Tashkent International Airport

Tashkent International Airport (TAS), officially Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport, is Uzbekistan's largest airport and the main aviation gateway to Central Asia. The facility sits just 12 km (7 mi) south of Tashkent's city centre at an elevation of 1,417 ft (432 m), an unusually close-in location made possible by the city's Soviet-era master plan. It operates two terminals - Terminal 2 for international flights and Terminal 3 for domestic services - and serves as the primary hub for flag carrier Uzbekistan Airways. The airport connects 55 routes to 45 destinations across 23 airlines (2026), reflecting Tashkent's revived role as a Silk Road crossroads. Non-stop links reach Istanbul, Seoul-Incheon, Dubai, Frankfurt, Moscow, Delhi, Beijing and New York JFK, with Uzbekistan Airways operating one of the most geographically ambitious route networks of any Central Asian carrier. Data Coming Soon for runway dimensions, but the main strip historically supports Boeing 787 and Airbus A330 operations. A 2018 visa-liberalisation programme and Uzbekistan's tourism push around Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva have driven double-digit passenger growth, and a new greenfield terminal by Incheon International Airport Corporation is under construction to raise capacity toward 20 million annual passengers. Beyond tourism, TAS anchors a significant air-cargo operation built around Uzbekistan Airways Cargo's Boeing 767F fleet, which uses Tashkent as a trans-Eurasian freight relay between China and Europe. The current Terminal 2, opened in 2001 with a distinctive blue-glass facade, processes roughly 4.5 million passengers a year - more than double its original design capacity - while Terminal 3 handles rising domestic flows to Samarkand, Bukhara, Urgench and Nukus. Tashkent's location at the junction of five post-Soviet republics also makes TAS an important transit point for Central Asian labour migration to Russia, Turkey and the Gulf.