Domodedovo International Airport

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Moscow Domodedovo Airport Аэропорт Домодедово
IATA: DME – ICAO: UUDD DME Location of airport in Moscow Oblast
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		East Line Group
Serves		Moscow
Location		Domodedovo
Hub for		S7 Airlines Transaero Airlines VIM Airlines Globus Airlines RusLine Moskovia Airlines
Elevation AMSL		588 ft / 179 m
Coordinates		55°24′31″N 37°54′22″E
Website		www.domodedovo.ru
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
14C/32C (Former)	2,600	8,531	Concrete
14L/32R	3,800	12,467	Reinforced concrete
14R/32L	3,500	11,483	Reinforced concrete
Statistics (2010)
Number of passengers			22,254,529
Aircraft movements			211,907
Sources: DAFIF,

Moscow Domodedovo Airport or Domodedovo International Airport (Russian: Московский аэропорт Домоде́дово Moskovsky Aeroport Domodedоvo) (IATA: DME, ICAO: UUDD) is an international airport located on the territory of Domodedovo Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction, Moscow Oblast, Russia, 42 kilometres (26 mi) south-southeast of the centre of Moscow. Domodedovo is the largest airport in Russia in terms of passenger and cargo traffic (22.25 million passengers used the airport in 2010, which is a 19.2% increase over 2009), and is one of the three major Moscow airports along with Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo.

In 2003, the airport began an expansion program designed to obtain approval for wide-body aircraft operations. The runway, taxiways and parking areas were enlarged and strengthened. In March 2009 it was announced that the approval had been granted, making Domodedovo Airport the first in Russia approved for NLA operations such as the Airbus A380. The approval signifies that its operations areas comply with size and strength requirements of ICAO Category F standards. The airport has ILS category III A status.

History

The airport is named after the town of Domodedovo, on the territory of which it is located.

Services from Domodedovo began in March 1964 with a flight to Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) using a Tupolev 104. The airport, intended to handle the growth of long-distance domestic traffic in the Soviet Union, was officially opened in May 1965. A second runway, parallel to the existing one, was put into service 18 months after the opening of the airport. On 26 December 1975, Domodedovo Airport was selected for the inaugural flight of Tupolev Tu-144 to Alma Ata, now called Almaty.

In 1993–1994, East Line Group, founded by Dmitry Kamenshik, who build capital in the early 1990s on hauling cargo from Asian countries to Russia, invested in several facilities at Domodedovo, including a new customs terminal and catering services. In late 1996, Kamenshik-led East Line Group privatized the terminal facilities of Domodedovo Airport and formed JSC 'International Airport Domodedovo' and several other commercial entities controlling the airfield operations at the airport. Since 1998, the runways, air traffic control and communication facilities are formally on a lease to the subsidiary of East Line Group. Later, in 2005 and 2008, the legality of these deals with East Line Group was contested by the Russian Rosimushchestvo government agency supervising the state property.

East Line's strategic goal to stabilize the airport's future and to establish Domodedovo as an important international and multi-modal transportation hub was gradually achieved throughout the 2000s (decade). In the 2000s (decade), East Line Group began to heavily invest in reconstruction and modernization of the outdated airport facilities. By 2009, the terminal floor space was expanded to 135,000 sq. meters from 70,000 sq. meters in 2004. The renovated terminal and airport facilities allowed the owners of the airport to attract British Airways, El Al, Swiss International Air Lines, Japan Airlines, and Austrian Airlines, who moved their flights from another major international Moscow airport, Sheremetyevo Airport, to Domodedovo. They were followed by Emirates, Brussels Airlines, Thai Airways International, Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways, Royal Jordanian and Lufthansa. Aeroflot also moved certain cargo operations to Domodedovo. The airport became the hub for some of Russia's major airlines like S7 Airlines and Transaero, which is now the main tenant in the airport. Domodedovo topped Sheremetyevo Airport in terms of passenger traffic becoming the busiest airport in Russia. By 2010, the traffic at Domodedovo spiked to over 22 million passengers per year from 2.8 million in 2000.

Domodedovo is Russia's first airport to have parallel runways operating simultaneously. Since the air traffic control tower was redeveloped in 2003, Domodedovo can control over 70 take-offs and landings an hour. By late 1st decade of the 21st century, the airport had five business lounges, set up by individual airlines.

Airbus A380 at Domodedovo International Airport, October 16–17, 2009. The first in Russia approved for NLA operations such as this type of aircraft size.

