Baku, Azerbaijan, April 17
By Ali Mustafayev - Trend:
Turkmenistan Airlines plans to soon launch Ashgabat-Milan-Ashgabat, Ashgabat-Tbilisi-Ashgabat and Ashgabat-Tehran-Ashgabat regular flights at the Ashgabat International Airport, SNG.Today website reported.
Aircraft of Turkmenistan Airlines perform regular flights to 17 cities of 12 countries of Europe and Asia, as well as domestic flights in Turkmenistan, according to the website.
Various types of aircraft of the US Boeing company are used by Turkmenistan Airlines for domestic and international flights.
International flights are carried out from the Ashgabat International Airport, which is the main airport of Turkmenistan.
The airport has all the conditions for logistics and multimodal transportation, there are modern warehouses for storage, processing and distribution of export-import goods. This warehouse infrastructure allows servicing both domestic cargo and cargo passing through Turkmenistan.
The airport has two terminals and can serve more than 2,000 passengers per hour and more than 17 million people per year.
The cargo terminal in the airport is capable of processing 200,000 tons of cargo per year.
Ashgabat International Airport also has a technical center for servicing aircraft, which will allow servicing simultaneously five narrow-body and three wide-body aircraft. Once the technical center is commissioned, new forms of service will become possible at the airport.
The airport has two runways with all the necessary infrastructure, their length is 3,800 meters each.