Uytash Airport

Makhachkala International Airport "Uytash"

Махачкалинский международный аэропорт "Уйташ"
Makhachkala International Airport "Uytash"; Махачкалинский международный аэропорт "Уйташ"
	IATA: MCX; ICAO: URML;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Russian Federation
Operator	Civil Government
Serves	Makhachkala
Location	Makhachkala, Dagestan Republic, Russia
Time zone	Moscow Time (+4)
Elevation AMSL	12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	42°49′00.56″N 047°39′08.26″E / 42.8168222°N 47.6522944°E
Website	www.mcx.aero
Map
	МСХ Location of the airport in Dagestan МСХ Location of the airport in Russia МСХ Location of the airport in Europe
Runways
Statistics (2018)
Passengers
Passengers	1,290,000
	Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics)

It is named after Amet-khan Sultan, World War II fighter pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. The naming was found controversial by the Crimean Tatars, with whom Amet-khan openly affiliated, as an attempt to detatarize his origins.

South East Airlines (formerly Dagestan Airlines) had its head office on the property of the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Air Arabia	Sharjah
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku
Azimuth	Sochi
Belavia	Minsk (begins 26 April 2024)
flydubai	Dubai–International
IrAero	Antalya, Istanbul
NordStar	Moscow–Domodedovo, Norilsk
Nordwind Airlines	Kazan, Kirov (begins 26 April 2024) Krasnoyarsk–International, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Perm (begins 27 April 2024), Saint Petersburg (begins 27 April 2024), Samara (begins 26 April 2024), Sochi, Syktyvkar (begins 27 April 2024), Tomsk (begins 26 April 2024), Tyumen, Ufa, Ulyanovsk-Baratayevka (begins 3 May 2024), Yekaterinburg (begins 29 April 2024) Seasonal: Chelyabinsk (resumes 28 April 2024), Ivanovo (begins 2 June 2024), Saransk (begins 1 May 2024)
Pobeda	Antalya, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Istanbul, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg, Surgut
Red Wings Airlines	Almaty, Antalya, Bukhara, Istanbul, Namangan, Samara, Saratov, Tashkent, Urgench, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan Seasonal: Chelyabinsk
Rossiya	Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
S7 Airlines	Moscow–Domodedovo, Novosibirsk
SCAT Airlines	Aqtau
Severstal Avia	Cherepovets (begins 30 May 2023)
Somon Air	Dushanbe
Ural Airlines	Moscow–Domodedovo, Yekaterinburg
Utair	Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Vnukovo (resumes 1 May 2024) Seasonal: Surgut
UVT Aero	Kazan
Yakutia Airlines	Moscow–Vnukovo

On 15 January 2009, 4 people died when two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft collided and caught fire.
On 4 December 2010, South East Airlines Flight 372, a Tupolev Tu-154M carrying 160 passengers and 8 crew en route to Makhachkala, crash landed at Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, due to all engines failing. Two of the 160 passengers died.
On 29 October 2023, a violent mob stormed the tarmac as a Red Wings Airlines flight from Tel Aviv, Israel arrived. Protestors shouted anti-Israel slogans and attempted to board the plane but were not successful. Eventually, authorities closed the airport and diverted flights to nearby cities. This event was occurred against the backdrop of further anti-Jewish unrest in the North Caucasus. Russian authorities of Dagestan blamed the "Utro Dagestana" channel, established by Ilya Ponomarev, for organizing the mob and "destabilising the situation in Dagestan by stirring up interethnic and interreligious hatred come from our enemy, the foes of our country".