Air Transportation Department

The Air Transportation Department of the LEPL Civil Aviation Agency is responsible for:

  • Conducting the process of granting access to the international market for air carriers registered in Georgia and to the Georgian market for foreign air carries, and preparing relevant conclusions;
  • Conducting the process of issuing permits for irregular air transportation, preparing conclusions, and maintaining an appropriate Register;
  • Conducting the process of issuing permits for aerial works, preparing conclusions;
  • Within its competence, drawing up protocols on administrative offences;
  • Processing and analyzing air transportation statistics;
  • Carrying out the designation of air carriers registered in Georgia, ensuring the conduct of auctions during the allocation of frequencies, and maintaining an appropriate Register;
  • Coordinating flight schedules according to the navigation seasons;
  • Conducting the certification process of cargo terminals, preparing conclusions, and maintaining an appropriate Registry;
  • Overseeing the transportation of dangerous goods by air and granting exemptions for the carriage of dangerous goods by civil aircraft;
  • Coordinating the use of the Georgian airspace in cases envisaged by international agreements and/or documents concluded between Georgia and foreign aviation authorities;
  • Participating in the drafting and consideration of normative acts;
  • Supervising the compliance with requirements related to compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding, cancellation or long delay of flights;
  • Supervising the compliance with requirements related to assistance to passengers with disabilities during air transportation;
  • Within its competence, drafting normative acts;
  • Within its competence, preparing aeronautical information;
  • Within its competence, coordinating training programs, issuing instructor certificates;
  • Within its competence, cooperating with international organizations and government agencies.

Air Transportation Department

Mindia Mindiashvili

Head of Department

Tel: + (995 32) 294 80 10 (Ext. 107)

24 Hour Operating Duty Group of Air Transportation Department

Tel (24/7): + (995 32) 236 40 51