Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi
International Airport
Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів"
імені Данила Галицького
Summary
Airport type Public
Serves Lviv
Location Lviv, Lviv Oblast, 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 (2017)
Passengers Increase 1,080,000

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.[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 would provide $70m, including $14m in 2008, and $130m would come 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 2,000 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) until the airline was dissolved April 2015 (by contrast, routes from Kyiv International Airport continued after being taken over by the parent company).[5] In January 2017, Wizz Air announced that it would be resuming flights to Lviv, initially with the introduction of a route to Wroclaw.[6]

In March 2017, Ryanair announced that it would be launching seven routes to Lviv starting October 2017.[7] 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.[8] 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.[2] 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.[9] It currently does not handle any flights. There are tentative plans to use it for VIP passengers in the future.[10]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter services to and from Lviv:[11]

AirlinesDestinations
AtlasGlobal Antalya
Anda Air Seasonal charter: Antalya[12]
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku
Azur Air Ukraine Charter: Sharm el-Sheikh[13]
Seasonal charter: Antalya,[13] Dalaman,[13] Hurghada[13]
Belavia Minsk
Bravo Airways Seasonal charter: Antalya,[14] Hurghada,[12] Tivat[12]
Ellinair Seasonal: Thessaloniki
Ernest Airlines Bergamo, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Rome-Fiumicino, Venice[15]
LOT Polish Airlines Bydgoszcz,[16] Olsztyn-Mazury, Poznań,[17][18] Warsaw-Chopin
Lufthansa Munich
Motor Sich AirlinesKiev-Zhuliany
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Ryanair Kraków (begins 30 October 2018),[19] London-Stansted (begins 2 November 2018),[19] Memmingen (begins 31 October 2018),[19] Warsaw-Modlin (begins 31 October 2018),[19] Weeze (begins 31 October 2018)[19]
SkyUp Seasonal charter: Dalaman,[12] Hurghada,[12] Larnaca,[12] Sharm el-Sheikh,[12] Tivat[12]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Ukraine International Airlines Bologna, Kiev-Boryspil, Madrid, Rome-Fiumicino, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Seasonal: Barcelona
Seasonal charter: Antalya,[20] Sharm el-Sheikh[20]
Windrose AirlinesSeasonal charter: Antalya, Dalaman,[21] Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh[22]
Qatar AirwaysDoha-Hamad International Airport,
Wizz AirBerlin-Schönefeld, Bratislava (begins 30 October 2018), Copenhagen (begins 3 March 2019), Dortmund, Frankfurt-Hahn (begins 14 December 2018), Gdańsk, Katowice, London-Luton, Vilnius (begins 29 October 2018), Wrocław
YanairSeasonal: Batumi[23]
Seasonal charter: Barcelona,[12] Sharm el-Sheikh[12]

Statistics

Bust of Danylo Halytskyi inside the new terminal

Passenger figures

Year Passengers[1][24][25] Change Lviv Airport Passenger Totals 2002–2017 (in millions)
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%
2016 738,000 Increase29.4%
2017 1,080,000 Increase46.3%
2018 1,204,700 (January-September) Increase46.6%

Busiest routes

Busiest routes at Lviv International Airport[26]
City Airport(s) Weekly departures (Summer 2017) Airline(s)
Warsaw Warsaw Chopin Airport 23 LOT Polish Airlines
Kiev Boryspil International Airport
Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany)		 18 Motor Sich Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines
Istanbul Istanbul Atatürk Airport
Sabiha Gökçen International Airport		 12 Pegasus Airlines, Turkish Airlines
Vienna Vienna International Airport 10 Austrian Airlines
Minsk Minsk National Airport 7 Belavia
Munich Munich Airport 7 Lufthansa

Transportation

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

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "{title}". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 "Lviv International Airport". Airport Technology. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  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. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Wizz Air launches flights from Lviv to Wroclaw from April 2017". Interfax-Ukraine. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "Ryanair Launches Low Fares In Ukraine (Country No.34)". Ryanair.com. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Ryanair Cancels Planned Ukraine Services As Kiev Airport Fails To Honour Commitments". Ryanair. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "Термінал № 1 міжнародного аеропорту «Львів» імені Данила Галицького - Wikimapia". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "Аеропорт Львова очолила екс-співробітник із "глобальним досвідом"". ТСН.ua. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  11. ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "freight monitor". online.joinup.ua. 9 July 2018.
  13. 1 2 3 4 "Flights map". azurair.ua. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  14. ↑ "Чартерные билеты в Анталию". Chartershop.com.ua. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  15. ↑ "Ernest Airlines - Fly with style in great company". Ernest Airlines.
  16. ↑ "Flight Schedule". Danylo Halytskyi International Airport Lviv.
  17. ↑ "Bezpośredni lot Poznań - Lwów". www.lot.com. LOT Polish Airlines.
  18. ↑ Jim, Liu (11 May 2017). "LOT adds Poznan – Lviv service from June 2017". Routesonline. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ryanair plans Ukraine launch in W18". Routesonline. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  20. 1 2 "Charter flights timetable". flyuia.com. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  21. ↑ NewAgeLab. "WindRose. Airline tickets. Book and Buy online. Ticket". windrose.kiev.ua.
  22. ↑ Liu, Jim (20 November 2017). "WindRose adds Lviv – Sharm el Sheikh service in W17". Routesonline. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  23. ↑ "Yanair открыл продажи на прямые рейсы Львов-Батуми". www.avianews.com. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  24. ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 17 November 2008.
  25. ↑ http://www.mfa.gov.ua/data/upload/publication/china/ua/18449/lviv_airport_upgrade_eng.pdf%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  26. ↑ "Flight Schedule". lwo.aero. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  27. ↑ Kirillov, Roman (27 July 2005). "PILOTS CONVICTED FOR DISASTER DURING AIR SHOW". The Current Digest of the Russian Press. 56 (26): 9–10. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2011. 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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