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 AMSL105 ft / 32 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: AIP Georgia, DAFIF[1][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]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Aircompany Armenia Yerevan
Atlantis Armenian Airlines Seasonal: Yerevan
Belavia Minsk
Buta Airways Baku[6]
flydubai Seasonal: Dubai–International[7]
flynas Riyadh
Seasonal: Dammam, Jeddah[8]
Georgian Airways Tbilisi
Seasonal: Tel Aviv,[9] Yerevan[10]
Seasonal charter: Amman–Queen Alia[11]
GetJet Airlines Seasonal charter: Vilnius[12]
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[13]
SCAT Airlines Nur-Sultan[14]
Seasonal: Aktau
SkyUp Kyiv–Boryspil[15]
Seasonal: Kharkiv,[16] Lviv,[17] Zaporizhzhia[18]
SmartLynx Airlines Seasonal charter: Tallinn[19]
Sun D'Or Seasonal: Tel Aviv[20]
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul
Vanilla Sky Airlines Tbilisi
Yanair Kyiv–Zhuliany[21]
Seasonal: Kharkiv,[22][23] Lviv,[24] Odessa[25]

Statistics
Terminal building
Annual passenger statistics[26]
YearTotal passengersChange from previous year
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

According to Department of Tourism the amount of 11,792 visitors at Batumi International Airport in September 2015 were of foreign origin, which is 54% more comparing to the previous year.[27]

Annual passenger numbers at Batumi international Airport (thousands)
Update: November 2020
Country Destination Airport Weekly flights[28] Airlines
 Israel Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport 7 Georgian Airways (1 weekly); Arkia (2 weekly); El Al (4 weekly)
 Turkey Istanbul Istanbul Airport 7 Turkish Airlines (7 weekly)
 Russia Moscow Moscow Domodedovo Airport 4 S7 Airlines (2 weekly); Ural Airlines (2 weekly)
 Belarus Minsk Minsk National Airport 2 Belavia (2 weekly)
 Ukraine Kyiv Kyiv-Zhuliany 2 Yanair (2 weekly)

See also

References
  1. Airport information for UGSB Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  2. Airport information for BUS at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. Batumi airport named after Alexander Kartveli Government of Georgia
  4. batumiairport.com – Airport profile (p.11)
  5. batumiairport.com – Airport profile (p.15)
  6. Liu, Jim (11 October 2018). "Buta Airways adds Batumi from June 2019". Routesonline. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  7. Liu, Jim (10 January 2020). "flydubai resumes Batumi service in S20". routesonline.com.
  8. Liu, Jim. "flynas S20 Network Expansion". Routesonline. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  9. "Батуми и Тель-Авив связал регулярный авиарейс | Вестник Кавказа" (in Russian). Vestnik Kavkaza. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  10. Liu, Jim (15 July 2019). "Georgian Airways adds Batumi – Yerevan service from July 2019". Routesonline. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  11. Liu, Jim (28 May 2019). "Georgian Airways adds Batumi – Amman scheduled charters in S19". Routesonline. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  12. Mammadova, Tamilla (3 September 2019). "First charter flight from Vilnius to Batumi, Georgia, completed". Trend.Az. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  13. Liu, Jim. "Pegasus adds Istanbul – Batumi service from late-March 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  14. Liu, Jim (5 February 2019). "SCAT adds Astana – Batumi service from June 2019". Routesonline. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  15. Liu, Jim (20 February 2019). "SkyUp Airlines updates S19 network expansion". Routesonline.
  16. "freight monitor". online.joinup.ua.
  17. "Travel forum "Win with the Lion!": SkyUp announces the opening of new destinations from Lviv". skyup.aero. 29 November 2019.
  18. "Opening of summer ticket sales from Zaporizhzhia". skyup.aero. 5 December 2019.
  19. Liu, Jim (10 February 2019). "Batumi and Tallinn to be connected by charter flights this summer". Agenda.ge. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  20. Liu, Jim (25 January 2017). "Sun d'Or plans new routes in S17". Routesonline. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  21. "З "Жулян" у Грузію додадуть нові рейси". Українська правда. Iнтерфакс-Україна. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  22. "Yanair летом начнет полеты из Харькова в Батуми". www.avianews.com. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  23. Liu, Jim (22 April 2018). "Yanair adds Kharkiv – Batumi service in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  24. "Yanair открыл продажи на прямые рейсы Львов-Батуми". www.avianews.com. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  25. "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.
  26. "Flight Schedule and Statistics - Kutaisi David the Builder International Airport". gcaa.ge/. Civil Aviation Agency of Georgia. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  27. http://www.apsny.ge/2015/eco/1444615054.php
  28. "International passenger flights from Batumi Airport".
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