi Arabian Airlines-Jeddah B747-400/B777-200 10x Hajj
From Mashad you can fly with Mahan Air to Kuala Lumpur and BangKOK, it has also flight's with Iran Air to Frankfurt seasonally, also Emirates, Gulf Air, Shaheen Air, Bahrain Air, Kuwait Airways and... fly's to Mashad from Shiraz you can fly with Mahan to Kuala Lumpur and froim Tabriz with Turkish Airlines B737-800 to Istanbul and Ankara, and the list goes on and on so you see we have many flights in Iran and also we are the second biggest domestic flight country in Asia after China
I love your post, did u research the airlines and what birds they fly to THR?

^^
yes, I checked on diffrent websites, also my uncle works at the airport, but I need to update it since all TU154M's are banned and updated by MD80's also Iran Air added charter flights to Jaipur, Singapore, also Phuket has started with Mahan Air, Georgian Airways also started flights apart from Georgian International Airlines, to Tbilisi and Batumi started since 27 march 2011, also Midwest Airlines started flights to Damascus and Turkey with an MD80, Mahan Air started also charter flights to GOA.
only Gulf Air has cancelled it's flight's to Tehran due the protests in Bahrain.
due the fuel ban on Iran, most european flights divert to Budapest, Bucharest, Geneva and Vienna to come to Tehran, KLM makes a stop in Athens on it's way back to Amsterdam and BMI in Damascus.

^^ Not enough MD80s have been found to replace all the Tu154 so some routes may have been abandoned by some of the Iranian airlines.

^^
that's true, I think that's the case with Taban Air :)

New runway construction. Good but what they really need is more airport terminal. Ive heard reports that the IKA terminal is already overcrowded. They already have two runways and it will be a while before they need any more.
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lol, they build stuff they dont need, but the things theu do need....

is there any plans for new terminals?

^^
2 other terminals are planned

1 passenger terminal which will be bigger than this one, can handle 20 million passengers

1 Hajj terminal.

and maybe also others which I'm sure off, because they want to have a 90 million airport capacity.

Yes but they have not started building anything.

"planned". the AirPort is a joke, its soo Small As well. and sooooo far from the City. its literally a joke . Iran, oldest Country on Earth cant Build a World Class AirPort

there have been so many robbery Cases of ppl that come to the city After their Arrivals in tehran, its become such an issue.

iran is so behind. i just came to that point today. we are way behind, the gvrnment is 180 opposite of what people want, No connection, No love, No improvement. sometimes i ask god, "why us? why iran?"

and dont bring me Excuses about the war or sanctions etc. if the system was proper it wouldnt of ended up that way in the first place. iran has the smarts, money and power to be on top of the world, but man, i can curse the world right now

Yes but they have not started building anything.
I saw a terminal or wathever on construction, the runway as said before and a bridge between the two sides, besides everything in Iran goes slow :)

"planned". the AirPort is a joke, its soo Small As well. and sooooo far from the City. its literally a joke . Iran, oldest Country on Earth cant Build a World Class AirPort

there have been so many robbery Cases of ppl that come to the city After their Arrivals in tehran, its become such an issue.

iran is so behind. i just came to that point today. we are way behind, the gvrnment is 180 opposite of what people want, No connection, No love, No improvement. sometimes i ask god, "why us? why iran?"
the Airport is still in phase one, lots of things has to be done, the problem is in Iran, the progress of everything is very slow, just give it some time to improve :)

I saw a terminal or wathever on construction, the runway as said before and a bridge between the two sides, besides everything in Iran goes slow :)
What they are building is a hotel (still no airport hotel here) and the bridge is to reach the car park. Your right it is going slowly, dead slow and stop. Mostly stop.

lol theyve been building it for so long by the time its builts its already outdated. "phase one"... how long do we have to wait? why is it so out of the city? why is it so unefficient?

and thats just the airport. nothing in iran is on a world level, many arent even standardized. thats just tehran. every single small turkish city is getting a new modern and nice airport, eg hatay. now look at esfahan , which isnt even a small city, capital of the islamic world bla blah blah but still doesn have a proper airport. what about rasht? shiraz? hamedan? tabriz? ardebil? bandar abbasssss????? theur are all "planned" while in turkey they build stuff in just 2-3 years. bekhoda una ham adaman , zendegi mikonan, moslamunam hastan, unaro bebinin , maro bebinin

we are a sacrifice of a stupid system. nd im not blaiming the people , but mainly the ...

