Kazan International Airport
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The Kazan Airport is a commercial airport in Russia in Stolbischtsche, Rajon Laischewo, Tatarstan, 28 km south of the center of the metropolis of Kazan. It was opened in 1979 and is now the largest airport of Tatarstan and one of the most important airports in the Volga region. To him only medium-sized aircraft be dispatched. Flights to and within Russia, the CIS countries and Europe.
History
The decision to build a second airport in Kazan, fell in 1972. The old airport, 8 km north- west of the city, " Kazan -1 ," was no longer enough, already in 1972 he produced over 1.6 million passengers from. In addition, it required a new runway to accept aircraft of type Tu-134 can. In 1979, the construction was completed, and the 2500 m long airstrip was flown with the aircraft Tu- 124 and Tu- 134. On September 15, 1979, the first scheduled flight took place, a passenger plane from Sochi. 1982, the airport for clearance of the Il -86 was expanded. The airport was renamed in 1984 " Kazan ", until then he was called " Kazan -2". The first international flight took off in 1987 to Berlin, a few months earlier, the airport received the status of "International". Also connections to Poland, Albania, China, Bulgaria and Mongolia were quickly added. Since October 1992 there has been the opportunity to Istanbul to fly. Since March 1997, the Lufthansa flew on the route Kazan Frankfurt, which was discontinued in April 2013.
From the first of June 1992, the company operates the airport " Kazan AG International Airport ( ОАО Международный аэропорт Казань ) ". The end of 1994 the expansion of the airport was passed. The main points were the expansion of the airport railway station, fuel system and the construction of a runway of 3750 m length. In addition, the flight control center should be modernized and a cargo complex with a four -star hotel and a hangar to be built. The fuel system was modernized in 2001 and completed the runway in July 2004. The contract for the modernization of communications systems got Siemens. In 2004 it was decided additionally to build a business terminal for 132 million rubles with a capacity of 100 passengers per hour. All construction work until 2005, the 1000th anniversary of the city ended. Overall, the 1994 adopted modernization cost (in addition to business terminal) 765 million rubles. The Kazan north- east of the city 's second airport was closed in 2004 and was converted to a racecourse.
By 2008, passenger numbers grew strongly. Thus, the airport served in 2008 751.504 passengers, which is an increase of 21.9 % year on year. They rose strongly passenger figures with international flights, 315 255 ( 29.5 %). On domestic flights, there were 436 249 passengers with 17 % more than in 2007. It started a total of 8238 aircraft in 2008., 2009, passenger numbers are easy to fall through the financial crisis. Nevertheless, we think, after by the good result of 2008, a further expansion of the airport. In 2012, 1.48 million passengers were handled at the airport, which is an increase of over 21 % compared to 2011.
Accidents
In the unfortunate landing a Boeing 737-500 coming from Moscow Tatarstan Airlines all occupants of flight U9-363/2B-363 have died on 17 November 2013 the Kazan airport. There were 44 passengers and six crew members on board.
Flights
- Aeroflot Moscow - Sheremetyevo
- Bugulma Air Enterprise: Bugulma, Yekaterinburg
- Kazan Air Enterprise: Ufa
- KD Avia: Kaliningrad
- Kuban Airlines: Surgut, Krasnodar
- Rossiya Airlines: Sharm El -Sheikh
- S7 Airlines: Moscow - Domodedovo, Sharm El -Sheikh
- Tatarstan Airlines: Barcelona, Dubai, Dushanbe, Hurghada, Istanbul - Atatürk, Khujand, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow - Domodedovo, Moscow - Sheremetyevo, Nizhnekamsk, Novokuznetsk, Sharm El -Sheikh, St. Petersburg, Taba, Tashkent
- Turkish Airlines Antalya, Istanbul- Ataturk
- UTair Moscow - Vnukovo, St. Petersburg
- Uzbekistan Airways: Fergana, Tashkent, Samarkand