Yakutsk Airport
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| Yakutsk Airport Аэропо́рт Яку́тск |
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| IATA: YKS - ICAO: UEEE | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Yakutsk Airport State Enterprise | ||
| Serves | Yakutsk | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 324 ft (99 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 05L/23R Closed | 8,202 | 2,500 | Concrete |
| 05R/23L | 11,155 | 3,400 | Asphalt |
Yakutsk Airport (Russian: Аэропо́рт Яку́тск) (IATA: YKS, ICAO: UEEE) is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has two runways and a capacity of 700 passengers per hour.
The airport is hub for five regional airlines, including Yakutia Airlines and Sakha Avia.
Construction of the airport started in 1931 and was used as a stopover for American planes flying to Europe during World War II. The present international terminal is from 1996.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- The list is incomplete
- Domodedovo Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- KrasAir (Irkutsk, Krasnojarsk)
- S7 Airlines (Novosibirsk)
- Yakutia Airlines (Blagoveschensk, Cherskiy, Harbin, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Magadan, Moscow-Vnukovo, Neryungri, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Saint-Petersburg, Seoul-Incheon, Vladivostok)
[edit] External links
- Article on Yakutsk Airport
- Airport information for UEEE at World Aero Data
