| Uralsk International Airport named after Manshuk Mametova | |
| Image2-Width: | 250 |
| Iata: | URA |
| Icao: | UARR |
| Type: | Public |
| Operator: | Oral Airport Holding LLP |
| City-Served: | Oral |
| Location: | 12km (07miles) SE of Oral, Kazakhstan |
| Elevation-M: | 38 |
| Coordinates: | 51.1508°N 51.5431°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Kazakhstan#Europe |
| Pushpin Label: | URA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kazakhstan |
| Metric-Elev: | Y |
| Metric-Rwy: | Y |
| R1-Number: | 22-04 |
| R1-Length-M: | 2,799 |
| R1-Surface: | Concrete |
| Stat-Year: | 2-6-1991 |
| Footnotes: | Source: AIP Kazakhstan[1] |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Wikidata: | yes |
Manshuk Mametova International Airport (Kazakh: Мәншүк Мәметова атындағы Халықаралық әуежайы) — is an airport in Kazakhstan located 12km (07miles) southeast of Oral (Uralsk). The airport is located south of the Oral River.
In February 2023, Oral Airport was acquired by Oral Airport Holding LLP. It's a Kazakhstani company, the controlling stake of which belongs to the Kazakhstani Uralsk Management LLP and businessman Dauletkhan Kilybayev, and a minority stake (49%) is owned by the Russian company JSC Retrans. The company hopes to turn Uralsk airport into a regional hub, expand the route network and carry out technical re-equipment of the airport[2]
It is a small airport servicing medium-sized airliners. It has parking for four jets. This airport has one terminal. The airport also serves the nearby town of Aksai, which provides the majority of airport 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.
A new terminal was built and opened in April 2022. It aims to double the capacity of the airport to 600 thousand people per year.[3]
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.
There is always a queue of available private taxi cabs at the airport parking lot.