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Tbilisi International Airport (TBS): arrival & transit guide

What to expect landing at Tbilisi International Airport in Tbilisi, Georgia: the arrival flow, transit rules, and onward transport.

Tbilisi International Airport is a single terminal building handling every scheduled flight, domestic and international alike, so there is no separate building to find on arrival. From the jet bridge or stairs, signage leads straight to one arrivals hall shared by every incoming flight.

Georgia's own citizens aside, a large share of nationalities enter without any visa at all for a short stay, and several others can get a visa issued right at the immigration desk rather than arranging anything beforehand. Whichever applies to your own passport, the process happens at the same passport control counters: present your passport, and if a visa is needed and available on the spot, it is issued there before you move on to baggage claim.

Connecting through Tbilisi on a single ticket, with both flights booked together, generally means staying in the transit area without a separate passport check, since Georgia does not require a transit visa for most nationalities making a same-day connection this way. A traveler who booked the two legs separately, or who wants to leave the airport during a longer layover, goes through the ordinary arrivals process instead.

Outside the terminal, taxis and pre-booked transfers are the standard way into central Tbilisi, roughly a twenty-minute drive; a public bus route also connects the airport to the city center.

All passports for Georgia