i know theres a descent population im just saying that theres not soo many to make a special terminal for them, if the terminal is small then thats fine, but i dunko how large it is
not only that, they are planning diffrent kind of cities, like the sport city and...you can check it out on IKIA's website or in my aviation thread in the international section.
just click on the pictures and you can see the expansion plan: http://ikia.airport.ir/HomePage.aspx?TabID=7782&Site=ikia.airport&Lang=fa-IR

lol theyve been building it for so long by the time its builts its already outdated. "phase one"... how long do we have to wait? why is it so out of the city? why is it so unefficient?

and thats just the airport. nothing in iran is on a world level, many arent even standardized. thats just tehran. every single small turkish city is getting a new modern and nice airport, eg hatay. now look at esfahan , which isnt even a small city, capital of the islamic world bla blah blah but still doesn have a proper airport. what about rasht? shiraz? hamedan? tabriz? ardebil? bandar abbasssss????? theur are all "planned" while in turkey they build stuff in just 2-3 years. bekhoda una ham adaman , zendegi mikonan, moslamunam hastan, unaro bebinin , maro bebinin

we are a sacrifice of a stupid system. nd im not blaiming the people , but mainly the ...
the construction of phase one has already begun and they are now designing phase 3, Turkey has much less corruption than Iran and it also has a big investment from european countries, we have to do it with countries like India, China and Japan and Turkey...
also Turkey is a tourist hotspot, Iran isn't...Turkey hadn't the problems Iran had in the past 32 years.. :)

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the construction of phase one has already begun and they are now designing phase 3, Turkey has much less corruption than Iran and it also has a big investment from european countries, we have to do it with countries like India, China and Japan and Turkey...
also Turkey is a tourist hotspot, Iran isn't...Turkey hadn't the problems Iran had in the past 32 years.. :)

LOL ur missing the point. my whole point is Why cant we be like that?

shanso nega konin torokhoda

^^
because we have the islamic republic. haha

lol dardemun hamune deegee

lol theyve been building it for so long by the time its builts its already outdated. "phase one"... how long do we have to wait? why is it so out of the city? why is it so unefficient?

and thats just the airport. nothing in iran is on a world level, many arent even standardized. thats just tehran. every single small turkish city is getting a new modern and nice airport, eg hatay. now look at esfahan , which isnt even a small city, capital of the islamic world bla blah blah but still doesn have a proper airport. what about rasht? shiraz? hamedan? tabriz? ardebil? bandar abbasssss????? theur are all "planned" while in turkey they build stuff in just 2-3 years. bekhoda una ham adaman , zendegi mikonan, moslamunam hastan, unaro bebinin , maro bebinin

we are a sacrifice of a stupid system. nd im not blaiming the people , but mainly the ...

Its out of the city because
1- The closer you get to Tehran the more expensive it gets
2- They don't want the airport being surrounded by the city again like Mehrabad airport is now. A long time ago people used to complain that Mehrabad is far away!
3- Number one obstacle to slow pace of airport construction is presence of Sepah. I don't want to get political, but they view everyone involved in the construction of the airport or even its management as spies. Honestly, if they want the airport done quick, they need to pass ownership to Sepah!. They have the big construction companies and contractors, not to mention the money and clout.

^^ they consider everyone spies. my family friends came back from iran a week ago migan hamje pore nezamio sepahiye, hamaro migan jasusan, tarsidan

they could of built it out of the city but far closer, its almost 1;30 hours away though!!!

is there a suburban/commuter railway to the airport?

the construction of phase one has already begun and they are now designing phase 3,
Phase one? Whats phase one? Isnt that what has already been built?
There is no terminal construction that I have seen, just a hotel, more runways and support facilities.

Turkey has much less corruption than Iran
And so funds for phase two or three or whatever are in danger of disappearing depending on the level of corruption.

Phase one? Whats phase one? Isnt that what has already been built?
There is no terminal construction that I have seen, just a hotel, more runways and support facilities.


And so funds for phase two or three or whatever are in danger of disappearing depending on the level of corruption.
Sorry my mistake, I meant phase 2
well they started the construction recently, just few months ago...
yes ofcourse, we can't count on big investmenst from foreign countries, so we have to find some investment from our government, which you probably know is full of corruption and doesn't care about fancy and modern facilities.

^^ they consider everyone spies. my family friends came back from iran a week ago migan hamje pore nezamio sepahiye, hamaro migan jasusan, tarsidan

they could of built it out of the city but far closer, its almost 1;30 hours away though!!!

is there a suburban/commuter railway to the airport?

1.5 hours away? If you live in Shemiranat maybe.

For most people its a 45 minute drive and even quicker if there is no traffic (which is often the case if you're departing or arriving via European cities).

