Air Transport
All international flights in Belarus and the majority of the CIS flights arrive at the “National Airport Minsk” more frequently called “Minsk-2” in daily use.
The National Airport Minsk is the main air port of the Republic of Belarus. The National Airport Minsk offers its passengers all kinds of services provided by the requirements of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Among them are:
- consular office of the Ministry o Foreign Affairs where new arrivals can get a permit for temporary stay in the Republic of Belarus;
- system for passengers customs checkup which follow the principle of “green” and “red” corridors;
- insurance companies provide medical insurance for foreign citizens;
- a hall for business-class passengers service;
- systems of telephone and facsimile communication;
- governmental sector and the hall for VIP passengers and delegations service;
- representative offices of Belarusian and foreign airlines;
- two banking affiliates (Belpromstroybank and Belarusbank), ATMs;
- duty free stores, a restaurant, bar, other retail outlets;
- complex informational system for passengers;
- transport services: buses, microbuses, car rental, taxi.
One can get to the airport by taxi (nearly $20) or by bus dispatched from the bus station “Moscovski” every hour and cruising from 6:00 to 23:00.
Belavia Company is the National carrier of the Republic of Belarus. The Belavia aircrafts conduct direct flights to the largest European cities such as Frankfurt, Vienna, Kiev, London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Warsaw and many others. Moreover, the flights to Belarus are performed by the companies LOT (Polish airlines), El Al (Israeli Airlines), “Lithuanian Airlines”, “Estonian Airlines” etc.
For more information about aircraft timetable, ticket cost and reservation visit the company’s web-site - www.belavia.by
There are very few internal flights and they are performed very rarely. This means the flights head only to Regional centres once or twice a week.

