Flights from Batumi. Batumi Airport: how to get to the center by taxi and bus Batumi Airport schedule of international flights

international Airport Batumi is located on the edge of the city, 6 km from the center, has international status and is named after Alexander Kartveli. A small one-story building, without the usual terminals and long transitions from one end to the other. Upon arrival, the plane taxis directly to the entrance from the runway. Inside there is everything necessary for tourists: a waiting room, several currency exchanges, car rental in Georgia, a cafe, a tourist center and Tax Free returns.

After you get off the plane, you find yourself in the building of the Batumi airport, then a corridor to the left, at the end of which the first exchange office is located. After it, everyone lines up to complete the paperwork. While registration is taking place, through the large windows you can see luggage being brought from the plane on a trolley, which is carefully inspected for several minutes by the four-legged guard of the Georgian customs. Stamps in international passports are placed in two windows, by this time the suitcases are already spinning on the conveyor belt.

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Online display of Batumi airport - flight schedule

It is convenient to track the schedule of departures and arrivals of planes at Batumi airport on online scoreboard. It receives it in real time actual information, displaying all flights expected for today and tomorrow. The time zone is set according to Georgian time, where at any time of the year it is 1 hour more than in Moscow or Minsk.

The official website of Batumi airport has its own arrivals and departures schedule board, but it is English language and shows much less data in a slightly jumbled way. Therefore, I recommend using the option proposed above, where everything is clear and in Russian.

Cheap plane tickets to Batumi

Before going on vacation, many people wonder where and how to find chip flights to Batumi on direct flights? IN modern world you no longer need to call all airlines or study the websites of each of them; for this purpose, special services have been invented that every second automatically scan all existing offers on the market and display them in a structured form, sorted by prices and other parameters.

Here is an example of the largest and most popular service for finding cheap plane tickets. The table below shows the minimum cost of a flight in a certain month; by clicking on it, the lowest prices by day will be displayed; by clicking on the desired day, you will see the price offers of all airlines. Having found a suitable option, buy it online in any convenient way.

Don't be afraid of overpaying this service receives its commission from the carrier's profit and does not charge a penny from above.

Calendar low prices for air tickets

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What is and what is not at Batumi airport

The airport infrastructure, due to its tiny size, is ready to provide customers with only the necessary range of services:

• currency exchange - there are 4 in the building exchange offices- 1 each in the arrival and departure areas, and 2 in the main hall. The course there is only slightly inferior to the offers in the city center. There is also a 24-hour ATM where you can cash out lari from a plastic card, converting them from any foreign currency, and a payment terminal;
• free wi-fi - does not require registration and works with any mobile operator. The connection can be very unstable and constantly falls off;
• tourist center - an employee in Russian will answer any questions, help you call a taxi free of charge or call your hotel if necessary, issue brochures free of charge and tourist map Adjara. Out of season it works only during the day, but you can take out cards yourself at any time of the day;
• packing suitcases in film will cost about $6;
• car rental in Batumi;
• a small cafe with 5 tables, a coffee machine and a tray with churchkhela;
• counter for issuing free SIM cards of the Georgian mobile operator "Geocell" and "Beeline";
• a souvenir shop with a corresponding set of goods in the form of magnets, plates and other memorabilia with Georgian attributes;
• waiting room - 32 chairs opposite the ticket office;
• Tax Free - tax free refunds are made inside the building, to the right of the entrance, as indicated by the corresponding sign. You present the receipts and the goods in the original packaging to the customs officer, he puts a mark, and you receive the money after registration;
• Parking is paid - staying there costs around $1 per day. Free - if you don’t get to the main entrance 50 meters away, you can park your car along the sidewalk for free;
• Duty Free at Batumi Airport is available only to departing passengers and operates 24 hours a day. They sell perfumes, cigarettes, cosmetics, sweets and alcoholic drinks. Prices are high.

Keep in mind that in low tourist season at night and even during the day between aircraft arrivals/departures, the vast majority of booths providing the above-described services are simply empty.

Where to change money

At Batumi Airport there is 1 private currency exchange, 3 branches of Georgian banks, an ATM and a payment terminal. The exchange rate there is only slightly inferior to the city one and by changing $20-50 you will lose practically nothing, there is no commission.

