Odessa International Airport

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Odesa International Airport
Міжнародний аеропорт «Одеса»
Международный аэропорт «Одесса»
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IATA: ODSICAO: UKOO
Summary
Airport type Military/Public
Serves Odessa
Location Odessa, Ukraine
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 172 ft / 52 m
Coordinates 46°25′37″N 030°40′41″E / 46.42694°N 30.67806°E / 46.42694; 30.67806Coordinates: 46°25′37″N 030°40′41″E / 46.42694°N 30.67806°E / 46.42694; 30.67806
Website www.odessa.aero
Map
UKOO is located in Ukraine
UKOO
Location in the Ukraine
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 553 1,814 Grass
16/34 2,800 9,186 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2012)
Passengers Increase 907,600
Source: EUROCONTROL[1]<

Odessa International Airport (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт «Одеса», Russian: Международный аэропорт «Одесса») (IATA: ODSICAO: UKOO) is an airport located 7 km (4.3 mi) southwest from the centre of Odessa, Ukraine.

It serves both domestic and international flights. Airport's runways either were or are co-used by the Ukrainian Air Force.

The airport was built in 1961. In 2009, the airport served 651,000 passengers.

The area of Odessa International airport is 570 hectares. The airport concerns to group of the largest airports of Ukraine and connects Odessa by airlines with many cities of Ukraine and CIS, Western Europe, Asia and Africa.

Technical service of airport is based on 2800 square meters area and represented by 4 parking places to provide technical service to 4 planes simultaneously. European standards classify the airport as "class 1".[2]

In May 2007, the airport started construction work that includes extending the main runway. The airport has ILS CAT I status.

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Airlines and destinations [edit]

Airlines Destinations
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya
Seasonal: St Petersburg
Air Arabia Sharjah[3]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga
Astra Airlines Seasonal charter: Thessaloniki (begins 11 June 2013)
Czech Airlines Prague
Dniproavia Kiev-Boryspil[4]
flydubai Dubai (begins 15 September 2013)[5]
Khors Air Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Tivat
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin
Lufthansa
operated by Lufthansa Cityline
Munich[6]
Onur Air Istanbul-Atatürk
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Sky Wings
operated by Khors Air
Athens (begins 14 June 2013)
South Airlines Kyiv-Zhuliany
Seasonal: Bourgas, Varna
Transaero Airlines Moscow-Vnukovo[7]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Ataturk
Ukraine International Airlines Baku (begins 7 June 2012),[8] Istanbul-Atatürk,[9] Kiev-Boryspil, Moscow-Domodedovo,[10] Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion,[8] Vienna
Seasonal: Yerevan (begins 1 June 2013)[10]
Seasonal charter: Barcelona, Heraklion, Podgorica
UTair Aviation Moscow-Vnukovo[11]
UTair Ukraine Kyiv-Zhuliany
Seasonal charter: Antalya
Wind Rose Aviation Seasonal charter: Sharm el-Sheikh[12]
Yamal Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo

Reconstruction [edit]

June 8, 2012 The Campaign for reconstruction of the airport, the day the builders started to prepare the land on which the new terminal will be built. Area of the new terminal will be 26,000 square meters, the capacity of 1000 people per hour (1.5-2 million passengers per year), will be installed 16 check-in desks, 4 telescopic gangway, and the number of outputs to board the buses will be increased from 2 to 5. The construction of the new terminal is planned to be completed by the end of 2013. It will serve both international and domestic flights. The estimated cost of the work is around 45-60 million. The first sum to start work in the amount of 360 million hryvnia (~ 45 million) has been transferred to the investor in the authorized capital of LLC "Airport Odessa." Airport Consulting Vienna company has developed a master plan, business plan and evaluation of the technical concept of the airport, and the chief designer of the project was a Spanish company Ineco.

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ EUROCONTROL basic
  2. ^ Ukraine travel guide dompavlov.com - Odessa International Airport
  3. ^ http://airlineroute.net/2012/08/29/g9-ods-oct12/
  4. ^ "Schedule". Dniproavia. Retrieved 28 March 2013. 
  5. ^ "flydubai doubles Russia and Ukraine network". Arabian Aerospace. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013. 
  6. ^ "Авіакомпанія Lufthansa з 31 березня відновить польоти в Одесу". РБК - Україна. 12 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013. 
  7. ^ "City pairs Schedule". Information and Services. JSC "TRANSAERO" Airlines. Retrieved 19 December 2012. 
  8. ^ a b "МАУ рассматривает возможность запуска рейса "Львов — Москва"". Портал Дело.ua. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013. 
  9. ^ "МАУ запускают рейс Одесса-Стамбул". ООО «Коммерсантъ-Украина». 12 April 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2013. 
  10. ^ a b "Flights". Ukraine International Airlines. Retrieved 28 February 2013. 
  11. ^ "С 24 мая новый регулярный рейс: Москва – Одесса!". UTair Aviation. Retrieved 22 April 2013. 
  12. ^ http://www.windrose.aero/eng/about/napravleniya_polotov.html

External links [edit]