Tashkent Islam Karimov

Tashkent Islam Karimov International Airport (TAS) is Uzbekistan's main gateway and the busiest airport in Central Asia's most populous country. Its international traffic clusters into night and early-morning waves, when a large share of long-haul and regional flights depart or land within the same couple of hours. In that window the queue that hurts is rarely the scanner — it is passport control. Fast Track at Tashkent is built around that reality, and covers both directions of travel.

How Fast Track works at Tashkent

Fast Track here is priority handling through the airport's border and security formalities, in Terminal 2, the international terminal. You book online, choose your date, and receive a QR voucher by email; an agent meets you at the point stated on the voucher and takes you through. The checks themselves are unchanged — only the queueing is.

Access starts from €330,000 per person. The price and availability are shown live, in your own currency, at the moment of booking.

Departure and arrival: two separate services

Most airports sell only a departure product. Tashkent sells both, and they are booked separately:

• Fast Track Departure — an assisted security check, then a priority e-gate at passport control on the way out. This is the one to book for an outbound flight.
• Fast Track Arrival — a priority e-gate at passport control after you land, ahead of the general inbound queue. Useful on a night arrival, when several wide-body flights reach the border desks at once.

If you are flying in and out of Tashkent and want both ends covered, book the two services; one does not include the other.

Terminal 2 and where to meet

Tashkent handles international flights from Terminal 2; domestic services use a separate terminal on the same airport site. Check which one your flight uses before you set off — the Fast Track services sold here apply to the international terminal, and the meeting point printed on your voucher is inside it.

Arrive with your usual margin all the same: Fast Track speeds up security and the border, not check-in or bag drop, and it cannot hold a flight.

How much time you save

Uzbekistan's international schedule is concentrated: a bank of departures late in the evening and another in the early morning, with arrivals mirroring them. When two or three long-haul flights land in the same half hour, the inbound passport queue is the single longest stop between the aircraft door and the exit. On departure, the same logic applies to the outbound checks. Priority access takes that step out of the equation, which matters most exactly when the terminal is at its fullest — and when you are least willing to spend an hour standing.

Getting to and from the airport

The airport sits close to Tashkent itself, a short drive from the city centre — taxis and ride-hailing apps are the usual way in and out, day or night. Because so much of the international programme runs overnight, plan the transfer for the hour you will actually travel rather than for daytime traffic.

Tips for your trip through TAS

• Book the right direction: departure and arrival are two different services.
• Book ahead: priority slots are limited on the busiest night waves.
• Keep your QR voucher available offline (a screenshot): the network can be congested at the airport.
• Fast Track does not exempt you from the rules: security screening and border checks are carried out in full, just without the queue.

Connecting through the region? See also our guides to Istanbul Airport (IST) and Dubai (DXB), two of the main hubs onward from Tashkent, or read how Fast Track works in general.