Pristina International Airport
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The Pristina Airport is an airport in Pristina, Kosovo's capital. It is located about 15 km southwest of the city near the highway M 9
History
The airport was opened at this location in 1965. In 1985, he was equipped with modern equipment conforming to ICAO standards. After the Kosovo war, he has been completely refurbished and extended to the international airport. In July 2006, the Pristina airport by the airport association Airports Council International ( ACI) in Brussels was voted best European airport of its size. With less than one million passengers a year he had developed from unfavorable starting conditions out a goal for the reconstruction of Kosovo, as a justification. Since 2010, operated by the Turkish LIMAK Holding. This also built the new terminal.
Air Force Base Slatina
On the military part of the airport, which was named after the local village of Slatina, a larger aircraft barracks was built in the 1960s. This cavern was the second major base for the Yugoslav Air Force ( RV i PVO ), and has hosted the 83rd LAP ( Fighter Regiment ) with the two fighter squadrons ( 123 and 124 LAE) with a total of 24 combat aircraft MiG -21bis " Fishbed ".
During the Kosovo War took place from 22 April 1999, a total of ten air attacks on the base by F -15 " Strike Eagle " of NATO. The present in the Flugzeugkaverne combat aircraft could not be damaged.
After the cessation of hostilities and the beginning of control of Kosovo by KFOR, the airport made headlines when Russian paratroopers without consulting with Western countries with their foray to Pristina on 12 June 1999 occupied the airport.
Today, KFOR has the caverns and this end of 2010 the Kosovo Police is passed.
On 23 October 2013, the new terminal was opened after two years of construction. It is to check in a year in the future up to 1.5 million passengers. Since the expansion of the airport now has four passenger boarding bridges. The Kosovo government allowed the Turkish Limak Holding in 2011 to structure this airport for some 20 years after his own plans. Despite protests from the population, this was implemented.
Current use as a commercial airport
From the military airfield in the course of time, a commercial airport. Initially, only occasional charter flights of Air Prishtina and Kosova Airlines were handled. 2003 saw the first scheduled flights of Kosova Airlines with a Boeing 737-700, followed in 2004 with an Airbus A320 Air Prishtina, but this was in the same year again. Kosova Airlines also has its operations in 2006 reinstated.
Meanwhile, both companies provide flight connections from other airlines and in Kosovo. Today fly as Air Berlin, Germania, Swiss, German Wings, Edelweiss Air, Pronair, Turkish Airlines, Austrian Airlines, SAS and Norwegian Air Shuttle to Pristina.
The Albanian low cost airline Belle Air flew up to your bankruptcy from Pristina to Dusseldorf (Wednesday, Friday, Sunday), Tirana and deck. There is also a weekly flight of British Airways to London -Gatwick. Since the summer of 2010, the budget airline easyJet flies from Geneva and Basel / Moulhouse to Pristina.
There also exists a connection flight with Adria Airways to Frankfurt am Main.
Actually, there are three take-off and landing runways at Pristina airport. Apart from the actual start and runway is a start and runway as airport access road, and the other used for parking aircraft. The entry and exit from the aircraft via gangways and on the newly built terminal. The airport has a business lounge.