Boryspil International Airport

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Boryspil International Airport Міжнародний аеропорт "Бориспіль"
IATA: KBP – ICAO: UKBB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Civil Government
Serves		Kiev
Location		Boryspil
Hub for		Aerosvit Airlines Ukraine International Airlines
Elevation AMSL		130 m / 427 ft
Coordinates		50°20′41″N 030°53′36″E
Website		www.kbp.aero
Map
KBP Location in Kiev Oblast
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
18L/36R	4,000	13,123	Concrete
18R/36L	3,500	11,483	Concrete
Statistics (2011)
Passengers			8,029,400
Flights			100,000
Source: Official website Ukrainian AIP at EUROCONTROL Statistics: passengers Kyiv Post, Flights Boryspil Airport

Boryspil International Airport (IATA: KBP, ICAO: UKBB) is an international airport located 6 km (3.7 mi) west of Boryspil, 29 km (18 mi) east of Kiev. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving the major part of international flights of the country, and is one of three airports that serve Kiev. The airport is a member 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.

The reconstructed terminal B (Boryspil's original terminal) as seen from the apron

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 had 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 consisting 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.

By 1980s, Boryspil airport had begun 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 being restricted to flying only from Moscow airports.

In the late 1980s, Mikheil Saakashvili, the current President of Georgia, served his conscript service in the Soviet border guard's Boryspil Separate Group that was maintaining border control in the airport.

Former domestic Terminal A (Closed to passengers in 2011)

In 1993 the Ministry of Transportation of the newly-independent Ukraine reorganized the 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 ever since.

Early in the 2000s (decade), 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 2001, a new runway was completed and the airport carried 1.5 million passengers. The airport has ILS CAT IIIa status.

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. The Airport consistently accounted for between 60% and 70% of Ukraine’s air travel demand, and despite a drop of 13% in 2009 it handled 5.8 million passengers last year, more than it handled in 2007.

As of February 14, 2012, the airport has managed to survive the current European cold wave without major flight delays or cancellations.

Ongoing development

Boryspil International Airport handles most of Ukraine's international traffic. Terminal B, with only eleven gates, two of which were air bridges, was not enough to handle all international flights from the airport. This was the reason for the expansion of that terminal, which started in 2005. The first-stage expansion of 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 that it remains airside).

Check-in desks in terminal B

There are also plans to expand 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. The construction of Terminal D was approved on 28 July 2008 and is expected to be completed by 2011 at a cost of UAH 1.661 billion (USD 208 million). The terminal will have a capacity of 1,500 passengers per hour and cover an area of 44.9 hectares. Platform M, which is connected to Terminal B and requires redevelopment, was to be reconstructed in 2009-2010. The reason for the delay in its the reconstruction was the fact that Terminal B needs to be fully operational first. When Terminal D opens (building began on 24 October 2008), platform M can be reconstructed without having a major impact on traffic.

A new runway will be constructed from 2012 to 2014. The construction of Terminal D is slated to be completed by the beginning of 2012, increasing the airport's passenger handling facilities significantly. As of November 1, 2010, Terminal F is in operation. By 2020, if all plans proceed, the airport should have a capacity of 18 million passengers per year.

New hotels will also open near Boryspil Airport. A Radisson hotel at Boryspil airport is planned to open in late 2011.

Infrastructure

Boryspil airport is equipped with two runways, with the terminals occupying a centre-field location. The airport's eastern No. 1 runway (36R-18L) built in 2001 and now serves many international flights, in particular those to Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. On the other hand, No. 2 runway (36L-18R - the airport's western runway) is planned for the near term, whilst in the long term (2012-14) there are plans to build a third crosswind runway at the airport.

Short stay car parking facilities at the airport are provided in the immediate vicinity of terminals B and F, whilst long term parking facilities can be found in the vicinity of the airport's access road and 'station square'. In addition to these current existing facilities, the airport is, in connection with the construction of Terminal D, building its first multi-storey car park facility; this will be a combined long and short stay car park.

Terminals

Boryspil International Airport currently has three operational terminals; one of which is a VIP terminal. However a large new international terminal (Terminal D) is under construction and there is, additionally, one planned terminal (Terminal E) which is to have a per hour capacity of 2,000 passengers and is expected to be completed ca. 2015. The airport's largely overcrowded domestic terminal (Terminal A) was closed on September 15, 2011, in favour of transferring all domestic operations to Terminal B.

Terminal B

Departures hall in Terminal B

Terminal B (Domestic/International)

Terminal B currently serves domestic/international flights - (The terminal will operate as a domestic/international terminal upon completion of Terminal D); it is the airport's main terminal. Terminal B has recently undergone an extensive, long-term reconstruction in order to increase throughput. In the terminal is host to a number of shops, cafes and bars, offices of airlines, travel agencies, and banks, it also provides a business center, luggage storage and free Wi-Fi access to all passengers. The ground floor plays host to the airport's waiting area and check-in desks, whilst security and passport (immigration) control, the main departure lounge and the terminal's boarding gates are located on the second floor. After passport control, passengers wait in the departure lounge where there is a business lounge, a number of cafes, restaurants and duty free shops. Terminal B is the main hub (and transit terminal) for Aerosvit - Ukrainian Airlines. On September 15, 2011 terminal serves all domestic flights of departure and arrival. This completed area of ​​domestic flights, which occupies the right wing under construction site.

