Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport
| Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport Международный аэропорт Шереметьево  |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | UUEE |
| IATA code | SVO |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 190 m (623 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 30 km northwest of Moscow |
| Basic data | |
| opening | August 11, 1959 |
| Passengers | 33.656 million (2016) |
| Air freight | 231,250 t (2016) |
| Runways | |
| 06R / 24L | 3700 m × 60 m concrete |
| 06C / 24C | 3550 m × 60 m concrete |
| 06L / 24R | 3200 m × 60 m concrete |
The Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport ( IATA : SVO , ICAO : UUEE , Russian Международный аэропорт Шереме́тьево имени А. С. Пушкина ) is the largest airport in Russia with 33.6 million passengers and in the greater Moscow area (as of 2016) . It is named after the nearby village of Sheremetyevo , whose name is associated with the Russian aristocratic dynasty Sheremetev .
history
Originally, Sheremetyevo was a base for the Soviet transport air force . Sheremetyevo-I opened in 1959 as the international Moscow airport and with the opening of Sheremetyevo-II on March 3, 1980 it became the terminal for national connections. Sheremetyevo-II was built by German companies on the occasion of the Summer Olympics in Moscow, based on the model of the terminals at Hanover Airport .
Terminals
Sheremetyevo is an airport with two separate terminal areas north and south of the two runways. The two terminal areas each consist of three terminals:
- Terminals A, B and C (SVO-A, SVO-B and SVO-C) in the north (formerly Sheremetyevo-I ) serve national air traffic and those with the Baltic states.
- Terminals D, E and F (SVO-D, SVO-E and SVO-F) in the south (formerly Sheremetyevo-II ) are used for international air traffic.
A shuttle bus transfer between the terminals has been set up. With the renaming of Sheremetyevo-I and Sheremetyevo-II , the old Soviet numbering of the airports is adapted to the international norms.
- Sheremetyevo-A (SVO-A)
- Opened in 2012 and serves as a terminal for general aviation.
- Sheremetyevo-B (SVO-B)
- Established in 1961, it is the airport's oldest terminal and was known as Sheremetyevo-I until 2010 . Up to this point in time, almost all domestic Russian flights were handled here. Since Terminal D opened at the end of 2009, there have only been a few connections from Terminal B, for example to Belarus or to national destinations of smaller Russian airlines (as of June 2011).
- Sheremetyevo-C (SVO-C)
- Opened in 2007 and is adjacent to SVO-B. From there, flights to the Ukraine and the holiday airlines (the most common are Antalya , Sharm El Sheik and Hurghada ) are handled. The German airline Bluewings , which ceased operations on January 13, 2010, also flew from SVO-C.
- Sheremetyevo-D (SVO-D)
- Was called Sheremetyevo III during the five-year construction period. The terminal, financed by a Japanese bank (investor group) with US $ 1 billion, opened in mid-November 2009. Since then, SVO-D has been handling most of Aeroflot's flights - both domestic and international. Terminals D, E and F are connected by two pedestrian galleries - both in the public area and in the transfer area.
- Sheremetyevo-E (SVO-E)
- Borders SVO-F. It was put into operation on April 30, 2010. It is used for international flights by various airlines.
- Sheremetyevo-F (SVO-F)
- Originally called Sheremetyevo-II. The terminal was completed in 1980 and was the only international airport in Moscow until the 1990s. Aeroflot and other airlines are currently handling some international connections, primarily to southern and eastern Europe, but occasionally also to Asia.
A separate terminal was set up in 2008 for the Aeroexpress (see connection to Moscow). The closest flight terminal is SVO-E, and terminals D and F are also within walking distance.
The Sheremetyevo Cargo Terminal is located near Terminal F and is set up for cargo flights.
capacity
In 2010, 19,329,000 passengers were handled. Sheremetyevo Airport lost more and more passengers to the other two international airports in Moscow, Domodedovo and Vnukovo , because the facilities were no longer up to date at the end of the 2000s. Temporarily overtaken by Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo has been the largest airport in Russia since 2015 and ranks eleventh in Europe.
The three runways are 3200, 3550 and 3700 m long. The 3rd runway went into operation on September 1, 2019.
Among the approximately 70 international airlines flying to the Sheremetyevo terminals D, E and F are Aeroflot , Alitalia , Delta Air Lines , Finnair , Air France , KLM , Air China and Korean Air . The Austrian Austrian Airlines Group has been handling all of its Moscow flights since February 2007 via Moscow-Domodedovo instead of via Sheremetyevo. Lufthansa has also switched to Domodedowo since April 2008 and has therefore taken this step, like almost all other StarAlliance airlines. Swissair (now Swiss International Airlines ) was the first western airline to move its flights from Sheremetyevo to Domodedovo in 2001.
Accommodation options
An unusual “compact hotel” for short-term stays was opened on November 24, 2009 on the fifth floor of the new Sheremetyevo-E terminal . It is comparable to the Japanese capsule hotels of the 1970s, but the Moscow “compact rooms” look more like ship cabins. The “compact hotel” offers 66 cabins from 7.5 square meters to 22 square meters in the luxury variant. All cabins are equipped with toilet, shower, wash basin, telephone and internet. The cheapest cabin costs 1300 rubles (30 euros) for four hours.
