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Leninakan Airport
Airport Directory » Armenia » Gyoumri » Leninakan AirportAirport information for Leninakan AirportCountry: ArmeniaLocation: Gyoumri Coordinates: 40.43.00N / 043.50.00E IATA Code: LWN Timezone: GMT +4 Direct flights form Leninakan Airport Direct flights to Leninakan Airport Find connecting flights to Leninakan Airport Find connecting flights from Leninakan Airport |
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Shirak Airport (IATA: LWN, ICAO: UDSG) is an international airport assisting Gyumri and the district of Shirak. It is turn up approximately 5 kilometre from the centre of Gyumri. The airport was kick off in 1961, and is the 2nd biggest airport in the land, after Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport. At present, the airport has scheduled voyages to Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and Sochi.
At the start out of 2006, Armenia experience the importance of having a 2nd international airport, when adverse weather condition averaged that many voyages had to be deviate from Yerevan’s Zvartnots International Airport into Gyumri’s Shirak Airport. New traffic command equipment has currently been set into functioning at the airport, which lets designation of airplanes within a 400 kilometre r. The equipment is a new germinated system and consorting to the Czech corporation that implemented it, this is the 1st clip it has been set up at an airport in a mountainous place, and the feel from it’s installment will assist as a theoretical account for its time to come installment in other districts.
New ownership
On August 3, 2007, the authority of Armenia denoted that it had held to include the direction of functioning at Armenia's 2nd biggest airport (Shirak) in the 30-year grant understanding that it signed with Armenia International Airports CJSC in December 2001 to take over functioning at Zvartnots International Airport. Armenia International Airports CJSC is owned by Corporacion America, an Argentine corporation which functions several airports across South America, which is owned in turn by Eduardo Eurnekian. According to Artem Movsisian, caput of the General Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia, Corporacion America will have to change state the airport in Gyumri into a first-class airport. He also stated the corporation has plighted to put $10 million this yr to set about modernisation plan and within the upcoming yr it will place more to do the airport abide by with international criterion. Among other committedness is to supply free districting and take-off services to the Armenian Military.
Shirak Airport was closed for redevelopments from June 20th until October 20, 2007, during which clip the landing track was repaved and work was done on the airport visible radiation and the independent depot.
Statistics
| Year | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Departing Passenger Traffic | 18,800 | 24,011 | 11,339 |
| Arriving Passenger Traffic | 27,300 | 22,399 | 7,291 |
| Total Passenger Traffic | 46,100 | 46,410 | 18,630 |
| Exported cargo (short ton) | 20 | 3.1 | N/A |
| Imported load (short ton) | 126 | 15 | 6.2 |
| Total cargo (short ton) | 146 | 18.1 | 6.2 |
| Aircraft motilities (going or districting) | 472 | 355 | 166 |
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