Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport

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Lviv Danylo Halytskyi
International Airport

Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів"
імені Данила Галицького
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IATA: LWOICAO: UKLL
LWO is located in Ukraine
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Location of airport in Ukraine
Summary
Airport type Public
Serves Lviv
Location Lviv, Ukraine
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 1,071 ft / 326 m
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Website lwo.aero
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13/31 10 843 3,305 Concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers Decrease 570,570

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів" імені Данила Галицького) (IATA: LWOICAO: UKLL) is an international airport in Lviv, Ukraine. The airport is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from central Lviv. The airport is named after King Daniel of Galicia.

History

Established in 1929 as Lwów-Skniłów Airport. Skniłów was the name of the neighbouring village which today is part of Lviv. Before the II World War it operated the domestic route to Warsaw and Krakow. In 1930 the international route to Bucharest was launched which was extended in 1931 to Sofia and Thessaloniki. In 1936 the above route was extended to Athens and Lydda.

In 2010, the airport carried 481,900 passengers.[1] In preparation for Euro 2012, Lviv International Airport has undergone a $200m expansion project. Lviv airport's new terminal building has an area of 34,000m² with a capacity of handling 1,000 passengers an hour.[2] Of the $200m, it is expected that the Ukrainian government will provide $70m, including $14m in 2008, and $130m will come from private investors.[3] The expansion project will include a 700-meter extension of the existing runway and a new airport terminal capable of handling up to 1,220 passengers per hour (5.69 million passenger annually).[2][4]

The airport used to be a focus city for Wizz Air Ukraine, which served four international routes to Italy (Naples, Bergamo, and Treviso) and Germany (Dortmund) from here until the airline shut down its base in Lviv in April 2015.[5]

Facilities

The terminal has 29 check-in desks, of which nine are meant for domestic and remaining for international flights.[2] Facilities at the airport also include 4 cafés and 2 duty-free shops as well as bus services to the city.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter services to and from Lviv:[6]

Airlines Destinations
AtlasGlobal Ukraine Istanbul-Atatürk[7][8]
Austrian Airlines Vienna
AZALJet Baku[9]
Azur Air Ukraine Seasonal charter: Antalya, Dalaman, Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh
Bravo Airways[10] Seasonal charter: Larnaca[11]
Dniproavia Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk
Ellinair Seasonal: Thessaloniki[12]
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine
Munich
Motor Sich Airlines Kiev-Zhulyany (begins 6 June 2016), Uzhhorod (begins 6 June 2016)
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil, Istanbul-Atatürk,[13] Rome-Fiumicino, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion[14]
Seasonal: Bologna, Madrid[15]
Seasonal charter: Antalya, Enfidha, Hurghada, Tivat
Windrose Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya

Statistics

File:Lviv airport.jpg
The former terminal building
Bust of Danylo Halytskyi inside the new terminal
Year Passengers[1][16][17] Change
1999 35,000 -
2002 110,200 -
2003 144,100 Increase035.8%
2004 198,200 Increase035.5%
2005 235,900 Increase019.0%
2006 278,200 Increase018.0%
2007 427,100 Increase052.4%
2008 532,100 Increase025.5%
2009 452,300 Decrease015.0%
2010 481,900 Increase06.5%
2011 297,000 Decrease038.4%
2012 576,000 Increase094.0%
2013 700,800 Increase021.0%
2014 585,200 Decrease016.5%
2015 570,570 Decrease02.5%

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

External links

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