Passenger traffic has climbed 19% year-on-year in the first eleven months of 2018, airport officials announced this week. The airport, which is part of Oleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group, had serviced 884,000 passengers by the end of November. The passenger growth rate for the month of October matched the annual pattern, also equaling 19% to reach 72,700 passengers.
The most popular destinations so far in 2018 include Kyiv (UIA), Istanbul (Turkish Airlines, Pegasus), Warsaw (LOT), Katowice (Wizz Air), Dortmund (Wizz Air), Gdansk (Wizz Air), Wroclaw (Wizz Air) , Tel Aviv (UIA), and Minsk (Belavia). In the past month, the airport has unveiled new services to Gdansk, Wroclaw, Vienna and London by Wizz Air. This expansion will continue into 2019, with new flight launches to Odesa, Krakow, Rome and Milan already confirmed.
Kharkiv International Airport received a comprehensive upgrade from Oleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group as part of preparations for Kharkiv’s role as one of four Ukrainian host cities during the UEFA Euro 2012 football championship co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland. Yaroslavsky’s investment in the upgrade, which included financing the construction of a new terminal building and the complete redevelopment of the existing terminal, totaled USD 107 million. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian authorities financed the development of the airport’s runway facilities.
A team of experts from Kharkiv International Airport, together with colleagues from Airport Consulting Vienna, is currently working on plans for the complete redevelopment of Dnipro International Airport. Yaroslavsky has confirmed his readiness to participate in the project on condition that the state provides full budget funding for the construction of a new runway.