Baikal International Airport
Ulan-Ude Airport Lake Baikal Airport | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | JSC "International Airport Ulan-Ude" | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Ulan-Ude, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,690 ft / 515 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°48′27″N 107°26′15″E / 51.80750°N 107.43750°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | airportbaikal.ru/eng/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ulan-Ude Airport[1] or Lake Baikal Airport[3] (Russian: Аэропорт Улан-Удэ (Байкал)) (IATA: UUD, ICAO: UIUU) is an international airport located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Ulan-Ude, Russia. The airport includes a single terminal built in early 1980s featuring customs and border control facilities. With capacity of 400 passengers per hour, the airport served 167,126 passengers in 2010, a 29% increase over 2009.
Reconstruction
In 2006 the airport received a major runway overhaul costing RUR 330 million (USD 10 million). Another RUR 230 million was to be spent in 2007, finishing taxiway and parking areas work.[citation needed]. In November, 2006, the Russian government announced the decision to create a special economic zone 170 km away of Ulan-Ude at Lake Baikal with plans of upgrading the airport. The plans include building a second runway, enlarging the original runway, and improving passenger facilities – to accommodate one million passengers in 2010.
Incidents and accidents
1971 - an Ulan-Ude (Mukhino)-based An-24 has crash-landed on Bogorodsky island near the city. It was a training flight with one idle engine; the crash was caused by flight engineer who has switched off the second engine by mistake. Crewmen had got wounds; the plane has partially burnt down.
1981 - crash of an Aeroflot flight. An Ulan-Ude (Mukhino)-bound Il-14, overloaded to almost twice of its possible weight lost its way and crashed into a mountain on Lake Baikal's Svyatoi Nos peninsula killing all 52 passengers and crew.
1988 - Aeroflot flight B-478 L-410 bound for Ulan-Ude (Mukhino) crashed into a mountain in very bad weather conditions, killing all 15 passengers and crew.
1989 - crash of Tu-134 on landing at Ulan-Ude (Mukhino) on a delivery flight from near-by Vostochny airport. The aircraft lost a wing and was then destroyed by fire. The crew escaped through a window. The crash was caused by pilot error; in conditions of low visibility the captain landed the plane 300m to the left of the runway.
1995 - Three armed and masked hi-jackers captured Mil Mi-8, which was being prepared for flight, and airport technicians. After ten hours of negotiations special services saved hostages without any fatalities.
2005 - A fire-brigade vehicle hit Sibaviatrans' Tu-134 parked on the tarmac. No one was injured, but the aircraft suffered minor damage.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Bural | Irkutsk via Nizhneangarsk, Taksimo, Bagdarin | A |
| Eznis Airways | Ulan Bator | B |
| Iraero | Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk | A |
| NordStar | Chita, Krasnoyarsk | A |
| Nordwind | Charter: Bangkok [starts 29 October] | B |
| RusLine | Manzhouli, Beijing [starts 6 November] | B |
| RusLine | Krasnoyarsk, Komsomolsk-On-Amur, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | A |
| S7 airlines operated with Globus | Moscow-Domodedovo | A |
| Transaero | Moscow-Domodedovo | A |
| UTair Aviation | Charter: Moscow-Vnukovo | A |
| Yakutia Airlines | Moscow-Vnukovo, Yakutsk | A |
Technical Landings
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo -- Irkutsk |
| Ural Airlines | Yekaterenburg -- Chita |
| UTair Aviation | Moscow-Vnukovo -- Irkutsk |
Airlines previously serving the airport
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Dalavia (existed) | Vladivostok |
| Domodedovo Airlines (existed) operated by Kras Air (existed) and S7 airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Enkor (existed) | Almaty, Baku, Bishkek, Chelyabinsk, Dushanbe, Khujand, Moscow-Domodedovo, Öskemen, Yerevan, Mirniy, Saint-Petersburg |
| Kras Air (existed) | Krasnoyarsk |
| Sibaviatrans (existed) | Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk |
| Ural Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Ekaterinburg |
| VIM Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Vladivostok |
Planes
| Aircraft | Airline | Destination |
|---|---|---|
| Airbus A310-200(as a parlament plane) | Rossiya | Moscow, Saint-Petersburg. |
| Antonov An-24, Antonov An-28 | Iraero and Bural | Irkutsk,Krasnoyarsk,Novosibirsk,Taksimo,Nizhneangarsk,Bagdarin |
| Antonov An-2 | Bural | |
| ATR 42-500 | NordStar | Krasnoyarsk, Chita |
| Avro RJ85 (Future) | Eznis Airways | Ulan-Bator |
| Boeing 737-700 | Yakutia Airlines | Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Boeing 737-800 | S7 Airlines|(Oneworld)or Globus | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Boeing 757-200 | Yakutia Airlines and VIM Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Boeing 767-300 (Future) | Transaero | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Bombardier CRJ200 | RusLine | Beijing, Krasnoyarsk, Manzhouli |
| Ilyushin Il-76 | Unknown cargo airline | Unknown |
| SAAB 340 | Eznis Airways | Ulan-Bator |
| Tupolev Tu-154 | UTair Aviation | charter: Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Tupolev Tu-214 | Transaero | Moscow-Domodedovo |
References
- ^ a b Template:WAD
- ^ Airport information for UUD at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ a b Lake Baikal Airport, official site
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