Batumi International Airport

Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport
ბათუმის ალექსანდრე ქართველის სახელობის საერთაშორისო აეროპორტი
IATA: BUS – ICAO: UGSB
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator TAV Airports Holding
Serves Batumi, Georgia
Artvin, Turkey
Location Batumi, Georgia
Hub for Georgian Airways
Elevation AMSL 105 ft / 32 m
Coordinates 41°36′37″N 41°35′58″E / 41.61028°N 41.59944°E / 41.61028; 41.59944Coordinates: 41°36′37″N 41°35′58″E / 41.61028°N 41.59944°E / 41.61028; 41.59944
Website www.batumiairport.com
Map
BUS

Location of airport in Adjara

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13/31 2,500 8,202 Asphalt
Source: AIP Georgia, DAFIF[1][2]

Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport[3] (IATA: BUS, ICAO: UGSB) is an airport located 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Batumi, a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. The airport is 20 km (12 mi) northeast of Hopa, Turkey, and serves as a domestic and international airport for Georgia and northeastern Turkey.

Overview

Batumi is one of three international airports in operation in Georgia (along with Tbilisi International Airport serving Georgian capital and David the Builder International Airport in Georgia's second largest city Kutaisi). The new airport terminal has been in operation since 26 May 2007. With a total area of 4,256 square metres (45,810 sq ft), it is capable of handling 600,000 passengers a year.[4]

Batumi International Airport has noted a significant growth in the number of passengers since its renovation carried out by TAV Airports Holding in 2007. In 2011, the airport handled 134,000 passengers, an increase of 51% over the previous year.[5]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Arabia Seasonal: Sharjah[6]
Arkia Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion[7]
ATA Airlines Seasonal: Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Belavia Seasonal: Minsk
Bravo Airways Seasonal: Kiev-Zhulyany, Odessa
Dniproavia Seasonal: Dnipropetrovsk[8]
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw
Georgian Airways Seasonal: Tbilisi, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo[9]
SCAT Aktau
Service Air Natakhtari
SkyBus Seasonal: Tbilisi
Seasonal charter: Aktau,[10] Aktobe,[10] Astana,[10] Atyrau,[10] Karagandy,[10] Kostanay,[10] Kyzylorda,[10] Shymkent[10]
Sun D'Or
operated by El Al 		Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion[11]
Taban AirSeasonal: Tabriz,[12] Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul-Atatürk
Ural AirlinesSeasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo,[13] Samara, St Petersburg,[14] Yekaterinburg[15]
YanairKiev-Zhulyany[16]
Seasonal: Odessa

Statistics

Terminal building
Annual passenger statistics[17]
Year Total passengers Change from previous year
2007 38,613
2008 64,656 Increase 67.4%
2009 46,044 Decrease 28.8%
2010 88,562 Increase 92.3%
2011 133,852 Increase 51.1%
2012 168,510[18] Increase 25.9%
2013 208,977[19] Increase 24.0%
2014 213,439[18] Increase 2.2%
2015 226,476[18] Increase 5.91%

According to Department of Tourism the amount of 11792 visitors at Batumi International Airport in September 2015 were of foreign origin, which is 54% more comparing to the previous year.[20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Airport information for UGSB from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  2. ↑ Airport information for BUS at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. ↑ Batumi airport named after Alexander Kartveli Government of Georgia
  4. ↑ batumiairport.com – Airport profile (p.11)
  5. ↑ batumiairport.com – Airport profile (p.15)
  6. ↑ "Air Arabia Adds Batumi Seasonal Flights July – Sep 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  7. ↑ http://www.tnet.org.il/sitefiles/1/2444/90080.asp
  8. ↑ http://dniproavia.com/en/online/schedule/
  9. ↑ "S7 Flight Schedule". s7.ru. S7 Airlines. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "SkyBus International Airlines". Skybus.kz. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "Tbilisi and Batumi airports to welcome Tel Aviv flights". eTurboNews, Inc. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  12. ↑ "На грузинский авиарынок входит иранский перевозчик TABAN Airlines". Бизнес Грузия. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  13. ↑ ""Уральские авиалинии" увеличивают частоту полетов в направлении Грузии". Interfax-Azerbaijan. 22 February 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  14. ↑ "«Уральские авиалинии» полетят из Петербурга в Батуми". Грузия Online. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  15. ↑ "Ural Airlines Planned New Routes in S16". airlineroute. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  16. ↑ "З "Жулян" у Грузію додадуть нові рейси". Українська правда. Iнтерфакс-Україна. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  17. ↑ Batumi Airport – Airport Statistics
  18. 1 2 3 Georgian Civil Aviation Agency – Number of Passengers Served
  19. ↑ "Международный аэропорт Батуми пропустил в 2013 году на 24,01% больше пассажиров". "Бизнес Грузия". 15 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  20. ↑ http://www.apsny.ge/2015/eco/1444615054.php

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