Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport

Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport (Uzbek: Islom Karimov Toshkent Xalqaro Aeroporti – (IATA: TAS, ICAO: UTTT)) is the main international airport of Uzbekistan and the 3rd busiest airport in Central Asia (after Almaty International Airport and Astana International Airport in Kazakhstan). It is located 12 km (7.5 mi) from the center of Tashkent.

Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport

Islom Karimov Toshkent Xalqaro Aeroporti
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGovernment of Uzbekistan
ServesTashkent
LocationTashkent, Uzbekistan
Hub forUzbekistan Airways
Focus city forUral Airlines
Elevation AMSL1,417 ft / 432 m
Coordinates41°15′28.3″N 69°16′52.27″E
Map
TAS
Location of airport in Uzbekistan
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08L/26R 13,123 4,000 Concrete
08R/26L 12,812 3,905 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Number of Passengers3,000,000

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 renovations were completed in 2018. 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.

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

Passenger
AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
Air Arabia Sharjah[4]
Air Astana Almaty, Nur-Sultan
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh[5]
Arkia Tel Aviv
Asiana Airlines Seoul–Incheon
Belavia Minsk[6]
FlyArystan Seasonal: Turkistan[7]
flydubai Dubai–International[8]
Jazeera Airways Seasonal: Kuwait[9]
Kam Air Kabul
Korean Air Seoul–Incheon
Nile Air Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh[10]
NordStar Moscow–Domodedovo
Qatar Airways Doha[11]
Red Wings Airlines Rostov-on-Don
Rossiya Airlines Saint Petersburg, Sochi
S7 Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo,[12] Novosibirsk
SkyUp Seasonal: Kyiv–Boryspil[13]
Somon Air Dushanbe[14]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[15]
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat
Ural Airlines Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Moscow–Zhukovsky,[16] Novosibirsk, Samara,[17] Yekaterinburg
Uzbekistan Airways Almaty, Andizhan, Antalya, Batumi, Beijing–Capital, Bishkek, Bukhara, Delhi, Dubai–International, Dushanbe, Fergana, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Karshi, Kazan, Krasnodar, Kyiv–Boryspil, London–Heathrow, Medina, Mineralnye Vody, Minsk, Moscow–Vnukovo, Namangan, New York–JFK, Novosibirsk, Nukus, Nur-Sultan, Riga, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samarkand, Sharjah, Seoul–Incheon, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Termez, Urgench, Yekaterinburg
Seasonal: Malé, Milan–Malpensa (resumes 5 August 2022), Phuket, Phu Quoc, Sharm El Sheikh
Zagros Airlines Tehran–Imam Khomeini

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
DHL Aviation Leipzig/Halle[18]
Lufthansa Cargo Almaty, Bangalore, Chongqing, Guangzhou
Silk Way Airlines Baku
Turkish Cargo Delhi, Hong Kong, Istanbul–Atatürk,[19] Seoul–Incheon, Taipei–Taoyuan[20]
Uzbekistan Airways Ostrava, Shanghai–Pudong
YTO Cargo Airlines Hangzhou[21]

See also

References
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  5. "Air Cairo is operating a new route between Sharm El Sheikh and Tashkent in Uzbekistan". aaco.org. 18 November 2020.
  6. Liu, Jim. "Belavia to resume Uzbekistan service from late-May 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
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  11. Ahlgren, Linnea (30 November 2021). "Qatar Airways Eyes Uzbekistan With New Tashkent Route". Simple Flying. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  12. Liu, Jim (17 August 2018). "S7 Airlines adds Moscow – Tashkent link from Aug 2018". Routesonline. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  13. "SkyUp will operate a number of flights to Uzbekistan in summer and autumn 2021 · p. 325".
  14. "Somon Air restarts Tashkent route".
  15. "Istanbul New Airport Transition Delayed Until April 5, 2019 (At The Earliest)". 9 April 2019.
  16. Liu, Jim (15 October 2019). "Ural Airlines adds Moscow Zhukovsky – Uzbekistan links in W19". routesonline.com.
  17. Liu, Jim (5 March 2019). "Ural Airlines resumes Samara – Tashkent service in S19". Routesonline. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  18. "2013 summer schedule". Aero Logic. Archived from the original on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  19. "Turkish Airlines ® - Flights to 110+ countries from İstanbul" (PDF). wwwdownload.thy.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2013.
  20. "Turkish Cargo adds 7 destinations in Jan 2018". routesonline.com. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  21. "YTO Cargo Airlines launches new routes to Philippines, Uzbekistan". www.aircargoworld.com. 18 July 2019.

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