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Nov 14, 2012 (newstodate): Russia's Kaliningrad Khabrovo Airport is to be developed on the basis of a new master plan.
New owner of the airport is the Russian company Aeroinvest that has contracted the Dutch consulting company NACO to work out a new master plan to be presented by mid-2013.
Elements in the master plan will comprise the construction of a new passenger terminal as well as infrastructural elements including an extension by 850m of the existing 2,500m runway, construction of four new aircraft stands as well as construction of a new taxiway.
The airport currently has one passenger terminal with capacity of handling up to nine mio passengers per year.
In 2004 private investors set up KD Avia to turn Kaliningrad into a hub in a new traffic system connecting 30 West European and 30 Russian, CIS destinations.
The venture collapsed by the end of 2008 as the carrier run into financial troubles with a fleet of 19 Boeing 737-300 aircraft and orders for delivery of 25 Airbus A319 aircraft.
KD Avia eventually folded its wings on September 1, 2009, leaving the airport in a temporary void.
Air traffic has since built up again, with newcomers in 2012 including SAS with flights from Copenhagen starting on March 25, 2012 as well as Uzbekistan Airways from the same date with a second weekly rotation from Tashkent.
New owner of the airport is the Russian company Aeroinvest that has contracted the Dutch consulting company NACO to work out a new master plan to be presented by mid-2013.
Elements in the master plan will comprise the construction of a new passenger terminal as well as infrastructural elements including an extension by 850m of the existing 2,500m runway, construction of four new aircraft stands as well as construction of a new taxiway.
The airport currently has one passenger terminal with capacity of handling up to nine mio passengers per year.
In 2004 private investors set up KD Avia to turn Kaliningrad into a hub in a new traffic system connecting 30 West European and 30 Russian, CIS destinations.
The venture collapsed by the end of 2008 as the carrier run into financial troubles with a fleet of 19 Boeing 737-300 aircraft and orders for delivery of 25 Airbus A319 aircraft.
KD Avia eventually folded its wings on September 1, 2009, leaving the airport in a temporary void.
Air traffic has since built up again, with newcomers in 2012 including SAS with flights from Copenhagen starting on March 25, 2012 as well as Uzbekistan Airways from the same date with a second weekly rotation from Tashkent.