MOSCOW: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev opened the Zhukovsky airport about 40 kilometres southeast of Moscow city centre, Russian television reported.
The new airport has a capacity of 2 million passengers per year, Rostec, the Russian state conglomerate that controls the airport’s operating company Ramport Aero, said in a statement.
The airport will run around 20 flights per week by two passenger airlines from ex-Soviet Central Asia — Air Kyrgyzstan and SCAT Airlines from Kazakhstan.
It will also house two Russian freight carriers: Sky Gates Airlines and an Aviastar-TU.
The airport, built with an initial investment of 10 billion rubles ($136,000), was originally planned to …read more
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