Tbilisi International Airport

UGTB / TBS

Description

Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport, located 17 kilometers southeast of the Georgian capital, is the country's major airport, serving more than 3.5 million passengers a year. The airport has cargo and passenger flights connecting Georgia with the cities of Europe and Asia.

In 2007, the airport complex was reconstructed, including the construction of a new passenger terminal. In 2018, part of the apron was reconstructed to increase the number of parking lots. The complex includes one operating runway, 4 aprons and 2 passenger terminals.

The airport is able to serve all aircraft except the Airbus A380, which helps to increase passenger flow and attract new airlines to the air harbor.

Features

The stand and taxiing instructions to the apron for arriving aircraft are issued by the Tower. The taxiing route to the holding short is issued in two stages: taxiing on the apron from the Apron, taxiing on taxiways from the Tower.

Before taxiing the aircraft crew is required to request an ATC departure clearence. ATC Clearence is to be requested not earlier than 10 minutes before the engines start. Lining up and take-off is allowed only with the permission of the Tower Controller. TWYs B, C and E can be used by all aircraft without restrictions. Aircraft are allowed to perform a 180-degree turn on taxiway E at the intersection with the RWY 13L/31R. Aircraft with a code of D and higher are allowed to perform a 180-degree turn on the RWY 13R/31L at the threshold of 13R and at the intersection with taxiway E.

Stands 100-111 and 112-122 are used for aircraft de-icing. Taxiing from stands 1 and 8 is allowed only by towing for all aircraft with a code that exceeds code B. Taxiing out of parking lot 14C is allowed only with low thrust. TWY A can be used by aircraft with a code not exceeding code C. On apron taxiway C taxi speed should not exceed 15 knots.

In the Tbilisi-Approach area of responsibility (on arrival and departure routes) below 10,000 feet the crew must maintain a speed of no more than 250 knots, unless otherwise prescribed by the controller. When using radar surveillance, the horizontal separation minimum is 5 nautical miles.

Aircrafts capeble of RNAV1 flights on arrival follow RNAV STAR or are redirected to IAF or any intermediate point on STAR and use ILS Z or LOC Z. The crew must immediately notify the controller about equipment failure or the inability to fly further on RNAV1. Aircraft not allowed to operate on RNAV1 are vectorized or directed to IAF TBS for ILS Y or LOC Y.

Aircraft capeble of RNAV1 flights, when departing, follow the RNAV SID or the conventional SID if there is no RNAV SID. Aircraft aprroved for RNAV1 operations are to follow runway heading after take-off and further vectors to exit the Approach area. In this case, the crew must maintain a climb gradient of more than 5.4% up to 7000 feet when departing at heading 310 or 3.9% to 4500 feet when departing heading 130.

For VFR flights, two-way communication must be maintained at all times in the approach controller's area of responsibility. The frequency change to the tower controller is below an altitude of 3500 feet at points CHIVA (over the highway bridge of the Tbilisi bypass road), URBAN (over the mines), GIGOS (north of Gabardani village), RINGI (over Lake Kumisi).

Weather

Management

Grigori Badalov *

Location

Region

Caucasus

FIR

Tbilisi*

APT coordinates

41.66920, 44.95470 

Elevation

1624 ft / ≈495 m

Runways information

ATC positions