Boryspil International Airport
Boryspil International Airport Міжнародний аеропорт "Бориспіль" | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Government | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Kiev, Ukraine | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 130 m / 427 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°20′41″N 030°53′36″E / 50.34472°N 30.89333°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | airport-boryspil.kiev.ua | ||||||||||||||
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Boryspil International Airport (IATA: KBP, ICAO: UKBB) is an international airport located 6 km (3.7 mi) west[2] of Boryspil, 29 km (18 mi) east[2] of Kiev. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving the major part of international flights of the country.
Boryspil Airport is one of three airports that serve Kiev. Zhulyany Airport is a passenger airport located in the south part of Kiev; the airport serves predominantly domestic flights. Gostomel Airport is a cargo airport located in the north-western suburb of Kiev, mostly used by Antonov company.
Boryspil State International Airport is part of Airports Council International.
History
On 22 June 1959, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ordered establishment of regular civil air traffic to the then military airfield near Boryspil. On 7 July 1959 the new airport (named Kiev-Tsentralnyi) received its first scheduled flight. It was Aeroflot's Tupolev Tu-104 en route from Moscow, carrying 100 passengers and about 3,500 pounds (1,600 kg) of cargo aboard. The first routes served were Moscow–Kiev–Moscow and Leningrad–Kiev–Leningrad.
In November 1960, the first permanent air group consisting of Tu-104 and Antonov An-10 planes was assigned to the airport. Until then the airport has been served only by aircraft based in Moscow and other cities of the Soviet Union. A new passenger terminal of Boryspil airport was opened in 1965. Later that year an automatic landing assistance system was installed in the airport.
In 1963 the Ukrainian Territorial Administration of Civil Aviation formed its Boryspil subdivision comprising of the airport and its air group. The air group grew significantly in 1960-1970s. As of 1974 it was consisting of four fleets of turbofan aircraft (Tu-104, Tu-134, Tu-154 planes) and two fleets of turboprop aircraft (Ilyushin Il-18 planes).
Towards the final decades of the Cold War, the Soviet Air Force maintained a presence at the airport with 1 VTAP (1st Military Aviation Transportation Regiment) flying Ilyushin Il-76 cargo jets.
In 1980s Boryspil airport began receiving limited international flights. The additional passenger services and customs/border control groups were established for that purpose. However, ordinary Soviet citizens were not allowed to depart abroad from Kiev, instead restricted to fly only from Moscow airports. In late 1980s, Mikhail Saakashvili, the President of modern Georgia, served his conscript service in the Soviet border guard's Boryspil Separate Group that was maintaining border control in the airport.
In 1993 the Ministry of Transportation of the newly-independent Ukraine reorganized airport into the Boryspil State International Airport and created a local subdivision of Air Ukraine to serve it. The airport was opened for any passengers and flights. The number of air- and passenger traffic has been growing since then.
In early 2000s Boryspil became a hub airport serving not only destined but also transit flights of the foreign airlines. The strategy of the airport's development is stressing the hub role since domestic passenger demand is growing insufficiently compared to the possible transit traffic.
In 2002 the airport was certified under the ISO 9001 quality management system.
It is one of Eastern Europe's largest airports with over six million passengers travelling in 2008.[5] The airport handles around 60% of all commercial air traffic in Ukraine.[6]
Structure
The airport has three terminals:
- Terminal A (Domestic flights)
- Terminal B (International flights)
- Terminal C (VIP passengers)
The building of Terminal D started on 24 October 2008[7]. It is expected that Terminal E with a 2,000 passengers per hour capacity will be completed by 2015. A further terminal of unspecified capacity is also planned for development by 2020.[8]
Development
Boryspil International Airport handles most of Ukraine's international traffic. Terminal B, having only five gates at the time, two of which were air bridges, was not enough to handle all international flights from the airport. This was the cause of the expansion of that terminal, which started in 2005. The first-stage expansion to Terminal B was opened on 27 January 2006. In 2008, passport control within Terminal B Departures was moved further east (along with the entrance to the main duty free shop so it remains airside).
There are also plans on expanding the airport further by building several new terminals. The government has been having meetings with the owners of land around the airport, trying to buy more land for airport expansion. Terminal D construction was approved on 28 July 2008 and is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2010 at a cost of UAH 1.661 billion. The terminal will have a capacity of 1,500 passengers per hour and cover an area of 44.9 hectares[9]. Platform M, which is connected to Terminal B and requires redevelopment, is going to be reconstructed in 2009-2010. The reason the reconstruction of Platform M is delayed is because Terminal B needs to be fully operational. When Terminal D opens (building started on 24 October 2008[7]), platform M can be reconstructed without major impact on traffic.
