Yemelyanovo Airport
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Yemelyanovo International Airport is a major airport in Krasnoyarsk Krai
, Russia
located 37 km northwest of Krasnoyarsk
. It opened for operations in 1980. Presently, Yemelyanovo makes regular cargo and passenger flights of over 40 Russian and overseas carriers. Among them are Aeroflot, STC Russia, Transaero, Taymyr Airlines, Vladivostok Avia, UTair, Red Wings, S7, Globus, Uzbekistan Airways, Somon Air (Tajikistan), Нainan Airlines (China), AirBridgeCargo, as well as Lufthansa Cargo, one of the biggest freight airlines of the world. The cargo terminal of LHC in Yemelyanovo airport is its second largest one after Frankfurt.
The runway of Yemelyanovo airport (Magnetic Heading 288о) is the only Siberian runway capable of handling LTOs under ICAO category II. The runway condition, the airport facilities and the technology of aircraft handling allows the airport to service more than 50 types of passenger and freight aircraft, including Boeing-767, Boeing-747, А-330, MD-11, Antonov 124-100 and Antonov 225 (Mriya). The airport’s capacity is 12 LTO per hour with the actual turnover exceeding 1 million passengers per year.
At present, the airport provides a full array of passenger handling services in all three terminals, such as the VIP and the Business Lounges, Baby/Parent Room, ATMs, shops, cafés, bars, the drugstore and the post office.
In November 2007, it was announced that Lufthansa Cargo
might switch its Asian refueling and distribution point from Astana, Kazakhstan to Yemelyanovo Airport, because Russia would no longer permit Lufthansa the use of its air space for their Europe to Asia flights unless they could sell fuel. In July 2008 Lufthansa stated that it would move its cargo logistics hub from Astana to Yemelyanovo once the airport was brought up to ICAO safety standards.
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia . It is the second largest federal subject after the Sakha Republic, and Russia's largest krai, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory. The administrative center of the krai is the city of Krasnoyarsk...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
located 37 km northwest of Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...
. It opened for operations in 1980. Presently, Yemelyanovo makes regular cargo and passenger flights of over 40 Russian and overseas carriers. Among them are Aeroflot, STC Russia, Transaero, Taymyr Airlines, Vladivostok Avia, UTair, Red Wings, S7, Globus, Uzbekistan Airways, Somon Air (Tajikistan), Нainan Airlines (China), AirBridgeCargo, as well as Lufthansa Cargo, one of the biggest freight airlines of the world. The cargo terminal of LHC in Yemelyanovo airport is its second largest one after Frankfurt.
The runway of Yemelyanovo airport (Magnetic Heading 288о) is the only Siberian runway capable of handling LTOs under ICAO category II. The runway condition, the airport facilities and the technology of aircraft handling allows the airport to service more than 50 types of passenger and freight aircraft, including Boeing-767, Boeing-747, А-330, MD-11, Antonov 124-100 and Antonov 225 (Mriya). The airport’s capacity is 12 LTO per hour with the actual turnover exceeding 1 million passengers per year.
At present, the airport provides a full array of passenger handling services in all three terminals, such as the VIP and the Business Lounges, Baby/Parent Room, ATMs, shops, cafés, bars, the drugstore and the post office.
In November 2007, it was announced that Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo AG is a cargo airline from Germany, operating worldwide air freight and logistics services on behalf of Lufthansa, of which it is a wholly owned subsidiary. The company is headquartered in Building 451 of the Frankfurt Airport area in Frankfurt, the major hub of Lufthansa...
might switch its Asian refueling and distribution point from Astana, Kazakhstan to Yemelyanovo Airport, because Russia would no longer permit Lufthansa the use of its air space for their Europe to Asia flights unless they could sell fuel. In July 2008 Lufthansa stated that it would move its cargo logistics hub from Astana to Yemelyanovo once the airport was brought up to ICAO safety standards.