Tashkent International Airport

Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport (Uzbek: Islom Karimov Toshkent Xalqaro Aeroporti) (IATA: TAS, ICAO: UTTT) is the main international airport of Uzbekistan and the third busiest airport in Central Asia (after Almaty International Airport and Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport in Astana, both in Kazakhstan). It is located 12 km (7.5 mi) from the center of Tashkent. It was named after Islam Karimov, the first president of independent Uzbekistan, in office from 1991 until his death in 2016.

Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport Islom Karimov nomidagi Toshkent xalqaro aeroporti (Uzbek)
IATA: TAS ICAO: UTTT
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of Uzbekistan
Serves	Tashkent
Location	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Hub for	HumoAir My Freighter Airlines Panorama Airways Qanot Sharq Uzbekistan Airways
Focus city for	Ural Airlines
Elevation AMSL	1,417 ft / 432 m
Coordinates	41°15′28.3″N 69°16′52.27″E
Website	UzbAirports.uz/
Map
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 (2022)
Number of passengers 5,000,000
Uzbek Aeronautical Information Publication[1]

History

Tashkent International Airport terminal building

This ICAO Category II airport is the primary hub of Uzbekistan Airways, the largest international airport in Uzbekistan, and the busiest in Central Asia. The airport comprises two terminals: Terminal 2 receives international flights, and 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. 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]

Incidents

In 2023, there was a big fire at the airport and a warehouse exploded.^[9]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
Air Arabia	Sharjah[10]
Air Astana	Almaty, Astana
Air Cairo	Sharm El Sheikh[11]
Air Samarkand	Samarqand[12]
AJet	Ankara[13]
Asiana Airlines	Seoul–Incheon[14]
Azimuth	Mineralnye Vody
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku
Batik Air Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur–International[15]
Belavia	Minsk[16]
Centrum Air[17]	Batumi, Colombo–Bandaranaike (begins 17 November 2024),[18] Doha (begins 1 November 2024),[19] Dubai–Al Maktoum,[20] Dubai–International, Guangzhou (begins 3 November 2024),[20] Jeddah, Salalah,[21] Tbilisi, Tel Aviv (begins 21 November 2024),[22] Urgench
China Southern Airlines	Beijing–Daxing,[23] Ürümqi[24]
FlyArystan	Astana[25]
flydubai	Dubai–International[26]
flynas	Jeddah,[27] Riyadh[28]
Iberojet	Seasonal charter: Madrid[29]
IndiGo	Delhi[30]
Jazeera Airways	Seasonal: Kuwait City[31]
Kam Air	Kabul
Loong Air	Chengdu–Tianfu,[32] Xi'an
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw–Chopin[33]
Nile Air	Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh[34]
Pobeda	Moscow–Vnukovo[35]
Qanot Sharq	Budapest,[36] Fergana, Istanbul,[37] Moscow–Domodedovo,[38] Nha Trang,[39] Prague,[40] Samarkand, Seoul–Incheon,[41] Sharm El Sheikh, Tel Aviv Seasonal: Burgas,[42] Kalamata,[42] Larnaca,[42] Phuket[43] Seasonal charter: Phu Quoc[44]
Qatar Airways	Doha[45]
Qeshm Air	Tehran–Imam Khomeini[46]
Red Wings Airlines	Kazan, Makhachkala, Samara
Rossiya Airlines	Krasnoyarsk–International
S7 Airlines	Novosibirsk
Silk Avia	Bukhara, Fergana, Kokand, Namangan, Navoiy, Qarshi, Samarkand, Termez, Urgench,[47] Zaamin Seasonal: Issyk-Kul[48]
Somon Air	Dushanbe[49]
TezJet	Bishkek[50]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[51]
Ural Airlines	Irkutsk (resumes 31 October 2024),[52] Krasnoyarsk–International, Moscow–Zhukovsky, Sochi,[53] Yekaterinburg[54][55]
Utair	Moscow–Vnukovo, Surgut, Tyumen, Ufa
UVT Aero	Kazan[56]
Uzbekistan Airways	Almaty, Andizhan, Ankara,[57] Antalya, Astana, Baku, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi,[58] Batumi, Beijing–Capital, Bishkek, Bukhara, Delhi, Denpasar (begins 3 December 2024),[59] Dubai–International,[60] Dushanbe, Fergana, Frankfurt, Grozny,[61] Goa–Mopa,[62] Hangzhou (begins 17 November 2024),[63] Hurghada,[64] Istanbul, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta,[65] Jeddah, Kazan, Khabarovsk,[66] Kuala Lumpur–International,[67] Lahore (resumes 15 November 2024),[68] London–Gatwick,[69] London–Heathrow,[70] Medina, Milan–Malpensa, Mineralnye Vody, Minsk,[71] Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Vnukovo,[72] Mumbai,[73] Munich,[74] Namangan, New York–JFK,[75] Nha Trang,[76] Nizhnevartovsk,[77] Novosibirsk, Nukus, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Qarshi, Riga,[78] Rome–Fiumicino,[79] Saint Petersburg, Samarqand,[80] Seoul–Incheon, Sharjah, Sochi, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Termez, Tokyo–Narita,[81] Ufa, Urgench, Ürümqi,[82] Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Zaamin[83] Seasonal: Malé, Phuket,[84] Phu Quoc,[85] Sharm El Sheikh Seasonal charter: Burgas[86]
Wizz Air	Abu Dhabi[87]
World2Fly	Seasonal charter: Madrid[88]
Zagros Airlines	Tehran–Imam Khomeini

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Aerologic	Frankfurt, Hong Kong
DHL	Leipzig, Singapore
My Freighter	Almaty, Batumi,[89] Beirut, Birmingham, Budapest,[89] Dubai–Al Maktoum, Dubai–International,[89] Hong Kong, Istanbul,[89] Karagandy, Liège, Macau, Madrid,[90] Navoi, Ostrava, Riyadh, Tbilisi,[89] Tel Aviv, Turkmenabat,[91] Ulaanbaatar, Ürümqi, Vienna
Silk Way Airlines	Baku, Delhi, Hong Kong
Uzbekistan Airways	Birmingham, Budapest, Liège, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Ürümqi
YTO Cargo Airlines	Hangzhou,[92] Xi'an, Yining[93]

See also

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

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External links

Media related to Tashkent International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (in English, Russian, and Uzbek)
• Tashkent International Airport on the website of Uzbekistan Airways
• NOAA/NWS current weather observations
• ASN Accident history for UTTT