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41°36′37″N 41°35′58″E / 41.61028°N 41.59944°E / 41.61028; 41.59944
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Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport

ბათუმის ალექსანდრე ქართველის სახელობის საერთაშორისო აეროპორტი
Summary
Airport typePublic
Operator TAV Airports Holding
Serves Georgia (country) Batumi, Georgia
Location Batumi, Georgia
Focus city for Georgian Airways
Elevation  AMSL37 ft / 11 m
Coordinates 41°36′37″N 41°35′58″E / 41.61028°N 41.59944°E / 41.61028; 41.59944
Website www.batumiairport.com
Map
BUS is located in Georgia
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Location of Batumi Airport
BUS is located in Turkey
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BUS (Turkey)
BUS is located in Black Sea
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13/31 2,500 8,202 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers621,514
Passenger change 22-23Increase 0.75%
Source: DoD FLIP, [1] AIP Georgia at EUROCONTROL [2]

Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport ( 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. The airport is named after Alexander Kartveli, an aeronautical engineer and aviation pioneer. [3]

Overview

Batumi is one of three international airports in operation in Georgia (along with Tbilisi International Airport serving the 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]

On October 25, 2000 when landing at the airport Il-18 aircraft tail number RA-74295 crashed. It was transporting “under the flag” of the 223rd Flight Detachment in joint operation with Aeroflot personnel of the Russian 12th Military Base in Transcaucasia. All 84 people (73 passengers and 11 crew members) on board were killed. The cause of the disaster was the navigation error of the pilots and the lack of control on the part of air traffic control services. [5]

Batumi International Airport has noted a significant growth in the number of passengers since its renovation in 2007. In 2011, the airport handled 134,000 passengers, an increase of 51% over the previous year. [4]

In 2019, the terminal was expanded because the existing capacities were no longer sufficient. The work was completed in spring 2021. The airport's area was doubled to 8000 square meters, which allows the handling of 1,200,000 passengers a year. Part of the work was to expand the number of bus gates, the check-in area, and passport control counters as well as the expansion of duty-free areas and the car park. Additionally, the luggage handling area was partially expanded, where an automatic conveyor system was introduced and an additional one luggage carousel was installed. A total of USD$17 million were invested.

Airlines and destinations

Batumi Airport
AirlinesDestinations
Air Arabia Seasonal: Sharjah [6]
Air Astana Seasonal: Almaty, Astana [7]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga [8]
Arkia Seasonal: Tel Aviv [9]
Armenian Airlines Seasonal: Yerevan (resumes 1 May 2024) [10]
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku [11]
Azimuth Moscow–Vnukovo [12]
Belavia Minsk
El Al Seasonal: Tel Aviv
flyadeal Seasonal: Riyadh
flydubai Seasonal: Dubai–International [13]
flynas Seasonal: Dammam, Jeddah, [14] Riyadh
Georgian Wings Moscow-Vnukovo, [15] Tbilisi [16]
GetJet Airlines Seasonal Charter: Vilnius [17]
Iran Aseman Airlines Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Israir Seasonal: Tel Aviv [18]
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen [19]
Qeshm Air Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Red Wings Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo [20]
Saudia Seasonal: Riyadh
SCAT Airlines Seasonal: Astana (resumes 8 June 2024) [21]
SmartLynx Airlines Seasonal Charter: Tallinn [17]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Uzbekistan Airways Seasonal: Tashkent [7]
Vanilla Sky Airlines Natakhtari [22] [23]
Varesh Airlines Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Zagros Airlines Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini

Statistics

Annual passenger statistics Batumi International Airport [24]
Year Passengers Change
Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query.
2023 621,514 Increase0.75%
2022 616,885 [25] Increase19.5%
2021 516,017 Increase906%
2020 51,412 Decrease91.8%
2019 624,178 Increase04.2%
2018 598,891 Increase20.8%
2017 495,668 Increase58.7%
2016 312,343 Increase37.9%
2015 226,476 Increase05.9%
2014 213,439 Increase02.2%
2013 208,977 Increase24.0%
2012 168,510 Increase25.9%
2011 133,852 Increase51.1%
2010 088,562 Increase92.3%
2009 046,044 Decrease28.8%
2008 064,656 Increase67.4%

Most popular routes in summer 2021

Country Destination Airport Weekly flights [26] Airlines
  Ukraine Kyiv Boryspil International Airport,

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport

21 Bees Airline (7 weekly) SkyUp (7 weekly) Yanair (7 weekly)
  Israel Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport 15 Israir Airlines (10 weekly); Arkia (3 weekly); El Al/ Sun d'Or (2 weekly) Georgian Airways (2 weekly)
  Turkey Istanbul Istanbul Airport,

Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

10 Turkish Airlines (7 weekly) Pegasus Airlines (3 weekly)
  Belarus Minsk Minsk National Airport 4 Belavia (4 weekly)
  Saudi Arabia Riyadh King Khalid International Airport 4 Flynas (4 weekly)

See also

References

  1. ^ DoD Flight Information Publication (Terminal) - High and Low Altitude Eastern Europe and Asia. St. Louis, Missouri: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2020.
  2. ^ "EAD Basic". European AIS Database. EUROCONTROL. Archived from the original on 2 November 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  3. ^ Batumi airport named after Alexander Kartveli Government of Georgia
  4. ^ a b "Batumi Airport" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Il disaster-18D near Batumi". Archived from the original on 14 March 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Air Arabia".
  7. ^ a b "Uzbekistan Airways makes inaugural direct Tashkent-Batumi flight". Agenda.ge. 22 May 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  8. ^ "AirBaltic annuncia voli per Batumi". 16 February 2022.
  9. ^ Arkia.com
  10. ^ "Armenian Airlines будет совершать рейсы между Ереваном и Батуми". Travel.ru (in Russian). 5 March 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  11. ^ "Buta Airways August – October 2023 Network – 30JUL23". AeroRoutes. 1 August 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  12. ^ "Azimuth Adds Moscow – Georgia Routes in NW23". AeroRoutes. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  13. ^ Liu, Jim (10 January 2020). "flydubai resumes Batumi service in S20". routesonline.com.
  14. ^ Liu, Jim. "flynas S20 Network Expansion". Routesonline. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  15. ^ "Georgian Airways Resumes 2 Russian Routes in Dec 2023". AeroRoutes. 8 November 2023. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  16. ^ "Georgian Wings airline launching Tbilisi-Batumi flights". Agenda.ge.
  17. ^ a b "Getjet and Smartlynx to Resume Flights to Georgia". Georgian Journal. 8 August 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  18. ^ "Israir NS24 Leased Smartwings Boeing 737 Operations". AeroRoutes. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  19. ^ Liu, Jim. "Pegasus adds Istanbul – Batumi service from late-March 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  20. ^ "Авиакомпания Red Wings открывает рейсы из Москвы в Батуми". www.aviapages.ru. 24 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  21. ^ "SCAT Airlines to launch Astana-Batumi service from Jun-2024". CAPA News Briefs. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  22. ^ "Flights to Mestia, Ambrolauri, and Batumi - Schedule and Prices". Mountain Stories. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  23. ^ "Frequency on domestic flights increases in Georgia". Agenda.ge. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  24. ^ "Number of Passengers Served Batumi Airport". gcaa.ge. Civil Aviation Agency of Georgia. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  25. ^ "According to total data for 2022, the number of flights recovered to the level of 88% from pre-Covid levels, whereas passenger count - to the level of 85% (in Georgian)". Georgian Civil Aviation Authority. 16 January 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  26. ^ "International passenger flights from Batumi Airport". Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

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