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Ulemiste Airport
Airport Directory » Estonia » Tallinn » Ulemiste AirportLennart Meri Tallinn Airport or Ülemiste Airport (IATA: TLL, ICAO: EETN; Estonian: Lennart Meri Tallinna lennujaam) is the biggest airport in Estonia and home office of the national airline Estonian Air. Tallinn Airport is open to both domestic and international voyages. It is turn up about four km from the town centre of Tallinn on the eastern shore of Lake Ülemiste.
The airport has a individual asphalt-concrete landing track that is 3070 metres long and 45 m broad(big enough to deal wide-bodied aircraft such as the Boeing 747), 5 taxi strip and 14 depot entrances.
The airport has also seen armed forces use as an interceptor aircraft ground. It was place to 384 IAP (384th Interceptor Aircraft Regiment) which winged MiG-23P aircraft.
Since March 29, 2009 the airport is officially known as Lennart Meri Tallinn International Airport, in honor of the late Estonian diplomatist and former president Lennart Meri.
History
The construction of Tallinn Airport set about in 1932, and the airport was opened officially on 20 September 1936, although it had been operational a good while before the functionary opening. Before World War II, Tallinn Airport had regular connexions to abroad by at smallest Lufthansa, LOT and the Finnish corporation Aero (currently Finnair). Between 1945 and 1989, Aeroflot was the only air hose that assisted Tallinn Airport. Regular voyages with jet aircraft set about in 1962. A new depot construction was built in the late 1970, and the landing track was also continued then. The 1st foreign air hose that did regular voyages from Tallinn after World War II was SAS in the fall of 1989. The depot construction was wholly modernised in 1999 and greatly spread out in 2008.
2008 enlargement
The airport underwent a big enlargement labor between January 2006 and September 2008. The depot was spread out in 3 ways, ensuing in 14 new entrances, separate lounges for Schengen and non-Schengen riders, ten new check-in desks and a new eating house and coffee bar. Outside the depot, the apron was renovated and expanded and a new taxi strip was added. The new depot lets the airport to deal twice as much riders as it is able to deal before.
Renaming
After the expiry of former president of Estonia Lennart Meri on March 14, 2006, journalist Argo Ideon from Eesti Ekspress advised to honour the president's memory by naming Tallinn Airport after him - "Tallinna Lennart Meri Rahvusvaheline Lennujaam" (Lennart Meri International Airport), pull analogues with JFK Airport, Charles de Gaulle Airport, etc.. Ideon's article also named the fact that Meri himself had demoed come to for the status of the then Soviet-era building (in 1 memorable example Meri, having get from Japan, guided the group of journalists that were anticipating him, to the airport's cans to do the question there, in say to point out the shoddy status of the installations).
The name modify was talked about at a committee meet on March 29, 2006, and on the opening of the new depot on 19 September 2008, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip officially denoted the renaming would take location in March, 2009
Terminal construction
There are a little figure of marketers in the depot construction, including 3 eating house, 3 coffee stores, a duty free, cigar lounge, book shop, go store, novelty shop etc. The depot area also comprises a local post office, telco, and free wired/wireless Internet access. Car renting, travel office, currency exchange, and porter services are also available. There are 2 bus stop at the the depot, 1 halt in front end of the going area (the coach come up from the town centre) and another 1 in front end of the reaches area (the coach goes to the town centre). There are 2 solid ground deal offices: Tallinn Airport GH and Estonian Air.
Statistics
Total riders using the airport has increased on mean by 14.2% each year since 1998. Passenger informations reflects international and domestic voyages united, percentage of domestic voyages compared to international voyages was marginal. Passenger and freight figure leave off direct theodolite.
| Year | Total Passengers | Aircraft motilities | Total Cargo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 563,946 | 24,951 | 5,991 |
| 1999 | 550,747 | 23,590 | 5,326 |
| 2000 | 559,658 | 23,358 | 4,690 |
| 2001 | 573,493 | 23,633 | 4,543 |
| 2002 | 605,697 | 26,226 | 4,292 |
| 2003 | 715,859 | 25,294 | 5,080 |
| 2004 | 997,461 | 28,149 | 5,237 |
| 2005 | 1,401,059 | 33,610 | 9,937 |
| 2006 | 1,541,832 | 33,989 | 10,361 |
| 2007 | 1,728,430 | 38,844 | 22,764 |
| 2008 | 1,811,536 | 41,654 | 41,867 |
Tallinn Airport dealt one’811’536 riders in 2008 which is 4,8% more than in 2007.
Also 41’654 aircraft motilities (7% ontogeny) and 41’867 metric ton of get off and shipment (84% ontogeny compared to 2007) were dealt in 2008.
83% of riders were flying on scheduled voyages, 17% on non-scheduled voyages. The most popular vacation destinations turn up to be fall back in Egypt, Turkey, Spain and Greece, whilst furthest long-haul charter destinations included India and Thailand.
The most popular scheduled destinations were Helsinki, London, Copenhagen and Oslo. Two new destinations – Minsk and Munich were presented in 2008, as good as a seasonal path to Rome (by Estonian Air).
The busiest solar days were 27th of June, when 7103 riders passed through the airports’ premises and sixth of June when 172 aircraft motilities (86 voyages) were dealt. The largest aircraft assisted at Tallinn Airport, Boeing 747-400, burthened 413 t, while the little ultralight had the maximal take-off weight of merely 270 kgs. The furthest destination was San Jose in US California, 8822 kilometre (5483 land mile) from Tallinn. 216 different air hose, winging to/from 372 destinations in the world used the services of Tallinn Airport.
Baltic's busiest airports by rider traffic
| Rank | City | Airport | Passengers (2008) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Riga | Riga International Airport | 3 691 000 |
| 2. | Vilnius | Vilnius International Airport | 2 048 000 |
| 3. | Tallinn | Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport | 1 811 536 |
| 4. | Kaunas | Kaunas International Airport | 410 000 |
| 5. | Palanga | Palanga International Airport | 101 586 |
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