If you have arrived and more than one exchanger is not working, but you urgently need lari here and now, then there are 2 options:

1. Take a taxi and ask the taxi driver to come change money. If he himself offers to do this, then the exchange rate will probably be too much in his favor, so ask to stop at a profitable exchanger. There is no need to be afraid that they will drive you into a gateway and take all your money - such a scenario is difficult to imagine in Georgia.
2. We leave the airport, walk straight ahead to the first traffic light, 250 meters, turn right and walk along the road for another 100-150 meters, although the course there will not be so great.

In general, there is no urgent need to change money immediately upon arrival, only if you are planning to travel by bus, but more on this below. To provide travel for 4 people, $0.5 is enough; a 24-hour ATM, which also accepts Russian plastic cards, will help you with this.

How to get from Batumi airport to the city center

There are several ways to get to your destination: transfer, taxi, bus, your own feet and hospitable hosts who will meet you in their car. Let's look at all the options below, including moving to distant resorts, such as Sarpi, Kobuleti, Ureki and others.

Taxi

Taking a taxi to Batumi from the airport can be cheap or expensive. The fact is that local private drivers are always on duty at the site in front of the entrance. Upon arrival of the plane, they become more active and offer their services to all tourists leaving. Everyone has the same fee to the center - $8-10, depending on the season. When most of the arrivals leave, they reduce the price tag by about $2, then nothing further. This is an expensive taxi, designed for people who are ignorant or in a hurry.

A cheap taxi from the airport to Batumi will cost 2.5-3.5 times cheaper. The local equivalent of Uber travels at these rates; on their website you can download a mobile application in Russian in advance for anyone mobile phone and use it to call a car upon arrival or do it directly through the website using free Wi-Fi. The line operates predominantly Toyota Priuses.

In the "From" column, click on the map icon and mark your current location. In the “Where” column, similarly, mark your destination. To ensure that your order is accepted, an SMS with a code will be sent to your phone number. By default, the code of Georgian cellular operators is indicated, but it can be replaced with any other, the main thing is that you are roaming and can receive SMS if you are in Georgia.

If you do not plan to switch to roaming, then “TaxiMaxim” can be called while still at home by clicking “Options” and selecting “Pre-order” and specifying the desired time and date. Also in the lower right corner of the site there is Telegram bot and Viber chat, where you can also call a taxi via the Internet.

To avoid wasting time, place your order while standing in line for paperwork.

If you are planning to vacation in Gonio ($4), Kvariati ($5), Sarpi ($6), Chakvi ($7), Kobuleti ($11) or Ureki ($17), then through this application you will easily find the right one for you carrier at a very reasonable price.

Transfer

Suppose you arrive big company and you need a roomy car, or you have dreamed all your life that a person with a sign with your name would meet you at the airport, or a mandatory condition is the presence of a child seat in the cabin, or maybe you just don’t like taxis. In this case, we pay attention to any place, for example, Kobuleti, Ureki, or maybe even Tbilisi.

Bus

The bus stop is located right next to the main entrance to the airport building. It stands there electronic scoreboard, showing how many minutes later the next bus will leave. In total, there are 3 buses from this stop to Batumi - No. 9, No. 10 and 10A. They are equipped with GPS beacons and it is convenient to monitor their current location on a special website - select the desired route number and see in real time where the bus is currently traveling.

Previously, you could buy a ticket from the conductor, but in 2019 they were completely abolished, introducing special plastic cards with a balance. You can use one card with at least ten people, the main thing is to swipe it through the validator 10 times and you will have to leave together. Traveling one person any distance will cost 30 tetri. Unfortunately, you cannot buy such a card separately at the airport; tourist center only a special set is sold for 10 GEL: plastic (3 GEL will be on the account), a Beeline SIM card (1 GEL on the account) and a rather thick discount book that provides discounts on visiting restaurants, cafes and much more.

Bus number 9 immediately turns into the city and travels through the center to the far edge seaport. The route passes through Bagrationi, Javakhishvili, Griboyedov, Gorgiladze, Naikolos Baratashvili, Gogebashvili streets, past the bus station on the street. Shevshetskaya, through Mayakovsky, Gogol and turns to Katamadze. In this way, it is possible to capture both the interior areas and the central part. Opening hours: from September 15 to June 15 from 07:25 to 21:18; from June 16 to September 14 from 07:25 to 23:00.

