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IKA Tehran
Imam Khomeini International, IR. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 13
- Countries reached
- 5
- Airlines
- 4
- Departures a day
- 9.4
Where you can fly from IKA
Every scheduled destination held for this airport, ordered by how often it is flown. Distances are great circle, computed from published coordinates.
| Destination | Country | Flights a day | Operated by | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul IST | Turkiye | 2.72 | IR, W5, EP | 2,052 | plan this |
| 2.43 | W5 | plan this | |||
| Shanghai PVG | China | 0.86 | W5 | 6,443 | plan this |
| 0.57 | W5 | plan this | |||
| 0.57 | 6A | plan this | |||
| Baghdad BGW | IQ | 0.43 | IR | 679 | plan this |
| Sulaymaniyah ISU | IQ | 0.43 | W5 | plan this | |
| Arbil EBL | IQ | 0.29 | W5 | 654 | plan this |
| Beijing PEK | China | 0.29 | W5 | 5,645 | plan this |
| Guangzhou CAN | China | 0.29 | W5 | 6,070 | plan this |
| 0.29 | W5 | plan this | |||
| Lahore LHE | Pakistan | 0.14 | W5 | 2,194 | plan this |
| Phuket HKT | Thailand | 0.14 | W5 | 5,663 | plan this |
One connection away
506 airports are reachable from IKA with exactly one change, on top of the 13 nonstop. The ten below are the ones with the most frequency on the weaker of the two sectors, which is the leg that decides whether a same day connection holds. Computed from the scheduled network, not from a booking engine.
| Destination | Country | Best connection | Flights a day on the weaker leg | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seoul ICN | South Korea | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
| Singapore SIN | Singapore | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
| Bangkok BKK | Thailand | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
| Moscow SVO | RU | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
| Frankfurt FRA | Germany | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
| Paris CDG | France | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
| Barcelona BCN | Spain | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
| Milan MXP | Italy | via IST | 2.72 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from IKA is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Tehran THR33 km by great circle, 22 scheduled destinations
How deep the IKA board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from IKA. This reads the same 9 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, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound 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 9 destinations are flown by one airline
- 8destinations run less than once a day
- 0destinations have four or more departures a day
- 88.9%of the destinations name Mahan Air, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at IKA
Three airlines appear on the IKA board and they do not hold it evenly. Mahan Air is on 8 of the 9 destinations, 88.9 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 5.2 of the 5.6 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 Air on 2 destinations. 1 of the 3 airlines at IKA appears on a single destination, 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 8 of the 9 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an IKA sector is usually another Mahan 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 IKA than the destination count does.
How much of the IKA board is daily
Of the 9 destinations, 1 is flown at least once a day and 8 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the IKA board is flown 2 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: IKA to Phuket (HKT) 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 4.7 of the 5.6 departures a day, 84.6 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic IKA is five sectors and a short tail, 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 those five is planned around a single departure time.
| Destination | Country | The only airline on it | Flights a week | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lahore LHE | Pakistan | Mahan Air | 1 | 2,194 | plan this |
| Phuket HKT | Thailand | Mahan Air | 1 | 5,663 | plan this |
| Arbil EBL | Iraq | Mahan Air | 2 | 654 | plan this |
| Beijing PEK | China | Mahan Air | 2 | 5,646 | plan this |
| Guangzhou CAN | China | Mahan Air | 2 | 6,069 | plan this |
| Baghdad BGW | Iraq | Iran Air | 3 | 679 | plan this |
| Sulaymaniyah ISU | Iraq | Mahan Air | 3 | 528 | plan this |
| Shanghai PVG | China | Mahan Air | 6 | 6,443 | plan this |
The eight destinations out of IKA 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 way back from IKA
The desk holds the return direction for 8 of the 9 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 8 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through IKA is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.
It runs the other way as well: Istanbul (IST) files 14.7 a day back into IKA against 2.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at IKA
IKA 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 IKA, 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 IKA and still make a departure the same day.
Where IKA turns up on the rest of this site
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with IKA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 9 destinations above.
Where this came from
- Destination network, airlines and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07.
- Airport names and coordinates: the OnBoard Courier airport reference list.
- Distances: great circle, computed from those coordinates. They are not flown distances and will read short against a real routing.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing on this page states or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment through IKA is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. We keep the Atlas because our own desk needs it when there are twenty minutes to find a routing, and we publish it because a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite, including by competing operators. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct the entry.
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