Oral Aq Schol Airport
| Oral Ak Zhol Airport Ақ жол «Светлый путь» |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | UARR |
| IATA code | URA |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 38 m (125 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 12 km southwest of Oral (city) |
| Local transport | Bus route 12 |
| Basic data | |
| Terminals | 2 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 04/22 | 2400 m × 42 m concrete |
The Oral Ak Zhol Airport ( Kazakh : Ақ жол "Светлый путь") ( IATA : URA , ICAO : uarr ) is an international airport which, in the territory of West Kazakhstan lying Kazakh city of Oral served. The airport is about twelve kilometers from the city and has an international and a national terminal.
Airlines and destinations
A total of five cities are served by the airlines SCAT and Bek Air from here . The destinations in Kazakhstan include the capital Nur-Sultan , Almaty , Aktau and Atyrau ; the international destinations include Amsterdam and (seasonal) Düsseldorf as well as Antalya .
After the airport's runway was classified as unsafe in 2012, the national airline Air Astana and the Russian Transaero suspended their connections to Uralsk.
Accidents
On April 15, 2006, had Boeing 747 of British Airways en route from Sydney via Bangkok to London with 354 passengers and 18 crew members after a fire alarm on board in oral emergency landing, but no one was injured.
On August 28, 2009 a Boeing 737 of the Kyrgyz airline Itek Air , en route from Bishkek to Moscow , had to make an emergency landing due to problems with the oil pressure in the left engine. The 118 passengers and 7 crew members were uninjured.
See also
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Runways expose passengers to danger in some Kazakhstan cities. In: Tengri News. June 12, 2012, accessed February 2, 2013 .
- ↑ [1]
