Manas International Airport

Manas International Airport
IATA: FRU - ICAO: UAFM
Summary
Airport type		Joint (Civil and Military)
Serves		Bishkek
Elevation AMSL		2,058 ft (627 m)
Coordinates		43°03′40.7″N, 74°28′39.2″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
08/26	13,780	4,200	Concrete

Manas International Airport (IATA: FRU, ICAO: UAFM) is an airport located near Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It is also the site of Manas Air Base.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

The following airlines have scheduled services to Manas International Airport:

Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
Altyn Air (Almaty, Dubai, Dushanbe, Ekaterinburg, Frankfurt, Hanover, Jalal Abad, Kazarman, Kerben, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Osh, Seoul-Incheon, Tashkent)
Anikay Air (Sharjah)
Astair Airlines (Novosibirsk)
British Airways
- operated by BMED (London-Heathrow, Yerevan)
China Southern Airlines (Ürümqi)
Iran Aseman Airlines (Mashhad)
Itek Air (Moscow-Domodedovo)
KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
Kyrgyzstan Airlines (Delhi, Dushanbe, Ekaterinburg, Jalal-Abad, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Osh, Sharjah, Ürümqi)
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St. Petersburg)
Tajikistan Airlines (Dushanbe)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)

On 26 September 2006 a Kyrgyzstan Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft taking off at Bishkek (bound for Moscow with 52 passengers and 9 crew on board) lost part of its wing in a collision with a USAF Boeing KC-135 tanker. The aircraft was able to take off and return to make a safe landing with a 2.5m part of the wing cut away. ^[1]