Adler-Sochi International Airport
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| Adler-Sochi International Airport | |||
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| IATA: AER - ICAO: URSS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Adler-Sochi International Airport | ||
| Serves | Sochi | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 89 ft (27 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 02/20 | 7,218 | 2,200 | Asphalt |
| 06/24 | 9,482 | 2,890 | Asphalt |
Adler-Sochi International Airport (IATA: AER, ICAO: URSS) is a Russian airport located at Adler, a district of Sochi, Russia. The airport is the place where thousands of russian holiday makers pass through and arrive to Sochi. There are around 25 flights that arrive each day during the summer from Moscow alone.
[edit] Airlines
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aeroflot Don (Rostov-on-don)
- Armavia (Gyumri, Yerevan)
- Chernomor Avia
- Enkor (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Gazpromavia
- Karat
- Kavminvodyavia (Mineralnye Vody)
- KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
- Kuban Airlines (Krasnodar, Moscow-Vnukovo)
- Perm Airlines (Perm)
- Polet Airlines (Voronezh)
- Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St. Petersburg)
- S7 Airlines (Novosibirsk)
- STC Russia (Moscow-Vnukovo)
- Tatarstan Airlines (Kazan)
- Tbilaviamsheni (Tbilisi)
- Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
- UT Air (Moscow-Vnukovo, Tyumen)
- VIM Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Vladivostok Avia (Moscow-Vnukovo)
- Voronezhavia (Voronezh)
- Yakutia Airlines (Yakutsk)
[edit] Incidents and accidents
On May 3, 2006, an Armavia Airbus A320 operating Armavia Flight 967 crashed in the Black Sea en route from Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport to Sochi. The airplane crashed during its second approach to Sochi airport, killing all 113 aboard. The accident was the first major commercial airline crash in 2006.
