Turkmenbaşy International Airport guide

Türkmenbaşy International Airport sits on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan's Balkan Region. It serves the port city of Türkmenbaşy, the Awaza resort zone and the town of Garabogaz. Its ICAO code is UTAK. The field was known as Krasnovodsk Airport in the Soviet period and first opened in 1959.

The present airport was built by the Turkish contractor Polimeks under a contract signed in December 2007 and received its first four international flights on 12 April 2010. The terminal is four storeys high and handles up to 800 passengers per hour. A VIP terminal serves charter, business aviation and government delegations, and a separate international cargo terminal has an automated handling system. A 61 metre control tower stands beside the apron.

Two parallel concrete runways are published in the Turkmenistan AIP: 16R/34L at 3,500 metres and 16L/34R at 2,500 metres. A 22 kilometre motorway opened in 2010 links the airport with Awaza, and buses run between the airport, Awaza and Türkmenbaşy. The modernised international airport entered operation on 30 July 2025. Turkmenistan Airlines flies to Ashgabat, and Belavia has flown to Minsk since October 2022. Turkmenistan Airlines also runs cargo flights to Ashgabat, Daşoguz and Mary.