2021-03-05T21:00:00Z
Aircrafts: A333(Generic, remark: iFly charter), CRJ200(UTair), DH8D(Yakutia), A319/B788(AZAL), B752(Uzbekistan airlines), A320/A321(Wizz air), A321/B737(Turkish Airlines), B738(FlyDubai)
About Vnukovo
Vnukovo International Airport, formally Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev International Airport (named after Andrei Tupolev) (Russian: Внуково, IPA: [ˈvnukəvə]) (IATA: VKO, ICAO: UUWW), is a dual-runway international airport located in Vnukovo District, 28 kilometres (17 mi) southwest of the centre of Moscow, Russia. It is one of the four major airports that serve Moscow, along with Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Sheremetyevo International Airport, and Zhukovsky International Airport. In 2019, the airport handled 24.01 million passengers, representing an increase of 12% compared to the previous year. It is the eleventh-busiest airport in Europe. Vnukovo is Moscow’s oldest operating airport. It was opened and used for military operations during the Second World War, but became a civilian facility after the war. Its construction was approved by the Soviet government in 1937, because the older Khodynka Aerodrome (located much closer to the city centre, but closed by the 1980s) was becoming overloaded. Vnukovo was built by several thousand inmates of Likovlag, a Gulag concentration camp created specifically for this purpose, and opened on 1 July 1941. During the Great Patriotic War, it was used as a military airbase; passenger services started after the war.
On 15 September 1956, the Tupolev Tu-104 jetliner made its first passenger flight from Moscow Vnukovo to Irkutsk via Omsk.
On 4 November 1957, a plane carrying Romanian Workers’ Party officials, including the most prominent politicians of Communist Romania (Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Chivu Stoica, Alexandru Moghioroș, Ştefan Voitec, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Leonte Răutu, and Grigore Preoteasa), was involved in an accident at Vnukovo Airport. Preoteasa, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, was killed, as was the aircraft’s crew. Several others were seriously injured.
The first passenger flights of the IL-18 (Moscow to Alma-Ata on 20 April 1956) and Tu-114 (Moscow to Khabarovsk on 24 April 1961) were also made from Vnukovo Airport. In 1980, Vnukovo was expanded because of the 22nd Summer Olympic Games. In 1993, Vnukovo Airport became a joint-stock company.
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Airlines Destinations
Aircompany Armenia Yerevan
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku, Ganja
Seasonal: Lankaran, Qabala
Azimuth Elista, Grozny, Krasnodar, Omsk, Pskov, Rostov-on-Don
Azur Air Seasonal: Barcelona, Cancún, Larnaca, La Romana, Nha Trang, Sanya, Varadero
Seasonal charter: Abu Dhabi, Agadir, Antalya, Bodrum, Burgas, Colombo–Bandaranaike, Dalaman, Djerba, Dubai–International, Enfidha, Gazipaşa, Goa, Heraklion, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Pattaya, Phu Quoc, Rhodes, Taiyuan, Tenerife–South, Tivat, Varna, Zanzibar
Bulgaria Air Seasonal: Burgas
Buta Airways Baku, Ganja
Ellinair Thessaloniki
Seasonal: Corfu, Heraklion, Patras
FlyArmenia Yerevan
flydubai Dubai–International
FlyOne Chișinău
Gazpromavia Bovanenkovo, Nadym, Novy Urengoy, Noyabrsk, Tyumen, Ufa, Yamburg, Yekaterinburg
I-Fly Seasonal charter: Antalya, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Bodrum, Burgas, Cagliari, Fuzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Heraklion, Jinan, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Phuket, Podgorica, Punta Cana, Rimini, Salzburg, Sanya, Shenyang, Shenzhen, St Petersburg, Taiyuan, Tenerife-South, Tianjin, Tivat, Turin, Verona, Wuhan, Xi’an, Zhengzhou
IrAero Novy Urengoy
Iraqi Airways Baghdad
Mahan Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Seasonal: Mashhad
Nouvelair Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir
Pobeda Antalya, Astrakhan, Bari, Bergamo, Berlin, Bratislava, Catania, Cheboksary, Cologne/Bonn, Genoa, Girona, Gorno-Altaysk, Gyumri, Irkutsk, Istanbul, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Kaliningrad, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk–International, Kurgan, Larnaca, Leipzig/Halle, Magas, Makhachkala, Memmingen, Mineralnye Vody, Murmansk, Nalchik, Nizhnekamsk, Novosibirsk, Palermo, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Pisa, Riga, Rome–Fiumicino, Saransk, Saratov, St. Petersburg, Surgut, Tivat, Tomsk, Treviso, Ufa, Ulan-Ude (ends 28 March 2021), Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka, Vladikavkaz, Volgograd, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg
Seasonal: Anapa, Bodrum, Cagliari, Dalaman, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Eilat, Gazipaşa, Innsbruck, Reus, Rimini, Salzburg, Varna
Rossiya Airlines Simferopol, St. Petersburg
Seasonal charter: Phuket
Royal Flight Seasonal charter: Antalya
RusLine Belgorod, Bryansk, Elista, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kazan, Kirov, Kursk, Leipzig/Halle, Lipetsk, Penza, Saransk, Tambov, Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka, Vorkuta, Voronezh, Yoshkar-Ola
Seasonal: Palanga, Saratov
SCAT Airlines Aktau, Aktobe, Nur-Sultan, Shymkent
Syrian Air Damascus
Turkish Airlines Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul
Seasonal: Bodrum (begins 2 May 2021), Dalaman (begins 26 April 2021)
Utair Anadyr, Berlin, Bukhara, Dushanbe, Fergana, Grozny, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Khanty-Mansiysk, Kogalym, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk–International, Kurgan, Magas, Makhachkala, Milan–Malpensa, Mineralnye Vody, Minsk, Murmansk, Nakhchivan, Naryan-Mar, Noyabrsk, Riga, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Samarkand, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Stavropol, Surgut, Syktyvkar, Tashkent, Tyumen, Ufa, Usinsk, Vienna, Vladikavkaz, Yerevan
Seasonal: Anapa, Beloyarsky, Gelendzhik, Split, Thessaloniki
Seasonal charter: Zanzibar
Uzbekistan Airways Andijan, Bukhara, Fergana, Karshi, Namangan, Navoi, Nukus, Samarkand, Tashkent, Termez, Urgench
Vologda Aviation Enterprise Vologda
Wizz Air Budapest, London–Luton
Yakutia Airlines Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Neryungri, Novokuznetsk, Pevek, Sochi, Yakutsk
Seasonal charter: Patras
Gates and remotes
11-18 Domestic
18-34 international
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