The air route for travel to the Atabat Aliyat has always been recognized as a fast and suitable option for groups such as the elderly, people with physical limitations, or pilgrims with limited time.
The round-trip ticket rate for the Tehran–Najaf flight in 1403 (2024/25) was about 10 million tomans, while this year it has reached 13 million tomans (a 30 percent increase); the Mashhad–Najaf flight has also risen from 12 million tomans to 15 million tomans (25 percent).
This price increase is almost on par with the country’s general inflation rate, which according to official statistics has been reported at between 30 and 40 percent.
Of course, this is while ticket sales above approved rates are an issue that passengers and pilgrims protest every year during Arbaeen.
Read the full note “Transportation costs of the Arbaeen journey: an increase beyond inflation” on the Namafar website.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian