The former airport was equipped with a modern air navigation system along with a platform for automated fueling.

[7] On 26 February 2018, the opening ceremony of the new airport took place, which President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow attended.

The airport passenger terminal, the roof of which is shaped in an octagonal "star of Oguz Han", covers an area of more than 12 thousand square meters, and is noted in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest star-shaped building in the world.

[11][12][13] There are information boards, an international and long-distance communication center, left-luggage offices, cafeterias, cafes, buffets, and shopping pavilions at the service of passengers.

The airport is located within the city limits, 13 kilometers from downtown Türkmenabat, in close proximity to the M37 Ashgabat-Türkmenabat highway and the Ashgabat-Kerki railway.