Moscow Vnukovo Airport
| Vnukovo International Airport Внуково |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | UUWW |
| IATA code | VKO |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 209 m (686 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 30 km southwest of Moscow |
| Local transport | Bus 611, 911; AeroExpress to the city center |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1941 |
| Passengers | 13.95 million (2016) |
| Air freight | 44,153 t (2016) |
| Runways | |
| 01/19 | 3060 m × 45 m asphalt concrete |
| 06/24 | 3500 m × 60 m cement concrete |
The Vnukovo International Airport ( IATA : VKO , ICAO : UUWW ; English transcription Vnukovo , Russian Внуково ) is the third largest and oldest international commercial airport in the metropolitan area of the Russian capital Moscow .
Location and transport links
Vnukovo Airport is located about 30 km southwest of Moscow city center and about 11 km from the Moscow ring road, close to the M 3 motorway, towards Smolensk and Minsk . The railway line from Moscow to Kiev runs near the airport . In 2005 a branch was built from this railway line directly to the airport and an underground train station there, giving Vnukowo a direct rail connection for the first time. The airport is closer to the city center than Domodedovo or Sheremetyevo . But this also has disadvantages - there are narrow limits to expansion with new runways or night flights due to the nearby development.
The airport is named after the nearby suburb of Wnukowo, which has around 20,000 inhabitants and is officially a district of Moscow in the West district , although it is remote from the rest of Moscow as an exclave .
The fastest connection is the Aeroexpress train, which runs every 60 minutes without stopping to the Kiev train station . The journey takes 35 minutes and a single ticket costs 420 rubles (as of January 6, 2016). It is possible to purchase a "Metro +" ticket, which is also valid for a trip on the metro .
From the Yugo-Sapadnaya metro station , the airport can also be reached by buses, taxis and shared taxis - cheaper than the Aeroexpress, but also with longer travel times.
Infrastructure
The airport has two runways of 3060 m and 3500 m in length, but they cross each other and cannot be operated independently of one another. Up to 2,300 passengers can be handled every hour. In 2010 about 9.5 million passengers used the airport.
The city of Moscow wants to develop Vnukowo as a new international airport. To this end, the then President Putin had the city of Moscow transfer 60 percent of Vnukovo shares from the Federation's holdings at the end of 2003. The airport is making a profit and Mayor Yuri Luzhkov wanted to continuously increase the number of passengers at the airport and repeat the success of Domodedovo with large investments . In recent years, the airport has been expanded to include a modernized terminal for long-distance traffic with Europe. a. Germanwings handles flights to Germany. Another passenger terminal was also built in the 2000s. It was completed in July 2010 and is expected to handle international flights in the future. At the end of December 2012, the passenger area was expanded again. The airport's capacity has increased to 30 million passengers per year. Airbus A380 aircraft can now also be handled.
Vnukowo also serves as a government airport. This can lead to disruptions in passenger traffic during important political meetings.
Airlines and Destinations
Moscow-Vnukowo is currently mainly used for numerous connections within Russia and some Eastern European destinations, for example Samara , Krasnodar , Arkhangelsk or Simferopol . The largest local airline is UTair , which operates a base here. From Germany, UTair fly to the airport from Berlin and Pobeda from Cologne / Bonn , Baden-Baden / Karlsruhe , Memmingen and Leipzig . These partly replace the connections to Moscow Domodedovo . The Russian company Red Wings Airlines is based here and flies to Mediterranean destinations in particular.
Incidents
- On November 5, 1946, bad weather and chaotic conditions at air traffic control in Vnukowo resulted in three crashes of Aeroflot passenger planes within less than 50 minutes after the planes each flew around the airport for more than 2 hours and ran out of fuel (see also Flight accident of the Lissunow Li-2 CCCP-L4181 of Aeroflot , flight accident of the Douglas C-47 CCCP-L946 of Aeroflot and flight accident of the Lissunow Li-2 CCCP-L4207 of Aeroflot ) .
- On February 13, 2007 was business aircraft of type Bombardier Challenger 850 at the start in flames. The airport was then temporarily closed.
- On December 29, 2012, a Tupolev-204 in the service of Red Wings Airlines shot over the runway during landing and broke. In the accident, 5 employees of the airline were killed on Kievskoye Chaussee . → Main article: Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268
- On October 20, 2014, a French Dassault Falcon 50 collided with a snow plow while taking off. The four occupants in the jet died, among them the general manager of Total SA Christophe de Margerie . The driver of the snow plow was unharmed. The general director of the airport, Andrei Djakov, and his deputy Sergei Solntsev resigned. In addition, three responsible persons were temporarily suspended from work (see also the aviation accident of the total manager Christophe de Margerie ) .
Web links
- Vnukovo Airport - official website ( Russian and English )
- Official information page of the Wnukowo district
- Practical information - how to get there and connections to other Moscow airports
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Russian Aviation Agency : Passenger Statistics of Russian Airports 2015/2016. (PDF) Retrieved September 5, 2017 (Russian).
- ↑ airliners.de - News from all over the world week 1/2013 January 4, 2013
- ↑ Russia Today: Moscow plane crash: Deathtoll rises to five . Retrieved December 30, 2012
- ^ "Moscow: Five suspects after the accidental death of Total boss de Margerie" . In: "RIA Novosti, October 23, 2014". Retrieved November 3, 2014.
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