Beslan Airport ( os, Аэропорт Беслӕн, russian: Аэропорт Беслан) , also known as Vladikavkaz International Airport ( os, Æхсæнадæмон аэропорт Дзæуджыхъæу, russian: Международный аэропорт Владикавказ), is a civilian airport in

North Ossetia–Alania The Republic of North Ossetia–Alania; os, Республикӕ Цӕгат Ирыстон — Алани, ''Respublikæ Cægat Iryston — Alani'', ) is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. Its population acco ...

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located northeast of

Beslan Beslan (russian: Бесла́н; os, Беслӕн, ''Beslæn'', ) is a town and the administrative center of Pravoberezhny District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, located about north of the republic's capital Vladikavkaz, ...

and from

Vladikavkaz Vladikavkaz (russian: Владикавка́з, , os, Дзæуджыхъæу, translit=Dzæwdžyqæw, ;), formerly known as Ordzhonikidze () and Dzaudzhikau (), is the capital city of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia. It is located i ...

. It is a small airport servicing medium-sized airliners. It has parking places for five large aircraft and nine smaller ones. In 2017, 349,684 passengers transited in this airport. The airport has two terminals, one domestic and one international. The international terminal serves occasional charter flights to

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) and a few other destinations. The airport’s operational hours are from 09h00 to 20h00 ( UTC+03:00). On 18 November 2008, the airport was certified to service the

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. This type of aircraft will replace the

Tupolev Tu-154 The Tupolev Tu-154 (russian: Tyполев Ту-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian ...

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services to Moscow-Domodedovo. The A319 is ideal for flights to Vladikavkaz because it exerts an acceptable load on the runway during takeoff and landing compared to the

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, which type was banned from the airport in 2007.

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

Beslan Airport official website
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