Boryspil International Airport

Boryspil International Airport Міжнародний аеропорт "Бориспіль"
IATA: KBP ICAO: UKBB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Civil Government
Serves	Kiev, Ukraine
Location	Boryspil
Hub for	Ukraine International Airlines
Focus city for	Windrose Airlines
Elevation AMSL	130 m / 427 ft
Coordinates	50°20′41″N 30°53′36″E / 50.34472°N 30.89333°E / 50.34472; 30.89333Coordinates: 50°20′41″N 30°53′36″E / 50.34472°N 30.89333°E / 50.34472; 30.89333
Website	kbp.kiev.ua
Map
KBP Location in Kiev Oblast
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 18L/36R 4,000 13,123 Concrete 18R/36L 3,500 11,483 Concrete
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 8,650,000 Flights 75,280
Source: Official website Ukrainian AIP at EUROCONTROL Statistics: passengers Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Flights Boryspil Airport

Passengers	8,650,000
Flights	75,280

Boryspil International Airport (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Бориспіль") (IATA: KBP, ICAO: UKBB) is an international airport in Boryspil, 29 km (18 mi) east of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It is the country's largest airport, serving 65% of its passenger air traffic, including all its intercontinental flights and a majority of international flights. It is one of two passenger airports that serve Kiev along with the smaller Zhulyany Airport. Boryspil International Airport is a member of Airports Council International.

On 22 June 1959, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ordered the establishment of regular civil air traffic to the then military airfield near Boryspil. On 7 July 1959, the new airport (named Kyiv-Tsentralnyi) received its first scheduled flight. It was Aeroflot's Tupolev Tu-104 en route from Moscow, carrying 100 passengers and about 1,600 kg of cargo. The first routes served were Moscow–Kiev-Moscow and Leningrad–Kiev–Leningrad.

In November 1960, the first permanent air group, consisting of Tu-104 and Antonov An-10 planes, was assigned to the airport. Until then it had been served only by aircraft based in Moscow and other cities of the Soviet Union. A new passenger terminal was opened in 1965. Later that year, an automatic landing assistance system was installed .

In 1963, the Ukrainian Territorial Administration of Civil Aviation formed its Boryspil subdivision consisting of the airport and its air group. The air group grew significantly in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1974 it consisted of four fleets of turbojet aircraft (Tu-104 planes), turbofan aircraft (Tu-134, Tu-154 planes) and two fleets of turboprop aircraft (Ilyushin Il-18 planes).