Domodedovo Airport has been the focus of two terrorist-related incidents. In 2004, suicide bombers managed to pass airport security and get aboard of two passenger planes and then carry out the bombings after departure from Domodedovo. Despite the heightened security measures taken after this incident, another suicide bomber attack occurred on January 24, 2011, when an Islamist militant entered the terminal building and detonated a bomb in the arrival hall. As a result, mandatory screening and pat-down practices have been introduced at the airport terminal entrances.

The identity of East Line's owners controlling the operations at Domodedovo Airport was vague with traces leading to offshore companies. However, in May 2011, Dmitry Kamenshik was disclosed to be the main beneficiary of East Line's assets. At that time, Domodedovo Airport contemplated IPO, however these plans were scrapped.

Transport links

Rail

Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER at international terminal

Domodedovo Airport train station

The airport has a railway station with service to the Paveletsky Rail Terminal in the central Moscow. Rail connection is provided by non-stop Aeroexpress trains (takes 45 min; coach class costs 320 rubles, business class costs 550 rubles), as well as by regular suburban commuter trains (takes 65 to 70 min and costs 99 rubles).

Road

The airport has several long and short term parking lots. The terminal itself is accessed from the junction of Moscow Ring Road and Kashirskoye Highway via a designated 14-mile-long four-lane freeway. Licensed taxi, limo services and car rental (Hertz, Avis and Sixt) providers are available at the counters of the arrival hall.

Terminals

Control tower at Domodedovo airport

Domodedovo passenger terminal

Domodedovo International terminal

Domodedovo Airport has one terminal building comprising two separate concourses for domestic (and some former Soviet republic countries) and international flights, respectively. It has 22 jetways altogether.

As of November 2011, new concourse extensions adjacent to the current terminal building are under construction. The construction is projected to increase the overall size of the passenger terminal to 225,000 m². The extensions are scheduled to open in stages in 2012 and 2013. All concourses will remain connected and planned to increase the efficiency of the airport operations and passenger connections by using ICAO and IATA transfer technologies.

Airbus A380 future operators

Airbus A380 landed in Domodedovo

Emirates is the first airline planning to put an Airbus A380 into service on Dubai-Moscow-Dubai route since 1 June of 2012.^{[citation needed]} Lufthansa has also been suggested to fly A380 on the routes to Frankfurt or Munich, Etihad to Abu-Dhabi and Qatar Airways to Doha.

Plans are also in discussion for hub airline Transaero, which has tentative orders for both the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental.

All A380 flights will depart from the new concourse.

