Kazan International Airport
Kazan International Airport Qazan Xalıqara Aeroportı / Казан Халыкара Аэропорты Международный аэропорт Казань | |||||||||||
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Airport type | International | ||||||||||
Owner | Kazan International Airport | ||||||||||
Operator | JSC "Kazan International Airport" | ||||||||||
Serves | Kazan, Russia | ||||||||||
Hub for | UVT Aero | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 413 ft / 126 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 55°36′24″N 049°16′54″E / 55.60667°N 49.28167°ECoordinates: 55°36′24″N 049°16′54″E / 55.60667°N 49.28167°E | ||||||||||
Website | www.kazan.aero | ||||||||||
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KZN Location of airport in Tatarstan | |||||||||||
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Kazan International Airport (Russian: Международный аэропорт Казань, Tatar: Qazan Xalıqara Aeroportı / Казан Халыкара Аэропорты; IATA: KZN, ICAO: UWKD) is an airport located in Russia, around 25 km southeast of Kazan. It is the largest airport in Tatarstan, and the 15th busiest airport in Russia. Kazan Airport served nearly 3.8 million citizens of the region.
History
On 15 September 1979, Kazan 2 was completed. On 28 September 1984, Kazan 1 (located inside the city) was shut down, and Kazan 2 was renamed to Kazan Domestic Airport. On 21 February 1986, Kazan Airport gained international rank. This was a drastic announcement, because the USSR Council of Ministers only rarely allowed its citizens to fly out of the USSR.
In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Tatarstan region separated from USSR's single Aeroflot airline and created Tatarstan Airlines. This airline didn't gain an efficient amount of investments in its 22 years of service, and its operating license was officially terminated on 31 December 2013.[1]
On 26 October 1992, Kazan got its first international regular flight: Kazan - Istanbul - Kazan. This flight was (and still is) operated by Turkish Airlines and 145 annual trips are made to and from Istanbul, making it the most popular international route.
In 2008, Tatarstan's president, Mintimer Shaimiev, after winning the bid for the 2013 Universiade Olympic Games, began creating a set of major reform projects of Kazan. Apart from repairing the streets, bringing in investments, integrating English language and improving the bus route system in Kazan, Shaimiev also began to completely redesign Kazan's airport. He designed the blueprints for Terminal 1A, and planned out the complete refining of the airport between 2008-2025. Shaimiev's successor and today's president of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, used the blueprints, which were made in 2009, to begin the construction of Terminal 1A and a complete redesign of Terminal 1 (essentially also a new reconstruction).
First, a new 3700 meter runway was built, and edge lights were added on both of the runways. This made it possible for the airport to operate 24/7. In 2012, a new airport fire station was built. In 2012 the construction of Terminal 1A began. Later that year, Terminal 1 began its own renovation. Terminal 1A was officially opened on 7 November 2012. Terminal 1 finished renovations on 22 June 2013.
Today, the new airport has more than 30 check-in slots and seven conveyor belts. It has three separate duty-free shops, selling merchandise such as alcohol, cigars and cigarettes, chocolates. It offers popular brands such as Costa Coffee. The airport can sustain around three million passengers. Further expansions and the creation of Terminal 2 will occur before the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Following the Skytrax Airport and Airline Awards, Kazan Airport was nominated for 4 stars in 2014, and was called Russia's and CIS's best airport.
Thanks to the opening of new air routes and to the increase of flights in the existing ones, the Kazan Airport, at the beginning of the month of December 2017 reached the record of 2.5 million passengers transported in less than a year. [2]
Airlines and destinations
Kazan International Airport is served by the following passenger airlines (as of August 2015), all of which operate out of Terminal 1A:[3][4]
Statistics
Passenger statistics
Year | Passengers | % Change |
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2004 | 309,900 | |
2005 | 393,600 | |
2006 | 445,700 | |
2007 | 616,400 | |
2008 | 751,500 | |
2009 | 675,700 | |
2010 | 958,500 | |
2011 | 1,227,000 | |
2012 | 1,487,000 | |
2013 | 1,847,000 | |
2014 | 1,942,408 | |
2015 | 1,799,267 | |
2016 | 1,923,223 | |
2017 | 2,623,423 | |
Arrivals and departures
2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
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Cargo handled
2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
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Other facilities
Tatarstan Airlines had its head office on the airport property.[20][21]
Accidents and incidents
On 17 November 2013, Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363, a Boeing 737-500, operating for Tatarstan Airlines, crashed while attempting to land at the airport. All 44 passengers and 6 crew members died.[22] Investigations revealed the pilot had not completed his primary flight training, a revelation which then led the Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) to revoke hundreds of pilots' licenses.[23]
See also
References
- ↑ "Ak Bars Aero wins Volga contract; to absorb Tatarstan Air's assets". Ch-aviation.ch. 27 December 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
- ↑ http://aviationews.net/blog/kazan-airport-reaches-record-25-million-passengers/
- ↑ http://www.airport.kazan.ru/files/dep_arr092011.pdf Kazan International Airport. Flights schedule for September 2011
- ↑ "Все рейсы в казанском аэропорту перенесены в терминал 1А. Старый закрыт на реконструкцию". БИЗНЕС Online. 10 December 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ↑ Liu, Jim (28 February 2018). "Air Astana plans new Russian routes from June 2018". Routesonline. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ↑ Liu, Jim (15 March 2018). "AtlasGlobal adds new Russian scheduled charters in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ "Авиакомпания «Белавиа» в апреле откроет рейс Казань-Минск". БИЗНЕС Online (in Russian). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ↑ Liu, Jim (21 November 2017). "Georgian Airways resumes Kazan route in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ↑ http://b2b.tui.ru/default.php?page=freight_monitor&
- ↑ Liu, Jim (16 September 2018). "Pobeda expands domestic network Sep/Oct 2018". Routesonline. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ↑ Liu, Jim (14 September 2018). "Pobeda expands Tbilisi network in 4Q18". Routesonline. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- ↑ "Russia, Novosibirsk, Tolmachevo (OVB)SwapRussia, Kazan (KZN)". S7.ru. S7 Airlines. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
- ↑ Liu, Jim (5 March 2018). "S7 Airlines boosts Novosibirsk domestic network in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ↑ Liu, Jim (17 July 2018). "Turkish Airlines S19 Short-Haul increases as of 16JUL18". Routesonline. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
- ↑ Liu, Jim (19 April 2018). "Ural Airlines adds Bologna scheduled charters in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ↑ Liu, Jim (13 April 2018). "UTair expands Volgograd service from May 2018". Routesonline. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ↑ Талавринов, Максим (16 April 2018). ""ЮТэйр" начала летать на самолетах Superjet 100". Авиатранспортное обозрение (in Russian). ATO.ru. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ↑ Liu, Jim (2 March 2018). "UVT Aero adds Kazan – Batumi in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ↑ Архив новостей. "Международный аэропорт Казань". kazan.aero.
- ↑ "Головной офис." Tatarstan Airlines. Retrieved on 28 October 2010. "420144, Россия, Татарстан, г. Казань, Аэропорт"
- ↑ "World Airline Directory." Flight International. 23–29 March 1994. 122. "Head office: Kazan Airport, Tatarstan 420017, Russia"
- ↑ Simon Hradecky (17 November 2013). "Crash: Tatarstan B735 at Kazan on Nov 17th 2013, crashed on go-around". Avherald.com. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
- ↑ Mark Hubert (9 May 2017). "Russian Pilots Protesting Mass License Revocations". Ainonline.com. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
External links
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- (in English) (in Russian) (in Tatar) Kazan International Airport official website