Opened to civil air traffic in July 2012, the airport is 16 km (9.9 mi) away from Iğdır city centre.

[6][7] The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Iğdır Airport: ^1 : 2012 statistics correspond to the last 6 months of 2012 since the opening of the airport.

The airport was depicted in a Turkish Airlines advertisement in 2014, where a group of kids trying to ask the Turkish Airlines aircraft to land at their town (and their own made airport), and little to their knowledge that a real airport was constructed.

[12] The airport was depicted also in Turkish Airlines commercial series of "Delightful Stories" (2014), where András Földvári, then head of marketing in Turkish Airlines' Hungary Office, flew from Budapest to Iğdır to explore Noah's Ark.

[13][14] This Turkish airport-related article is a stub.