Nakhchivan International Airport

{{Short description|Airport in Azerbaijan}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox airport

| name = Nakhchivan International Airport

| nativename = {{smaller|{{lang|az|Naxçıvan Hava Limanı}}}}

| image = Naj.jpg

| image-width = 255

| IATA = NAJ

| ICAO = UBBN

| type = Public / Military

| owner = Government of Azerbaijan

| operator =

| city-served = Nakhchivan

| location = Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

| elevation-f = 2,863

| elevation-m = 873

| coordinates = {{coord|39|11|19|N|045|27|30|E|region:AZ_type:airport}}

| website ={{URL|airportnakhchivan.com}}

| pushpin_map = Azerbaijan#West Asia#Asia#Europe

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

| pushpin_label=NAJ/UBBN

| r1-number = 14R/32L

| r1-length-f = 10,826

| r1-length-m = 3,300

| r1-surface = Concrete

| metric-rwy = y

| stat1-header = Passengers

| stat1-data = 526,155

| stat-year = 2014

| footnotes = Source: DAFIF,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061932/http://www.worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?airport=UBBN Airport information for UBBN]}} from DAFIF (effective October 2006){{GCM|NAJ|source=DAFIF}} ACI's 2014 World Airport Traffic Report.

| r2-number = 14L/32R

| r2-length-m = 3,300

| r2-length-f = 10,826

| r2-surface = Asphalt

| stat2-header = Passenger change 13–14

| stat2-data = {{increase}}4.9%

| stat3-header = Aircraft movements

| stat3-data = 4,224

| stat4-header = Movements change 13–14

| stat4-data = {{increase}}5.6%

}}

Nakhchivan International Airport ({{langx|az|Naxçıvan Beynəlxalq Hava Limanı}}) {{airport codes|NAJ|UBBN}} is a civilian airport and Azeri military airbase located in Nakhchivan, the capital of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan. The airport was built in the 1970s.{{cite web |url=http://www.azal.az/about/azerbaijan-airports |title=Azerbaijan Airports |accessdate=2015-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413140236/http://www.azal.az/about/azerbaijan-airports |archivedate=13 April 2015 }}

Facilities

The airport is at an elevation of {{convert|2863|ft|0}} above mean sea level. It has two runways: 14R/32L with a concrete surface measuring {{convert|3300|x|45|m|0}} and 14L/32R with an asphalt surface measuring {{convert|3300|x|42|m|0}}.

Airlines and destinations

{{Airport-dest-list

|AJet | Ganja (begins {{date|2025-6-3}}), Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen (begins {{date|2025-6-3}}){{cite news |last1=Liu |first1=Jim |title=AJet Boosts Azerbaijan Network From June 2025 |url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/250321-vfns25az |access-date=21 March 2025 |work=AeroRoutes |date=21 March 2025 |language=en-CA}}

|Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku, Ganja

|Turkish Airlines | Istanbul{{Cite journal|author=|journal=OAG Flight Guide Worldwide|title=November 2023|volume=25|issue=5|publisher=OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited|publication-place=Luton, United Kingdom|issn=1466-8718|language=en|pages=463–470}}

|Utair | Moscow–Vnukovo

}}

Statistics

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|+ Traffic by calendar year. Official ACI Statistics

style="width:50px"|style="width:100px"| Passengersstyle="width:50px"| Change from previous yearstyle="width:100px"| Aircraft operationsstyle="width:50px"| Change from previous yearstyle="width:125px"| Cargo
(metric tons)
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2012

|426,848 || N.D. || 3,685 || N.D. || 1,293 || N.D.

2013

|501,690 || {{increase}}17.53% || 4,000 || {{increase}} 8.55% || 1,629 || {{increase}}25.99%

2014

|526,155 || {{increase}} 4.88% || 4,224 || {{increase}} 5.60% || 1,342 || {{decrease}}17.62%

colspan="7" style="text-align:left;"| Source: Airports Council International. World Airport Traffic Reports
(Years 2012,[http://leea.recherche.enac.fr/Bdd/AirTraffic2012.pdf Airport Council International]'s 2012 World Airport Traffic Report 2013,[http://leea.recherche.enac.fr/Bdd/WorldwideAirTraffic2013.pdf Airport Council International]'s 2013 World Airport Traffic Report and 2014[http://haminfo-terminal.com/grafiken/WorldwideAirTraffic2014.pdf Airport Council International]'s 2014 World Airport Traffic Report)

See also

References

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