Chişinău International Airport

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Chişinău International Airport
IATA: KIV - ICAO: LUKK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Serves		Chişinău
Elevation AMSL		399 ft (122 m)
Coordinates		46°55′39.88″N, 28°55′51.52″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
08/26	11,779	3,590	Concrete

Chişinău International Airport (IATA: KIV, ICAO: LUKK) is a smaller airport in Chişinău, Moldova in Eastern Europe. The airport has a capacity of 1,200,000 passengers per year. It was built in the 1970s. It has one runway and is open 24 hours.

As there is no Cat II or III system, fog can temporarily disrupt flights in winter (e.g. in December).

1 Airlines and destinations
2 Airport statistics
3 Facilities
4 Special guests
5 To and from the airport
6 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

In January 2004, five national companies were involved in passenger air transportation, namely: Air Moldova, Moldavian Airlines, Tandem Aero, Aeriantur-M and Vichi, in total having carried 19,033 passengers, which represents 72% of the total number of passengers carried.

Nobil Air and TEPavia-Trans are air taxi companies located in Chisinau. Nobil Air operates a Learjet 35a (ER-LGA), TET operates an Antonov 28 air plane (ER-AKO).

Among the national air companies, the biggest share of passenger transport market is held by the state airline Air Moldova, with 55% or 14,761 passengers carried, followed by Moldavian Airlines with 13% or 3,464 passengers, the rest of national companies taking only 3% of the total number of passengers.

Besides national companies, a number of foreign airlines have been active on the passenger air transport market. These include Turkish Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Tarom, Carpatair and MALEV Hungarian. Such foreign airlines have carried 7,425 passengers, which represent 28% of the total passenger traffic. The largest share of transports was held by Carpatair with 9.2% or 2,458 passengers, Turkish Airlines with 8.4% or 2,243 passengers and Austrian Airlines with 5.9% or 1,568 passengers.

At present, both national and foreign airlines perform scheduled flights on eightteen routes:

Chişinău International Airport

Air Moldova (Athens, Bucharest, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Larnaca, Lisbon, Moscow-Domodedovo, Paris (starts December 12,2006), Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Vienna) 42 flights per week
Austrian Airlines (Vienna) 7 flights per week
Carpatair (Timişoara) operated by Moldavian Airlines
Moldavian Airlines (Budapest, Timişoara) 20 flights per week
Tandem Aero (Kiev-Borispol, Tel Aviv) 2 flights per week
Tarom (Bucharest-Otopeni) 4 flights per week
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk) 5 flights per week

During the summer there are regular charter flights to Antalya, Sharm el Sheik and Varna.

[edit] Airport statistics

Year	Passengers	Flights
1996	250.800	3.619
1997	283.000	4.718
1998	265.900	4.871
1999	233.300	4.613
2000	167.708	5.519
2001	274.387	9.866
2002	294.621	10.416
2003	341.585	9.502
2004	421.011	10.759
2005	482.741	11.126

Just over 480,000 passengers were served in 2005, or roughly 15% more than in 2004. 251,800 of them flew Air Moldova, 91,200 Moldavian Airlines and other local airlines and 140,000 foreign airlines.

In the first nine months of 2006 327,300 passengers were served at the airport. This is an increase of 19.2% compared to 2005.

The busiest routes (January 2004) were: Chişinău - Istanbul, with 5,563 passengers carried (+8,4% compared to January 2003) Chişinău - Moscow with 4,357 passengers transported (+45,4% compared to January 2003). The number of passengers Chişinău - Lisbon with 637 passengers (+246% compared to December 2003)

Cargo and mail transported in January 2004 constituted 84.6 tons. In the first nine months of 2006 670 tons air freight were transported which is an increase of 21,8%.

[edit] Facilities

Following reconstruction work by the Turkish company Akfen Holding A.S. and re-opening in May 2000 it became a modern airport in Europe and in the Commonwealth of Independent States.

An annex terminal building with an area of 4,270 m² was added to the renovated present terminal building of 7,600 m². The project covers construction of 3,000 m² curtain walls, 3,200 m² composite panels, 12,185 m² asphalt road, a treatment plant with a capacity of 3,450 m³/day, complete mechanical heating, ventilation and electrical systems along with the X-ray security, luggage handling, master clock, and flight information systems. The contract had a commercial value of USD 9.3 million.

Available facilities: Annual Capacity 5,400,000, 6 check-in desks, 4 gates, 1 baggage claim belt, short term parking spaces, long term parking spaces, 1 Airport Hotel, Post Office, Bank, Bureau de Change, Auto Exchange Machine, Restaurants, Cafeterias, Bars, VIP Lounge, Duty Free Shop, Newsagent/Tobacconist, Chemist Shop, Gift Shop, Travel Agent, Tourist Help Desk, Car Rental, Taxi Service/Rank, First Aid, Baby/Parent Room

The visitors terrace in the second floor has been opened in December 2006.

VIP and CIP guests are offered special services at the VIP terminal.

[edit] Special guests

Aegean Airline Avrojet with the football team of Greece in 2006
Air China Boeing 747-400 in May 2005 with state guests
El-Al
Lufthansa Airbus 321
Citelynx Canadair CRJ 200 LR in 2006
Private Wings Do-328 in 2006
South Airlines OLT Yak-42 on 06./07.12.2006 from Odesa to Luxor and Juba and vice versa
Tavria MAK YAK-42D in 2005
different Tupolevs of Air Atyrau and Sayakhat Airlines