Tashkent International Airport

Tashkent International Airport
Toshkent Xalqaro Aeroporti

IATA: TAS – ICAO: UTTT

TAS
Location of airport in Uzbekistan

Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Government of Uzbekistan
Operator Uzbekistan Airways
Serves Tashkent
Location Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 1,417 ft / 432 m
Coordinates 41°15′28.3″N 69°16′52.27″E / 41.257861°N 69.2811861°E / 41.257861; 69.2811861
Website www.uzairways.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08L/26R 13,123 4,000 Concrete
08R/26L 12,812 3,905 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Number of Passengers 2,996,000

Tashkent International Airport (Uzbek: Toshkent Xalqaro Aeroporti – (IATA: TAS, ICAO: UTTT)) is the main international airport of Uzbekistan and the busiest airport in Central Asia. It is located 12 km (7.5 mi) from the center of Tashkent.

Overview

This ICAO Category II airport is the primary hub of Uzbekistan Airways, and is the largest international airport in Uzbekistan, and the busiest in Central Asia. The airport comprises two terminals: Terminal 2 receives international flights, Terminal 3 is for domestic traffic.[2]

Terminal 2 was rebuilt in 2001, and is currently undergoing renovations. It has a capacity of 1000 passengers/hour and serves more than two million passengers per year. Other facilities include waiting lounges, CIP and VIP halls, restaurants and bars, currency exchange offices, duty-free shops, airlines ticket counters and sales offices, and a 24-hour pharmacy. The terminal operates at near maximum capacities; arriving passengers frequently spend an average of two hours completing customs and immigration formalities. Renovations in the departure area have eased congestion somewhat, but it is still recommended that passengers arrive two and a half hours prior to departure for international flights.

Terminal 3 opened in 2011 with a capacity of 400 passengers per hour. The two terminals are separated by the runway, requiring passengers transiting from international to domestic flights and vice versa to exit the airport in order to transfer between them.

The government of Uzbekistan is planning to relocate Tashkent Airport to a new site by 2030.[3]

Airlines and destinations

A Uzbekistan Airways Boeing 767-300ER at the Airport. (2010)

Passenger

AirlinesDestinationsTerminal
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 2-International
Aeroflot
operated by Donavia 		Mineralnye Vody, Rostov-on-Don 2-International
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya 		Saint Petersburg 2-International
Air Astana Almaty, Astana 2-International
Air Kyrgyzstan Bishkek[4] 2-International
Asiana Airlines Seoul-Incheon 2-International
Avia Traffic Company Bishkek 2-International
China Southern Airlines Beijing-Capital, Ürümqi 2-International
Iran Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2-International
Korean Air Seoul-Incheon 2-International
S7 Airlines Novosibirsk 2-International
SCAT Almaty 2-International
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk 2-International
Ural Airlines Chelyabinsk,[5] Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Yekaterinburg 2-International
UTair Aviation Moscow-Vnukovo 2-International
Uzbekistan Airways Almaty, Amritsar, Astana, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Bishkek, Delhi, Dubai-International, Frankfurt, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Kuala Lumpur–International, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Mineralnye Vody, Minsk-National,[6][7] Moscow-Domodedovo, New York-JFK, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Seoul-Incheon, Sharjah, Singapore, Sochi, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tokyo-Narita (resumes 14 March 2016),[8] Tyumen, Ufa, Ürümqi,[9] Volgograd,[10] Yekaterinburg2-International
Uzbekistan Airways Andizhan, Bukhara, Fergana, Karshi, Namangan, Navoi, Nukus, Samarkand, Termez, Urgench, Zarafshan 3-Domestic
Yakutia Airlines Irkutsk 2-International

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
DHL Aviation
operated by AeroLogic 		Leipzig/Halle[11]
Lufthansa Cargo Almaty, Chongqing, Guangzhou
Silk Way Airlines Baku
Turkish Airlines Cargo Delhi, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ AIP from the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
  2. ↑ "Uzbekistan Airways' new terminal starts operation in Tashkent". C.A.A.N. 26 September 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  3. ↑ "Tashkent Airoport to be relocated by 2030". UzDaily.com. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "НОВОГОДНИЙ ПОДАРОК ОТ АВИАКОМПАНИИ". Kyrgyzstan Air Company. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "ПРЯМЫЕ РЕЙСЫ В ТАШКЕНТ ИЗ ЧЕЛЯБИНСКА". АвиаПорт.Ru. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  6. ↑ "Открытие рейса Ташкент - Минск переносится на июль". Авиационный сайт в Беларуси. MSQ.BY. 24 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  7. ↑ L, J (18 December 2014). "Uzbekistan Airways Adds Minsk Service in S15". Airline Route. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  8. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/11/24/hy-nrt-s16/
  9. ↑ "Uzbekistan Airways launches second weekly operation on the route Tashkent – Urumqi". uzairways.com. Uzairways. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "Авиакомпания Узбекистана начинает полёты в Волгоград". CA-NEWS: Central Asian News Service. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  11. ↑ "2013 summer schedule". Aero Logic. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  12. ↑ Turkish Airlines Cargo Winter Schedule

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