Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів" імені Данила Галицького) (IATA: LWO, ICAO: 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, the historical founder of the city in 1256 AD.

History

Early history

Established in 1929 as Lwów-Skniłów Airport. Skniłów was the name of the neighbouring village which today is part of Lviv. Before the Second World War, it operated a 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.

Developments since 2010

In 2010, the airport carried 481,900 passengers. 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.[] Of the $200m, it was expected that the Ukrainian government would provide $70m, including $14m in 2008, and $130m would come from private investors. The expansion project included a 700-meter extension of the existing runway and a new airport terminal capable of handling up to 2,000 passengers per hour (5.69 million passenger annually).

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) until the airline was dissolved April 2015 (by contrast, routes from Kyiv International Airport continued after being taken over by the parent company). In January 2017, Wizz Air announced that it would be resuming flights to Lviv, initially with the introduction of a route to Wroclaw.

In March 2017, Ryanair announced that it would be launching seven routes to Lviv starting October 2017. These plans were scrapped in July after Ryanair's failure to reach an agreement with Boryspil and its subsequent decision to postpone entry into the Ukrainian market. Immediately the Ukrainian government put pressure on Boryspil and accused Ukraine International Airlines in sabotaging the agreement. This resulted in the continuation of talks with Ryanair and as of March 2018 it was announced that Ryanair would go on to open 10 new routes from Boryspil and 5 new routes from Lviv.

Facilities

Terminal A

The airport has two terminals (1 and A), though only terminal A currently in operation. Terminal A was opened in 2012. It has 29 check-in desks, of which nine are meant for domestic and remaining for international flights. It has nine gates, four of them equipped with jetbridges, and can handle up to 2000 passengers per hour. Facilities at the airport also include four cafés and two duty-free shops, as well as two airport lounges, one in the domestic section and one in the international.

Terminal 1

Opened in 1955, this was the airport's sole terminal until 2012, when terminal A was opened. It can handle 300 departing and 220 arriving passengers per hour. It currently does not handle any flights. There are tentative plans to use it for VIP passengers in the future.

Airlines and destinations

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

Airlines Destinations
airBaltic Riga
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Azerbaijan Airlines Seasonal: Baku
Azur Air Ukraine Charter: Sharm El Sheikh
Seasonal charter: Antalya, Dalaman
Belavia Minsk
Ellinair Seasonal: Heraklion, Thessaloniki
Ernest Airlines Bergamo, Naples, Rome–Fiumicino, Venice
LOT Polish Airlines Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Seasonal: Bydgoszcz, Olsztyn-Mazury
Lufthansa Munich
Motor Sich Airlines Kyiv–Zhuliany
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Ryanair Kraków, London–Stansted, Memmingen, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
SkyUp Kiev–Boryspil (begins 28 October 2019)
Seasonal charter: Alicante, Antalya, Hurghada, Monastir, Sharm El Sheikh, Tivat
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Ukraine International Airlines Bologna, Bodrum, Kiev-Boryspil, Madrid, Rome–Fiumicino, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Seasonal: Barcelona
Seasonal charter: Antalya, Sharm el-Sheikh
Wizz Air Berlin–Schönefeld, Bratislava, Copenhagen, Dortmund, Gdańsk, Hahn, Katowice, London–Luton, Vilnius, Wrocław

Statistics

Passenger figures

Year Passengers Change Lviv Airport Passenger Totals 2002–2018 (in millions)
2002 110,200 - <timeline>

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2003 144,100 035.8%
2004 198,200 035.5%
2005 235,900 019.0%
2006 278,200 018.0%
2007 427,100 052.4%
2008 532,100 025.5%
2009 452,300 015.0%
2010 481,900 06.5%
2011 297,000 038.4%
2012 576,000 094.0%
2013 700,800 021.0%
2014 585,200 016.5%
2015 570,570 02.5%
2016 738,000 029.4%
2017 1,080,000 046.3%
2018 1,598,700 048.0%

Busiest routes

Busiest routes at Lviv International Airport
City Airport(s) Weekly departures (Winter 2018) Airline(s)
Warsaw Warsaw Chopin Airport
Warsaw Modlin Airport
24 LOT Polish Airlines, Ryanair
Kiev Boryspil International Airport
Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany)
21 Motor Sich Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines
Istanbul Istanbul Airport
Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
15 Pegasus Airlines, Turkish Airlines
Vienna Vienna International Airport 11 Austrian Airlines
Minsk Minsk National Airport 7 Belavia
Munich Munich Airport 7 Lufthansa
London Luton Airport
London Stansted Airport
6 Wizz Air, Ryanair
Wroclaw Wroclaw International Airport 5 Wizz Air

Transportation

The airport is served by the bus route 48 and the trolleybus route 9, both of which terminate in the city centre. Taxis are also available at the airport, as well as car rental services.

Accidents and incidents

  • The airfield was the site of the Sknyliv air show disaster in 2002, which killed 77.

See also

  • Sknyliv air show disaster
  • List of airports in Ukraine
  • List of the busiest airports in Ukraine
  • List of the busiest airports in Europe
  • List of the busiest airports in the former USSR

External links

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Dimitri Visser ????
13 May 2013
Nice surprise! Low prices in restaurant, efficient customs and passport control, free wifi. What more do you need? Only seems to be very big for the few flights they have. It is like GHOST airport ;)
Sophie Oshchebska
8 December 2015
Kind personnel, free wifi, clean, fast, planes connected by sleeve (no annoying bus), comfortable parking...simply everything works how it should!
Clark Gillies
28 June 2018
Nice and modern airport with plenty of signs and information in English. Security very fast.
ᴡ Kisylychka
30 August 2018
Cozy airport. Duty free has local drinks to buy. Quick passport identification. Many destinations London, Istanbul, Bologna, Munic...
Anya Saniukevich
30 December 2012
Very new, very clean, free wifi (works well with my iPhone, doesn't work with my laptop). A nice cafe inside, not very expensive, healthy food, friendly staff. Ask waitresses for the socket.
Ola Klok
7 June 2017
cafès do not serve food at night and early morning (till 9am) - be prepared for this with a snack taken from home ????
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