{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Airport","name":"Elista Airport","iataCode":"ESL","icaoCode":"URWI","city":"Elista","country":"RU","airportType":"medium_airport","cargoCapable":false,"cargoRank":null,"confidenceLevel":null,"coordinates":{"latitude":46.3739013671875,"longitude":44.33089828491211},"elevationMeters":153,"runwayLengthMeters":null,"description":"For more than two years after February 2022 no scheduled aircraft touched down at Elista (IATA ESL, ICAO URWI): the field lay inside the closed southern Russian airspace zone until it reopened on 3 May 2024, the first of that group to return to service. Traffic remains modest — 324 flights and about 29,000 passengers in the first half of 2025 — with Aeroflot serving Moscow-Sheremetyevo and Red Wings flying to Sochi and Yekaterinburg, plus seasonal Antalya. The airport of the Kalmyk capital has n","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/elista-airport-esl","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/airports/en/elista-airport-esl","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Elista Airport · (IATA: ESL) · Elista, RU · 153 m"}