Airlines and destinations

Swiss International Air Lines's Airbus A320

A British Airways Boeing 767

S7 Airlines's Boeing 737-800

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aegean Airlines	Athens Seasonal: Thessaloniki	A
AeroBratsk	Bratsk	B
Air Arabia	Sharjah	A
Air Berlin	Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June 2012], Düsseldorf, Munich	A
Air Malta	Malta	A
Air Moldova	Chişinău	B
AirBaltic	Riga	A
Ak Bars Aero	Bugulma, Chelyabinsk, Kaliningrad, Magnitogorsk, Nizhnekamsk, Tambov, Yoshkar-Ola	B
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise	Mirny, Polyarny	B
Armavia	Yerevan	A
Astra Airlines	Seasonal: Thessaloniki	A
Austrian Airlines	Vienna	A
Avia Traffic Company	Bishkek, Osh [begins 10 March]	A
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku	A
Azerbaijan Airlines operated by Turan Air	Ganja	B
Belavia	Minsk	B
British Airways	London-Heathrow	A
British Midland International	London-Heathrow	A
Brussels Airlines	Brussels	A
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong	A
Czech Connect Airlines	Karlovy-Vary	A
Donbassaero	Donetsk	A
EgyptAir	Cairo	A
El Al	Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	A
Emirates	Dubai	A
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi	A
Georgian Airways	Batumi, Kutaisi, Tbilisi	A
Globus Airlines	Anapa, Barnaul, Chita, Kaliningrad, Sochi, St Petersburg, Ulan-Ude	B
Iberia	Madrid	A
IrAero	Kaunas	A
IrAero	Irkutsk	B
Irtysh Air	Pavlodar	A
Israir Airlines	Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	A
Itek Air	Bishkek, Osh	A
Izhavia	Izhevsk	B
Japan Airlines	Tokyo-Narita	A
Kogalymavia	Barcelona, Burgas, Hurghada	A
Kogalymavia	Kogalym, Surgut	B
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek, Osh	A
Lufthansa	Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June 2012], Düsseldorf [ends 2 June 2012], Frankfurt, Hamburg [ends 2 June 2012], Munich	A
Meridiana Fly	Bologna	A
Montenegro Airlines	Podgorica, Tivat	A
Moskovia Airlines	Andizhan, Antalya, Bukhara, Fergana, Ganja, Karshi, Namangan, Nukus, Podgorica, Samarkand, Termez, Tivat	A
Niki	Salzburg, Vienna	A
NordStar	Seasonal: Heraklion, Hurgada, Marsa Alam, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Tivat	A
NordStar	Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk, St Petersburg	B
Nouvelair	Tunis	A
Orenair	Orenburg, Orsk	B
Polet Airlines	Belgorod, Izhevsk, Lipetsk, Ulyanovsk, Voronezh, Yaroslavl	B
Qatar Airways	Doha	A
Rossiya	St Petersburg	B
Royal Jordanian	Amman-Queen Alia	A
RusLine	Aktobe, Kajaani, Kurgan, Palanga	A
RusLine	Apatity, Beloyarsky, Cheboksary, Elista, Grozny, Krasnodar, Makhachkala, Nalchik, Nyagan, Petrozavodsk, Stavropol, Volgograd, Voronezh	B
SCAT	Aktau, Aktyubinsk	A
S7 Airlines	Alicante, Ashgabad, Baku, Burgas, Chişinău, Dalaman, Frankfurt, Gorno-Altaysk [begins 28 March], Gyumri, Hurghada, Khudzhand, Kiev-Boryspil, Madrid, Munich, Osh, Palma de Mallorca, Podgorica, Rimini, Tbilisi, Tivat, Urgench, Valencia [begins 2 June 2012], Varna, Vienna, Yerevan Seasonal: Athens [begins 26 May 2012], Chambéry, Düsseldorf, Dublin, Innsbruck, Milan-Bergamo Orio al Serio, Plovdiv, Turin	A
S7 Airlines	Anapa, Astrakhan, Barnaul, Bratsk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Gorno-Altaysk [resumes 28 May], Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Mineralnye Vody, Minsk [begins 26 March], Nadym, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Norilsk, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoj, Omsk, Pavlodar, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, St Petersburg, Samara, Sochi, Stavropol, Surgut, Tomsk, Tyumen, Ufa, Ulan-Ude, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Vladikavkaz, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Yakutsk	B
S7 Airlines operated by Globus	Chita, Sochi, Ulan-Ude	B
S7 Airlines operated by Yakutia Airlines	Bratsk, Irkutsk	B
Saravia	Saratov	B
Severstal Air Company	Cherepovets	B
Singapore Airlines	Houston-Intercontinental, Singapore	A
Sky Airlines	Antalya	A
Somon Air	Dushanbe	A
South East Airlines	Makhachkala	B
Sri Lankan Airlines	Colombo, Dubai	A
Swiss International Air Lines	Geneva, Zürich	A
Tajik Air	Dushanbe, Khujand, Kurgan-Tjube	A
TAP Portugal	Lisbon	A
Tatarstan Airlines	Burgas, Varna	A
Tatarstan Airlines	Kazan, Nizhnekamsk	B
Thai Airways International	Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi	A
Transaero Airlines	Abu Dhabi, Aktau, Alicante, Almaty, Anadyr, Anapa, Antalya, Astana, Athens, Atyrau, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Bukhara, Cancun, Dalaman, Denpasar/Bali, Beijing-Capital, Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June 2012], Donetsk, Frankfurt, Goa, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ismir, Karaganda, Kiev-Boryspil, Kostanay, Kuala Lumpur, Larnaca, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles [resumes 29 April 2012], Madrid, Mahé, Malaga, Malé, Mauritius, Miami, Monastir, Namangan, New York-JFK, Odessa, Phuket, Punta Cana, Riga, Sanya, Sharm el-Sheikh, Shymkent, Simferopol, Singapore, Tashkent, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Tivat, Toronto-Pearson, Treviso, Varadero, Vienna, Vilnius, Yerevan Seasonal: Alicante, Barcelona, Dubai, Faro, Funchal, Girona, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong	A
Transaero Airlines	Blagoveschensk, Irkutsk, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Magnitogorsk, Mineralnye Vody, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoy, Omsk, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Rostov-on-Don, St Petersburg, Samara, Sochi, Tomsk, Ufa, Ulan-Ude, Uralsk, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	B
Tunisair	Tunis	A
Turkish Airlines operated by Anadolujet	Ankara [ends 25 March 2012], İstanbul-Sabiha Gökçen [ends 25 March 2012]	A
TransGlobal	Igarca, Nyagan	B
Turkmenistan Airlines	Ashgabat	A
Ukraine International Airlines	Kiev-Borypsil	B
United Airlines	Washington-Dulles	A
Ural Airlines	Baikonur, Barcelona, Baku, Cologne/Bonn [begins 2 April 2012], Gelendzhik, Kulyab, Kutaisi, Venice-Marco Polo	A
Ural Airlines	Chelyabinsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Samara, Yekaterinburg	B
UTair Aviation	Lenkoran Charter: Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh	A
UTair Aviation	Surgut, Tyumen	B
Uzbekistan Airways	Andizhan, Bukhara, Fergana, Karshi, Namangan, Navoiy, Nukus, Samarkand, Tashkent, Termez, Urgench	A
Vietnam Airlines	Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City	A
VIM Airlines	Alicante, Andizhan, Antalya, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Burgas, Catania, Eilat-Ovda, Ganja, Gyumri, Karshi, Khujand, Lankaran, Malaga, Namangan, Naples, Osh, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Qarshi, Rimini, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Tivat, Varna Seasonal: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	A
VIM Airlines	Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchastsky, Sochi	B
Vueling Airlines	Barcelona	A
Windjet	Catania, Forli, Milan-Orio al Serio, Pisa, Rimini, Verona	A
Windrose Airlines	Kiev-Boryspil	A
Yamal Airlines	Nadym, Tyumen	B
Yangtze River Express	Shanghai-Pudong	A