As for a suburban/commuter railway, I think there has always been plans to have the metro go all the way to the airport.
Lets see what happens.

^^
Actually I got there in 25 minutes from Tehran pars, it was 03:00 in the morning and no traffic :)

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo160/arija1993/52777332.jpg?t=1312657192

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo160/arija1993/52777313.jpg?t=1312657369

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo160/arija1993/52777291.jpg?t=1312657392

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo160/arija1993/47102744v.jpg?t=1312657407

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo160/arija1993/47102744.jpg?t=1312657425

Panoramio

great pics,

its nice to see the development

but i kinda wish to see the back side (the part with the gates to have an open view of the fields in front of it, when i come back from iran, my flight from tehran is in the early morning, and when i in the gates, you see the slowly rising sun on the horizon, with nothing else but the shadows of mountains in sight, it gives me a tingly feeling

^^

well there are plenty of pictures from the back-side, the thing is the construction and the new runways are all being build at the front-side,
most of the day the gates remain empty until afternoon and midnight when the international carriers begin to come, otherwise during the day you will only see flight's from the middle east and central asia.
the foundation you can see belongs to phase one, which will be the Hotel, the other terminal is currently waiting for some investors Haha, and soon they will begin the construction of that one, which will be even bigger, and 2 other runways are also under construction right now, the process goes very slow because of the lack of investors and you know everything in Iran goes up with delays, anyway it tooked 9 years to build the current phase, count another 10-12 years for this one, so hopefully by 1400 (2021-2023) we will see the second terminal with the hajj terminal, I also thought they were planning a third terminal in phase 4 not sure about that but it includes another runway, I just hope they will do better on those than the current terminal :)

thnx for the info

they are building a whole mini communications city infront of it

^^

yes and many others, like the sport city and...
you can check them out at www.ikia.ir

Why are flights to Tehran always at supid o' clock in the morning, is it part of the American pressure on Iran?

^^

No, that's just how it is...
flight to and from europe are between midnight and 10 o'clock in the morning from 10 o'clock till 15-16 o'clock most of the flight's are from the Middle east and central Asia and between 15-16 o'clock till midnight most of the flights are all Asian and Emirates and Turkish. it has nothing to do with America, it was always like that, it's just they have to organize their flight's like that because if they want to switch all their flight's to day time there would be lack of space in IKIA even Mehrabad was too little to handle all those flight's at once, IKIA can only handle 24 aircraft including Cargo and Aircraft storage, maybe if all the phases are done, they will switch some flight's to the other terminal and maybe than flight's will switch to day time, besides in Iran everything is the opposite of normal Haha

Right I understand now, I just was always wanted to fly to europe in the the day and not 5am.

^^ Probably possible with Turkish.

^^

yes, it must be exhausting, otherwise Turkish offers good hours, from Istanbul or Ankara you can go anywhere in Europe, the price: Tehran-Istanbul-Germany (Frankfurt, Cologne) was about 450 euros, not bad but still more expensive than Iranian carriers I flew with :)
Emirates could be too, sometimes it turns out that it's cheaper than Iran Air, Haha weird no? :)

^^

No, that's just how it is...
flight to and from europe are between midnight and 10 o'clock in the morning from 10 o'clock till 15-16 o'clock most of the flight's are from the Middle east and central Asia and between 15-16 o'clock till midnight most of the flights are all Asian and Emirates and Turkish. it has nothing to do with America, it was always like that, it's just they have to organize their flight's like that because if they want to switch all their flight's to day time there would be lack of space in IKIA even Mehrabad was too little to handle all those flight's at once, IKIA can only handle 24 aircraft including Cargo and Aircraft storage, maybe if all the phases are done, they will switch some flight's to the other terminal and maybe than flight's will switch to day time, besides in Iran everything is the opposite of normal Haha

That is not the case; and it is not only in tehran. there is a reason for that. eastbound flights tend to depart late evening to the middle east to arrive after midnight or before dawn (3 - 6 hours flights). that is called red eye flights . the reason is that business travelers would have a full working day unaffected. another example is transatlantic flights (that last around 7 hours) would leave the USA or canada in the early evening to reach europe at around midnight. it is the same for example in beirut, most european flights arrive and depart after midnight.
another reason is that many european airports have noise and time restrictions so they close after 23:00.

^^

I agree 10000000000000% with you, there is no doubt what you are saying, but mine is correct aswell and I didn't know about Beirut since I never went there, but I tottaly agree with you thank you it's always intresting to learn something :)

Just had a thought about the metro connection to the airport. It will be useless to many passengers unless they extend operating times to a 24 hours service although is probably most badly needed during the day when traffic congestion is bad.

also it must be higher speed than the karaj one.

