Abadan Ayatollah Jami International Airport
Abadan Ayatollah Jami International Airport
Abadan International Airport (IATA: ABD, ICAO: OIAA) is situated 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) away from the city of Abadan, Iran.
Location
30.368°N, 48.230°E · 3 m s. n. m. (10 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 2
Tower
ATIS (automatic information)
Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
History
During World War II, Abadan Airport was a major logistics center for Lend-Lease aircraft being sent to the Soviet Union by the United States. Beginning in May 1942, the United States Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command and the Douglas Aircraft Company established a plant at the airport, with the 17th Air Depot Group assembling newly arrived aircraft and flight-testing them. Once prepared, they were flown to Mehrabad Airport at Tehran for delivery to the Soviets. The airport was designated Station #3 by the Air Transport Command North African Wing, with connecting routes to Mehrabad Airport, Tehran; RAF Habbaniya, Iraq, and Bahrain Airport, Bahrain.
In 1977, it was upgraded as an international airport with the first scheduled international flight to Kuwait City, which was served by a flag carrier Iran Air and operated until 1980, leaving the airport without international flights.
In the period 1977 to late 1978, Iran Air operated flights IR754/755 to London Heathrow via Athens, three times weekly. This service discontinued with the start of the Iranian revolution in December 1978.
Airlines operating here · 11
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: SAS Scandinavian Airlines · Public domain · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Abadan Ayatollah Jami International Airport (ABD). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ABD
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BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Abadan Ayatollah Jami International Airport (ABD)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ABD},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ABD}},
urldate = {2026-10-23},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}Wikipedia
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