Lharkiv’s Yaroslavl Airport doubled passenger traffic in January .
Kharkiv International Airport, which is part of the DCH group of well-known Ukrainian businessman from the top ten Forbes Ukraine Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, doubled passenger traffic in January this year, and the number of departures increased by 70% .
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“In January 2022, the airlines made 355 flights from Kharkiv International Airport, and the passenger flow rate was 73.5 thousand people. Thus, we continue to grow significantly compared to last year: the number of departures has increased by 70%, and passenger traffic has doubled, “- revealed details in the press service of the Kharkiv airport operator” New Systems AM “from the DCH group.
65.3 thousand passengers took advantage of international flights at Kharkiv Airport, which is 105% more than in January 2021. The increase on domestic routes is 116%: 8.2 thousand people used the airport services in January, while in January 2021 their number was 3.8 thousand.
The most popular destinations in January were Istanbul, Sharm el-Sheikh, Kiev, Marsa Alam and Krakow.
Meanwhile, Yaroslavl Airport is already intensively preparing for the summer tourist season. Kharkiv International Airport has announced a large number of flights for the summer season. Thus, the Ukrainian airline SkyUp Airlines has opened the sale of tickets for flights to 13 destinations from Kharkov to: Barcelona (from April 29), Larnaca (from May 1), Prague (from May 5), Heraklion (from May 19), Batumi (from 20) May), Rimini and Tirana (from June 1), Burgas (from June 7). Wizz Air also adds to the summer map of flights from Kharkov 13 destinations: Vienna, Thessaloniki, Tallinn, Milan (Malpensa Airport), Rome (Fiumicino Airport), Larnaca, Berlin (Brandenburg Airport), Dortmund, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Gdansk Pardube.
Buying tickets for travelers is available on the site and at the airport ticket offices, websites of airlines and ticket agencies.
At the same time, the press service of the operator of the Kharkiv airport “New Systems AM” from the DCH group reported on its social media pages that the airport operates normally, serving arrivals and departures of scheduled aircraft.
“According to the official information of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the sky over Ukraine remains open. We recommend monitoring the current status of flights on the online scoreboard,” the airport’s press service said, recalling that
Kharkiv International Airport is one of the key infrastructure facilities of the first capital of Ukraine and the Kharkiv region. Investments in its reconstruction were provided by the DCH group of companies of Ukrainian businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky as part of the preparation of key infrastructure facilities in Kharkiv for Euro-2012. The businessman’s investment in the project, including the construction of a new airport complex and the reconstruction of the old one, reached more than 107 million dollars. The state has invested a comparable amount in the reconstruction of its runway.
The rapid expansion of the network of domestic and international scheduled air services has allowed Kharkiv Airport to set its first historical record in 2018: about a million travelers used its services in a year. And by the end of 2021, the airport demonstrated the highest rate of recovery of passenger traffic after the pandemic among the top 5 leading airports in Ukraine, serving 1 million 159 thousand travelers. Kharkiv International Airport is among the TOP-5 air gates of Ukraine in terms of flight service intensity and number of passengers. In 2019, Kharkiv International Airport was the first in Ukraine to receive an indefinite certificate of compliance with the highest standards of flight safety and quality of service set by the European Commission’s Regulation for European Union airports.
Alexander Yaroslavsky’s DCH group is implementing the successful Kharkiv experience of public-private partnership in the construction of a new international level airport and its successful development by a private investor in the city of Dnipro.
Source: Ukrgate
