Tbilisi International Airport
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Tbilisi International Airport თბილისის საერთაშორისო აეროპორტი |
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IATA: TBS - ICAO: UGTB | |||
Summary | |||
Airport type | Public | ||
Serves | Tbilisi | ||
Elevation AMSL | 1,624 ft (495 m) | ||
Coordinates | |||
Runways | |||
Direction | Length | Surface | |
ft | m | ||
13R/31L | 9,843 | 3,000 | Concrete |
13L/31R | 8,202 | 2,500 | Asphalt |
Tbilisi International Airport (Georgian: თბილისის საერთაშორისო აეროპორტი) (IATA: TBS, ICAO: UGTB), also known as Novo Alexeyevka International Airport by its Soviet-era name, is an airport that serves Tbilisi, the capital city of the country of Georgia.
On February 2007 the reconstruction project was finished[citation needed]. The project consisted of construction of a new international terminal, car park, improvements to the apron, taxiway and runway and acquisition of ground handling equipment at Tbilisi International Airport.
The new passenger terminal is required to support growing international traffic. Tbilisi International Airport is deploying a one terminal concept, where all facilities are located under one single roof. The airport has two floors. The first floor is for arrivals, while second floor is used for departurers. Airport has 3 gates and can serve 3 million people per year.
The implementing Agency and the Borrower for the Project is TAV Urban Georgia, a concessionaire and SPV for the construction and operation of Tbilisi International Airport.
The total project cost was 77 million USD.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- airBaltic (Riga)
- Armavia (Yerevan)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
- Belavia (Minsk)
- British Airways
- operated by BMED (London-Heathrow)
- DonbassAero (Donetsk)
- Georgian Airways (Amsterdam, Athens, Dubai, Frankfurt, Kiev-Boryspil, Moscow-Domodedovo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tel Aviv, Vienna)
- Georgian National Airlines (Almaty, Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev-Boryspil, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow-Vnukovo, Odessa, Saint Petersburg)
- Germania (Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn)
- Kavminvodyavia (Mineralnye Vody)
- Lufthansa (Munich)
- Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St. Petersburg)
- S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Tbilaviamsheni (Adler/Sochi, Kiev-Boryspil, Tashkent, Yekaterinburg)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- UM Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
[edit] External links
- Tbilisi International Airport (unofficial site)
- World Aero Data airport information for UGTB