Location and transport links
Sheremetyevo is located near the city of Lobnja , about 30 kilometers northwest of Moscow , near the European route E 105 (M 10), which connects the capital with Saint Petersburg . The airport is connected to Moscow city center by public transport.
- The fastest and most comfortable connection is the so-called Aeroexpress , whose 27 trains have been running every half hour since 2008 from the Belarusian train station ( Belorusskaya metro station) to the Aeroexpress terminal in 35 minutes . The latter is directly adjacent to Terminal E, with which it is directly connected by a crossing; Terminal E also takes you directly to Terminal F. In addition, free shuttle buses commute from the Aeroexpress terminal in 10 minutes to Terminal D and every 15 minutes to Terminals B and C, which are much further away. The standard fare for the express train is at 470 rubles in the middle between the taxis and the marshrutkas or buses. In addition, the Aeroexpress ticket is also valid as a network ticket with the name Metro + for the Moscow Metro. The Aeroexpress runs every 30 or 60 minutes. Conversely, passengers who fly to an inner-Russian airport from Terminals B or C save a lot of time checking in and dropping off their luggage at the Belarusian train station.
- The second fastest and yet inexpensive connection are minibuses, called marshrutkas , which are used as collective taxis. They run on fixed lines between the airport and the two nearest metro stations, Rechnoi Voksal and Planernaya . These collective taxis always leave as soon as they are fully occupied. The fare is 60 rubles per person and 10 to 20 rubles per piece of luggage.
- The slowest and cheapest connections are the bus lines to some stations of the Moscow Metro, as well as to the Lobnja railway station , from which there are express train connections to Moscow.
- The most expensive connection is a taxi to the city center. If there is a traffic jam on Leningrader Chaussee - the often congested main road between the airport and Moscow - the journey takes one to one and a half hours.
Airlines and Destinations
List of the most important airlines with the most frequently used terminals (as of December 2009):
Incidents
- On September 26, 1960, a Vickers Viscount 837 of Austrian Airlines ( aircraft registration OE-LAF ) was flown into a forest 10 kilometers from the target while approaching Moscow-Sheremetyevo and crashed. During this controlled flight into terrain , 31 of the 37 people on board were killed ( see also Austrian Airlines flight 901 ) .
- On November 27, 1972, a Douglas DC-8 -62 crashed while climbing on the way to Tokyo . There were 14 crew members and 62 passengers on board, of which 9 members of the crew and 52 passengers were killed.
- On November 28, 1976 crashed Tupolev Tu-104 of Aeroflot shortly after takeoff resulting from a failure of the artificial horizon. All 67 passengers and 6 crew members were killed.
- On July 6, 1982, an Ilyushin Il-62 of Aeroflot crashed while taking off, killing all 90 occupants (see also Aeroflot flight 411 ) .
- On July 28, 2002, an Ilyushin Il-86 of Pulkovo Airlines (RA-86060) with only one crew crashed shortly after take-off. Of the 16 occupants, 14 were killed (see also Pulkovo Airlines flight 9560 ) .
- On June 3, 2014, a decommissioned and parked Ilyushin Il-96 of Aeroflot with the registration number RA-96010 caught fire in the cockpit due to alleged spontaneous combustion and burned out. The plane was totaled , no people were injured.
- On 5 May 2019, a left Sukhoi Superjet 100 -95 of Aeroflot (registration RA-89098 ) after a hard emergency landing in flames. 41 people were killed and up to 37 injured. The crew of the aircraft on the flight from Moscow-Sheremetyevo to Murmansk reported an emergency shortly after take-off and returned to the airport. A lightning strike is said to have played a role in the course of the incident (see also Aeroflot flight 1492 ) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Russian Aviation Agency : Passenger Statistics of Russian Airports 2015/2016. (PDF) Retrieved August 29, 2017 (Russian).
- ↑ Map of the airport. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f website of the airport
- ↑ List of the largest airports in Europe
- ↑ see the airport express online timetable ( memento from March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), website is no longer up-to-date!
- ↑ Accident report Viscount 800 OE-LAF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 3, 2018.
- ↑ accident report DC-8-62 JA8040 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 11 December of 2019.
- ^ ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev 104B CCCP-42471 Moskva-Sheremetyevo . Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ^ ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin 62M CCCP-86513 Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) . July 6, 1982. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- ^ Accident report IL-86 RA-86060 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 31, 2019.
- ↑ Anna Baumbach: Aeroflot's jet catches fire. aerotelegraph.com, June 3, 2014. Accessed September 6, 2014
- ^ Accident report IL-96 RA-96010 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 11, 2019.
- ↑ Accident: Aeroflot SU95 at Moscow on May 5th 2019, aircraft bursts into flames during rollout and burns down. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
- ↑ В московском аэропорту Шереметьево загорелся самолет. Главное. Novaya Gazeta, May 5, 2019
- ↑ СКР возбудил дело из-за авиакатастрофы в «Шереметьево». Vedomosti, May 5, 2019
- ↑ At least 13 die in plane fire at Moscow airport. TASS, May 5, 2019.
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