Yakutsk Airport

Yakutsk Airport
Аэропорт Якутск / Дьокуускай Аэропорт
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Yakutsk Airport State Enterprise
Serves Yakutsk
Location Yakutsk, Russia
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 99 m / 325 ft
Coordinates 62°05′36″N 129°46′14″E / 62.09333°N 129.77056°E / 62.09333; 129.77056Coordinates: 62°05′36″N 129°46′14″E / 62.09333°N 129.77056°E / 62.09333; 129.77056
Website www.airport-yakutsk.ru
Maps

Sakha Republic in Russia
YKS

Location of the airport in the Sakha Republic

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05L/23R Closed 2,500 8,202 Concrete
05R/23L 3,400 11,155 Asphalt
Sources:GCM,[1] STV[2]

Yakutsk Airport (Yakut: Дьокуускай Аэропорт, Coquusqay Aeroport IPA: [ɟoquːsˈqaj aeɾoˈpoɾt]; Russian: Аэропо́рт Яку́тск, Aeroport Yakutsk) (IATA: YKS, ICAO: UEEE) is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has one runway (an older runway serves as a parking area for disused aircraft) and has a capacity of 700 passengers per hour.

The airport is the hub for five regional airlines, including Yakutia Airlines and Polar Airlines.

Construction of the airport started in 1931 and was used as a stopover on the ALSIB Alaska-Siberia air route for American planes flying to Europe during World War II. The present international terminal was built in 1996. The airport serves as a diversion airport on Polar route 4.[3][4]

Yakutsk has another, smaller airport at Magan.

Airlines and destinations

Ilyushin Il-76 parked at Yakutsk Airport.
Domodedovo Airlines Ilyushin Il-62M parked at Yakutsk Airport in 1998.
AirlinesDestinations
AeroflotMoscow-Sheremetyevo
Aeroflot
operated by Aurora		Vladivostok[5]
Alrosa Mirny Air EnterpriseLensk, Mirny
Angara AirlinesIrkutsk,[6] Novosibirsk[6]
Polar Airlines Batagay, Belaya Gora, Cherskiy, Chokurdakh, Deputatskiy, Irkutsk, Lensk, Moma, Nyurba, Olekminsk, Olenek, Sakkyryr, Saskylakh, Srednekolymsk, Suntar, Tiksi, Ust-Kuyga, Ust-Maya, Ust-Nera, Verkhnevilyuisk, Vilyuisk, Zyryanka
Nordwind Airlines Charter: Nha Trang
S7 AirlinesBeijing-Capital, Irkutsk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk
VIM Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Yakutia Airlines Blagoveschensk, Cherskiy, Chita,[7] Harbin, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Seoul-Incheon, Magadan, Mirny, Moscow-Vnukovo, Neryungri, Novosibirsk, Saint Petersburg, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg
Seasonal: Anapa,[8] Krasnodar,[9] Omsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Sochi, Tokyo-Narita
Seasonal charter: Qinhuangdao

Accidents and incidents

Before 1992, Aeroflot had monopoly on Soviet domestic flights, and had a lot of accidents. At least a dozen deadly accidents happened on or near Yakutsk. See Aeroflot accidents and incidents.

References

  1. ↑ Airport information for UEEE at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. ↑ Airport information for Yakutsk Airport at Search (for) Travel website.
  3. ↑ Boeing-conducted Airport safety and operational assessments
  4. ↑ New Cross-Polar Routes
  5. ↑ "Summer timetable Vladivostok Air". Vladivostok Air. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  6. 1 2 "РАСПИСАНИЕ" (PDF). Angara Airlines. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Авиакомпания "Якутия" восстанавливает авиаперелеты в Читу". ОАО "Авиакомпания "Якутия". Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Открыта продажа билетов на рейс 469/470 Якутск-Анапа-Якутск". Yakutia Airlines. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Открыта продажа билетов на рейс 455/456 Якутск-Краснодар-Якутск". Yakutia Airlines. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  10. ↑ Hradecky, Simon. "Accident: Yakutia AN24 at Yakutsk on Feb 4th 2010, rejected takeoff, presumably early gear retraction". Aviation Herald. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
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