Boryspil International Airport
Boryspil International Airport Міжнародний аеропорт "Бориспіль" | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Government | ||||||||||||||
| Serves |  Kiev | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Boryspil | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 130 m / 427 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°20′41″N 030°53′36″E / 50.34472°N 30.89333°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.airport-borispol.com.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, and is one of three airports that serve Kiev, along with the smaller Zhulyany Airport and Gostomel Airport, a cargo facility used primarily by Antonov.
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.
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, 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 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, 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[5]. 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.[6] 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.[7]
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).
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. The terminal will have a capacity of 1,500 passengers per hour and cover an area of 44.9 hectares[8]. 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[9]), 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[5].
New hotels will also open near Boryspil Airport. A Radisson hotel at Boryspil airport will open in late 2011.
Ground transport
Boryspil airport is well connected to the Ukrainian capital and its wider metropolitan area both through its location and the public transport links which serve it. The airport's entrance is located at the 'Boryspil' junction of the M03 national road, which affords the airport an 18km motorway grade link to the outskirts of Kiev, thus making the airport easier to reach by car. In addition to this, Boryspil has a large number of secure and long-stay 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. Currently the following public bus line serves the airport:
- 322 'Polit' - Boryspil Intl Airport - Central Railway Station (transfer for metro)
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[10]. 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.[11] The line's route will comprise an 8 km electrified spur from an existing rail line, terminating in the airport's central terminal area.[12]
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 A, B, C and F.
Terminals
- Terminals at Kiev Boryspil Airport
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Terminal A (Domestic) -
Terminal B (International) -
Terminal C (VIP terminal) -
Terminal D (construction as of 15.11.2010)
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Terminal F (International)
The airport has four operating terminals:
- Terminal A, domestic flights - (will operate as domestic arrivals terminal only, after completion of terminal D)
- Terminal B, international flights - (will operate as domestic departures terminal after completion of terminal D)
- Terminal C, business jets and VIP passengers
- Terminal F, was opened on 21 September 2010[13] 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.[14]
There is also one further terminal under construction:
- Terminal D, construction of which began on 24 March 2008[9] with a 3,100 passengers per hour capacity is expected to be completed by December 2011[15].
In addition there is one planned terminal:
- Terminal E, with a 2,000 passengers per hour capacity is expected to be completed ca. 2015 [16]
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Adria Airways | Seasonal: Ljubljana | F |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | B |
| Aerosvit Airlines | Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Odessa, Simferopol, Uzhhorod | A |
| Aerosvit Airlines | Aktau [begins 11 June], Almaty, Antalya, Astana, Athens, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Belgrade, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Chişinǎu, Colombo [begins 23 October], Copenhagen, Damascus [begins 18 May], Delhi, Dubai, Hamburg, Ho Chi Minh City [begins 2 November], Istanbul-Atatürk, Kaliningrad, Karlovy Vary, Kostanay [begins 11 June], Krakow, Krasnodar, Larnaca, London-Gatwick, Minsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Naples, New York-JFK, Novosibirsk, Prague, Riga, St Petersburg, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart [begins 11 June], Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Toronto-Pearson, Vilnius, Warsaw, Yerevan Seasonal: Thessaloniki | B |
| Air Arabia | Sharjah | B |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle | F |
| Air Moldova | Chişinǎu | F |
| AirBaltic | Riga | B |
| Alitalia | Rome-Fiumicino | F |
| Arkia Israel Airlines | Tel Aviv | B |
| Armavia | Yerevan | F |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna Seasonal: Innsbruck | F |
| Austrian operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna | F |
| Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku | F |
| Belavia | Minsk | B |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow | F |
| Caspian Airlines | Tehran-Imam Khomeini | F |
| Czech Airlines | Prague | B |
| Dniproavia | Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Odessa, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Uzhgorod | A |
| Donbassaero | Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odessa, Simferopol | A |
| Donbassaero | Tel Aviv, Vilnius, Yerevan | B |
| El Al | Tel Aviv | B |
| Estonian Air | Tallinn | F |
| Finnair | Helsinki | F |
| Georgian Airways | Batumi, Tbilisi | F |
| KLM | Amsterdam | F |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw | B |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich | F |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Düsseldorf | F |
| Motor Sich Airlines | Zaporizhia, Lugansk | A |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest | B |
| Nouvelair | Djerba | F |
| Rossiya | St Petersburg | F |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia | F |
| RusLine | Yekaterinburg | F |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo | F |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo | B |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | B |
| Turkmenistan Airlines | Ashgabat | F |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv, Odessa, Simferopol | A |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Amsterdam, Antalya, Astana, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Colombo, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Frankfurt, Geneva, Goa, Helsinki, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo (begins 20 July), Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pula, Rome-Fiumicino, Samara [begins 18 May], Split, Tel Aviv, Tbilisi, Vienna, Zürich | F |
| Ural Airlines | Yekaterinburg [begins 18 May] | F |
| UM Airlines | Amman-Queen Alia, Beirut, Damascus, Tivat, Tehran-Imam Khomeini | F |
| UTair Aviation | Surgut | F |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent | F |
| Wind Jet | Rimini | F |
| Wind Rose Aviation | Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv | A |
| Wind Rose Aviation | Batumi, Kalinigrad, Kutaisi, Pula, Tashkent, Tbilisi | F |
Other facilities
The head office of Aerosvit is located on the airport property.[17]
Cargo airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aero Charter | Kharkiv, Luxembourg, Leipzig/Halle, Simferopol |
| Cargolux | Luxembourg |
| DHL Express | Brussels |
| Motor Sich Airlines | Ankara, Bratislava, Zaporizhia |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Faro, Vienna |
| Ukrainian Cargo Airways | Asia, Europe, Ukraine, Middle East |
| Volare Airlines | London-Luton, Lviv |
| Volga-Dnepr | Russia |
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
- ^ a b Ukraine’s largest airport selects SITA to reach 18 million passenger target by 2020 | SITA.aero
- ^ 6 millionth passenger
- ^ "Ukraine's rapid growth faltered in 2009; Kyiv leads recovery in 2010 as Aerosvit and Ukraine International add new routes". anna.aero Airline Route News & Analysis.
- ^ Ukrainian News
- ^ a b Photo UNIAN - photo.unian.net - photos of politicians, photos of celebrities, stage або production photos
- ^ [1]
- ^ "UPDATE 1-Ukraine signs $950 mln China loan for railway link". Reuters. 3 September 2010.
- ^ "Railway Gazette: News in Brief". Retrieved 2010-09-26.
- ^ President Yanukovych opens new Terminal 'F' at Boryspil Intl. Airport, Kyiv, (September 21, 2010), Kyiv Post
- ^ Since October 31, 2010, International Flights to be Operated Through Terminal F, Kyiv Post (August 11, 2010)
- ^ Ukrainian News - Turkish-Based Dogus/Alarko/YAD Starts Construction Of Boryspil Airport's Terminal D
- ^ http://investukraine.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80
- ^ "Representative Office." (Select City: "Kyiv" : "Head office") Aerosvit Airlines. Retrieved on 21 June 2010. "Head office Ukraine Airport, Boryspyl-7, Region of Kyiv, 08307,"
External links
- Boryspil International Airport, official website Template:Uk 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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