Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany)
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Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) Міжнародний аеропорт "Київ" (Жуляни) |
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | City of Kiev/Govt. of Ukraine | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kiev, Ukraine | ||||||||||
| Location | Zhuliany | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1924 | ||||||||||
| Focus city for | Wizz Air | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 179 m / 587 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°24′06″N 30°27′06″E / 50.40167°N 30.45167°ECoordinates: 50°24′06″N 30°27′06″E / 50.40167°N 30.45167°E | ||||||||||
| Website | airport.kiev.ua | ||||||||||
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 IEV
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| Passengers |
 1,127,500 |
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| Flights |
18,268 |
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Київ" імені Ігоря Сікорського (Жуляни)) (IATA: IEV, ICAO: UKKK) is one of the two passenger airports of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. It is owned by the municipality of Kiev and located in the southern Zhuliany neighbourhood of the city. Aside from facilitating regular passenger flights, Kyiv International Airport is also the main business aviation airport in Ukraine, and one of the busiest business aviation hubs in Europe.
The airport is known since 1923 as a military airfield that was co-used by the "Ukrpovitroshlyakh" ("Ukrainian Society of Air Communications") which in 1934 was completely integrated into Aeroflot as the latter's regional administration. The airport terminal was built only after World War II in 1949. Until the 1960s, Zhuliany was the only passenger airport serving Kiev.
In 1959, the larger Boryspil International Airport was built near the city of Boryspil, gradually replacing Zhuliany as the main airport serving Kyiv. Since that time the old "Kiev" airport became commonly known just as "Zhuliany" (or Kyiv-Zhuliany) and was used for Soviet domestic flights only.
After Ukraine gained independence in 1991, "Kyiv" airport began receiving international flights from nearby countries (first from its former Soviet "domestic" destinations), increasingly so since the 2000s when Ukraine's civil aviation started booming. On 27 March 2011, Wizz Air, the locally-pioneering low cost airline, moved all its operations to "Zhuliany" from the Boryspil Airport, - starting the new era of around-the-clock flights at the airport and increasing the passenger traffic by 15 to 20%.
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