A new runway will be constructed in 2012-2014. The construction of Terminal E will be completed by 2015 and it will have a capacity of 2,000 passengers per hour. The construction of a Terminal F is going to take place by 2020, corresponding to passenger density demands, and it will be capable of handling Airbus's A380. By 2020, if all plans go ahead the airport should have a capacity of more than 20 million passengers per year[8].
New hotels will also open near Boryspil Airport. A Radisson hotel at Boryspil airport will open in late 2009.
Airlines and destinations
Terminal A
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aerosvit Airlines | Kharkiv, L'viv, Odessa, Simferopol |
| Dniproavia | Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, L'viv, Odessa, Simferopol, Uzhgorod |
| Donbassaero | Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odessa, Simferopol |
| Motor Sich Airlines | Zaporizhia |
| Ukraine International Airlines | L'viv, Odessa, Simferopol |
| Wind Rose Aviation | Simferopol |
| Wizz Air Ukraine | Simferopol |
Terminal B
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Adria Airways | Ljubljana |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| Aerosvit Airlines | Almaty, Astana, Athens, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Belgrade, Budapest, Cairo [begins 27 October], Delhi, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Larnaca, Minsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Naples, New York-JFK, Prague, Riga, Sofia, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Toronto-Pearson, Vilnius, Warsaw |
| Air Arabia | Sharjah |
| Air Baltic | Riga |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Alitalia | Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino |
| Arkia Israel Airlines | Tel Aviv [begins 7 October] |
| Armavia | Yerevan |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna |
| Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku |
| Belavia | Minsk |
| BMI | London-Heathrow |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow |
| Caspian Airlines | Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| Cham Wings Airlines | Damascus |
| Czech Airlines | Prague |
| Delta Air Lines | New York-JFK [seasonal] |
| DonbassAero | Ganja, Vilnius, Yerevan |
| El Al | Tel Aviv |
| Estonian Air | Tallinn |
| Finnair | Helsinki |
| Georgian Airlines | Batumi, Tbilisi |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| Libyan Airlines | Tripoli |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Düsseldorf |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest |
| Nouvelair | Djerba |
| Rossiya | St. Petersburg |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Scandinavian Airlines System | Copenhagen |
| Sky Georgia | Batumi, Tbilisi |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Abu Dhabi [begins 25 September], Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Kuwait, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pula, Rome-Fiumicino, Tbilisi, Vienna, Zürich |
| UM Airlines | Beirut, Damascus, Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| UTair Aviation | Surgut |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent |
| Wind Rose Aviation | Ashgabat, Astana, Moscow-Domodedovo, Tashkent |
| Wizz Air | London-Luton |
| Wizz Air Ukraine | Antalya, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Katowice, Memmingen, Oslo-Torp |
Terminal C
Business Jets and VIP Passengers
Terminal D
The building of Terminal D started on 24 March 2008[7]. Terminal D with a 1,500 passengers per hour capacity is expected to be completed by December 2010[10].
Terminal E
The building of Terminal E started 4 October 2008. It is expected that Terminal E will be able to handle 2,000 passengers per hour and be completed by 2012[11]. It will be used by Aerosvit Ukrainian Airlines.
Cargo airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aero Charter | Kharkov, Luxembourg, Leipzig/Halle, Simferopol |
| Cargolux | Luxembourg |
| DHL Express | Brussels |
| Motor Sich Airlines | Ankara, Bratislava, Zaporozhye |
| Volare Airlines (Ukraine) | London-Luton, Lviv |
| Volga-Dnepr | Russia |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Faro, Vienna |
| Ukrainian Cargo Airways | Asia, Europe, Ukraine, Middleast |
References
- ^ Boryspil International Airport, official website
- ^ a b c EAD Basic
- ^ Cabinet endorses Boryspil Airport's 2009 financial plan with Hr 188 million of profits
- ^ Boryspil Airport
- ^ 6 millionth passenger
- ^ Overview of Ukrainian airport infrastructure
- ^ a b c [1]
- ^ a b [2]
- ^ http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/138815.html
- ^ http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/158467.html
- ^ http://www.investukraine.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80
External links
- Boryspil International Airport, official website Template:Ua icon Template:Ru icon Template:En icon
- Current weather for UKBB at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for KBP / UKBB at Aviation Safety Network
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