Tolmachevo Airport

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport Аэропорт Толмачёво
IATA: OVB – ICAO: UNNT OVB Location of airport in Novosibirsk Oblast
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Open Joint Stock Company
Serves	Novosibirsk
Location	Ob, Russia
Hub for	Angara Airlines Globus Airlines NordStar S7 Airlines
Elevation AMSL	365 ft / 111 m
Coordinates	55°00′45″N 082°39′02″E / 55.01250°N 82.65056°E
Website	www.tolmachevo.ru
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 3,600 11,811 Asphalt 16/34 3,605 11,826 Reinforced concrete
Statistics (2015)
Number of Passengers 3,703,211[1] Aircraft movements 20,862
Source: DAFIF.[2][3]

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport (Russian: Аэропóрт Толмачёво) (IATA: OVB, ICAO: UNNT) is situated in the town of Ob, 16 km from the center of Novosibirsk, an industrial and scientific center in Siberia and Russia's third largest city.

There are two (3,600 m (11,811 ft) and 3,605 m) active runways in Tolmachevo Airport, along with 1 large passenger terminal with two connected sections (Section A for domestic flights (25,000 sq.m., 18 check-in desks, 2 jet bridges, capacity 1,800 PAX/hour^[4]) and Section B for international flights (27,000 sq.m., 14 check-in desks, 3 jet bridges, capacity 1,300 PAX/hour)^[5]), 2 cargo terminals and 61 aircraft stands. Runway 16 is equipped with an ILS CAT II, which enables aircraft operations in low ceiling (30 meters) and visibility (350 meters).^[6]

The airport is situated in the middle of the route from some important East-Asian cities (e.g. Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, etc.) to Europe which makes it attractive for cargo airlines to use it for refueling stops. It serves also as a diversion airport on Polar route 1.^[7][8]

Tolmachevo is the busiest airport in Siberia and the sixth busiest airport in Russia.^[9][10] In 2015 the airport served 3,703,211 passengers (-6.4%) and handled 23,706 tons of cargo (-20.8%).^[1] Detailed data for years 2003-2015 is in the Traffic Statistics section below.

History

Operations began on July 12, 1957 with the first passenger flight of Tupolev Tu-104 from Novosibirsk to Moscow. The airport was owned by United Tolmachevo Aviation Enterprise and Ministry of Civil Aviation of the USSR until 1992. The airport then became a joint stock company in 1995, with 51% owned by the state. The domestic terminal was completely renovated in 2006. Tolmachevo Airport is also the first Russian airport to receive ISO 9002-96 certificate. On November 29, 2012, first time in history the airport received its three-millionth annual passenger.^[11] During 2014-2015 the former international terminal was enlarged and merged with the domestic terminal which allowed to double its passenger capacity.^[5]

Plans for its further development include construction of a new rapid-exit taxiway and 4 stands for wide-body aircraft.^[12]

Airlines and destinations

Tolmachevo Airport international terminal entrance before reconstruction.

Tolmachevo Airport outside view of domestic terminal

S7 Airlines Boeing 737-400 at Tolmachevo Airport

Sukhoi Superjet 100 at Tolmachevo Airport

UTair Aviation ATR 72 at Tolmachevo Airport

Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Tupolev Tu-134 taxiing at Tolmachevo Airport

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations	Section
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo	A
Aeroflot operated by Aurora Airlines	Khabarovsk, Vladivostok	A
Aeroflot operated by Rossiya	Simferopol, St Petersburg	A
Aeroservis	Abakan	A
Air Astana	Astana	B
Air Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek, Osh	B
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise	Krasnodar, Mirny, Moscow-Domodedovo, Polyarny, St Petersburg Seasonal: Khabarovsk, Magadan, Rostov-on-Don, Simferopol, Sochi	A
Angara Airlines	Blagoveshchensk, Bratsk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Talakan, Ufa, Ulan-Ude (begins 19 June 2016)[13]	A
Avia Traffic Company	Bishkek, Osh	B
Azur Air	Seasonal Charter: Krabi, Nha Trang-Cam Ranh, Phnom Penh, Phuket	B
China Southern Airlines	Ürümqi	B
Ellinair	Seasonal charter: Thessaloniki[14]	B
IrAero	Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Nizhnevartovsk, Ulan-Ude	A
IrAero	Karagandy	B
KrasAvia	Gorno-Altaysk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Novokuznetsk, Strezhevoy	A
NordStar	Krasnodar, Kyzyl, Nizhnevartovsk, Norilsk, Noyabrsk, Yekaterinburg	A
Pegas Fly	Seasonal: Simferopol, Sochi	A
Pegas Fly	Seasonal charter: Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Heraklion, Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang (Cam Ranh), Phuket	B
Pobeda	Yekaterinburg	A
Red Wings Airlines	Seasonal charter: Sochi	A
Royal Flight Airlines	Charter: Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi,[15] Barcelona, [16] Goa-Dabolim,[17] Rhodes	B
RusLine	Tyumen	A
S7 Airlines	Blagoveshchensk, Chita, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar (begins 1 June 2016),[18][19] Magadan, Mineralnye Vody (begins 5 June 2016),[18][20] Mirny, Moscow-Domodedovo, Norilsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, St Petersburg, Samara, Sochi, Surgut, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk[18][21] Seasonal: Anapa	A
S7 Airlines	Almaty, Baku, Beijing-Capital, Bishkek, Dubai-International, Dushanbe, Fergana, Khujand, Osh, Oskemen, Prague, Seoul-Incheon, Shymkent, Tashkent, Ürümqi, Yerevan Seasonal: Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Burgas, Phuket	B
S7 Airlines operated by Globus	Irkutsk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Norilsk, St Petersburg, Simferopol, Ulan-Ude, Yakutsk	A
S7 Airlines operated by Globus	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Khujand, Munich, Shanghai-Pudong (begins 1 June 2016)[22][23]	B
SCAT Airlines	Seasonal: Oskemen	B
Somon Air	Khujand	B
Tajik Air	Dushanbe, Khujand Seasonal: Qurghonteppa	B
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk	B
Ural Airlines	Khabarovsk, Moscow-Domodedovo, St Petersburg (resumes 18 May 2016),[24] Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg Seasonal: Norilsk (begins 17 May 2016)[25]	A
Ural Airlines	Harbin, Shanghai-Pudong (begins 16 May 2016)[23] Seasonal: Beijing-Capital (begins 18 May 2016)[24]	B
UTair Aviation	Khanty-Mansiysk (resumes 8 May 2016),[26] Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Nizhnevartovsk, Noyabrsk (resumes 7 May 2016),[27] Surgut	A
UVT Aero	Chelyabinsk, Kazan	A
Yakutia Airlines	Krasnodar, Magadan, Neryungri, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg	A
Yamal Airlines	Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Nizhnevartovsk, Novy Urengoy, Tyumen, Ufa, Yekaterinburg	A

