The FINANCIAL — According to Burak Birhekimoglum, the General Manager of TAV Georgia, operating Tbilisi International Airport, the passengers’ total quantity was grown by 8, 5 % in 2007 compared to the previous year.
The amount of cargo transportation flights grew by 18, 7 %. And totally 12 706 international flights were made during 2007.
Tbilisi International Airport is a main international airport in Georgia located near the capital Tbilisi. In February 2007, the reconstruction project was finished. The implementing agency and the borrower for the project is TAV Urban Georgia, a concessionaire and SPV for the construction and operation of Tbilisi International Airport.
“The construction process of Tbilisi International Airport new terminal began in January, 2006. In the previous year the company has already finished reconstruction of Batumi airport. Both projects were financed by Turkish investors and totally the investment amount consisted US$ 100 millions. Tbilisi International Airport’s new terminal was officially opened in the previous year and it became a visit card of Georgia. The company satisfies international standards”, Thea Tabidze, PR Specialist of TAV Georgia declared to The Financial.
“New terminal is a guarantee of rapid growth of Georgia’s civil aviation, with its modern architecture and high function technologies”, Burak Birhekimoglum declares.
New terminal serves more than 2, 8 millions of passengers, besides Tbilisi new international airport can provide 11 air-planes at the same time and get 1 500 and 2 000 passengers in an hour.
“In the limit of this project new flight tracks were reconstructed. 160 cameras were mounted
The Tbilisi International Airport is a product of a contemporary and functional design, boasting high technology. The airport, designed to provide the optimum flow of both passengers and luggage from the parking lot to the planes with a 25,000 square meter total usable area has the ability and flexibility to easily facilitate future expansions without interrupting terminal operations”, Tabidze says.
“In the upcoming twenty years, Tbilisi International Airport will be governed by TAV Georgia. This is the first Turkish Company, which not only constructed it but operates it”.
Today more conformability is created for passengers who are eager to get to the city centre. A passenger can travel by a new train and its price is accessible for average clients. The ticket costs GEL 3. Passengers who are not eager to travel with a public transport they can hire tax and it will cost a passenger GEL 25. The price is standard and the drivers do not do discounts for their customers as a rule.
Four café bars are operating in the hall of the airport: T & G, Cappadocia, Beer Port, and Burger City. Minimal anount of money to have a lunch at this cafe is GEL 20.
Georgian International airport serves 15 airlines: AirBaltic (Riga), Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv), Armavia (Yerevan) [seasonal], Austrian Airlines (Vienna), Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku), Belavia (Minsk), bmi (London-Heathrow), Czech Airlines (Prague) [starts 23 April 2008], DonbassAero (Donetsk) , Georgian Airways (Amsterdam, Athens, Batumi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Kiev-Boryspil, Minsk, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tel Aviv, Vienna), Georgian National Airlines (Almaty, Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev-Boryspil, Kiev-Zhulhany, Odessa), Lufthansa (Munich), Tbilaviamsheni ( Kiev-Boryspil, Tashkent), Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk), Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil), UM Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
“Georgian International Airport continues the negitiations of attracting other leading European and Azian Air Companies. TAV Georgia tries to implemet its international standards in Georgian aviation industry. The company sucsesfuly continues its work in Turkey, Libya, Dubai, Tunis.” Tabidze said.
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