# Sochi International Airport (AER)

> Sochi, RU · IATA: AER · ICAO: URSS · Large Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `AER` |
| ICAO | `URSS` |
| City | Sochi |
| Country | RU |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 27 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 43.44990, 39.95660 |

## Description

Millions of holidaymakers, almost no freight: Sochi (AER/URSS), on Russia's Black Sea coast in the Adler district, is a resort airport that handled around 13.7 million passengers in 2024 — among the country's five busiest — yet barely figures in air cargo. It is run by the Basel Aero holding, which also operates Krasnodar, Anapa and Gelendzhik. Its weight grew after 2022, when several airports across southern and south-western Russia closed on security grounds and Sochi absorbed much of the regional traffic, becoming the coast's main continuously operating gateway. On the cargo side it stays thin: there are no freighter services and no integrator base, so air freight travels as belly cargo in the holds of passenger aircraft, and even that capacity is constrained by the sanctions fallout across Russian aviation. Warehousing, customs brokerage, forwarding support and dangerous-goods procedures are available on site, but none of that changes the order of magnitude. Shippers with meaningful Russia-related volumes consolidate through the Moscow airports, chiefly Sheremetyevo (SVO), while every consignment remains subject to Western export controls and sanctions. The A147 coastal highway and the Black Sea railway link Adler with Sochi and the wider Krasnodar region. For forwarders, AER is a passenger and tourism airport with only a marginal cargo role.

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