Gomel Airport Аэрапорт Гомель Аэропорт Гомель | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Gomel | ||||||||||
| Location | Gomel District | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 472 ft / 144 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°31′37″N31°01′00″E / 52.52694°N 31.01667°E /52.52694; 31.01667 | ||||||||||
| Website | airportgme | ||||||||||
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  GME Location of airport in Belarus | |||||||||||
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Gomel Airport (IATA:GME,ICAO:UMGG) is an airport located 3 km north-east fromGomel, the second-largest city inBelarus. It was opened in 1968.
Since the mid-1950s, regular flights to Minsk and Kiev from the old Gomel airport to remote regional centers of the region, and sanitary and agricultural aviation were also based here. In 1968, the current airport was built with a concrete runway, to which An-24 was the first to land.
Gomel airport was a hub ofGomelavia Airlines, which ceased operations on 22 February 2011 due to bankruptcy.
From 25 July 2011 Belarusianflag carrier,Belavia, started serving flights fromGomel toKaliningrad during summer seasons once again.
Besides Belarusian air companies,Latvian flag carrierAirBaltic had served flights betweenGomel andRiga in 2006, but this destination has been defunct ever since.
In summer 2014, Belavia started to carry out new charter flights from Gomel toThessaloniki andBurgas. Flights toKaliningrad since summer 2014 have a stopover atMinsk National Airport.[1]
During the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Gomel Airport was used by the Russian military for military purposes, including launching air strikes against Ukraine, as evidenced by a video released by theRussian Ministry of Defence.[2]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Belavia | Moscow–Sheremetyevo,[3]Moscow–Vnukovo,[4]Saint Petersburg[5] Seasonal charter:Antalya,[6]Sharm El Sheikh[7] |
Suburban bus route from airport to Gomel central bus station goes once a day in both directions
Media related toHomel Airport at Wikimedia Commons
