Kopitnari Airport
Kutaisis saertaschorisso aeroporti |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | UGKO |
| IATA code | KUT |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 68 m (223 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 14 km west of Kutaisi |
| Street | S1 ( motorway ) |
| train | Kopitnari station ( Poti – Baku line ) |
| Local transport | Taxi , marshrutka |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 2008 |
| operator | United Airports of Georgia LLC |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 617,342 (2018) |
| Flight movements |
2,160 (2018) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 08/26 | 2500 m × 45 m asphalt |
| website | |
| http://www.kutaisi.aero/ | |
The Kopitnari Airport ( Georgian ქუთაისის საერთაშორისო აეროპორტი , Kutaissis saertaschorisso aeroporti, translated Kutaisi International Airport; and International Dawit-the-builder -airport ) is the second largest commercial airport in Georgia . It is located 14 kilometers west of Kutaisi , the third largest city in Georgia, and 12.5 kilometers east of Samtredia and is currently (as of November 2019) the second largest of three international airports in Georgia. With a total area of the airport building of 4500 square meters, the handling of up to 1,000,000 passengers per year is possible.
Airlines and Destinations
| Airlines | aims |
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| Ukraine International Airlines | Kharkiv , Kiev-Boryspil |
| SCAT Airlines | Aqtau |
| Wizz Air | Berlin-Schönefeld , Breslau , Budapest Liszt Ferenc , Dortmund , Eindhoven , Kaunas , Kattowitz , Kavala , Larnaka , London Luton , Milan-Malpensa , Memmingen , Paris Beauvais , Prague , Rome Fiumicino Tallinn , Thessaloniki , Vilnius , Warsaw Chopin , Vienna and many more |
statistics
Significant growth in passengers was recorded shortly after the Kopitnari Airport reopened in 2012, mainly thanks to Wizz Air with flights to Poland and Ukraine .
| year | Number of passengers | Difference from the previous year |
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| 2010 | 7,446 | |
| 2011 | 4,527 | 40.3% |
| 2012 | 12,932 | 185.7% |
| 2013 | 187.939 | 1353.3% |
| 2014 | 218.003 | 16.0% |
| 2015 | 182,954 | 16.1% |
| 2016 | 271,363 | 48.3% |
| 2017 | 405.173 | 49.3% |
| 2018 | 617.373 | 52.4% |
Web links
- Official website of the airport (English, Georgian, Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b All Statistics. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
- ^ Leaf Canopy: Kutaisi International Airport
- ↑ http://bizzone.info/transportation/2015/1444241401.php
- ↑ http://www.avianews.com/ukraine/2015/06/4_mau_kiev_kutaisi.shtml
- ↑ SCAT and TABAN Airlines to increase flights in Georgia. May 6, 2017, accessed July 24, 2017 .
- ↑ https://wizzair.com/de-de#/ , accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Flight Schedule and Statistics - Kutaisi David the Builder International Airport ( English ) Civil Aviation Agency of Georgia. Retrieved February 3, 2017.