Pulkovo airport
| Pulkovo Airport Аэропо́рт Пу́лково |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | ULLI |
| IATA code | LED |
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| Height above MSL | 24 m (79 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 14 km south of Saint Petersburg |
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| Basic data | |
| opening | 1932 |
| operator | Northern Capital Gateway |
| Terminals | 3, of which only one is currently in operation |
| Passengers | 18,122,286 (2018) |
| Air freight | 25,856 t (2006) |
| Flight movements |
165,418 (2018) |
| Runways | |
| 10R / 28L | 3780 m × 60 m concrete |
| 10L / 28R | 3397 m × 60 m concrete |
The Pulkovo Airport ( Russian Аэропорт Пулково / Aeroport Pulkovo , IATA code : LED , ICAO code : ULLI ) is located about 14 kilometers south from the center of Saint Petersburg and is named after the district Pulkovo ( Пулково named). With around 16.1 million passengers in 2017, the airport is the fourth largest in Russia. From 1924 to 1991 the city was called Leningrad, hence the IATA code LED.
Location and transport links
The airport is located on Pulkowoer Chaussee, which, extended over Moskovsky Prospect, leads to the center of the city. In 2007, the Petersburg ring road KAD was connected to Pulkowoer Chaussee, on which the access to the airport is about one kilometer south. This makes it possible to bypass the city center in order to get to the northern part of Petersburg.
In addition to regular buses and marshrutki , an express bus connects the airport to the metro (underground) and central points in the city center. This way, overpriced and sometimes illegal taxi offers can be avoided.
The airport is geologically (like the whole city of St. Petersburg) on the former seabed. The former coastline is the Pulkower Heights, about 4 km south of the airport. The Pulkovo Observatory ( English : Pulkovo Space Observatory, Russian : Пу́лковская астрономи́ческая обсервато́рия ), which is an observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is located on Pulkovo Hill and is usually easy to see on the approach .
For several years now, a business park with several office buildings has been built in the vicinity of the airport, especially around the international terminal Pulkowo-2. Many shopping and entertainment centers have settled in the wider area. One of these centers is called “Pulkowo III” based on the airport terminals.
The transport connection to the new Terminal 1 is criticized. In the area of local public transport, there is still only the bus route 39, which previously served the old Terminal I. Traveling by car is difficult and often time-consuming due to insufficient parking spaces. The tram connection decided on for the 2018 World Cup has not yet been implemented, so the airport can still only be reached by bus routes 39 or 39-Ex.
history
The construction of the Petersburg (then: Leningrad) airport began in January 1931. Originally the airport was called Schossejnaja (Шоссейная; German Landstrasse / Chaussee ). It was opened with a flight from Moscow, which landed on June 24, 1932 after two and a half hours of flight time at 17:31 with passengers and freight (mail) on board in St. Petersburg.
In 1951, the airport was expanded to include today's Pulkowo-2 (International) terminal, which also allowed larger aircraft to land.
The name was changed to Pulkowo Airport in April 1973 with the inauguration of the second terminal (today Pulkowo-1, domestic flights). The terminal was connected to the city center by a spacious three-kilometer driveway from the expressway towards Moscow. It was already overloaded immediately after completion, so that the old plan of demolishing the building from 1951 and concentrating on the new facilities could not be carried out.
A serious aircraft accident occurred in 1974.
In 2003, for the 300th anniversary of the city, Pulkowo-2 was expanded with a new, expanded reception hall.
Until 2006, Pulkovo Airport and Pulkovo Airlines were jointly operated by Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise . Under pressure from the city of St. Petersburg and the Russian government, this link was broken on October 27, 2006. The airline then merged with the state-owned airline Rossija under their name. The seat of Rossija was moved from Moscow to Pulkovo Airport. In the summer of 2006 the runway 10L / 28R was expanded for the weather-independent ILS traffic. It is the first runway in Russia suitable for the new wide- bodied Airbus A380 .
According to the original plans, 50 percent of the airport should be owned by the city of St. Petersburg. In January 2007, however, the then President Putin agreed to the request of the St. Petersburg Governor Matvijenko to hand over the shares of the newly emerging Flughafen AG to the city in full. On March 1, 2007, the airport company announced the official establishment of the “OAO Aeroport Pulkovo” (German: Flughafen Pulkovo AG).
