MHD Mashhad

How deep the MHD board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MHD. This reads the same 12 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 8of the 12 destinations are flown by one airline
• 10destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 50%of the destinations name Iran Air, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MHD

Four airlines appear on the MHD board and they do not hold it evenly. Iran Air is on 6 of the 12 destinations, 50 per cent of them, and on 3 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 7.7 of the 10.4 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Iran Airtour on 5 destinations. 0 of the 4 airlines at MHD appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 6 of the 12 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an MHD sector is usually another Iran Air aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at MHD than the destination count does.

How much of the MHD board is daily

Of the 12 destinations, 2 are flown at least once a day and 10 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MHD board is flown 3 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MHD to Ahwaz (AWZ) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 8.3 of the 10.4 departures a day, 79.3 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves MHD is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Ahwaz AWZ	Iran	Iran Air	1	1,142	plan this
Isfahan IFN	Iran	Iran Airtour	2	811	plan this
Rasht RAS	Iran	Iran Air	2	900	plan this
Sari SRY	Iran	Iran Aseman Airlines	2	578	plan this
Zanjan JWN	Iran	Mahan Air	2	1,010	plan this
Ardabil ADU	Iran	Mahan Air	3	1,019	plan this
Istanbul IST	Turkiye	Iran Air	4	2,721	plan this
Kerman KER	Iran	Mahan Air	5	708	plan this

The eight destinations out of MHD where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable.

The clock at MHD

MHD keeps Asia/Tehran time, half an hour behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:30 at MHD, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight and a half hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at MHD and still make a departure the same day.

Where MHD turns up on the rest of this site

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MHD already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 12 destinations above.