Khrabrovo Airport
| Khrabrovo Airport Аэропорт Храброво | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public/Military | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kaliningrad | ||||||||||
| Location | Kaliningrad, Russia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 42 ft / 13 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°53′24″N 20°35′33″E / 54.89000°N 20.59250°ECoordinates: 54°53′24″N 20°35′33″E / 54.89000°N 20.59250°E | ||||||||||
| Website | kgd.aero | ||||||||||
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Khrabrovo Airport (Russian Аэропорт Храброво) (IATA: KGD, ICAO: UMKK) is the airport of Kaliningrad, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) north of the city near the village of Khrabrovo. While it mostly serves scheduled domestic destinations, part of it is still a military base of the Russian Air Force.
History
The old terminal under reconstruction and merging with new terminal
- 1922 - Joint Russian-German joint venture Deruluft starts flights on first scheduled international route, from Königsberg (Devau airport) - Moscow
- 1945 - Airport is transferred to Civil Air Fleet of USSR
- 1961 - Joint Air Squadron formed at the basis of airport and airline
- 1977 - Operations of Tupolev-134 begin
- 1979 - Passenger terminal is built in Khrabrovo
- 1988 - Tupolev-154s begin operations to Kaliningrad
- 1992 - Enterprise separates from Vnukovo Production association and becomes independent entity
- 1993 - First scheduled international flights begin. Two Tupolev-154s are purchased
- 1997 - Air enterprise is renamed “Kaliningrad Avia”
- 2001 - Air enterprise is in receivership
- 2002 - Change of ownership structure. Transformation into Joint Stock Company
- 2004 – Beginning of reconstruction of runway, apron, navigation equipment
- 2005 – Air enterprise renamed “KD Avia”
- 2007 - opening of the new terminal
- 2009 - "KD Avia" airlines cease operations
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| Aeroflot operated by Orenair | Moscow-Domodedovo (ends 27 March 2016)[1] |
| Aeroflot operated by Rossiya Airlines | Moscow-Vnukovo (begins 27 March 2016),[1] St Petersburg |
| Belavia | Minsk-National Seasonal: Brest, Gomel, Hrodna |
| Ellinair | Seasonal: Thessaloniki |
| Izhavia | Seasonal: Krasnodar |
| Nordavia | Murmansk, St Petersburg |
| Pobeda | Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Red Wings Airlines | Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Severstal Air Company | Cherepovets |
| Ural Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, St Petersburg |
| UTair Aviation | Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent |
| Vueling | Seasonal: Barcelona |
Passengers statistics
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Interior of the old terminal
Passenger numbers are also rising, and are set to rise even more with the introduction of more routes:
- 2002 - 163,000
- 2003 - 115,000
- 2004 - 209,000
- 2005 - 311,000
- 2006 - 731,626
- 2007 - 1,204,060
- 2008 - 1,920,000
- 2009 - 1,357,000
- 2010 - 1,023,990
- 2011 - 1,229,017
- 2014 - 1,460,054
Ground transportation
The city bus line No. 144 by Koenigtransauto (Кёнигтрансавто) connects the airport with the Kaliningrad Main Bus/Railway Station.
See also
References
- 1 2 Плохотниченко, Юрий (26 January 2016). "Рейсы "Донавиа" и Orenair переводятся из Домодедово во Внуково под бренд "России"". Travel.Ru. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
External links
Media related to Khrabrovo Airport at Wikimedia Commons
- Khrabrovo Airport Official website
- ASN Accidents history for UMKK
- NOAA/NWS current weather observations
- Airport information for UMKK at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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