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May 31, 2016 (newstodate): The 4th international airport to serve the Moscow area, Ramenskoye Zhukovsky Airport has now been officially opened with a ceremony on May 30, 2016.
Behind the airport is Ramport Aero, a JV between Lithuania's Avia Solutions Group and TVK Rossiya, a subsidiary of Rostec.
Ramport Aero will be managing the new airport that has signed a cooperation agreements with four airlines, including Kazakhstan's SCAT Airlines, Air Kyrgyzstan that will be the first carrier to operate at the airport from June 20, 2016, Sky Gates Airlines and Aviastar-Tu.
The new international airport will primarily serve Russian institutions and ministries as well as low-cost traffic, and it will be implemented in three stages growing the airport from two million passengers in its first stage, continuing in stages to serve five mio passengers annually as well as comprising a range of other services including hotels and office space.
Fully developed, the airport will have a handling capacity of up to 12 mio passengers per year.
In the plans for the airport's continued development is also the construction of a new cargo complex slated for completion by the end of 2017.
Ramenskoye Zhukovsky Airport has two runways, one of which is the longest in Europe - 5,400m.
The need for a fourth airport to relive congestion at airports in the Moscow region was imperative at the time the project was launched, but with the dampening of Russian air traffic since the imposition of sanctions on the country after the Crimean annexation and the participation in the war in Ukraine, the airport may face problems in filling its apron with customers.
Behind the airport is Ramport Aero, a JV between Lithuania's Avia Solutions Group and TVK Rossiya, a subsidiary of Rostec.
Ramport Aero will be managing the new airport that has signed a cooperation agreements with four airlines, including Kazakhstan's SCAT Airlines, Air Kyrgyzstan that will be the first carrier to operate at the airport from June 20, 2016, Sky Gates Airlines and Aviastar-Tu.
The new international airport will primarily serve Russian institutions and ministries as well as low-cost traffic, and it will be implemented in three stages growing the airport from two million passengers in its first stage, continuing in stages to serve five mio passengers annually as well as comprising a range of other services including hotels and office space.
Fully developed, the airport will have a handling capacity of up to 12 mio passengers per year.
In the plans for the airport's continued development is also the construction of a new cargo complex slated for completion by the end of 2017.
Ramenskoye Zhukovsky Airport has two runways, one of which is the longest in Europe - 5,400m.
The need for a fourth airport to relive congestion at airports in the Moscow region was imperative at the time the project was launched, but with the dampening of Russian air traffic since the imposition of sanctions on the country after the Crimean annexation and the participation in the war in Ukraine, the airport may face problems in filling its apron with customers.