Irkutsk Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Irkutsk Airport
nativename =
nativename-a = Аэропорт Иркутск
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IATA = IKT
ICAO = UIII
type = Public
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operator = FSUE "Irkutsk Airport"
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location = Irkutsk
elevation-f = 1675
elevation-m = 511
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r1-number = 12/30
r1-length-f = 10,384
r1-length-m = 3,165
r1-surface = Concrete
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Irkutsk Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Иркутск) airport codes|IKT|UIII is an airport in the centre of Irkutsk, Russia. As of 2006, a new passenger terminal is nearing completion. In the meantime a 1960s ex-international terminal is being used for both international and domestic departures while domestic arrivals are handled in a small shed-like structure by the side.

Due to its proximity to the Angara Reservoir, the airport enjoys a particular microclimate with foggy weather being prevalent for most of the year. The airport is often closed due to bad weather conditions, with Bratsk serving as a diversion airport. In emergencies, like the one in Summer 2006, when the only runway was closed after the S7 crash ("see below"), incoming planes can also be diverted to the runway of the nearby Irkut aviation plant, where Sukhoi fighters and the Beriev Be-200 are produced.

As of November 2006, plans are afoot to relocate the airport to Klyuchevaya, some 24 km from the city of Angarsk. Construction is slated to begin in 2008.

1,020,000 passengers traveled through Irkutsk International Airport in 2007.

Airlines and destinations

*Aero Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
*Airport Bratsk (Bratsk)
*Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
*Angara Airlines (Kirensk)
*Dalavia (Rostov-on-Don, Omsk, Khabarovsk)
*Interavia Airlines [http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByAirport.do?airport=(IKT)+Irkutsk+Airport%2C+RU&airportQueryDate=2008-07-29&airportQueryTimePeriod=3&airline=&airportQueryType=1&x=5&y=7]
*MIAT Mongolian Airlines (Ulaanbaatar)
*Rossiya (St. Petersburg)
*Samara Airlines (Samara)
*S7 Airlines (Antalya, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing, Dalyan, Magadan, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Seoul-Incheon, Shenyang, St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Vladivostok, Yakutsk)
*Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
*UTair Aviation [http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByAirport.do?airport=(IKT)+Irkutsk+Airport%2C+RU&airportQueryDate=2008-07-29&airportQueryTimePeriod=3&airline=&airportQueryType=1&x=5&y=7]
*VIM Airlines [http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByAirport.do?airport=(IKT)+Irkutsk+Airport%2C+RU&airportQueryDate=2008-07-29&airportQueryTimePeriod=3&airline=&airportQueryType=1&x=5&y=7]
*Vladivostok Avia (Vladivostok)

Cargo airlines

*TESIS Aviation Enterprise

Incidents and accidents

Aside from foggy weather, the airport is notorious for its sloping runway and having many hills in its vicinity. The airport and its surrounding area have played scene to several crashes.

* S7 Airlines Flight 778, occurring at roughly 08:00 hours on Saturday 8 July, 2006, killed in excess of 100 people.

External links

* [http://www.iktport.ru Irkutsk Airport]
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* NOAA/NWS [http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/UIII.html current] weather observations
* ASN [http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=ikt Accident history for UIII]