Boryspil International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Boryspil International Airport
nativename = Міжнародний аеропорт "Бориспіль"

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IATA = KBP
ICAO = UKBB
type = Public
owner =
operator = Civil Government
city-served = Kyiv, Ukraine
location =
elevation-f = 427
elevation-m = 130
website = [http://airport-boryspil.kiev.ua/ airport-boryspil.kiev.ua]
metric-rwy = y
r1-number = 18L/36R
r1-length-m = 4,000
r1-length-f = 13,123
r1-surface = Concrete
r2-number = 18R/36L
r2-length-m = 3,500
r2-length-f = 11,483
r2-surface = Concrete
stat-year = 2007
stat1-header = Passengers
stat1-data = 5,933,000 (2005)
footnotes = Source: Official website [http://airport-boryspil.kiev.ua/ Boryspil International Airport] , official website]

Boryspil International Airport airport codes|KBP|UKBB is an international airport located near the city of Boryspil, 29 km east of Kyiv. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving the major part of international flights of the country.

Boryspil Airport is one of three airports that serve Kyiv. Zhulyany Airport is a passenger airport located in the south part of Kyiv; the airport serves predominantly domestic flights. Gostomel Airport is a cargo airport located in the north-western suburb of Kyiv, mostly used by Antonov company.

Boryspil State International Airport is part of Airports Council International.

History

On June 22, 1959, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ordered establishment of regular civil air traffic to the then military airfield near Boryspil. On July 7, 1959 the new airport (named Kyiv-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–Kyiv–Moscow and Leningrad–Kyiv–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 has 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 comprising 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.

In 1980s Boryspil airport began 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 Kyiv, instead restricted to fly only from Moscow airports. In 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 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 since then.

In early 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 2002 the airport was certified under the ISO 9001 quality management system.

It is one of Eastern Europe's largest airports with over five million passengers travelling in 2007. [ [http://www.kbp.kiev.ua/news/26-12-2007/5th_millio.html 5th million passenger] ] The airport handles around 60% of all commercial air traffic in Ukraine. [ [http://www.iaae.org/meetings/Budapest2005/Ukrainian_Airport_Overview.doc Overview of Ukrainian airport infrastructure] ]

tructure

The airport has three terminals:
# Terminal A (Domestic flights)
# Terminal B (International flights)
# Terminal C (VIP passengers)

[http://www.airport-borispol.kiev.ua/eng/layout1.html Airport map]

Development

Boryspil International Airport handles most of Ukraine's international traffic. Terminal B, having only five gates at the time, two of which were air bridges, was not enough to handle all international flights from the airport. This was the cause of the expansion of that terminal, which started in 2005. The first-stage expansion to Terminal B was opened on January 27, 2006. In 2008, passport control within Terminal B Departures was moved further east (along with the entrance to the main duty free shop so it remains airside).

There are also plans on expanding 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. Terminal D construction was approved on July 28, 2008 and is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2010 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 [http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/138815.html] . Platform M, which is connected to Terminal B and requires redevelopment, is going to be reconstructed in 2009-2010. The reason the reconstruction of Platform M is delayed is because Terminal B needs to be fully operational. When Terminal D opens, platform M can be reconstructed without major impact on traffic.

A new runway will be constructed in 2012-2014. The construction of Terminal E will be completed by 2015 and it will have a capacity of 2,000 passengers per hour. The construction of a Terminal F is going to take place by 2020, corresponding to passenger density demands, and it will be capable of handling Airbus's A380. By 2020, if all plans go ahead the airport should have a capacity of more than 20 million passengers per year [http://www.investukraine.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=12] .

New hotels will also open near Boryspil Airport. And a Hilton hotel will open in late 2008. A Radisson hotel at Boryspil airport will open in late 2009.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal A

*Aerosvit Airlines (Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, L'viv, Odessa, Simferopil, Uzhgorod)
*Dniproavia (Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Luhansk, Odesa)
*DonbassAero (Donetsk, Odesa, Simferopol)
*Lugansk Airlines (Luhansk, Uzhhorod)
*Lviv Airlines (L'viv)
*Motor Sich (Zaporizhia)
*South Airlines (Odesa)
*Ukraine International Airlines (Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Ivano-Frankivsk, L'viv, Kharkiv, Simferopol)
*Wizz Air (Odesa, Simferopol, L'viv)

Terminal B

*Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
*Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
*Aerosvit Airlines (Almaty, Antalya, Athens, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing, Belgrade, Birmingham, Budapest, Cairo, Chishinau, Delhi, Dubai, Hamburg, Hurghada [Seasonal] , Istanbul-Atatürk, Larnaca, Manchester, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Minsk, Naples, New York-JFK, Nice, Prague, Sham-El-Sheikh [Seasonal] , Shanghai-Pudong, Riga, Sofia, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Toronto-Pearson, Vilnius, Warsaw, Yerevan, Zurich)
*Air Arabia (Sharjah) (Starts October 15, 2008) [http://www.airarabia.com/lunching%203%20fresh%20destinations.html]
*Air Baltic (Riga)
*Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
*Air Moldova (Chisinau)
*Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
*Armavia (Yerevan)
*Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
*Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
*Belavia (Minsk)
*British Airways (London-Heathrow)
*Caspian Airlines (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
*Czech Airlines (Prague)
*Delta Air Lines (New York-JFK)
*DonbassAero (Yerevan)
*El Al (Tel Aviv)
*Estonian Air (Tallinn)
*Euroline (Batumi, Kutaisi)
*FlyLal (Vilnius)
*Finnair (Helsinki)
*Georgian Airways (Batumi, Tbilisi)
*Georgian National Airlines (Batumi, Tbilisi)
*KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
*KLM (Amsterdam)
*LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
*Lufthansa (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich)
*Malev Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
*Rossiya (St. Petersburg)
*Royal Jordanian (Amman)
*S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk)
*Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
*Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
*Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
*Ukraine International Airlines (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Dubrovnik, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Monastir, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pula, Rome-Fiumicino, Tbilisi, Vienna, Zurich)
*UM Airlines (Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Minsk, Tashkent, Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
*UTair Aviation (Surgut)
*Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
*Wind Rose Aviation (Antalya [Charter] , Pula [Charter] , Sharm-El-Sheikh [Charter] , Hurghada [Charter] , Moscow-Domodedovo [Begins November 1] )
*Wizz Air (Cologne [Starts January 15, 2009] , Dortmund [Starts January 15, 2009] , London-Luton [Starts December 17, 2008] ) [http://wizzair.com/about_us/news/]

Terminal C

Business Jets and VIP Passengers

Cargo airlines

*Volare Airlines (Ukraine)

References

External links

* [http://airport-boryspil.kiev.ua/ Boryspil International Airport] , official website
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