As part of an international tender from May 2008 to June 2009, the city of St. Petersburg was looking for a new airport operator. The Northern Capital Gateway consortium (Воздушные Ворота Северной Столицы) (NCG) prevailed. NCG has been operating the airport in a public-private partnership with a contract term of 30 years since April 29, 2010. In addition to taxes, a concession fee of 11.5% pa is paid to the city of Petersburg on sales. The Russian bank VTB Capital holds 57.5% of the shares in NCG , the German airport operator Fraport 35.5% and the Greek Copelouzos Group 7%. The new operator expects investments of 1.4 billion euros by 2025. These will be financed by loans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
In September 2006, the German Hochtief Airport presented a long-term planning study according to which the airport is to be greatly expanded by 2025 for 320 million euros. According to this study, Pulkowo-1 was to be modernized, expanded and expanded to include a new international Terminal 3 for national air traffic, which is to replace Pulkowo-2 on the other side of the airport. The significantly shorter transfer times between domestic and international flights are intended to improve the attractiveness, capacity and performance of the airport, so that the number of passengers could be increased from 7.1 million to 17.3 million in 2025. In the course of the takeover by the new operator consortium, the Russian government therefore asked the city of St. Petersburg to transfer 150 hectares of adjacent land from city ownership to the new airport company. This should significantly improve the airport's development prospects.
A project by the British firm Grimshaw and Partners was selected for the new building in an architectural competition in 2007 . Construction of the new terminal began at the end of September 2010 and the groundbreaking ceremony took place on November 24, 2010 in the presence of Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin . The new Terminal 1 was finally opened on December 4, 2013.
After a transition phase of 4 months, the old international Terminal II was completely closed on March 27, 2014. The last two flights that were handled from this building were two KLM and Air France planes with destinations Amsterdam and Paris. However, the building should not be demolished, but reserved as a reserve.
The old national Terminal I is also closed as of April 2014. However, after a renovation it is to be reopened and connected to the new Terminal 1. An exact date for this is not known.
Terminal building
Former terminals
The two former terminals Pulkowo-I and Pulkowo-II were closed within 4 months after the completion of the new Terminal 1. From Pulkowo-1 mainly domestic flights and flights within the CIS were carried out. Pulkowo-2 mainly served international air traffic.
Current Terminal
On December 4, 2013, the new, modern Terminal 1 was opened. It borders directly on Pulkowo-I and handles national and international traffic. Since March 28, 2014, all flights have only been processed via the new terminal. It is planned to renovate the old Pulkowo-I terminal and connect it to the new building by building a passage.
capacity
Air traffic alone took in the 1990s by 50 percent to 4 million passengers in 2000. In 2005 there were already 4.7 million passengers and 2008 was Pulkovo 7.1 million passengers to the Moscow airports Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo the third largest airport in the Russian Federation. In 2009, due to the economic crisis and the decline in passenger numbers to 6.7 million, Pulkovo Airport was pushed out of third place by Moscow-Vnukovo Airport . In 2010, however, there was again strong growth to 8.44 million passengers. With the opening of Terminal 1 in December 2013, the airport's capacity increased to 17 million passengers per year.
The two former terminals Pulkovo I and II had 41 check-in counters, 17 gates, 4 passenger boarding bridges and 8 baggage carousels. The new Terminal 1 is equipped with 88 check-in counters and seven baggage belts. It also has 14 passenger boarding bridges. The capacity for the freight terminal is specified as 30,000 t / a with a storage area of 6000 m².
Goals in German-speaking countries
Various airlines fly non-stop to the airport from German-speaking countries: Lufthansa flies once or twice a day from Frankfurt and daily from Munich . Swiss flies daily from Zurich . Rossiya flies once or twice a day to Munich and daily to Düsseldorf , Hamburg and Berlin-Schönefeld . Pobeda flies to Cologne / Bonn Airport twice a week (Mondays and Fridays) (as of February 2019).
Traffic figures
| year | Passenger volume | Flight movements |
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| 2018 | 18.122.286 | 165.418 |
| 2017 | 16.125.520 | 152.280 |
| 2016 | 13.265.037 | 133,062 |
| 2015 | 13,499,755 | 138,327 |
| 2014 | 14.264.732 | 147,415 |
Web links
- Internet presence Airline Rossija (Russian)
- Pulkovo Airport website
- Announcement of the split of Pulkovo Aviation and the merger of the airlines with Rossija ( Memento of March 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Useful information about Pulkovo Airport with a map on the map
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Traffic Figures. Fraport.com , accessed on August 30, 2019 (English).
- ^ ACI ( Memento of February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d Airport relocation ended, Pulkowo 2 closed
- ^ Northern Capital Gateway LLC: Pulkovo Airport - Direction. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Russia News: "Pulkovo Airport goes into St. Petersburg ownership" (February 13, 2007)
- ↑ rufo: EBRD finances Pulkovo expansion . nov-ost business news. June 26, 2009. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
- ↑ Prime Minister of the Russin Federation: ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b c d aero.de - Fraport opens new large terminal in St.Petersburg December 6, 2013
- ↑ www.pulkovoairport.ru (English) ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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