Bus No. 10 goes straight to the sea and travels along the entire coast to Batumi botanical garden. The route passes through Lech and Maria Kaczynski, Sherif Khimshiashvili, Gogebashvili streets and Rustaveli Avenue. An ideal option for those who have booked accommodation by the sea. Opening hours: from 15.09 to 15.06 from 07:00 to 22:00; from 16.06 to 14.09 from 07:00 to 24:00.

10A has a completely similar route to No. 10, with the only difference being that it goes 3 km further towards Chakvi.

On foot

To be honest, it's not a good idea. I took a walk for the sake of experiment, because... I stayed nearby, wearing sneakers, not too hot, without luggage I walked to the sea in half an hour (2.7 km). And then you will have to stomp through the entire New Boulevard, at best, the same amount, at worst, 2 times more. You can take a shortcut and go circling through the neighborhoods, but this won’t change the weather either. This option is suitable only for those who really like to walk long distances or have rented accommodation nearby, while the rest are better off spending $3 on a taxi and having a great ride.

This is what the narrow sidewalk leading to the sea looks like; rolling a suitcase along it is still a pleasure.

Car rental in Batumi

You can rent a car at Batumi airport. A local small company with a limited fleet of cars offers them for rent at a small kiosk in the main hall. Unfortunately, I was not able to talk to them about prices, because... the employee was not on site either day or night.

Having studied the existing offers on the market, I came to the conclusion that there are 2 major players in Georgia: the first is known all over the world and works with international rental companies with its own fleet of cars, and the second offers a fleet of local companies.

1. - the most cheap prices and normal conditions, some cars are given even from 22 years old, and not from 25, like most. The company is reputable, so it maintains its brand and monitors the technical condition of its partners’ cars.
2. - the company cooperates exclusively with local companies that rent out their cars in Georgia. The rental price is approximately the same as that of the competitor above, the differences are only in the conditions and model range.

Freebies from hospitable hosts

If you have booked in advance (this applies to a lesser extent for apartments), then many owners will agree or offer to meet you at the airport upon arrival and then take you on the day of departure, even if your flight arrives late at night - this is not a problem.

Batumi Airport is located 7 km from the city center. The building is tiny, but minimum set services are present here.

✓ Services at Batumi airport

• Tourist Information Desk- If you have any questions, you can contact a consultant for help. It's free. He will help you call a taxi, call the hotel, give you a map of the city, and tell you where to change money if the exchange office at the airport is closed. You can ask him for a free Georgian SIM card (they give it to Beeline, you need a passport).

• There is no need to enter a free wifi network, password or phone number. Only wifi does not always work.

• ATM and two exchangers (may be closed at night)

• One small cafe sells coffee for 5 lari ($2) and some snacks. The cafe is closed at night.

• When you leave, you can pick up free brochures about Adjara and other regions at the information desk. The information in them is useful.

• The souvenir shop sells magnets and various small things.

• Parking - 2 GEL/day (less than $1 per day)

• There are only a few chairs in the hall, so if you arrived at night and expected to sleep at the airport until the morning, you won’t be able to do that.

Where can I change money?

There are two exchangers; no commission is charged for exchange. The exchange rate at the airport is usually unfavorable, especially if you arrived with rubles. Exchange the minimum for travel, the rest of the amount can be changed at any exchange office in Batumi, there are plenty of them in the city. Details: .

At night, exchange offices at the airport may not work. Then:

a) We withdraw money from an ATM (they charge a commission)

b) we leave the airport building, walk straight for 300-400 meters, there will be a 24-hour exchange office. Check with the information desk where the exchanger is located.

How to get from Batumi airport to the center

Transfer

If you need to go not to Batumi, but to Ureki or Kobuleti, you can order a transfer from the airport. You will be met with a sign and taken to the desired address.

Website for ordering transfers in Georgia:

Bus

We leave the airport building, on the right we see a stop and a board that says in how many minutes the bus will leave. You need to buy a ticket from the conductor.

