Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi
International Airport
Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів"
імені Данила Галицького
IATA: LWO – ICAO: UKLL
Summary
Airport type Public
Serves Lviv
Location Lviv, Ukraine
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 1,071 ft / 326 m
Coordinates 49°48′45″N 23°57′22″E / 49.81250°N 23.95611°E / 49.81250; 23.95611
Website lwo.aero
Map
LWO

Location of airport in Ukraine

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13/31 10 843 3,305 Concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers Decrease 570,570

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 Prince Daniel of Galicia, the historical founder of the city in 1256 AD.

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 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.

In 2010, the airport carried 481,900 passengers.[1] 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.[2] Of the $200m, it was expected that the Ukrainian government will provide $70m, including $14m in 2008, and $130m came from private investors.[3] The expansion project included a 700-meter extension of the existing runway and a new airport terminal capable of handling up to 1,220 passengers per hour (5.69 million passenger annually).[2][4]

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) from here until the airline shut down its base in Lviv in April 2015.[5]

Facilities

The terminal has 29 check-in desks, of which nine are meant for domestic and remaining for international flights.[2] Facilities at the airport also include 4 cafés and 2 duty-free shops as well as bus services to the city.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter services to and from Lviv:[6]

AirlinesDestinations
AtlasGlobal Ukraine Istanbul-Atatürk[7]
Austrian Airlines Vienna
AZALJet Baku[8]
Azur Air Ukraine Seasonal charter: Antalya, Dalaman, Sharm el-Sheikh
Belavia Minsk[9]
Bravo Airways[10] Seasonal charter: Dalaman
Dniproavia Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk (ends 19 December 2016)
Seasonal charter: Split
Ellinair Seasonal: Thessaloniki[11]
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine		 Munich
Motor Sich AirlinesKiev-Zhulyany
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
SprintAir Radom[12]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil, Istanbul-Atatürk,[13] Kaunas (begins 13 July 2017, ends 18 August 2017),[14] Rome-Fiumicino, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion,[15] Vilnius (ends 5 January 2017, resumes 25 March 2017)[16]
Seasonal: Bologna, Madrid,[17]
Seasonal charter: Antalya, Hurghada, Tivat
Windrose Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya, Hurghada
Yanair Seasonal charter: Antalya

Statistics

Bust of Danylo Halytskyi inside the new terminal
Year Passengers[1][18][19] Change
1999 35,000 -
2002 110,200 -
2003 144,100 Increase35.8%
2004 198,200 Increase35.5%
2005 235,900 Increase19.0%
2006 278,200 Increase18.0%
2007 427,100 Increase52.4%
2008 532,100 Increase25.5%
2009 452,300 Decrease15.0%
2010 481,900 Increase6.5%
2011 297,000 Decrease38.4%
2012 576,000 Increase94.0%
2013 700,800 Increase21.0%
2014 585,200 Decrease16.5%
2015 570,570 Decrease2.5%

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.girodivite.it/IMG/doc/UCRAINA.doc
  2. 1 2 3 http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/lviv-airport/[]
  3. ↑ Modernization of Lviv airport for Euro-2012 finals to cost $200 million. Government can cough up $70 million, ZIK (27 may 2008)
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ https://wizzair.com/en-GB/about_us/news/wizzen303
  6. ↑ http://www.lwo.aero/en/schedule
  7. ↑ http://portal.lviv.ua/news/2015/07/23/atlasjet-ukrayina-rozpochala-prodazh-kvitkiv
  8. ↑ "Azerbaijan Airlines Launches Low-cost AZALJet Service from late-March 2016". airlineroute.
  9. ↑ http://lowcostavia.com.ua/lviv-minsk-new-route/
  10. ↑ https://m.planespotters.net/airline/Bravo-Airways
  11. ↑ http://en.ellinair.com/
  12. ↑ http://www.pasazer.com/news/30453/sprintair,nowa,trasa,z,radomia,do,lwowa.html
  13. ↑ L, J (10 November 2015). "Ukraine International Expands Istanbul Service in 16H1". Airline Route. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  14. ↑ Liu, Jim (5 October 2016). "Ukraine International outlines Kaunas operation in Jul/Aug 2017". Routesonline. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  15. ↑ http://www.flyuia.com/eng/company/ukraine-international-airlines/press/news/1658.html?news=2449&category=1
  16. ↑ http://flyuia.com/eng/company/ukraine-international-airlines/press/news/1658.html?news=3204&category=1
  17. ↑ L, J (19 November 2014). "Ukraine International Airlines Adds New Routes in S15". Airline Route. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  18. ↑ http://www.iaae.org/meetings/Budapest2005/Ukrainian_Airport_Overview.doc
  19. ↑ http://www.mfa.gov.ua/data/upload/publication/china/ua/18449/lviv_airport_upgrade_eng.pdf
  20. ↑ Kirillov, Roman (July 27, 2005). "PILOTS CONVICTED FOR DISASTER DURING AIR SHOW". The Current Digest of the Russian Press. 56 (26): 9–10. Retrieved 2011-03-24. While performing an aerobatic maneuver, an SU-27 jet crashed into a crowd of spectators, leaving 77 dead and another 543 injured. The commander of the plane's crew, Vladimir Toponar, was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison, and copilot Yury Yegorov got eight years

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