Tbilisi International Airport (IATA: TBS) (ICAO: UGTB), is 17km southeast of the city centre. A new, modern terminal was inaugurated on February 7, 2007. George W. Bush Avenue leads from the airport to downtown Tbilisi.
The following airlines operate service to/from Tbilisi:
Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil, Odessa),
airBaltic (Riga),
Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv),
Austrian Airlines (Vienna),
Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku),
Belavia (Minsk),
bmi (London-Heathrow),
Czech Airlines (Prague),
Donbassaero (Donetsk),
Dniproavia (Dnepropetrovsk),
Euroline (Almaty, Donetsk, Dubai, Kharkiv, Odessa, Vilnius)
Georgian Airways (Amsterdam, Athens, Dubai, Kiev-Boryspil, Minsk, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tel Aviv, Vienna),
LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw),
Lufthansa (Munich),
Pegasus Airlines (Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen),
SCAT (Aktau),
Sky Georgia (Batumi, Antalya),
TAM Air (Donetsk, Kharkiv),
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk), and
Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
Bus #37 leaves from the right corner of the arrival area every 15-30 minutes, between 8:00 and 23:00 to the city center. It travels via Freedom Square, Rustaveli, Republic Square and Tamar Bridge, to the main train station (Vagzal). The trip can take up to 50 minutes. The fare is 0.50 GEL.
Taxis between the airport and the city cost 20-25 Lari. Negotiate the price beforehand because meters are not used.
Trains from the airport to the main train station cost 2 GEL and are fast. The train runs only 6 or 7 times a day but the trips are synchronized with flight arrivals so it's worth to check the schedule.
If you are traveling to/from Mestia, there are flights available 5 days per week for 75 lari. You can reserve tickets in the Courtyard Mariott on Freedom Square from 9am-1pm in the Pegasus airlines office. Note that flights to and from Mestia are cancelled at least 50% of the time due to weather in the mountains; as a result, it's not recommendable to fly to Mestia soon before an international departure.
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