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Kaliningrad Airport
Airport Directory » Russia » Kaliningrad » Kaliningrad AirportKhrabrovo Airport (Russian Аэропорт Храброво, German Powunden) (IATA: KGD, ICAO: UMKK) is turn up 24 kilometre northward of Kaliningrad, east off the Zelenogradsk main road. The airport, division of which is still armed forces, is a bare districting strip with few trumperies for riders. In 2007 the airport had 1.204.060 riders.
The airport is the independent hub for the airline KD Avia in addition to other air hose offering services to domestic destinations and to Northern and Eastern Europe.
History
- 1922 - Joint Russian-German joint embark Deruluft sets about voyages on 1st scheduled international path Königsberg (Devau airport) - Moscow
- 1945 - Airport is reassigned to Civil Air Fleet of USSR
- 1961 - Joint Air Squadron characteristic at the base of airport and air hose
- 1977 - Operations of Tupolev-134 set about
- 1979 - Passenger depot is built in Khrabrovo
- 1988 - Tupolev-154s set about functioning to Kaliningrad
- 1992 - Enterprise divides from Vnukovo Production association and gets independent entity
- 1993 - First scheduled international voyages set about. Two Tupolev-154s are bought
- 1997 - Air company is renamed “Kaliningrad Avia”
- 2001 - Air company is in receivership
- 2002 - Change of ownership building. Transformation into Joint Stock Company
- 2004 – Beginning of reconstruction of landing track, apron, piloting equipment
- 2005 – Air company renamed “KD Avia”
- 2007 - opening of the new depot
Passenger figure are also come up, and are position to come up even more with the unveiling of more paths:
- 2002 - 163,000
- 2003 - 115,000
- 2004 - 209,000
- 2005 - 311,000
- 2006 - 731,626
- 2007 - 1,204,060
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