The Boryspil international airport remained third in the Skytrax Airport Awards in Eastern Europe 2019 from Britain’s Skytrax.
The Budapest airport is first and the Tallinn airport is second.
The Buchrest airport is fourth and Belgrad airport is fifth.
The Boryspil international airport was also third in the Skytrax Airport Awards in Eastern Europe 2019.
Skytrax, established in 1989, is an international air transport rating organization.
Kyiv-based Boryspil International Airport, the country’s largest airport, in January 2019 boosted passenger traffic by 14%, to 897,200 people compared with January 2017, the airport’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine. In January 2019, some 766,300 passengers handled by Boryspil Airport flew by regular flights (an increase by 21%) and 130,900 passengers travelled by charter flights (a decline by 17%).
In January 2019, the share of transfer passengers grew by 12% of the airport’s total passenger traffic, to 235,820 people.
As reported, the airport in 2018 handled 12.6 million passengers, or 19% up on 2017. In 2019, its passenger traffic is expected to grow by 14%. According to the airport’s management, the projected decrease in passenger traffic growth rates is associated with an increase in the absolute number of passengers.
Boryspil International Airport is the main airport of Ukraine, occupying a total area of about 1,000 ha. The airport has two runways: one with a length of 4,000 meters and a width of 60 meters, and the second with a length of 3,500 meters and a width of 63 meters. Four passenger terminals, postal and cargo handling complexes are located on the territory of the airport.
It services Ryanair flights to and from Ukraine along with Lviv’s Danylo Halytsky Airport.
The construction of a hotel at Boryspil International Airport will begin this spring, and a total of four hotels can be built at the airport, director general of the airport Pavlo Riabikin has said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
“We have issued technical conditions for connecting to networks for two objects that are positioned as hotels. Private investors are building them. Two more companies are interested. Therefore, we consider four potential hotels. Construction work at one of them will start this spring,” he said.
According to the airport’s director, if construction companies successfully implement their plans, about 200 rooms could appear at the airport, which will allow to cover the basic demand.
Riabikin also noted that he had not heard “any well-known names from the point of view of hotel business operators,” but he connects this with the fact that the operators themselves do not build housing but manage.
Boryspil International Airport (Kyiv), the country’s largest airport, in the first nine months of 2018 increased passenger traffic by 19%, to 11.67 million people against 9.768 million in the same period of 2017, the press service of the airport has told Interfax-Ukraine. In November, the airport served 994,200 passengers, which is 33% more than in November 2017.
Some 8.936 million passengers of Boryspil airport travelled on regular flights in the 11 months, while 2.731 million people chose irregular flights.
The share of transfer in the total passenger traffic of the airport in January-November decreased to 27%, while over the 11 months of 2017 it was 28%.
At the same time, the number of transfer passengers increased from 2.72 million last year to 3.192 million in the 11 months of 2018.
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia will send the round-the-clock express train on the Kyiv-Passazhyrsky-Darnytsia-Boryspil-Airport route to make its first trip. “The regular train trips are to start at 13:00,” the company’s press service reported. Four rail buses produced by Polish Pesa Bydgoszcz SA with a capacity of up to 120 passengers and with a baggage zone, upgraded by Ukrzaliznytsia, will run on the route. Tickets costing UAH 80 can be purchased by cash at two cash desks at the Central and South Railway Stations, by noncash at four self-service terminals installed in the concourse over the fourteenth track. Also, passengers can pay for travel directly in the trains using a technology similar to the Kyiv subway.
The cost of the project, according to the press service, amounted to UAH 480 million.
“In the course of the implementation of the project, about 4 km of track was added to the existing railway infrastructure, a 272 meter long overpass was built over the M03 Kyiv-Kharkiv highway. Two passenger platforms with pavilions near the airport and an indoor pedestrian crossing from the platforms to Terminal D of the Boryspil airport were built, Ukrzaliznytsia said on its website.
Under the project two waiting rooms with air conditioning, TV, sockets, Wi-Fi and a children’s area were also built. Passengers can enter the indicated zones is open if they have a ticket for the express train. As reported, on November 29, Ukrzaliznytsia announced the timetable of the express train to the Boryspil International Airport with 30 trips in each direction.
Ukrzaliznytsia plans to transport about 3.8 million passengers along the route Kyiv-Boryspil International Airport in 2019 and is negotiating the electrification of the section of the route from Kyiv to the Boryspil International Airport.
State-owned enterprise (SOE) Boryspil International Airport plans to start reconstruction of maneuvering area No. 2 in 2020 under a memorandum signed with Chia Communications Construction Company (CCCC) and relaunch it in 2021.
“The reconstruction works will be paid for using the loan and partly at the expense of the company’s own funds. The Chinese Eximbank can issue a government-secured loan. Financing rates with government guarantees are much lower than commercial ones and do not require additional expenses from the airport,” Commercial Director of the airport Heorhiy Zubko told Interfax- Ukraine.
He said that the Chinese company, at its own expense, prepared and submitted a pre-feasibility study of the project to the airport under the memorandum signed by the airport and CCCC. According to Zubko, the airport has already prepared its comments on the draft pre-feasibility study, which CCCC should resolve before the end of the year, after which negotiations on financing will be held with the bank.
“The procurement procedure was not carried out and the Boryspil airport did not spend the company’s money and the budget,” he said, adding that the construction proposal had been put forward by the Chinese side.
Zubko does not report on the final cost of the reconstruction project, since it will be known only at the final design stage.
