Baikonur Krayniy International Airport guide

Baikonur Krayniy Airport (IATA: BXY, ICAO: UAOL) serves the Baikonur cosmodrome and the city of Baikonur in southern Kazakhstan. It sits on the right bank of the Syr Darya river at site 15A of the cosmodrome, about 6 km west of the city, at an elevation of 100 m. The airfield is part of the Baikonur complex, which Russia leases from Kazakhstan until 2050, and it is listed in Russia's State Register of Civil Airfields.

The airport has a single asphalt runway, 05/23, 3,100 m long. It is a Class B aerodrome able to take the Il-76, subject to weight and daily movement limits, along with the Tu-154, Airbus A310, Airbus A320 and lighter aircraft including helicopters. Taxiway 3 is 18 m wide; taxiways 1, 2, 4 and 5 are temporarily out of use pending reconstruction.

No passenger statistics are published. The airport handles charter passenger and cargo-passenger flights, mainly to Moscow and occasionally to other Russian and Kazakh cities. Kazakhstan's Civil Aviation Committee has stated there were never regular Moscow-Baikonur flights; Alrosa's charters ended in December 2018, and irregular flights for Baikonur staff by Alrosa and Nord Star Airlines continued into 2019.