Dushanbe International Airport

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Dushanbe International Airport

Russian: Международный аэропорт «Душанбе»
Tajik: Фурудгоҳи Байналмилалии Душанбе

Furudgohi Bajnalmilalii Duşanbe
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Summary
Airport typeJoint (Civil and Military)
Owner Government of Tajikistan
Operator Government of Tajikistan
Serves Dushanbe
Location Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Hub for
Elevation  AMSL 2,575 ft / 785 m
Coordinates 38°32′6″N068°49′5″E / 38.53500°N 68.81806°E / 38.53500; 68.81806
Website airport.tj
Map
Tajikistan adm location map.svg
Airplane silhouette.svg
DYU
Location of airport in Tajikistan
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
09/2710,2103,112 Asphalt-concrete
Statistics (2017)
Passengers1,305,000

Dushanbe International Airport( IATA : DYU, ICAO : UTDD) is an international airport in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. It is the main hub for Somon Air and is the home base for Tajik Air, which also has its headquarters on the property. [1]

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History

In 1924, the first airport was built in the country, in the city currently known as Dushanbe. In November 1929, a new airport was built to serve Stalinabad (past name of Dushanbe). In 1964, the current airport complex was put into operation. Over the years, the airport has been reconstructed several times.

On September 7, 1992, during the first months of the Tajikistani Civil War, President Rahmon Nabiyev and an entourage of his were on their way to the airport when they were ambushed by opposition forces. At the terminal, Nabiyev was forced to resign, practically at gunpoint, after a meeting and discussions with the armed opposition in the VIP lounge, before being released. Tanks and troops were reportedly stationed at the terminal during the whole ordeal. [2]

A new French-built terminal, which can serve 1.5 million passengers a year, was opened on 3 September 2014. [3] [4] France provided Tajikistan a long-term, low-interest €20 million loan. Tajikistan's own contribution was €19 million. [5]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Astana Almaty
Avia Traffic Company Bishkek
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku [6]
China Southern Airlines Ürümqi [7]
FlyArystan Astana [8]
flydubai Dubai–International [9]
Jazeera Airways Kuwait City [10]
Kam Air Kabul
Nordwind Airlines Kazan, Orenburg, Ufa
S7 Airlines Novosibirsk
Somon Air Almaty, [11] Astana, [12] Delhi, [13] Dubai–International, Frankfurt, Irkutsk, Islamabad, Istanbul, Kazan, Khujand, Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Makhachkala, [14] Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Zhukovsky, [14] Munich, [15] Novosibirsk, [16] Orenburg, Saint Petersburg, Samara, [14] Sochi, [17] Tashkent, [11] Tbilisi, [18] Tehran–Imam Khomeini, [19] Ürümqi, Yekaterinburg
Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh, [20] Yerevan
Turkish Airlines Istanbul [21]
Turkmenistan Airlines Seasonal: Ashgabat [22]
Ural Airlines Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Zhukovsky, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, [23] Ufa, Volgograd, [24] Yekaterinburg
Seasonal: Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Samara
Utair Moscow–Vnukovo
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent [25]
Varesh Airlines Mashhad, Tehran–Imam Khomeini

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at DYU airport. See Wikidata query.

See also

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