Terminal D

A visualisation of terminal D which will open in mid 2012

Terminal D (construction as of 29.10.2011)

Terminal D is near completion. Construction began on 24 March 2008 with a capacity of 3,100 passengers per hour. As of December 27th 2011 construction of the terminal has been complete, and the terminal infrastructure is being prepared for launch. Upon completion Terminal D will become the airport's main international departures and arrivals facility. The terminal has been designed to support an integrated system for monitoring and directing arriving and departing passengers; this will be ensured by implementing a scheme of movement based on the principle of multi-level zoning - departing passengers will use the airport's upper floors, whilst those arriving and yet to pass through immigration will be processed on a lower level. The basement and ground floor of the airport will be utilised for airside service and the sorting of baggage. Airside, the ground floor is expected to be used for the airport's arrivals zone and baggage hall. The terminal is to be accessed by an exit from the airport's central access road for arrivals, and in the same way but via a ramp for departures (this will then allow passengers to make seamless transfers from auto transport to air. The Ukrainian Border Guard and State Customs Service will maintain control points both for arriving and departing passengers. The terminal will, upon opening, have a number of gates equipped with jetways and additional 'bus gates'. Under current plans the terminal will only serve arriving and departing fan charter flights for the duration of Euro 2012 and will then become an international flights only terminal, however potential changes have recently been announced which would see the terminal serving both international and domestic services after the end of the European football cup.

Terminal F

The main entrance to Terminal F (International)

Terminal F was opened on 21 September 2010 as a home base for Ukraine International Airlines. Terminal F started handling regular flights as of October 31, 2010 with an initial capacity of 900 passengers/hour. The terminal serves (in addition to UIA) 21 passenger airlines: UM Air, Utair Ukraine, Air Baltic, Armavia, Adria Airways, Belavia, Caspian Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Georgian Airways, Germanwings, Libyan Arab airlines, Lufthansa, Finnair , S7 Airlines, and others. The terminal was opened on 21 September 2010, and the opening ceremony was attended by a number of distinguished guests. The first passengers were received on October 31.

Airlines and destinations

Aerosvit is the largest carrier operating at Boryspil

Aircraft parked on the apron for service at Terminal B

A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 lands from Istanbul.

The Ukrainian governmental air fleet is based at Boryspil

All scheduled domestic routes from Boryspil Airport

Ukrainian entry and exit stamps from immigration at Boryspil

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo	B
Aerosvit	Aktau, Almaty, Antalya, Astana, Athens, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June 2012], Bishkek, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Cairo, Chernivtsi, Chişinǎu, Colombo, Delhi, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul-Atatürk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kaliningrad, Karlovy Vary, Kharkiv, Kostanay, Krakow, Larnaca, London-Gatwick, Minsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Naples, New York-JFK, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Odesa, Prague, Rostov-on-Don [begins 2 June 2012], St Petersburg, Samarkand, Simferopol, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Toronto-Pearson, Vilnius, Warsaw-Chopin, Yerevan, Yekaterinburg [begins 24 April 2012] Charter Seasonal: Bodrum, Dalaman, Heraklion, Hurghada, Malta, Pula, Punta-Cana, Salzburg, Sham-El-Sheikh, Split, Tenerife, Thessaloniki	D
Air Arabia	Sharjah	B
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle	F
Air Moldova	Chişinǎu	F
AirBaltic	Riga	B
Air One	Milan-Malpensa [begins 17 September 2012]	TBA
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino	F
Arkia Israel Airlines	Tel Aviv	B
Armavia	Yerevan	F
Astra Airlines	Seasonal: Thessaloniki	B
Austrian Airlines	Vienna Seasonal: Innsbruck	F
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways	Vienna	F
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku	F
Belavia	Minsk	B
British Airways	London-Heathrow	F
Caspian Airlines	Tehran-Imam Khomeini	F
Cimber Sterling	Copenhagen	F
Czech Airlines	Prague	B
Dniproavia	Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Odesa, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Uzhgorod	B
Donavia	Rostov-on-Don	B
Donbassaero	Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Simferopol, Vilnius, Yerevan	B
El Al	Tel Aviv	B
Estonian Air	Tallinn	F
Finnair	Helsinki [ends 11 March 2012]	F
Flydubai	Dubai	F
Georgian Airways	Batumi, Tbilisi	F
KLM	Amsterdam	F
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw-Chopin	B
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich	F
Lufthansa operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Düsseldorf	F
Motor Sich Airlines	Luhansk, Zaporizhia	B
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Oslo-Gardermoen [begins 8 June 2012]	B
Orenair	Orenburg	F
Qatar Airways	Doha [begins 2 June 2012]	B
Rossiya	St Petersburg	F
Royal Jordanian	Amman-Queen Alia	F
RusLine	Yekaterinburg	F
S7 Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo	F
Somon Air	Dushanbe (via Simferopol) [begins 29 March]	TBA
Transaero Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo	B
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk	B
Turkmenistan Airlines	Ashgabat	F
Ukraine International Airlines	Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv, Odesa, Simferopol	B
Ukraine International Airlines	Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Amsterdam, Antalya, Astana, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June 2012], Brussels, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Frankfurt, Geneva, Helsinki, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich [begins 27 May, 2012], Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pula, Rome-Fiumicino, Samara, Split, Tehran-Imam Khomeini [begins 25 March, 2012], Tel Aviv, Tbilisi, Vienna, Zurich	F
Ural Airlines	Yekaterinburg	F
UM Airlines	Amman-Queen Alia, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Tehran-Imam Khomeini	F
UTair Aviation	Surgut	F
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent	F
Wind Jet	Rimini	F
Wind Rose Aviation	Batumi, Kaliningrad, Kutaisi, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Pula, Tashkent, Tbilisi	F

