Tbilisi International Airport

Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport
თბილისის შოთა რუსთაველის სახელობის საერთაშორისო აეროპორტი
IATA: TBS – ICAO: UGTB
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner United Airports of Georgia LLC
Operator TAV Airports Holding
Serves Tbilisi
Location Tbilisi, Georgia
Hub for Georgian Airways
Elevation AMSL 1,624 ft / 495 m
Coordinates 41°40′09″N 044°57′17″E / 41.66917°N 44.95472°E / 41.66917; 44.95472Coordinates: 41°40′09″N 044°57′17″E / 41.66917°N 44.95472°E / 41.66917; 44.95472
Website tbilisiairport.com
Map
TBS

Location within Georgia

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13R/31L 3,000 9,843 Concrete
Helipads
Number Length Surface
m ft
H1 30 98 Asphalt/Concrete
Source: Georgian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]

Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport[2] (Georgian: თბილისის შოთა რუსთაველის სახელობის საერთაშორისო აეროპორტი) (IATA: TBS, ICAO: UGTB) formerly Novo Alexeyevka International Airport, is the main international airport in Georgia, located 17 km (11 mi) southeast[1] of the capital Tbilisi.

Overview

February 2007 saw the completion of a reconstruction project, with the construction of a new international terminal, a car park, improvements to the apron, taxiway and runway and the acquisition of ground handling equipment. A rail link to the city centre has been constructed, with an infrequent rail service of 6 trains per day each way. George W. Bush Avenue leads from the airport to downtown Tbilisi.[3]

The airport has a contemporary and functional design. It is designed to provide the optimum flow of both passengers and luggage from the parking lot to the planes, with a 25,000 square meter total usable area. There is scope for future expansions without interrupting terminal operations. It has high-tech contemporary systems, keeping passenger convenience and efficiency of the terminal operations in mind, throughout functional spaces organized in an elegant manner. The food and beverage operations are carried out by BTA at 7 points with a staff of 75, while ATU provides Duty Free services at its four stores.[4] The total project cost was 90.5 million USD. The capacity of the new terminal building is 2.8 million passengers per year.[5]

The implementing agency and the borrower for the project is TAV Urban Georgia, a concessionaire and special purpose vehicle for the construction and operation of the airport.

History

Departure hall
Ground floor arrivals and check-in
Third Floor used for departures
Passport control
The airport's former main terminal complex

The first airport terminal building was constructed in 1952. Designed by the architect V. Beridze in the style of Stalinist architecture the building featured a floor plan with symmetric axes and a monumental risalit in the form of a portico. The two side wings featured blind arcades in giant order. A new terminal building was finished in 1990, designed in the International style.[6] In 1981 Tbilisi airport was the 12th largest airport in the Soviet Union, with 1,478,000 passengers on so-called central lines, that is on flights connecting Tbilisi with cities in other Soviet republics.[7] In 1998 the number of passengers had shrunk to 230,000 per year.[8]

Tbilisi International Airport is operated by TAV since October, 2005. In Georgia the company also operates airport in Batumi for 20-year term starting from May 2007.[9] TAV Airports Holding, which owns 76% shares in Tbilisi airport operator TAV Urban Georgia, agreed with the Georgian state-owned United Airports of Georgia to reconstruct the unused runway, one of the two runways at the Tbilisi airport. The old runway will be reconstructed and extended according to ICAO standards and code F regulations and will be able to accept all type of aircraft, including the Boeing 747-8, Airbus A380-800, Antonov An-225 and Antonov An-124. A new F Code taxiway is also planned.[10]

Passenger traffic at the airport more than doubled between 2009 and 2013 to almost 1.44 million passengers.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo[11]
Air Arabia Sharjah
Air Astana Almaty
Seasonal: Astana[12]
Air Cairo Sharm el-Sheikh
airBaltic Riga
Arkia Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
ATA Airlnes Tehran-Imam Khomeini[13]
AtlasGlobal Istanbul-Atatürk
AZALJet Baku[14]
Belavia Minsk-National
China Southern Airlines Ürümqi
Dniproavia Seasonal: Dnipropetrovsk[15]
Ellinair Thessaloniki[16]
flydubai Dubai-International[17]
Georgian Airways Amsterdam, Moscow-Vnukovo, Odessa, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, St Petersburg, Vienna, Yerevan
Israir Airlines Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin
Lufthansa Munich
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen[18]
Qatar Airways Baku, Doha
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
SCAT Aktau
Sun D'Or
operated by El Al 		Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 6 June 2016)[19][20]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Ukraine International Airlines Kyiv-Boryspil
Ural Airlines Seasonal: St Petersburg (resumes 16 May 2016),[21] Yekaterinburg[21]
YanairKyiv-Zhuliany

