Batumi International Airport

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.

Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport

ბათუმის ალექსანდრე ქართველის სახელობის საერთაშორისო აეროპორტი
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorTAV Airports Holding
Serves Batumi, Georgia and Artvin, Turkey
LocationBatumi, Georgia
Focus city forGeorgian Airways
Elevation AMSL37 ft / 11 m
Coordinates41°36′37″N 41°35′58″E
Websitewww.batumiairport.com
Map
BUS
Location of Batumi Airport
BUS
BUS (Turkey)
BUS
BUS (Black Sea)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13/31 2,500 8,202 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers598,891
Passenger change 17-18 20.83%
Source: DoD FLIP,[1] AIP Georgia at EUROCONTROL[2]

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]

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]

In 2019, it was decided to expand the terminal because the existing capacities were no longer sufficient. The work was completed in spring 2021. The area has been doubled to 8000 square metres, which allows the handling of 1,200,000 passengers a year. Part of the work was to expand the number of bus gates, check-in 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 17 million US-dollar were invested.

Airlines and destinations
Batumi Airport
AirlinesDestinations
Air Arabia Sharjah[6]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[7]
Aircompany Armenia Yerevan
Arkia Seasonal: Tel Aviv[8]
Bees Airline Kyiv–Zhuliany (resumes 2 April 2022)
Belavia Minsk
Buta Airways Baku[9]
El Al Seasonal: Tel Aviv
flydubai Seasonal: Dubai–International[10]
flynas Riyadh
Seasonal: Dammam, Jeddah[11]
FlyOne Seasonal: Chișinău (begins 3 June 2022)[12]
GetJet Airlines Seasonal charter: Vilnius[13]
LOT Polish Airlines Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin[14][15]
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[16]
SCAT Airlines Nur-Sultan[17]
Seasonal: Aktau
SkyUp Kyiv–Boryspil[18]
Seasonal: Kharkiv,[19] Lviv,[20] Zaporizhzhia[21]
SmartLynx Airlines Seasonal charter: Tallinn[22]
Sun D'Or Seasonal: Tel Aviv[23]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent
Vanilla Sky Airlines Tbilisi[24][25]
Yanair Kyiv–Zhuliany[26]
Seasonal: Kharkiv,[27][28] Lviv,[29] Odessa[30]

Statistics
Terminal building
Annual passenger statistics Batumi International Airport[31]
YearPassengersChange
Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See source Wikidata query.
2021 516,017 906%
2020 51,412 91.8%
2019 624,178 04.2%
2018 598,891 20.8%
2017 495,668 58.7%
2016 312,34337.9%
2015 226,47605.9%
2014 213,43902.2%
2013 208,97724.0%
2012 168,51025.9%
2011 133,85251.1%
2010 088,56292.3%
2009 046,04428.8%
2008 064,65667.4%
2007 038,613
Country Destination Airport Weekly flights[32] 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
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  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
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  5. batumiairport.com – Airport profile (p.15)
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  8. Arkia.com
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  12. "FLYONE va opera șapte rute noi din Chișinău în vara anului 2022". 15 December 2021.
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  15. Liu, Jim (23 April 2021). "Jeszcze więcej wakacyjnych tras od LOT-u z całej Polski".
  16. Liu, Jim. "Pegasus adds Istanbul – Batumi service from late-March 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  17. Liu, Jim (5 February 2019). "SCAT adds Astana – Batumi service from June 2019". Routesonline. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
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  19. "freight monitor". online.joinup.ua.
  20. "Travel forum "Win with the Lion!": SkyUp announces the opening of new destinations from Lviv". skyup.aero. 29 November 2019.
  21. "Opening of summer ticket sales from Zaporizhzhia". skyup.aero. 5 December 2019.
  22. Liu, Jim (10 February 2019). "Batumi and Tallinn to be connected by charter flights this summer". Agenda.ge. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
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  26. "З "Жулян" у Грузію додадуть нові рейси". Українська правда. Iнтерфакс-Україна. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  27. "Yanair летом начнет полеты из Харькова в Батуми". www.avianews.com. 5 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  28. Liu, Jim (22 April 2018). "Yanair adds Kharkiv – Batumi service in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  29. "Yanair открыл продажи на прямые рейсы Львов-Батуми". www.avianews.com. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  30. "YANAIR ВИКОНУВАТИМЕ ПРЯМІ РЕЙСИ З ОДЕСИ В ТБІЛІСІ І БАТУМІ". ТОВ «Міжнародний Аеропорт Одеса». Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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  32. "International passenger flights from Batumi Airport".
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