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{{Infobox airport
| name = Oral Ak Zhol Airport
| nativename = <small>Uralsk Airport</small>
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| image = URAlogo.JPG
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| IATA = URA
| ICAO = UARR
| type = Public
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| operator = JSC "Ak jol International Airport"
| city-served = [[Oral, Kazakhstan|Oral]]
| location = {{Convert|12|km|abbr=on}} SE of [[Oral, Kazakhstan|Oral]], [[Kazakhstan]]
| hub = * [[SCAT (airline)|SCAT]]
| elevation-m = 38
| coordinates = {{coord|51|09|03|N|051|32|35|E|region:KZ|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map = Kazakhstan
| pushpin_label = UARR
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Kazakhstan
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| metric-elev = Y
| metric-rwy = Y
| r1-number = 04/22
| r1-length-m = 2,799
| r1-surface = [[Concrete]]
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| footnotes = Source: [[Aeronautical Information Publication|AIP]] Kazakhstan<ref name="AIP">[http://goszakup.ans.kz/AIP/index/Start_en.htm AIP Kazakhstan]</ref>
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[[File:Oral Airport.JPG|thumb|Domestic terminal check-in area]]
[[File:URAIntl.jpg|thumb|International terminal]]
[[File:URA (UARR) TERMINAL.JPG|thumb|Domestic terminal airside view]]
'''Oral Ak Zhol Airport''' ({{lang-kk|Ақжол халықаралық әуежайы}}, ''Aqjol xalıqaralıq äwejayı'', اقجول حالىقارالىق أۋەجايى; formerly known as '''Uralsk Ak Zhol''' and '''Podstepnyy''' during the Soviet era) {{Airport codes|URA|UARR}} is an airport in [[Kazakhstan]] located {{convert|12|km|0|abbr=on}} southeast of [[Oral, Kazakhstan|Oral]] (Uralsk). The airport is located south of the [[Ural River|Ural (Oral) River]]. 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 the nearby town of Aksai, which provides the majority of Ak Zhol passenger traffic, being the "capital" of the gas industry in West Kazakhstan. In the past, a weekly international charter flight was operated by [[Astraeus Airlines]] from Oral to [[London Gatwick]]/[[London Stansted]]; this was subsequently operated by [[Air Astana]] to [[Amsterdam]]; however the route was terminated, along with other Air Astana flights, due to the poor condition of the runway. The airport runway and facilities were inspected by [[Mott MacDonald]] to confirm that its substandard condition prevented the airport from accommodating larger jet aircraft. On 17 April 2013 the decision was made to transfer the airport's ownership back to the government for runway reconstruction.

==Airlines and destinations==

===Passenger===
{{Airport-dest-list
|[[Air Astana]]|[[Almaty Airport|Almaty]], [[Astana Airport|Astana]]
|[[Bek Air]]|[[Aktau Airport|Aktau]], [[Almaty Airport|Almaty]], [[Astana Airport|Astana]]
|[[Qazaq Air]]|[[Atyrau Airport|Atyrau]]
|[[S7 Airlines]]|[[Moscow Domodedovo Airport|Moscow-Domodedovo]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Liu|first1=Jim|title=S7 Airlines Adds Moscow – Uralsk Service from Nov 2016|url=http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/267972/s7-airlines-adds-moscow-uralsk-service-from-nov-2016/|accessdate=18 July 2016|publisher=Airlineroute, Routesonline|date=18 July 2016}}</ref>
|[[SCAT Airlines]]|[[Aktau Airport|Aktau]], [[Atyrau Airport|Atyrau]] (begins {{date|2017-3-29}})<ref name=SCATnewS17>{{cite news|last1=Liu|first1=Jim|title=SCAT adds new routes in S17|url=http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/271981/scat-adds-new-routes-in-s17/|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=Routesonline|date=23 March 2017}}</ref>
}}

===Cargo===
{{Airport-dest-list
|[[Coyne Airways]]|[[Atyrau Airport|Atyrau]], [[Heydar Aliyev International Airport|Baku]]
| [[Silk Way Airlines]] | [[Heydar Aliyev International Airport|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 a safe landing. There were no fatalities or reportable injuries, however the airport did not have the correct size of air stairs to reach the aircraft doors, the largest passenger aircraft that had operated on a regular basis previously had been a [[Air Astana]] [[Boeing 757]]. As the 747 was deemed too heavy for take-off smaller size aircraft were sent from Moscow and [[Bucharest]] to ferry the passengers to London.<ref>http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/221811-ba010-bkk-lhr-divert.html</ref>
*On 28 August 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.
*On 17 November 2011 a [[Bek Air]] [[Fokker 100]] operating as flight BEK-2011 from [[Almaty]] to [[Uralsk]] made an emergency landing in Uralsk after a [[go-around]] having a landing gear and cargo door failure alerts.

==References==
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{{Airports in Kazakhstan}}
{{Airports built in the Soviet Union}}
[[Category:Airports built in the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Airports in Kazakhstan]]