Khrabrovo Airport is located 24 kilometres (14.9 mi) north of Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea...

, east off the Zelenogradsk highway. The airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

, part of which is still military, is a bare landing strip with few frills for passengers.

History

• 1922 - Joint Russian-German joint venture Deruluft
  Deruluft
  Deruluft was a joint Soviet-German airline, established on 24 November 1921. Deruluft opened its first service to Moscow from Königsberg on 1 May 1922...
  
   starts flights on first scheduled international route Königsberg (Devau airport
  Kaliningrad Devau Airport
  Kaliningrad Devau Airport is located 5 km northeast of Kaliningrad. Today it is a small general aviation airfield and is also used for sports aviation. There are Antonov An-2 aircraft parked on the site....
  
  ) - Moscow
• 1945 - Airport is transferred to Civil Air Fleet of USSR
• 1961 - Joint Air Squadron formed at the basis of airport and airline
• 1977 - Operations of Tupolev-134 begin
• 1979 - Passenger terminal is built in Khrabrovo
• 1988 - Tupolev-154s begin operations to Kaliningrad
• 1992 - Enterprise separates from Vnukovo Production association and becomes independent entity
• 1993 - First scheduled international flights begin. Two Tupolev-154s are purchased
• 1997 - Air enterprise is renamed “Kaliningrad Avia”
• 2001 - Air enterprise is in receivership
• 2002 - Change of ownership structure. Transformation into Joint Stock Company
• 2004 – Beginning of reconstruction of runway, apron, navigation equipment
• 2005 – Air enterprise renamed “KD Avia”
• 2007 - opening of the new terminal
• 2009 - The "KD Avia" airline ceases its operations

Passenger numbers are also rising, and are set to rise even more with the introduction of more routes:

• 2002 - 163,000
• 2003 - 115,000
• 2004 - 209,000
• 2005 - 311,000
• 2006 - 731,626
• 2007 - 1,204,060
• 2008 - 1,920,000

Airlines and destinations

Public transportation serving the airport

The following city bus line connect the airport:

• to Kaliningrad, No. 144 by Koenigtransauto (Кёнигтрансавто); to Kaliningrad Main Bus/Railway Station.

The International Sector (terminal) is 3 km away from the Domestic terminal. The bus does not serve the International Sector therefore it is advisable to have private transportation prearranged.

External links

• Khrabrovo Airport Official website
• ASN Accidents history for UMKK
• NOAA/NWS current weather observations