One trip on any bus to Batumi costs 0.4 GEL(12 rubles, 0.2 $), but you can buy a ticket only for 2 trips for 0.8 lari (24 rubles/0.4 $).

Locals say that the airport still has a small highlight - at night the control tower building is beautifully illuminated and looks very picturesque.

During the day, the airport looks rather modest. Among the advantages is that beautiful views to the mountains and excellent natural landscapes, which set the mood for relaxation even during landing.

Flight schedule to Batumi airport - online scoreboard

If you just need to find out the arrival time of the plane, I advise you to use the online scoreboard on our website. The airport website also has a flight schedule, but it is not so convenient and in English.

Please note that flight arrivals and departures are based on local time. There is no changeover between summer and winter time in Georgia. Georgia lives an hour ahead of Moscow. That is, at 13:00 Moscow time in Georgia it is already 14:00.

Where is Batumi airport and how to get there?

It is very convenient that the airport is literally next to the city (). The old center is about 6 kilometers away, and the modern outskirts with high-rise buildings and restaurants are only 3 kilometers away.

If you go by time, it’s from 10 to 20 minutes, depending on traffic jams.

Transfer options to Batumi airport - from taxi to local services

There are many ways to get from the airport. We will try to consider the most profitable and popular of them:

One of the cheapest ways to get from the airport to any resort is to book a transfer in advance. There are 2 active services in Georgia:

• Local gotrip.ge. It is distinguished by low prices (often cheaper than a taxi), the ability to choose a specific driver and car, the availability of one-day tours and the absence of prepayment for most destinations.
• International - present in different countries, and therefore is already familiar to many tourists. They have very good support, but enough high prices in Georgia.

Usually, ordering a transfer in advance is much more convenient than looking for a taxi on the spot - a driver will meet you with a sign, and you won’t have to bargain with the taxi driver to bring the price down to a more or less normal price.

Batumi Airport on the map

To make it easier for you to navigate, we marked Batumi airport on the city map and plotted the route from the airport to the tourist part of Batumi on it.

How to find cheap flights to Batumi?

The easiest way to find really cheap air tickets to Batumi is to use metasearch engines like Aviasales or the low price calendar on our website.

Both of these options allow you to quickly find days when flight prices are minimal. If it is not very important to you on what day you fly and plus or minus a couple of days the weather will not change, then you can buy the cheapest tickets. We ourselves have seen cases where tickets departing in a couple of days are 2 times cheaper than average.

There is no point in looking for charters in Batumi. To our knowledge, they did not exist at the time of writing.

Our impressions of Batumi Airport

As I already wrote, the airport in Batumi is quite small, but quite modern and meets all European standards. The runway is in good condition - landing is not at all scary.

Unfortunately, taking photographs and filming on the airport territory is prohibited (even special signs are posted and employees are swearing), so it will not be possible to add many photos to the article.

Guests of sunny Batumi are greeted by a small modern airport. It is located just 7 km from the city center and bears two names at once: the official one - Alexander Kartveli (an aircraft designer of Georgian origin who built airplanes in America) and the popular one - Chorokh (this is the name of the river flowing nearby).

The design capacity of the air hub is 600 thousand people per year, in reality it serves about 500 thousand. Flights of Es Seven, Belavia, Turkish Airlines" and "Georgian Airlines" connect the air harbor with Moscow, Kiev, Minsk, Tel Aviv, seasonal flights on the wings of "Air Arabia" and "Fly Dubai" are carried out in the UAE. The only one runway designed for TU-134, Boeing-737, Airbus-320 and others.

Terminals

The only passenger terminal of Batumi Airport with 8 check-in counters is beautiful, but not very comfortable: an interesting glass dome shines overhead, but there is practically no place to sit.

Services

• restaurants and cafes
• shop
• Waiting hall
• ATMs
• vending machine
• kiosk with Georgian churchkhela
• tourist information center
• luggage packing service
• free wifi
• lounge area (for business class)
• parking

duty free shop

Online scoreboard

The schedule of all flights is available on the online arrival and departure board.

Tax Free

In the departure area on the first floor, you need to present your purchases with tags and receipts to the customs officer; he will put stamps on the latter. You can get a refund of about 15% of the money spent at the counter near the Duty Free store.

