Khrabrovo Airport

Khrabrovo Airport (Russian Аэропорт Храброво) (IATA: KGD, ICAO: UMKK) is the airport of Kaliningrad, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) north of the city near the village of Khrabrovo. While it mostly serves scheduled domestic destinations, part of it is still a military base of the Russian Air Force.

History

  • 1922 - Joint Russian-German joint venture Deruluft starts flights on first scheduled international route, from Königsberg (Devau airport) - Moscow
  • 1945 - Airport is transferred to Civil Air Fleet of USSR
  • 1961 - Joint Air Squadron formed at the basis of airport and airline
  • 1977 - Operations of Tupolev-134 begin
  • 1979 - Passenger terminal is built in Khrabrovo
  • 1988 - Tupolev-154s begin operations to Kaliningrad
  • 1992 - Enterprise separates from Vnukovo Production association and becomes independent entity
  • 1993 - First scheduled international flights begin. Two Tupolev-154s are purchased
  • 1997 - Air enterprise is renamed “Kaliningrad Avia”
  • 2001 - Air enterprise is in receivership
  • 2002 - Change of ownership structure. Transformation into Joint Stock Company
  • 2004 – Beginning of reconstruction of runway, apron, navigation equipment
  • 2005 – Air enterprise renamed “KD Avia”
  • 2007 - opening of the new terminal
  • 2009 - "KD Avia" airlines cease operations

FIFA-2018 re-construction

In July 2016, Novaport bought the Khrabrovo Airport from Aeroinvest. As part of Russia's preparations to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, On July 2017 a new terminal was put into operation. In addition the airport infrastructure was modernized and this included the lenghthening and reinforcement of the runway, the installation of new radiotechnical, lighting, and weather forecast equipment and construction of new aircraft parking spaces and a high-speed taxiway.

The reconstruction of the passenger terminal and the runway enlargement were officially finished on 27th of April 2018.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo
airBaltic Riga
Belavia Minsk
Seasonal: Brest, Gomel, Hrodna, Vitebsk
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin
Nordavia Seasonal: Arkhanglesk, Moscow–Domodedovo, Murmansk, Sochi, Saint Petersburg
Pobeda Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg
Red Wings Airlines Seasonal: Moscow–Domodedovo
Rossiya Airlines Saint Petersburg
RusLine Berlin–Tegel (ends 29 June 2018), Prague, Saint Petersburg
S7 Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo, Saint Petersburg
Severstal Air Company Cherepovets
Ural Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg
Utair Moscow–Vnukovo
UVT Aero Kazan, Novy Urengoy, Ufa
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona

Passengers statistics

Passenger numbers are also rising, and are set to rise even more with the introduction of more routes:[]

  • 2002 - 163,000
  • 2003 - 115,000
  • 2004 - 209,000
  • 2005 - 311,000
  • 2006 - 731,626
  • 2007 - 1,204,060
  • 2008 - 1,920,000
  • 2009 - 1,357,000
  • 2010 - 1,023,990
  • 2011 - 1,229,017
  • 2014 - 1,460,054

Ground transportation

The city bus line No. 144 by Koenigtransauto (Кёнигтрансавто) connects the airport with the Kaliningrad Main Bus/Railway Station.

See also

  • List of the busiest airports in Russia
  • List of the busiest airports in the former USSR

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

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Irina Nazarova
27 August 2018
You can print your boarding pass here, but there is only one printer, a lime-green one, in S7 branding, left of check-in counters. Works if you have a barcode on your screen.
Martin K ????
13 December 2014
small airport but the bars there are totaly overpriced!!!
Sergey Usikov
25 July 2011
Check the schedule of bus to and fro downtown on web page of airport before flight. Actually, it is rather suitable for most part of flights.
Sarven Bedikoglu
31 December 2018
Airport is renewed and now it is modern and nice. Unfortunetly it is still hard to find taxi at evening and night time.
Vasya
29 September 2014
Free WiFi "Airport_Rostelecom" in the lounge
David Jenkins
6 February 2012
30 mins to city
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