Iran Press/Iran news: Imam Khomeini Airport City has started operating Hajj flights by transporting 30,000 pilgrims from Tehran, Qom, Alborz, Qazvin, Lorestan, Kordestan, Arak and Kashan for 24 days and transporting passengers will continue until Monday, August 5, according to IKAC news service.
Some 37,000 Hajj pilgrims will depart from Tehran's airport on 98 flights.
Leader's Representative in Charge of Hajj Affairs, Abolhasan Navab, head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Alireza Rashidian, the CEO of Imam Khomeini Airport City Ali Rostami, head of the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran Ali Abedzadeh, and Iran Air's CEO Touraj Dehghani Zanganeh were present at the airport to bid farewell to the first groups of Iranian Hajj pilgrims.
Altogether, some 86,550 Hajj pilgrims and flight crews will leave the country for Saudi Arabia this year.
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