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
CargoluxBaku, Kuala Lumpur–International, Luxembourg, Singapore
Coyne Airways Aktau, Aktobe, Amsterdam, Ashgabat, Atyrau, Balkanabat, Baku, Kyzylorda, Mary, Oral, Shymkent, Turkmenbashi, Yerevan[22]
Qatar Airways CargoDoha, Milan-Malpensa
Silk Way AirlinesBaku
Turkish Airlines Cargo Istanbul-Atatürk

Statistics

Annual passenger statistics[23]
Year Total passengers Change from previous year
2005
547,150
2006
567,402
Increase 3.7%
2007
615,873
Increase 8.5%
2008
714,976
Increase 16.1%
2009
702,916
Decrease 1.7%
2010
822,772
Increase 17.1%
2011
1,058,679[24]
Increase 28.7%
2012
1,219,175[25]
Increase 15.2%
2013
1,436,046[26]
Increase 17.8%
2014
1,575,386[25]
Increase 9.7%
2015
1,847,111[25]
Increase 17.25%

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "EAD Basic".
  2. ↑ თბილისის აეროპორტს შოთა რუსთაველის სახელი მიენიჭა Interpressnews Georgia
  3. ↑ "Tbilisi Officials Name Street After Bush". Associated Press. 14 September 2005.
  4. ↑ Tbilisi Airport Terminal Information
  5. ↑ "tbilisiairport.com - Terminal features".
  6. ↑ Baulig, Josef; Maia Mania; Hans Mildenberg; Karl Ziegler. Architekturführer Tbilisi (in German and Georgian). Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken/Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. p. 70. ISBN 3-936890-39-0.
  7. ↑ Sagers, Matthew; Thomas Maraffa (July 1990). "Soviet Air-Passenger Transportation Network". Geographical Review (American Geographical Society) 80 (3): 269. doi:10.2307/215304.
  8. ↑ "Global transport" (13–15). Stroudgate: Chartered Institute of Transport in the UK. 1998: 97.
  9. ↑ Civil Georgia. "Civil.Ge - TAV Gets Tbilisi Airport Operation Extension for Planned USD 65m Investment".
  10. ↑ "tbilisiairport.com - TAV Georgia to invest $65 million in Tbilisi Airport".
  11. ↑ "Aeroflot resumes service to Tbilisi from October 2014".
  12. ↑ L, J (19 February 2015). "Air Astana Adds Seasonal Astana – Tbilisi Link June – August 2015". Airline Route. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  13. ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/aviationirancom/status/710749152888692736
  14. ↑ "Azerbaijan Airlines Launches Low-cost AZALJet Service from late-March 2016". airlineroute.
  15. ↑ http://dniproavia.com/en/online/schedule/
  16. ↑ "Timetable". Mouzenidis Travel. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  17. ↑ "Flydubai launches Tbilisi flights".
  18. ↑ "Scheduled Flight Search". Pegasus Airlines. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  19. ↑ L, J (2 December 2015). "Sun D’Or Adds New Seasonal Weekly Service in S16". Airline Route. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  20. ↑ "Tbilisi and Batumi airports to welcome Tel Aviv flights". eTurboNews, Inc. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  21. 1 2 ""Уральские авиалинии" увеличивают частоту полетов в направлении Грузии". Interfax-Azerbaijan. 22 February 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  22. ↑ Coyne Airways Caspian network schedule
  23. ↑ "Tbilisi Airport - Airport Statistics".
  24. ↑ tbilisiairport.com - Tbilisi Airport Profile (p.15)
  25. 1 2 3 "Georgian Civil Aviation Agency - Number of Passengers Served".
  26. ↑ "Тбилисский международный аэропорт обслужил в 2013 году 1 436 046 пассажиров". "Бизнес Грузия". 15 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2014.

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