Oral Ak Zhol Airport

Oral Ak Zhol
IATA: URA – ICAO: UARR URA Location of airport in Kazakhstan
Summary
Airport type		Public
Location		Oral, Kazakhstan
Elevation AMSL		125 ft / 38 m
Coordinates		51°9′6″N 051°32′42″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
04/22	7,874	2,400	Concrete

Domestic departure and arrivals terminal

International departure and arrivals terminal

Oral Ak Zhol Airport (also given in Soviet years as Uralsk Ak Zhol and Podstepnyy) (IATA: URA, ICAO: UARR) is an airport in Kazakhstan located 12 km southeast of Oral. It is a small airport servicing medium-sized airliners. It has parking for 4 jets. This airport has two terminals - domestic and international. The airport also serves nearby town of Aksai which in fact provides the majority of Ak Zhol passenger traffic being a "capital" of gas industry in West Kazakhstan.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Air Astana	Astana, Atyrau
Bek Air	Almaty, Astana (starts feb. 2012), Atyrau (starts feb. 2012), Aktau (starts feb. 2012)
Euro-Asia Air	Seasonal: Dubai, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
SCAT	Aktau, Astana Seasonal: Antalya
Transaero Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Coyne Airways	Tbilisi
Silk Way Airlines	Baku

Ground transport

Bus

The No 12 municipal bus line connects Ak Zhol International airport with centrally located Uralsk train station. Service is available from 06:00 to 22:00 daily.

Taxi

There is always a queue of available private taxi cabs at the airport parking lot.

Accidents and incidents

On 15 April 2006 a British Airways Boeing 747 operating as flight number BA10 from Sydney to London via Bangkok with 354 passengers and 18 crew made an emergency landing at Uralsk Airport after a fire warning light went on in the cockpit. Although the only airport's landing strip is certified for operation of medium sized aircraft the crew managed to perform landing safely. There were no fatalities or reportable injuries. As the 747 was deemed too heavy for take-off a smaller size aircraft were sent to ferry the passengers to London.

On August 28 2009 an Itek Air Boeing-737-200 en route from Bishkek to Moscow performed an emergency landing due to oil leak on the port engine.