Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів" імені Данила Галицького) (IATA: LWO, ICAO: UKLL) is an international airport in Lviv, Ukraine. The airport is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from central Lviv. The airport is named after King Daniel of Galicia, the historical founder of the city in 1256 AD.

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi
International Airport

Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів"
імені Данила Галицького
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorState Enterprise “Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport”
ServesLviv
LocationLviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL1,071 ft / 326 m
Coordinates49°48′45″N 23°57′22″E
Websitelwo.aero
Map
LWO
Location of airport in Ukraine
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
13/31 10 843 3,305 Concrete
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 2,217,400
Freight (tons) -
Flights 18,963

History
Bust of Danylo Halytskyi inside the terminal

Early history

Established in 1929 as Lwów-Skniłów Airport. Skniłów was the name of the neighbouring village which today is part of Lviv. Before the Second World War, it operated a domestic route to Warsaw and Krakow. In 1930, the international route to Bucharest was launched which was extended in 1931 to Sofia and Thessaloniki. In 1936, the above route was extended to Athens and Lydda.

Developments since 2010

In 2010, the airport carried 481,900 passengers.[1] In preparation for Euro 2012, Lviv International Airport has undergone a $200m expansion project. Lviv airport's new terminal building has an area of 34,000m² with a capacity of handling 1,000 passengers an hour.[2] Of the $200m, it was expected that the Ukrainian government would provide $70m, including $14m in 2008, and $130m would come from private investors.[3] The expansion project included a 700-meter extension of the existing runway and a new airport terminal capable of handling up to 2,000 passengers per hour (5.69 million passenger annually).[2][4]

The airport used to be a focus city for Wizz Air Ukraine, which served four international routes to Italy (Naples, Bergamo, and Treviso) and Germany (Dortmund) until the airline was dissolved April 2015 (by contrast, routes from Kiev International Airport continued after being taken over by the parent company).[5] In January 2017, Wizz Air announced that it would be resuming flights to Lviv, initially with the introduction of a route to Wroclaw.[6]

In March 2017, Ryanair announced that it would be launching seven routes to Lviv starting October 2017.[7] These plans were scrapped in July after Ryanair's failure to reach an agreement with Boryspil and its subsequent decision to postpone entry into the Ukrainian market.[8] Immediately the Ukrainian government put pressure on Boryspil and accused Ukraine International Airlines in sabotaging the agreement. This resulted in the continuation of talks with Ryanair and as of March 2018, it was announced that Ryanair would go on to open 10 new routes from Boryspil and 5 new routes from Lviv.

Facilities

Terminal A

The airport has two terminals (1 and A), though only terminal A currently in operation. Terminal A was opened in 2012. It has 29 check-in desks, of which nine are meant for domestic and remaining for international flights.[2] It has nine gates, four of them equipped with jetbridges, and can handle up to 3,000 passengers per hour. Facilities at the airport also include four cafés and two duty-free shops, as well as two airport lounges, one in the domestic section and one in the international.

Terminal 1

Opened in 1955, this was the airport's sole terminal until 2012, when terminal A was opened. It can handle 300 departing and 220 arriving passengers per hour.[9] There had been tentative plans to use it for VIP passengers in the future.[10] However, in June 2019, the terminal was re-opened for domestic flights, with future plans to move charter flights to the terminal as well.[11]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter services to and from Lviv:[12]

