Sochi International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Sochi International Airport
nativename = Международный Аэропорт Сочи


caption =
IATA = AER
ICAO = URSS
type = Public
owner =
operator = JSC "Sochi International Airport"
city-served = Sochi
elevation-f = 89
elevation-m = 27
coordinates = coord|43|26|60|N|39|57|24|E|type:airport
website = http://www.airport.sochi.ru
metric-elev = yes
metric-rwy = yes
r1-number = 02/20
r1-length-f = 7,218
r1-length-m = 2,200
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 06/24
r2-length-f = 9,482
r2-length-m = 2,890
r2-surface = Asphalt
footnotes =

Sochi International Airport airport codes|AER|URSS (Russian: Международный Аэропорт Сочи) is an airport located in Adler District of the resort city of Sochi situated at the Black Sea coast in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

The airport serves primarily Russian holiday makers on their way to resorts in the Greater Sochi area, Russia's top domestic leisure destination. Approximately 1.53 million passengers used the airport in 2007 (11.3% growth over 2006).

The airport is likely to see significant growth in traffic in the coming years as tourist infrastructure in the Greater Sochi area expands in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

On 20 November 2006 the airport was auctioned to Oleg Deripaska's Basic Element group for 5.5 bn roubles (about $206.6 mn). [ [http://en.rian.ru/russia/20061120/55813560.html RIA Novosti: "Russia's Basic Element buys Sochi Airport for $206.6 mln"] . Retrieved on July 7, 2007.] Deripaska is also a member of the committee organizing Sochi's bid for the Winter Olympics. [ [http://news.rin.ru/eng/news///9251/2// News.rin.ru: "Deripaska enters committee on promotion of Sochi for hosting Olympiad"] . Retrieved on July 7, 2007.]

Airlines and destinations

*Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
*Aeroflot-Don (Dubai, Gyumri, Istanbul-Ataturk)
*airBaltic (Riga)
*Armavia (Yerevan)
*Austrian Airlines
** Austrian Arrows operated by Tyrolean Airways (Vienna)
*Dniproavia (Dnepropetrovsk)
*Euroline (Batumi, Kutaisi)
*Gazpromavia (Moscow-Vnukovo, Belgrade)
*Interavia Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
*Karat (Moscow-Domodedovo)
*Kavminvodyavia (Mineralnye Vody, Moscow-Domodedovo)
*KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk, Moscow-Domodedovo)
*Kuban Airlines (Belgrade, Krasnodar, Moscow-Vnukovo)
*Perm Airlines (Perm)
*Polet Airlines (Voronezh)
*Orenair (Moscow-Domodedovo)
*Red Wings Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo)
*Rossiya (Moscow-Vnukovo, St.Petersburg)
*S7 Airlines (Chelyabinsk, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kemerovo, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Novokuznetsk [seasonal] , Omsk, Perm, Saint Petersburg, Tomsk, Ufa, Yekaterinburg)
*Sky Express (Moscow-Vnukovo)
*Tatarstan Airlines (Kazan)
*Tbilaviamsheni (Batumi, Tbilisi)
*Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
*Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
*UTair (Moscow-Vnukovo, Tyumen, Yerevan)
*Uzbekistan Airways
*VIM Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
*Vladivostok Avia (Moscow-Vnukovo)
*Voronezhavia (Voronezh)
*Yakutia Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo, Yakutsk)

Incidents and accidents

On May 3, 2006, an Armavia Airbus A320 operating Armavia Flight 967 crashed in the Black Sea en route from Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport to Sochi. The airplane crashed into the sea while attempting to conduct a go-around following its first approach to Sochi airport, killing all 113 aboard. The accident was the first major commercial airline crash in 2006.

References

* [http://aero.autotp.ru/cgi-bin/db.cgi?db=nav&uid=default&view_records=1&ID=156&ww=on Sochi Airport at Russian Airports Database]

External links

* [http://www.airport.sochi.ru Official site] (in Russian)
* [http://sochi-airport.com Sochi Airport site] (in English)
* [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/AER Great Circle Mapper: AER / URSS - Adler, Sochi, Russian Federation (Russia)]
* World Aero Data [http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?id=RS08294&sch=URSS airport information for URSS]
* ASN [http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=aer Accident history for URSS]
* [http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Adler/371710.htm Historical Weather Records for Adler]