# Batumi International Airport

Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport (IATA: BUS, ICAO: UGSB) is an airport located 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Batumi, a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. The airport is 20 km (12 mi) northeast of Hopa, Turkey, and serves as a domestic and international airport for Georgia. The airport is named after Alexander Kartveli, an aeronautical engineer and aviation pioneer. A sculpture dedicated to Fadiko Gogitidze, Adjara's first woman pilot, is at the entrance.

## Overview

Batumi is one of three international airports in operation in Georgia (along with Tbilisi International Airport serving the Georgian capital and Kutaisi International Airport in Georgia's second largest city Kutaisi). The new airport terminal has been in operation since 26 May 2007. With a total area of 4,256 square metres (45,810 sq ft), it is capable of handling 600,000 passengers a year.
On 25 October 2000, Il-18 aircraft with registration number RA-74295 crashed into the Mtirala mountain northeast of Batumi during the final approach to the airport. The plane was returning personnel and their relatives to the Russian 12th Military Base in Batumi. All 84 people (73 passengers and 11 crew members) on board were killed. The cause of the disaster was the navigation error of the pilots and the lack of control on the part of air traffic control services.
Batumi International Airport has noted a significant growth in the number of passengers since its renovation in 2007. In 2011, the airport handled 134,000 passengers, an increase of 51% over the previous year.
In 2019, the terminal was expanded because the existing capacities were no longer sufficient. The work was completed in spring 2021. The airport's area was doubled to 8000 square meters, which allows the handling of 1,200,000 passengers a year. Part of the work was to expand the number of bus gates, the check-in area, and passport control counters as well as the expansion of duty-free areas and the car park. Additionally, the luggage handling area was partially expanded, where an automatic conveyor system was introduced and an additional one luggage carousel was installed. A total of USD$17 million were invested.

## Airlines and destinations

| Airlines | Destinations |
| Air Astana | Seasonal: Almaty, Astana |
| Air Baltic | Seasonal: Riga |
| Arkia | Seasonal: Tel Aviv |
| Armenian Airlines | Seasonal: Yerevan |
| Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku |
| Azimuth | Mineralnye Vody (begins 30 March 2025), Moscow–Vnukovo |
| Belavia | Minsk |
| Centrum Air | Seasonal: Tashkent |
| Flyadeal | Seasonal: Riyadh |
| Flydubai | Seasonal: Dubai–International |
| Flynas | Seasonal: Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh |
| GetJet Airlines | Seasonal charter: Vilnius |
| Iran Aseman Airlines | Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini |
| Israir | Seasonal: Tel Aviv |
| Jazeera Airways | Seasonal: Kuwait City (resumes 27 May 2025) |
| Jordan Aviation | Amman |
| Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen |
| Qeshm Air | Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini |
| Red Wings Airlines | Kazan, Nizhny Novogorod (begins 26 April 2025), Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Zhukovsky, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Ufa, Yekaterinburg |
| Saudia | Seasonal: Riyadh |
| SCAT Airlines | Seasonal: Astana |
| SmartLynx Airlines | Seasonal charter: Tallinn |
| Sundor | Seasonal: Tel Aviv |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Seasonal: Tashkent |
| Vanilla Sky Airlines | Natakhtari |
| Varesh Airlines | Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini |
| Zagros Airlines | Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini |

## Statistics

Annual passenger statistics Batumi International Airport :
| Year | Passengers | Change | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2024 | 951,766 | 53% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2023 | 621,514 | 0.75% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2022 | 616,885 | 19.5% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2021 | 516,017 | 906% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2020 | 51,412 | 91.8% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2019 | 624,178 | 04.2% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2018 | 598,891 | 20.8% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2017 | 495,668 | 58.7% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2016 | 312,343 | 37.9% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2015 | 226,476 | 05.9% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2014 | 213,439 | 02.2% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2013 | 208,977 | 24.0% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2012 | 168,510 | 25.9% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2011 | 133,852 | 51.1% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2010 | 088,562 | 92.3% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2009 | 046,044 | 28.8% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |
| 2008 | 064,656 | 67.4% | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at BUS airport. See Wikidata query. |

### Most popular routes in summer 2021

| Country | Destination | Airport | Weekly flights | Airlines |
| Ukraine | Kyiv | Boryspil International Airport, Kyiv International Airport | 21 | Bees Airline (7 weekly) SkyUp Airlines (7 weekly) Yanair (7 weekly) |
| Israel | Tel Aviv | Ben Gurion Airport | 15 | Israir (10 weekly); Arkia (3 weekly); El Al/Sundor (2 weekly) Georgian Airways (2 weekly) |
| Turkey | Istanbul | Istanbul Airport, Sabiha Gökçen International Airport | 10 | Turkish Airlines (7 weekly) Pegasus Airlines (3 weekly) |
| Belarus | Minsk | Minsk National Airport | 4 | Belavia (4 weekly) |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | King Khalid International Airport | 4 | Flynas (4 weekly) |