AirlinesDestinations
airBaltic Riga (begins 1 June 2021)
Air Serbia Belgrade (begins 1 June 2021)
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Azerbaijan Airlines Seasonal: Baku
Azur Air Ukraine Charter: Sharm El Sheikh[13]
Seasonal charter: Antalya,[13] Dalaman[13]
Belavia Minsk
Buta Airways Baku
Ellinair Seasonal: Heraklion, Thessaloniki
Jonika Airlines Seasonal: Athens
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin
Seasonal: Bydgoszcz, Olsztyn–Mazury, Poznań
Lufthansa Munich
Motor Sich Airlines Kiev–Zhuliany
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Seasonal: Bodrum
Ryanair Bari (begins 28 March 2021),[14] Bergamo, Bologna, Budapest, Kraków, London–Stansted, Memmingen, Naples (begins 29 March 2021),[14] Palermo (begins 30 March 2021),[14] Pisa (begins 30 March 2021),[14] Poznań, Rome–Fiumicino, Treviso (begins 30 March 2021),[14] Turin (begins 28 March 2021),[14] Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze (resumes 31 October 2020)
SkyUp[15][16] Beauvais, Bergamo,[17] Dubai–International (begins 28 October 2020),[18] Naples,[17] Prague, Rome–Fiumicino,[17] Tel Aviv[19]
Seasonal: Batumi,[20] Heraklion,[21] Kherson, Odessa, Sharjah
Charter: Sharm El Sheikh[22]
Seasonal charter: Antalya,[22] Hurghada,[22] Tivat[22]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev–Boryspil
Seasonal: Barcelona, Bologna, Madrid
Charter: Sharm El Sheikh[23]
Seasonal charter: Antalya,[23] Bodrum,[23] Hurghada,[23] Tivat[23]
Voyage Air Seasonal: Varna
Windrose Airlines Kiev–Boryspil
Seasonal: Burgas, Heraklion, Rhodes
Seasonal charter:Hurghada, Antalya
Wizz AirBerlin–Schönefeld, Billund,[24] Bratislava, Budapest, Catania (begins 30 March 2021),[25] Copenhagen, Dortmund, Gdańsk, Hahn, Hamburg,[26] Katowice, Larnaca, Lisbon,[27] Milan–Malpensa,[28] Pardubice (begins 1 September 2020),[29] Rome–Ciampino (begins 30 August 2020),[30] Szczecin,[31] Tallinn,[32] Verona (begins 29 March 2021),[33] Vilnius, Wrocław
Wizz Air UKLondon–Luton

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
Eleron Airlines Riga, Kiev–Zhuliany, Stockholm-Arlanda, Vienna, Nurnberg Airport, Bratislava, Frankfurt

Statistics

Passenger figures
Year Passengers[1][34][35] Change Lviv Airport Passenger Totals 2002–2019 (in millions)
2002 110,200 -
2003 144,100 035.8%
2004 198,200 035.5%
2005 235,900 019.0%
2006 278,200 018.0%
2007 427,100 052.4%
2008 532,100 025.5%
2009 452,300 015.0%
2010 481,900 06.5%
2011 297,000 038.4%
2012 576,000 094.0%
2013 700,800 021.0%
2014 585,200 016.5%
2015 570,570 02.5%
2016 738,000 029.4%
2017 1,080,000 046.3%
2018 1,598,700 048.0%
2019 2,217,400 038.8%

Busiest routes
Busiest routes at Lviv International Airport[36]
City Airport(s) Weekly departures (Summer 2019) Airline(s)
Warsaw Warsaw Chopin Airport
Warsaw Modlin Airport		 24 LOT Polish Airlines, Ryanair
Kiev Boryspil International Airport
Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany)		 20 Motor Sich Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines
Istanbul Istanbul Airport
Sabiha Gökçen International Airport		 15 Pegasus Airlines, Turkish Airlines
Vienna Vienna International Airport 11 Austrian Airlines
Minsk Minsk National Airport 7 Belavia
Munich Munich Airport 7 Lufthansa
London Luton Airport
London Stansted Airport		 6 Wizz Air, Ryanair
Wroclaw Wroclaw International Airport 5 Wizz Air

Ground transportation

A dedicated express link bus to Lviv railway station runs every 90 minutes.[37] The airport is also served by Lviv's public transport, specifically the bus route 48 and the trolleybus route 29, both of which terminate in the city centre. Taxis are also available at the airport, as well as car rental services.

Accidents and incidents
  • The airfield was the site of the Sknyliv air show disaster in 2002, which killed 77.[38]
  • On 4 October 2019, Ukraine Air Alliance Flight 4050, an Antonov An-12 crash-landed in a field close to the village of Sokilnyky 1.5 km (0.9 mi) short of the runway of Lviv airport, killing at least five people. The Ukraine Air Alliance (Ukraine-Aeroalliance) plane ran out of fuel before a planned stopover at Lviv, en route from Vigo in Spain to Istanbul.[39][40]
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See also

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