Lviv Airport
| Lviv Danylo Halitskyi Airport Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів" імені Данила Галицького |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | UKLL |
| IATA code | LWO |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 326 m (1070 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 6 km southwest of Lviv |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1929 |
| Passengers | 2,217,400 (2019) |
| Air freight | 225 t (2014) |
| Flight movements |
18,963 (2019) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 13/31 | 3305 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Lviv airport ( IATA : LWO , ICAO : UKLL ; Ukrainian Міжнародний аеропорт Львів Mischnarodnyj aeroport Lviv ) is an international commercial airport in Lviv , German and Lviv , in western Ukraine , which since 2012 by Prince Daniel of Galicia (Danylo Halytskyi) (1201 –1264) is named.
history
Lemberg, which was located in eastern Poland after 1918 , only had the Lewandówka airport (today Lewandiwka), which is close to the city center, directly behind the Lemberg train station and only suitable for small planes , until 1925 . Then began in the village of Skniłów (now the Lviv district of Skniliw) with the construction of a new airfield. This comprised a circular area with a diameter of approx. 1000 m. In 1929 the first reception building was built. From then on, LOT aircraft landed there on the connection to Warsaw and from June 1, 1930 to Bucharest , the latter being also served by the Romanian LARES from 1938 to 1939 . In 1930 a hangar was built and in 1936 two intersecting runways (one of which is still in operation today) on the previously unpaved airfield.
Before the Second World War it served the Polish Air Force as a base for the 6th Air Regiment. After it was in the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic between 1939 and 1941 as part of the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland , it was occupied by the Germans after the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union and from September 1941 was used as an air base for the Wehrmacht Air Force .
The following table shows a list of selected active air units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1941 and 1944.
| from | to | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 1941 | September 1941 | 5th (H) / Enlightenment group 21 (5th season of local reconnaissance group 21) | |
| February 1942 | February 1942 | KGr. zbV 7 (combat group for special use 7) | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m , Junkers Ju 86 |
| February 1943 | April 1943 | I./KG 100 (I. Group of Kampfgeschwaders 100) | Heinkel He 111H-6 , Heinkel He 111H-11, Heinkel He 111 H16, |
| October 1943 | November 1943 | I./SG 77 (I. Gruppe des Schlachtgeschwader 77) | Junkers Ju 87D |
| January 1944 | March 1944 | II., III./KG 27 | Heinkel He 111H-16, Heinkel He 111H-20 |
| February 1944 | March 1944 | 2. (F) / Enlightenment group 100 | Junkers Ju 188F |
| March 1944 | March 1944 | 2. (F) / Enlightenment group 11 | Junkers Ju 88D-1 |
| March 1944 | April 1944 | II./JG 52 (II. Group of Kampfgeschwader 52) | Messerschmitt Bf 109G |
| March 1944 | March 1944 | Staff, I./KG 27 | Heinkel He 111H-16, Heinkel He 111H-20 |
| March 1944 | April 1944 | IV./TG 1 (IV. Group of Transport Wing 1) | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m |
| March 1944 | May 1944 | III./SG 77 | Junkers Ju 87D-3, Junkers Ju 87D-5 |
| March 1944 | July 1944 | II./SG 77 | Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 , Focke-Wulf Fw 190F-2, Focke-Wulf Fw 190F-3, Focke-Wulf Fw 190G-3, |
| April 1944 | April 1944 | IV./JG 54 | Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 |
| July 1944 | July 1944 | 7th (H) / Enlightenment group 32 | Focke-Wulf Fw 189A-2 , Focke-Wulf Fw 189A-3, Henschel Hs 126B-1 |
The Lviv air conference accident occurred there in 2002 .
As part of the preparations for the 2012 European Football Championship , Lviv Airport was expanded and modernized. From April 2011, the only runway was significantly shortened from around 2500 m to 1600 m due to construction work over a long period of time. This meant that not all previous types of aircraft could fly to the airport. For this reason, several airlines have rescheduled. The low-cost airline Wizz Air temporarily ceased operations from Lviv during the construction work, as their Airbus A320-200s could no longer take off and no alternative aircraft types were available in the Wizzair fleet. Lufthansa served Lviv Airport with an Avro RJ85 from Munich , which can also take off and land on shorter runways.
Location and transport links
The airport is located about 6 km southwest of the city center of Lviv and can be reached via a road connection, for example with regular buses and taxis.
Airlines and Destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Lviv:
statistics
| year | Passengers | modification |
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| 1999 | 35,000 | - |
| 2002 | 110,200 | - |
| 2003 | 144,100 | 35.8% |
| 2004 | 198.200 | 35.5% |
| 2005 | 235,900 | 19.0% |
| 2006 | 278.200 | 18.0% |
| 2007 | 427.100 | 52.4% |
| 2008 | 532.100 | 25.5% |
| 2009 | 452,300 | 15.0% |
| 2010 | 481,900 | 6.5% |
| 2011 | 297,000 | 38.4% |
| 2012 | 576,000 | 94.0% |
| 2013 | 700,800 | 21.0% |
| 2014 | 585.200 | 16.5% |
| 2015 | 570,570 | 2.5% |
| 2016 | 738,000 | 29.4% |
| 2017 | 1,080,000 | 46.3% |
| 2018 | 1,597,700 | 48.0% |
| 2019 | 2,217,400 | 38.8% |
Web links
- Official homepage of the airport
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passenger numbers for 2014
- ^ Mieczysław Mikulski, Andrzej Glass: Polski transport lotniczy 1918-1978 . Warsaw 1980, p. 93-96 .
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Poland. (PDF; 3.3 MB) June 2014, pp. 27–28 , accessed on December 13, 2019 (English).
- ↑ kyivpost.com - Media: Lviv airport to restrict flights starting in April 7th March 2011
- ↑ lvivairport.info - To and from the airport ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on October 8, 2011
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