Samarkand International Airport

Samarkand International Airport (IATA: SKD, ICAO: UTSS) is an airport of entry in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 6 km (3.7 mi) from the city center. The airport is operated by Uzbekistan Airways since the airline's creation in 1992. The airport has domestic as well as international flights.

Samarkand International Airport Samarqand Xalqaro Aeroporti
IATA: SKD ICAO: UTSS
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of Uzbekistan
Operator	Uzbekistan Airways
Serves	Samarkand
Location	Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Hub for	Air Samarkand
Elevation AMSL	2,224 ft / 678 m
Coordinates	39°42′02″N 66°59′02″E
Website	https://samarkandairport.com/en/
Map
SKD Location of air base in Uzbekistan
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 09/27 10,170 3,100 Asphalt

Current

Samarkand International Airport was renovated in 2022.^[when?] It is one of the busiest airports in Uzbekistan.^[1]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Air Samarkand	Jeddah, Istanbul,[2] Tashkent[3]
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku[4]
azimuth	Mineralnye Vody,[5] Sochi,[6] Ufa[7]
Centrum Air	Tashkent[8]
China Southern Airlines	Ürümqi[9]
flydubai	Dubai–International[10]
Jazeera Airways	Kuwait City
Loong Air	Xi'an[11]
Pobeda	Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg[12]
Qanot Sharq	Moscow–Domodedovo,[13] Tel Aviv[14]
Qazaq Air	Türkistan[15]
Rossiya Airlines	Saint Petersburg, Sochi[16]
S7 Airlines	Novosibirsk
Silk Avia	Fergana,[17] Tashkent, Urgench[18]
SunExpress	İzmir[19]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[20]
Ural Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo,[21] Yekaterinburg[22]
Utair	Moscow–Vnukovo, Tyumen[23]
Uzbekistan Airways	Andizhan,[24] Irkutsk,[25] Istanbul,[26][27] Moscow–Vnukovo,[28] Nizhny Novgorod,[29] Saint Petersburg, Tashkent,[30] Tel Aviv,[31] Zaamin[32]
Wizz Air	Abu Dhabi[33]

See also

• List of the busiest airports in the former USSR
• Transportation in Uzbekistan

References

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32. "Uzbekistan Airways Begins Zaamin Service From Sep 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
33. "Hungarian WizzAir to launch Samarkand flight".

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