Tashkent International Airport
Tashkent · Uzbekistan · Asia/Samarkand
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Tashkent's airport traces back to a 1924 flight along the Tashkent–Pishpek–Almaty route and grew through the Soviet era into Central Asia's principal aviation gateway. It gained jet service in the late 1950s, hosted a landmark Tu-144 supersonic demonstration flight in 1972, and since Uzbekistan's independence has served as the hub of national carrier Uzbekistan Airways. It was renamed in 2017 to honor the country's first president.
On 12 May 1924 the first passenger flight, a Junkers R-13, is completed along the Tashkent–Pishpek–Almaty route, an early step toward regular air links to the city.
On 8 August 1930 the first regular air link connects Moscow with Tashkent, tying the city into the Soviet Union's growing civil aviation network.
Following the introduction of jet aircraft service in 1957 and new radar and landing systems, the airport achieves Class I international airport status.
On 20 September 1972 the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 flies the Moscow–Tashkent–Moscow route at roughly 2,500 km/h, covering the distance in one hour fifty minutes.
Newly formed national carrier Uzbekistan Airways (established 28 January 1992) operates its first international flight from Tashkent to London, making the airport its main hub.
A new domestic terminal, Terminal 3, opens with capacity for around 400 passengers per hour, supplementing the rebuilt international Terminal 2.
On 25 January 2017 the airport is renamed in honor of Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's first president after independence (in office 1991–2016).
The international terminal area grows by nearly 50% (from 45,000 to 65,000 m²) with reconstruction completed in August 2024, while annual traffic reaches about 8.7 million passengers, up 28% year-on-year.
General encyclopedic sources (Wikipedia and airport/city government pages), cross-checked across multiple queries. TIME-SENSITIVE FLAGS: (1) 2024 passenger figures and the 2024 terminal-reconstruction completion are recent and may be superseded by newer data; (2) a 2023 warehouse fire near the airport was reported but details (cause, scale, operational impact) could not be independently confirmed and are omitted from milestones pending better sourcing; (3) as with other Central Asian hubs, regional airspace routing patterns have shifted since the Russia–Ukraine war began in 2022, which is relevant context for evaluating current route networks but was not found explicitly documented for Tashkent specifically.