Does anyone know what these buildings to the west of the terminal building are?:
http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l512/Allan_Lachlan/jhg.jpg
http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l512/Allan_Lachlan/ghtdo.jpg

VIP terminals maybe?

^^
Isn't that the Hajj terminal?

The hajj terminal will be big and located to the north of the current runway I think. The renders are on a previous page. The one with the ruins infront of it looks like it might be for VIPs but not sure.

http://www.herampey.com/pictures/20.jpg

http://www.herampey.com/index.php?content=projects&language=persian&group=3&subgroup=0

khube khube :)

rasti ye negahi be forudgahe novine charles de gaulle bokonin , bi hamtas

inaro taze peyda kardam male hotelesheh

http://www.semega.ir/content/%D9%87%D8%AA%D9%84-%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%84%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%AE%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D9%87

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^^

Renders of the hotel
http://www.edbi.ir/PortalData/Subsystems/News/NewsImages/hotel.imam.airport2.jpg
هتل فرودگاه امام (ره) با تسهیلات بانک توسعه صادرات ایران ساخته می*شود

تاریخ انتشار : 1390.11.26
هتل فرودگاه بین المللی امام خمینی(ره)، که با تسهیلات بانک توسعه صادرات ایران در حال احداث است،* تابستان سال آینده به بهره برداری می*رسد.


به گزارش روابط عمومي بانك توسعه صادرات ايران، عمليات اجرايي اين هتل، در زميني به مساحت حدود 27 هزار متر مربع و زيربناي تقريبي 48 هزار متر مربع در سال 1389 آغاز شده كه شعبه تجريش بانك توسعه صادرات ايران 470 ميليارد ريال براي اين پروژه تسهيلات پرداخت كرده است.

اين هتل، كه در ضلع جنوبي ترمينال اصلي فرودگاه امام خميني(ره) واقع شده است، داراي 500 اتاق در 7 طبقه بوده كه 1300 اتاق آن 4 ستاره و 200 اتاق هتل 3 ستاره طراحي و ساخته مي شود.

با توجه به فاصله مكاني زياد فرودگاه امام خميني(ره) با پايتخت،* احداث هتل مذكور مي تواند،* فرصت مناسبي براي اقامت مطلوب مسافران، ترانزيت، ارايه خدمات به گردشگران تجاري و خدمه پروازي باشد.

به گفته مدير اين پروژه، اين طرح تابستان سال آينده به بهره*برداري مي*رسد.
http://www.edbi.ir/Media-Details/%D9%87%D8%AA%D9%84-%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A/p10987887.edbi

http://ikia.airport.ir/_ikia/Album/19316m87f945ef-9a6a-45b6-8dec-25dd44adf5ae.jpg

i looked at these pics again and noticed its all a fake crap, nothing like this will be built, the renders are fake, they will build something but nothing like this, btw where did the lake come from ?

May i ask if it's possible to file a suit to change the name of the airport? :ohno:

I'm being serious here!

haha, is it possible to change an Airport's name???? If so it will be changed in the next regime. :|

:ohno:

May i ask if it's possible to file a suit to change the name of the airport? :ohno:

I'm being serious here!

it wont get anywhere

i really dont understand the naming in iran
yes its tze I.R but this is just too much

i dont see whats wrong with just naming it tehran int airport

While many of us don't care for the name of this airport, it's best to stay on topic.

this is on topic
we are discussing the name of the airport which is well relevant to the thread
tolerance much ;)?
many care,

i looked at these pics again and noticed its all a fake crap, nothing like this will be built, the renders are fake, they will build something but nothing like this, btw where did the lake come from ?

That lake in which you mention is the Manchester Ship Canal is BBC Media City in Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, what the hell has that got to do with the Airport???????

Maybe it isn't fake, but rather a rip-off which people really shouldn't have anything against as long as it's good.

The IKIA airport was from the beginning a rip-off from the Dallas Airport or something like that, so i don't think this is impossible, but you can never be certain when it comes to Iran. :ohno:

Nah someone just googled Media City and dragged and dropped images from the internet. That is about as far as it goes, why would anyone go to the extent of copying the BBC Media center in Salford!??!?!? It's well crap, no one in the BBC likes to live in Manchester, that is because they are from london, ok I have gone off topic.

what are the plans of connecting the airport with pt?

That lake in which you mention is the Manchester Ship Canal is BBC Media City in Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, what the hell has that got to do with the Airport???????

im saying the renders are fake, the ikia used those pics as a rendering for their own cheap projects