Koltsovo Airport

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Koltsovo Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Кольцово) (IATA: SVX, ICAO: USSS) is an international airport located 16km (10 mi) southeast of Yekaterinburg, Russia. The airport is a hub for Ural Airlines and Aviacon Zitotrans.

The airport was opened in 1928 as a military airbase and became a civilian airport on July 10, 1943. In October 1993 it acquired international status.

As of 2005, Koltsovo is the fifth largest airport in Russia and a member of Airports Council International (ACI). In 2006, it handled 1,764,948 passengers and 15,519 metric tonnes of cargo; in 2007, 2 345 097 passengers passed through the airport and it shows significant growth of 32,9% to the previous year. The airport has sixty aircraft stands and serves more than 50 destinations worldwide including a dozen in Europe.

New international terminal opened in December 2005, and the new domestic one - in October 2007[1]. New logistics center and a large cargo terminal are currently under construction. A third runway is expected to be constructed by 2009 which will let Koltsovo accept all types of heavy aircraft including Boeing 747.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

• Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
• Armavia (Yerevan)
• Aviaprad (Hanover, Moscow-Domodedovo) - stopped
• Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
• bmi (London-Heathrow, Almaty)
• Czech Airlines (Prague)
• Dalavia (Khabarovsk)
• Enkor (Moscow-Domodedovo) - stopped?
• Finnair (Helsinki) - begins September 2008
• KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
• Magadan Airlines (Magadan) - stopped
• Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
• Rossiya (St.Petersburg)
• S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo) - stopped
• Sky Express (Moscow-Vnukovo)
• Tajik Air (Dushanbe, Khudzand)
• Tbilaviamsheni (Tbilisi)- stopped
• Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
• Turan Air (Baku)
• Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
• UTair (Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, Beloyarkyi, Khanty-Mansiysk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk)
• Ural Airlines (Almaty [begins May 13], Bangkok, Barcelona, Dubai, Dusseldorf [seasonal June 22 - September 14], Heraklion [seasonal June 5 - October 23], Irkutsk, Lahore, Larnaca [seasonal April 30 - October 24],Kiev-Boryspil, Moscow-Domodedovo, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Pula [seasonal May 31 - October 25], Salzburg, Samara, Simferopol [seasonal June 2 - September 26], Sochi, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki [seasonal April 27 - October 23], Tivat [seasonal June 7 - October 25], Vladivostok)
• Uzbekistan Airways (Taskhent)
• Vladivostok Avia (Irkutsk, Vladivostok)
• Yamal Airlines (Salekhard)

[edit] External links

• (Russian) Official website of the airport
• (English) Official website of Ural Airlines
• (Russian) Official website of Aviacon Zitotrans
• Airport information for USSS at World Aero Data
• NOAA/NWS current weather observations
• ASN Accident history for USSS