How to get to the airport

• Taxi

  In order not to go broke on this expense item, it is better not to take the cars standing at the entrance to the airport terminal building - they will ask for 20 GEL for the trip. And if you order a taxi through the app or from the city by phone - no more than 10 GEL. Prices on the page are as of August 2019.

  The city center is only 7 km away, but there are traffic jams in Batumi in the morning and evening.

• Bus

  Suitable for those who appreciate economy, arriving at any time except at night. Bus routes No. 9 and 10 run from 7:00 to 0:00 in summer and from 7:00 to 20:00 in winter.

  Route No. 9 ends in the city center; No. 10 goes along the coast to the railway station.

  The stop is located at the exit from the airport building; an electronic board on the street shows the time until the next bus arrives. The movement interval is about 25 minutes, the ticket price is 0.3 GEL. There are composters installed on the buses; it is mandatory to use them.

  Car rental at Batumi airport

  It is quite possible to transfer from an airplane seat to the wheel of a car right at Batumi airport - there is a representative office of the international rental company Sixt here. Local companies will also be happy to drive the car to the terminal exit - for an additional fee, of course.

The city of Batumi airport has international status. In the summer, many charter flights land here, taking tourists to the excellent pebble beaches. But even at other times of the year, Batumi airport, or Chorokh (as it is also called), is not empty. What regular flights does the Adjara air harbor accept, what services await the traveler in the terminal and how to get to the city? Read about all this below.

Where is Batumi air harbor located?

The airport is located just two kilometers southwest of the city center. Batumi is located quite close to the border with Turkey. Thus, the city of Artvin lies only twenty kilometers south of the airport. The only terminal was put into operation in May 2007. To obtain international status air harbor Batumi airport was transformed according to European standards in 2009. The renovation allowed the city not only to accept charters with summer tourists, but also to serve regional flights from northeast Turkey. The capacity of this hub is six hundred thousand travelers per year. The area of ​​the airport is almost four thousand square meters. The maximum weight of an aircraft that can land at Batumi air harbor is 64 tons. In this regard, the airfield was assigned second class. It is ready to accept helicopters of any type, as well as Tu-134, Il-18, Yak-42, Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft, as well as Boeing 737.

Scoreboard

What flights constantly arrive in Batumi? The airport, whose schedule is especially busy in the summer, receives regular flights from Moscow Domodedovo on Saturdays and Tuesdays. It takes two and a half hours to fly from the capital of Russia to Batumi, regardless of which air carrier you choose - S7 or Georgian Airways. " Ural Airlines» connect Adjara with St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. Quite a few flights connect Batumi with the two main cities of Turkey - Ankara and Istanbul. "Belavia" brings passengers from Minsk, and " International airlines Ukraine" - from Boryspil). Naturally, Batumi is connected to the country's capital, Tbilisi, by many domestic air flights. They are carried out by Georgian Airlines. The same carrier sends its vehicles to Tehran, Tel Aviv and Kyiv. The airliners of the YanAer company are flying away.

Services

The international terminal of the air harbor is not much different from similar ones. It is compact and convenient. It also has duty-free shops, a VAT refund office, ATMs, luggage storage and baggage packaging, cafes, and waiting rooms. But there is also a highlight that immediately catches the eye of those passengers who arrive in Batumi in the evening. The airport is equipped with an extraordinary control tower, which, with the help of lighting, looks exactly like an intergalactic ship. Therefore, it seems that an alien starship has landed in the air harbor of Adjara.

Batumi Airport: how to get to the city

The easiest way to cover the two kilometers separating Chorokh from the city is by bus. There is a stop right outside the terminal. City bus No. 9 will take you through the streets of old Batumi. Route No. 10 runs along the beautiful embankment and the main transport artery of the capital of Adjara, the avenue. The cost of travel by bus is only forty tetri. You will be in the city center in twenty minutes. But buses run from seven in the morning until midnight. In addition, in winter their service becomes less frequent than in summer. If you arrive in Batumi at night, the only way to get into the city is by taxi. You can order a transfer in advance. State taxis operate on a meter and are more reliable. Private traders on duty at the airport charge exorbitant prices from visitors.