Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi
International Airport
Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів"
імені Данила Галицького

IATA: LWO[1] – ICAO: UKLL

LWO
Location of airport in Ukraine

Summary
Airport type Public
Serves Lviv
Location Lviv, Ukraine
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 1,071 ft / 326 m
Coordinates 49°48′45″N 23°57′22″E / 49.81250°N 23.95611°E / 49.81250; 23.95611
Website lwo.aero
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13/31 10 843 3,305 Concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers Decrease 570,570

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів" імені Данила Галицького) (IATA: LWO, ICAO: UKLL) is an international airport in Lviv, Ukraine. The airport is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from central Lviv. The airport is named after King Daniel of Galicia.

History

Established in 1929 as Lwów-Skniłów Airport. Skniłów was the name of the neighbouring village which today is part of Lviv. Before the II World War it operated the domestic route to Warsaw and Krakow. In 1930 the international route to Bucharest was launched which was extended in 1931 to Sofia and Thessaloniki. In 1936 the above route was extended to Athens and Lydda.

In 2010, the airport carried 481,900 passengers.[2] In preparation for Euro 2012, Lviv International Airport has undergone a $200m expansion project. Lviv airport's new terminal building has an area of 34,000m² with a capacity of handling 1,000 passengers an hour.[3] Of the $200m, it is expected that the Ukrainian government will provide $70m, including $14m in 2008, and $130m will come from private investors.[4] The expansion project will include a 700-meter extension of the existing runway and a new airport terminal capable of handling up to 1,220 passengers per hour (5.69 million passenger annually).[3][5]

The airport used to be a focus city for Wizz Air Ukraine, which served four international routes to Italy (Naples, Bergamo, and Treviso) and Germany (Dortmund) from here until the airline shut down in April 2015.[6]

Facilities

The terminal has 29 check-in desks, of which nine are meant for domestic and remaining for international flights.[3] Facilities at the airport also include 4 cafés and 2 duty-free shops as well as bus services to the city.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter services to and from Lviv:[7]

AirlinesDestinations
AtlasGlobal Ukraine Istanbul-Atatürk[8][9]
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku
Azur Air Ukraine Seasonal charter: Antalya, Dalaman, Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh
Dniproavia Dnipropetrovsk
Ellinair Seasonal: Thessaloniki[10]
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine		 Munich
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil, Istanbul-Atatürk (begins 15 April 2016),[11] Rome-Fiumicino, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion[12]
Seasonal: Bologna, Madrid, Odessa[13]
Seasonal charter: Antalya, Enfidha, Hurghada, Larnaca,[13] Tivat
Windrose Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya

Statistics

The former terminal building
Bust of Danylo Halytskyi inside the new terminal
Year Passengers[2][14][15] Change
1999 35,000 -
2002 110,200 -
2003 144,100 Increase35.8%
2004 198,200 Increase35.5%
2005 235,900 Increase19.0%
2006 278,200 Increase18.0%
2007 427,100 Increase52.4%
2008 532,100 Increase25.5%
2009 452,300 Decrease15.0%
2010 481,900 Increase6.5%
2011 297,000 Decrease38.4%
2012 576,000 Increase94.0%
2013 700,800 Increase21.0%
2014 585,200 Decrease16.5%
2015 570,570 Decrease2.5%

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

  1. ↑ Code IATA "LWO" from polish Lwów
  2. 1 2 http://www.girodivite.it/IMG/doc/UCRAINA.doc
  3. 1 2 3 http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/lviv-airport/
  4. ↑ Modernization of Lviv airport for Euro-2012 finals to cost $200 million. Government can cough up $70 million, Z I K (27 may 2008)
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ https://wizzair.com/en-GB/about_us/news/wizzen303
  7. ↑ http://www.lwo.aero/en/schedule
  8. ↑ http://portal.lviv.ua/news/2015/07/23/atlasjet-ukrayina-rozpochala-prodazh-kvitkiv
  9. ↑ http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/atlasjet-ukraine-postpones-launch-of-flights-until-end-of-september-october-395268.html
  10. ↑ http://en.ellinair.com/
  11. ↑ L, J (10 November 2015). "Ukraine International Expands Istanbul Service in 16H1". Airline Route. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  12. ↑ http://www.flyuia.com/eng/company/ukraine-international-airlines/press/news/1658.html?news=2449&category=1
  13. 1 2 L, J (19 November 2014). "Ukraine International Airlines Adds New Routes in S15". Airline Route. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  14. ↑ http://www.iaae.org/meetings/Budapest2005/Ukrainian_Airport_Overview.doc
  15. ↑ http://www.mfa.gov.ua/data/upload/publication/china/ua/18449/lviv_airport_upgrade_eng.pdf
  16. ↑ Kirillov, Roman (July 27, 2005). "PILOTS CONVICTED FOR DISASTER DURING AIR SHOW". The Current Digest of the Russian Press 56 (26): 9–10. Retrieved 2011-03-24. While performing an aerobatic maneuver, an SU-27 jet crashed into a crowd of spectators, leaving 77 dead and another 543 injured. The commander of the plane's crew, Vladimir Toponar, was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison, and copilot Yury Yegorov got eight years

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