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
AirBridgeCargo Airlines	Amsterdam, Chengdu[28]
Air China Cargo	Amsterdam, Chengdu, Chongqing
Cargolux	Hong Kong, London-Stansted, Luxembourg, Milan–Malpensa, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Taipei-Taoyuan, Vienna, Zhengzhou
Polet Airlines	Beijing-Capital, Munich, Shanghai-Pudong
Yakutia Airlines	Yakutsk
Yangtze River Express	Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Shanghai-Pudong, Zhengzhou[29]

Statistics

Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics^{[1][30][31][32]}

Year (month)	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2015	2,600,974	7.0%	1,102,237	27.8%	3,703,211	6.4%
2014	2,431,238	10.9%	1,526,429	2.0%	3,957,667	5.6%
2013	2,191,304	8.7%	1,556,907	24.5%	3,748,211	14.7%
2012	2,015,767	13.7%	1 250 978	25.9%	3,266,745	18.1%
2011	1,772,566	12.5%	993,316	44.7%	2,765,884	22.3%
2010	1,575,185	15.3%	686,442	56.8%	2,261,630	25.3%
2009	1,366,500	20.3%	437,800	6.3%	1,804,297	14.5%
2008	1,643,900	12.7%	465,500	12.4%	2,109,424	12.6%
2007	1,459,200	12.3%	414,300	16.0%	1,873,496	13.1%
2006	1,299,700	2.5%	357,200	6.2%	1,656,901	0.5%
2005	1,268,500	5.7%	379,400	11.5%	1,647,940	7.0%
2004	1,199,500	11.7%	340,300	17.3%	1,539,777	12.9%
2003	1,073,900	12.7%	290,000	0.4%	1,363,952	9.9%

Busiest domestic routes from Tolmachevo Int. Airport (2013)[33][34] Rank City PAX Growth 2013/2012 1 Moscow 1,073,265 5% 2 Saint Petersburg 152,068 15% 3 Khabarovsk 122,150 24% 4 Vladivostok 95,864 15% 5 Yakutsk 69,555 11% 6 Irkutsk 66,751 69% 7 Yekaterinburg 44,091 17% 8 Mirny 42,246 4% 9 Surgut 38,006 14% 10 Nizhnevartovsk 35,465 18%

Busiest international routes from Tolmachevo Int. Airport (2013)[33][34] Rank City Country PAX Growth 2013/2012 1 Bangkok  Thailand 215,408 25% 2 Antalya  Turkey 143,906 13% 3 Bishkek  Kyrgyzstan 100,635 22% 4 Phuket  Thailand 93,134 49% 5 Osh  Kyrgyzstan 80,041 8% 6 Beijing  China 77,026 14% 7 Dubai  United Arab Emirates 50,564 36% 8 Khujand  Tajikistan 47,645 13% 9 Ürümqi  China 41,845 6% 10 Dushanbe  Tajikistan 41,470 4%

Ground transportation

Public transportation to the city is provided by a number of bus routes, as well as by private and municipal taxis. Shuttle bus service runs also between the airport and the Ob railway station at the Trans-Siberian Railway - a stop for Elektrichka local commuter trains and some long-distance trains in the direction of Omsk.^[35]

See also

• Novosibirsk Elitsovka Airport
• Novosibirsk Severny Airport
• List of the busiest airports in Russia
• List of the busiest airports in the former USSR
• List of the busiest airports in Europe

References

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33. "ПЕРСПЕКТИВНЫЕ ВОЗДУШНЫЕ ЛИНИИ ДЛЯ РАЗВИТИЯ АВИАСООБЩЕНИЯ ИЗ АЭРОПОРТА НОВОСИБИРСК (ТОЛМАЧЕВО) в 2013–2015 гг." (PDF). Tolmachevo Airport. 2013-02-07. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
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• Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport at Russian Airports Database

External links

• Tolmachevo Airport Official website (English) (Russian)
• Accident history for OVB at Aviation Safety Network
• Current weather for UNNT at NOAA/NWS
• Historical Weather Records for Novosibirsk