Minsk International Airport
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| Minsk International Airport | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: MSQ - ICAO: UMMS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Serves | Minsk | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 669 ft (204 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 13/31 | 11,942 | 3,641 | Concrete |
Minsk International Airport or Minsk-2 (IATA: MSQ, ICAO: UMMS) (Belorussian: Нацыянальны аэрапорт Мiнск) is the main airport in Belarus, located 42 km to the east of Minsk, the capital of Belarus. It was opened on March 28, 1989 and replaced the old Minsk-1 airport in the south of the city.
The airport has one runway of length of 3640 m and width of 60 m.
The airport hosts national Belarus airlines Belavia (passenger) and TransAviaExport (cargo). Several foreign airlines provide service to Minsk airport.
The airport is capable to service five million passengers a year, but served only half a million passengers in 2006[1].
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- AirBaltic (Riga)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
- Armavia (Yerevan)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
- Belavia (Baku, Berlin-Schönefeld [Starts May 3, 2007], Frankfurt, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kaliningrad, Kiev-Boryspil, Kursk, Larnaca, London-Gatwick, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Shannon, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Yerevan)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Ataturk)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official Site (English) and (Russian)
- World Aero Data airport information for UMMS
- Minsk International Airport at Russian Airports Database
- NOAA/NWS current weather observations
- ASN Accident history for UMMS
