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Oct 04, 2016 (newstodate): Backed by a number of automotive companies led by Volkswagen Russia, Kaluga Grabtsevo Airport in the Kaluga region is spreading its wings after a comprehensive reconstruction.
The airport now expects to offer flights to 25 destinations in 2017, including four internationals, a great leap from the eight routes served today.
Starting from December 2016, the Belarus carrier 'Belavia will launch flights from Minsk, Komiaviatrans will start flights from Kaluga to St Petersburg, Sochi and Kazan, Saratov Airlines is planning for flights from St Petersburg, Sochi, Simferopol, Gelendzhik and Kaliningrad, and other carriers will add flights from Kazan, Ufa, Simferopol, Moscow, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Pskov and Yaroslavl.
The airport was acquired by Volkswagen Russia in 2008 after being transferred from state to regional ownership.
The state retains responsibility for the runway and other basic infrastructure of the airport that has one 2,200 m runway and traffic so far with only smaller aircraft.
Besides Volkswagen, Citroen, Mitsubishi, Volvo and Peugeot have also invested heavily in the area that houses over 60 major production facilities and dozens of medium-sized companies generating a need for air services to Europe and the world.
In 2013, a Chinese company Petro-Hehua won the tender for redeveloping the airport under a project comprising the upgrading of the 2,200 m runway to allow for traffic by Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 aircraft, construction of new taxiways and new aircraft parking stands.
The airport now expects to offer flights to 25 destinations in 2017, including four internationals, a great leap from the eight routes served today.
Starting from December 2016, the Belarus carrier 'Belavia will launch flights from Minsk, Komiaviatrans will start flights from Kaluga to St Petersburg, Sochi and Kazan, Saratov Airlines is planning for flights from St Petersburg, Sochi, Simferopol, Gelendzhik and Kaliningrad, and other carriers will add flights from Kazan, Ufa, Simferopol, Moscow, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Pskov and Yaroslavl.
The airport was acquired by Volkswagen Russia in 2008 after being transferred from state to regional ownership.
The state retains responsibility for the runway and other basic infrastructure of the airport that has one 2,200 m runway and traffic so far with only smaller aircraft.
Besides Volkswagen, Citroen, Mitsubishi, Volvo and Peugeot have also invested heavily in the area that houses over 60 major production facilities and dozens of medium-sized companies generating a need for air services to Europe and the world.
In 2013, a Chinese company Petro-Hehua won the tender for redeveloping the airport under a project comprising the upgrading of the 2,200 m runway to allow for traffic by Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 aircraft, construction of new taxiways and new aircraft parking stands.