Cargo airlines

Official delegations of foreign governments typically land at Boryspil

Airlines	Destinations
Aero Charter	Kharkiv, Luxembourg, Leipzig/Halle, Simferopol
DHL Express	Leipzig/Halle
Kallita Air	Bahrain
Motor Sich Airlines	Ankara, Bratislava, Zaporizhia
Ukraine International Airlines	Faro, Vienna
Volga-Dnepr	Russia

Other facilities

The head office of Aerosvit is located on the airport property.

VIP and governmental facilities

Terminal C (current VIP terminal)

Boryspil 2, the Ukrainian Government's new VIP facility (under construction)

Terminal C serves business jets and VIP passengers. Currently a new VIP facility (named 'Boryspil 2') is under construction at the northern end of the airport's east runway. This facility is expected to serve deputes of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian president, high-ranking members of the Ukrainian government and other foreign officials and delegates. The terminal will serve Ukrainian officials at a rate of 180 UAH per person, whilst others wishing to use its facilities will be expected to pay a minimum of 1100 UAH. PLans for the new VIP terminal show that it will cost around 350 million UAH and will have the capacity to serve around 150 passengers an hour. Unlike Boryspil's other terminals, the new government/VIP facility will not be accessible from the airport's centre-field access road, instead it will have controlled access from the town of Boryspil which will thus allow access to the Boryspil-Kiev highway.

Public transport connections

Buses provide the most affordable transfer between the airport and Kiev.

Currently, Boryspil airport is connected to the Ukrainian capital and its wider metropolitan area only through the road network. The airport's entrance is located at the 'Boryspil' junction of the M03M03 national road.

Road transport

Several bus and minibus lines serve the airport, connecting it to the closest stations of the Syretsko-Pecherska Line and the central railway station; there are also intercity bus lines to other regions of Ukraine.

Boryspil has a number of long-stay guarded car parks as well as designated drop-off points and taxi stands. Taxis can be booked for a set price at counters inside the airports terminal buildings.

Future railway connection

In August 2010, the Ukrainian government announced plans to build a rail link from the airport to Kiev's central station, aiming to complete this project by spring 2012, in time for the Euro 2012 football tournament to be held in Poland and Ukraine. Currently the government expects to use new trains of a higher speed than those typical for Ukrainian railways. In September 2010, an agreement was reached with the Chinese Government and a Chinese construction firm to fund and begin work on this project. The line's route will comprise an 8 km electrified spur from an existing rail line, terminating in the airport's central terminal area.

The line will be served by a dedicated passenger terminal at Kiev's central station and will have a small number of intermediate stops (including the Darnytsia Railway Station) before finally reaching the airport. There are two stations planned to serve the airport, one of which will serve terminal D, whilst the other will be located close to terminals B, C and F.

Accidents and incidents

• On 5 September 2004, an An-12, of the Antonov Design Bureau ran off the runway, causing the undercarriage to collapse. The aircraft was then written off as damaged beyond repair. There were no fatalities.
• On 5 September 1992, a Tu-154 of Air Ukraine; after takeoff from Kiev the undercarriage failed to retract properly. The crew decided to return. However, on approach the left hand main gear failed to extend. An emergency landing was carried out. There were no fatalities amongst the 147 passengers or crew. The aircraft was written off.
• In 1976 a Tu-104 of Aeroflot overshot the runway after its engines had been turned off in flight. There were no fatalities although the aircraft was damaged beyond repair and written off.
• In 1976 a Tu-154 of Aeroflot sustained structural damage on a heavy landing. The aircraft was withdrawn and is now preserved at the Ukraine State Aviation Museum. There were no fatalities.
• On 16 September 1971 a Tu-134 of Malev on approach to Kiev, sufferedwhich a generator failure forced the crew to switch to batteries for power supply. Foggy weather then forced the crew to abort two approaches. Upon landing the Tupolev then crashed and broke up. There were 41 passenger fatalities and 8 amongst the crew, with no survivors.

See also

• Ukrainian airports

External links

• Boryspil International Airport, official website (Ukrainian) (Russian) (English)
• Current weather for UKBB at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for KBP at Aviation Safety Network