 Owing to its geographic location, its long, concrete-reinforced, heavy load-bearing runway, as well as its modern terminal with jet bridges, the airport is well-suited and well-situated for emergency diversion at roughly the midpoint of the northern route trans-Pacific routes.The airport is located on the opposite site of the Anadyr River compared to the city.Transport by summer is by boat, by winter by a road on the ice, and for a period in spring and fall, only helicopter.