Non-Airline Destinations

A Boeing 747-400 of Dubai Royal Air Wing.

Airlines	Destinations
Dubai Royal Air Wing	Dubai

Technical landings

Airlines	Destinations
Afriqiyah Airways	Tripoli
Yakutia Airlines	Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude

Cargo airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
AirBridgeCargo Airlines	Amsterdam, Beijing-Capital, Chengdu, Chicago-O'Hare, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Krasnoyarsk, Maastricht, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, St.Petersburg, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Tokyo-Narita, Yekaterenburg, Zaragoza, Zhengzhou
Asiana Cargo	Seoul-Incheon
Lufthansa Cargo	Frankfurt
Polet Cargo Airlines	Voronezh, Cheboksary, Tula

Other images

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  Tu-114 gate guardian in 2003, removed in 2006 to make more space for parking.

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  Terminal B (domestic flights).

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  Terminal A (international flights) under construction in 2007.

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  The scheduled 2 terminal of Domodedovo International Airport which will be finished in 2015.

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  Aeroexpress station (rail).

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  Domodedovo Airfield Shuttle.

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  Train to Moscow.

Other facilities

The head office of Transaero is located on the airport property. Russian Sky Airlines has its head office on the airport property. When Domodedovo Airlines existed, its head office was on the airport property.

Incidents and accidents

• In August 2004, two female Chechen suicide-bombers were responsible for a serious security breach at the airport which destroyed two planes (Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303 and Siberia Airlines Flight 1047) and killed 90 passengers (Russian aircraft bombings of August 2004). Since that time East Line has instigated a new security policy and has spent $20 million on security and detection equipment, which has been installed at the airport. Some of the new security equipment included full body scanners on all checkpoints to the departure hall, making Domodedovo one of the first airports in the world to use this technology.^{[citation needed]}
• On March 22, 2010, a Russian Tu-204 Aviastar-TU jet, which originated from Hurghada in Egypt, crashed in a forest while trying to land at Domodedovo. There were no fatalities reported, however four of the crew were seriously injured.
• On December 4, 2010, South East Airlines Flight 372 made an emergency landing at Domodedovo, killing two people and injuring 56.
• On December 25, 2010, freezing rain caused widespread power outages in Moscow and suburbs, including Domodedovo. The power lines feeding Domodedovo Airport and the railroad link were severed resulting in the shutdown of the terminal for several hours and the spike in taxi cab fares.
• On January 24, 2011, an explosion caused by a suicide bomber killed 37 people and injured 173 people.

See also

Sheremetyevo International Airport

External links

• Domodedovo International Airport Homepage (English) (Russian)
• Aeroexpress service (English) (Russian)
• Current weather for UUDD at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for DME at Aviation Safety Network
• Moscow airport Domodedovo at Moscow Russia Insider's Guide