Taiz International Airport ( ar, مَطَار تَعِزّ ٱلدَّوْلِي, Maṭār Ta‘izz Ad-Dawlī, ) is a public

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

located in

Taiz Taiz ( ar, تَعِزّ, Taʿizz) is a city in southwestern Yemen. It is located in the Yemeni Highlands, near the port city of Mocha, Yemen, Mocha on the Red Sea, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is the capital of Taiz Governorate. W ...

, the capital of the

Taiz Governorate Taiz ( ar, تَعِزّ, Taʿizz) is a governorate of Yemen. The governorate's capital is Taiz, which is the third largest city in Yemen. Today it is the most important commercial centre in Yemen owing to its proximity to the richest farmland in ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

Airlines and destinations

As of 2021, there are no longer any scheduled services at the airport after

Yemenia Yemenia ( ar, اليمنية) is the flag carrier airline of Yemen, based in Sanaa. It operates scheduled domestic and international passenger flights to destinations in Africa and the Middle East out of its hubs at Aden International Airport, a ...

suspended all routes in 2015 due to the ongoing regional conflict. Previously, the airline served few domestic and international destinations from here.

Accidents and incidents

*On 19 March 1969, a

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4W-AAS of Yemen Airlines crashed shortly after take-off due to an incorrectly assembled elevator trim tab which operated in the opposite manner to normal. The aircraft was operating a test flight, all four crew were killed. *On 13 December 1973, a

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4W-ABR of Yemen Airlines was reported to have been damaged beyond economic repair.

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Airports in Yemen

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