Volgograd Airport "Gumrak": description, infrastructure, rules, prospects

If you fly to the city of Volgograd, Gumrak Airport will become the place where your plane lands. It was opened in 1933, and is named after the district of the city in which it is located. We offer today better to find out what the airport "Gumrak" is: about its history, characteristics, rules and services provided to passengers.

Description of the air harbor of Volgograd

The airport "Gumrak" is located only thirteen kilometers from the city center. It accepts both domestic and international flights and is actively used by eighteen airlines. There are no other airports in Volgograd. The air harbor "Gumrak" includes two terminals, one of which is engaged in receiving or sending only domestic flights, and the other - international. On the territory of the airport there are three runways of 3000, 2500 and 1700 meters in length. This air harbor is capable of taking various types of aircraft.

Airport Rules

According to the internal rules of the air harbor of Volgograd, registration and registration of baggage for an internal flight is opened two hours before the estimated time of departure of the aircraft. Passengers traveling on flights on international flights can start registration two hours and thirty minutes before departure. In both cases, registration is completed 40 minutes prior to departure. To complete the registration procedure, you will need to bring your passport and plane ticket. If you purchased an e-ticket, you will need only a passport.

To find out the exact time of sending your flight, you can call the terminal or use the online scoreboard of the airport "Gumrak", which is located on the new site. Mav. En.

The services

In the terminal building, passengers can comfortably wait for their flight to be sent. Gumrak Airport has shops, cafes, ATMs and newsagents on its territory. Also, passengers can use the free wireless internet access.

In addition, the airport has a VIP hall (it is located in the building of the international terminal). Here, passengers can spend time in a comfortable room with Internet and television, visit the bar, conduct business negotiations in a specially equipped room. Also VIP guests have the opportunity to queue in for check-in and baggage clearance and go to the ramp of the plane by personal transport, accompanied by airport employees.

In addition, the airport infrastructure includes a hotel, consisting of 52 rooms of different levels of comfort, designed for 70 people. Rooms for guests are equipped with all amenities (shower, toilet, TV). Free internet is available in the lobby. The hotel canteen offers guests three meals a day. Also in the building of the hotel there is a room for mother and child, which can be used by parents with young children (under seven years old).

Gumrak Airport has a spacious parking lot. If you arrived in the air harbor by car and do not have the opportunity to drive it back, then you can leave your iron horse in the parking lot. Here nothing will happen to him. This service will cost two hundred rubles a day. If your car will be in the parking lot for more than a month, then you can count on a discount.

Gumrak Airport: directions

To overcome a short distance between the air harbor and the city center of Volgograd, you can either by taxi or by public transport. So, sitting on the bus number 6A, you can get to the stop "Tech. College". You can use the buses №№ 6, 6К and 80А. As for the taxi, you will have to pay about 350-400 rubles for the journey from the airport to the city center.

Prospects

Despite the fact that the airport "Gumrak" today can not be called a state-of-the-art air harbor, soon it will be able to find, as they say, a second life. Such prospects are related to plans to hold several stages of the World Cup in Volgograd, which will start in 2018. Thus, the construction of a passenger terminal for international lines has begun, the area of which will be six and a half thousand square meters. Meters. The construction of this building is planned to be completed by early 2015. In the next two years, a new passenger terminal with an area of more than nine thousand square meters will be built. Meters, designed to receive and send domestic flights.

In the current year, it is planned to begin reconstruction of the airfield complex, which will make it possible to receive long-range aircraft of the Boeing-767 type. Thus, in a few years, Volgograd citizens will be able to meet and see off guests through an updated modern and convenient terminal that will not yield to terminals in the largest metropolitan areas of the world.