Osh International Airport

Osh International Airport (OSS) serves the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan and is the principal aviation gateway to the Fergana Valley, the densely populated, multi-ethnic heart of Central Asia. Sited at 2,927 ft (892 m) in the southern Kyrgyz lowlands where the valley meets the foothills of the Pamir-Alay, it is Kyrgyzstan's second-busiest airport after Manas (FRU) and a critical link for the country's southern provinces. The airport operates a long asphalt runway capable of handling narrow-body jet operations and, with seasonal restrictions, some widebody traffic. Before recent fleet changes Aeroflot, S7, Air Manas, Avia Traffic, Pegasus and flydubai operated routes linking Osh to Moscow, St Petersburg, Istanbul, Dubai, Almaty and a wide set of Russian Federation cities carrying the region's large migrant-worker population. Domestic services to Bishkek (FRU) form the backbone of the airport's schedule, running multiple times a day on Boeing 737 and Airbus A320-family equipment. On Central Asian airport tables OSS is classified as a large airport by runway capability and network breadth, distinguished by its role as the main air corridor between southern Kyrgyzstan and Russia and Turkey. The city of Osh itself – over 3,000 years old, home to the UNESCO-listed Sulaiman-Too sacred mountain and one of Central Asia's largest bazaars – gives the airport a combined tourism, religious and labour-migration traffic base. Its position near the Uzbek and Tajik borders also makes it strategically important for regional crisis response and for Kyrgyz economic integration with the Fergana Valley.