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Zvartnots International Airport is Armenia's principal gateway, lying a short distance west of Yerevan and handling the great majority of the country's scheduled and cargo traffic. Its single long runway is equipped with an ILS, giving reliable access even in poor weather, and the field has been substantially modernised since Armenian independence.
Zvartnots International Airport serves as the main international airport of Armenia and the principal transport hub for the capital, Yerevan. It is operated by Armenia International Airports CJSC, a subsidiary of the Argentine group Corporación América, under a long-running concession originally signed in 2001. For a simulator pilot the field offers a busy, well-equipped international environment with a long instrument-equipped runway capable of accepting very large aircraft, set against the backdrop of the Armenian capital and the wider Ararat plain.
The airport lies near the settlement of Zvartnots, about 15 km (9.3 mi) west of Yerevan city centre. It functions as Armenia's principal international aerodrome and sits within the country's controlled airspace structure surrounding the capital.
Zvartnots has a single physical runway, 09/27, measuring 12,959 ft and surfaced in hard construction. The runway is lit and equipped with an ILS, supporting instrument approaches to the field. Field elevation is 2,818 ft.
Air traffic services are provided under the callsign Yerevan, with Yerevan APP on 126 MHz, an ATIS broadcast on 119.5 MHz, Yerevan GND on 119 MHz, and Yerevan TWR on 128 MHz. The runway's ILS supports precision approaches; a CAT II instrument landing system has historically been associated with the field, permitting operations down to low ceiling and visibility minima.
Zvartnots International Airport opened in 1961. Following a design competition held in 1970, a team of architects including M. Khachikyan, A. Tarkhanyan, S. Qalashyan, L. Cherkezyan and M. Baghdasaryan won the commission to design the first terminal building, and the airport was subsequently renovated during the 1980s to meet growing domestic traffic demands within the Soviet Union. After Armenia's independence in the 1990s, rising cargo volumes led to the construction of a new cargo terminal in 1998, able to handle around 100,000 tonnes annually. In 2001 a 30-year concession for the airport's operation was awarded to Armenia International Airports CJSC, owned by the Corporación América group, and the runways, main taxiways and ramps were renovated as part of that agreement. Further terminal development followed, with a new gate area and arrivals hall opening in 2006 and a new departures and arrivals terminal, car park and government delegation terminal completed in 2011. The airport was named 'Best Airport in the CIS' at the Emerging Markets Airports Award ceremony in Dubai in January 2013. In March 2024 Armenia formally ended the stationing of Russian border guards at the airport, with their withdrawal completed by the end of July that year. In 2025 taxiway A, unused since the 1970s, was fully renovated and returned to service, improving ground movement efficiency.
Zvartnots remains Armenia's busiest airport and one of the busier fields in the post-Soviet region, handling over five million passengers in 2023 and again in 2025. The airport is capable of accepting very large aircraft up to and including types such as the Boeing 747-400, Airbus A380 and Antonov An-225. In October 2025 a $500 million, ten-year expansion programme was unveiled to roughly double terminal capacity and increase the number of boarding gates, and in January 2026 the Armenian government approved a further extension of the operating concession to 2067 alongside an additional $425 million investment in passenger and cargo infrastructure.