Manas International Airport
Description:
Manas International Airport is located northwest of the city of Bishek, Kyrgyzstan. It received its name in honor of one of the heroes of the Kyrgyz epic, and the initiator of this was Chingiz Amatov, a writer. On the territory of this airport is a US Air Force base.
The construction of Manas Airport was completed in 1974, and in October one of the first Il-62 aircraft landed here. Since 1975, regular flights to Moscow have been established. By 1981, all the functions of the old capital airport were transferred to Manas.
According to the ICAO classification, this airport was classified as “4E”, that is, it is capable of receiving any type of aircraft. The area of the apron is 242,000 square meters, where there are 38 parking lots for aircraft and 2 ladders. The airport has a large waiting room and its own weather station.
Passenger traffic of the airport in 2012 was 1,056,000 people. The main destinations are Batken, Almaty, Dushanbe, Jalal-Abad, Isfana, Yekaterinburg, Mashhad, Kazan and Novosibirsk.
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