Islam Karimov
Tashkent International Airport

Islom Karimov Toshkent Xalqaro Aeroporti (Uzbek)
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 / 41.257861°N 69.2811861°E / 41.257861; 69.2811861
Map
TAS is located in Uzbekistan
TAS
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

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. It was named after Islam Karimov, the 1st president of Uzbekistan, from 1991 until his death in 2016.

History

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]

In March 1995 Uzbekistan Airways started flights from Tashkent to New York via Riga. It used Airbus A310s on the route.[3][4][5] 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.

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.[citation needed] In July 2017, Uzbekistan Airways began offering nonstop service to New York using its Boeing 787 fleet.[6][7]

The government of Uzbekistan is planning to relocate Tashkent Airport to a new site by 2030.[8]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi,[9] Sharjah[10]
Air Astana Almaty, Astana
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh[11]
AnadoluJet Ankara[12]
Asiana Airlines Seoul–Incheon
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku
Azimuth Moscow–Vnukovo
Batik Air Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (begins 1 September 2023)[13]
Belavia Minsk[14]
China Southern Airlines Beijing–Daxing,[15] Ürümqi[16]
FlyArystan Astana[17]
Seasonal: Turkistan[18]
flydubai Dubai–International[19]
FlyEgypt Seasonal: Sharm El Sheikh
flynas Jeddah, Riyadh[20]
IrAero Novosibirsk
Jazeera Airways Seasonal: Kuwait City[21]
Kam Air Kabul
Korean Air Seoul–Incheon
Loong Air Chengdu–Tianfu,[22] Xi'an
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin (resumes 23 February 2024)[23]
Malaysia Airlines Seasonal charter: Kuala Lumpur–International[24]
Nile Air Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh[25]
NordStar Moscow–Domodedovo
Qanot Sharq Bukhara, Moscow–Vnukovo, Sharm El Sheikh, Tel Aviv[26]
Seasonal: Phuket[27]
Qatar Airways Doha[28]
Red Wings Airlines Makhachkala, Moscow–Domodedovo
Rossiya Airlines Saint Petersburg, Sochi
Somon Air Dushanbe[29]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[30]
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat[citation needed]
Ural Airlines Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Moscow–Zhukovsky,[31] Novosibirsk, Samara,[32] Yekaterinburg
Utair Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg,[33] Tyumen
Uzbekistan Airways Almaty, Amritsar, Andizhan, Antalya, Astana, Bangkok–Suvarnbhumi,[34] Batumi, Beijing–Capital, Bishkek, Bukhara, Delhi, Dubai–International, Dushanbe, Fergana, Frankfurt, Grozny,[35] Istanbul, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta,[36] Jeddah, Karshi, Kazan, Krasnodar, Kuala Lumpur-International,[37] Lahore, London–Heathrow, Medina, Mineralnye Vody, Minsk, Moscow–Domodedovo, Namangan, New York–JFK, Novosibirsk, Nukus, Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Riga, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samarkand, Sharjah, Seoul–Incheon, Sochi, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Termez, Tokyo–Narita,[38] Urgench, Ürümqi,[39] Yekaterinburg
Seasonal: Malé, Milan–Malpensa, Phuket, Phu Quoc, Sharm El Sheikh
Seasonal charter: Hambantota–Mattala[40]
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi[41]
Zagros Airlines Tehran–Imam Khomeini

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
DHL Aviation Leipzig/Halle[42]
Lufthansa Cargo Almaty, Bangalore, Chongqing, Guangzhou
Silk Way Airlines Baku
Turkish Cargo Delhi, Hong Kong, Istanbul,[43] Seoul–Incheon, Taipei–Taoyuan[44]
Uzbekistan Airways Ostrava, Shanghai–Pudong
YTO Cargo Airlines Hangzhou[45]

See also

References

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