If you are flying to the city of Volgograd, Gumrak airport will be the place where your plane will land. It was opened back in 1933, and named after the district of the city in which it is located. We offer today to get to know better what Gumrak airport is: about its history, characteristics, rules and services provided to passengers.
Description of the air harbor of Volgograd
Gumrak Airport is located just thirteen kilometers from the city center. It receives 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 ones. The airport has three runways with a length of 3000, 2500 and 1700 meters. This air harbor is capable of receiving various types of aircraft.
Airport Rules
According to the internal rules of the air harbor of Volgograd, check-in and baggage check-in for domesticthe flight opens two hours before the estimated time of departure of the aircraft. Passengers flying on aircraft to international destinations can start check-in two hours and thirty minutes before departure. In both cases, check-in closes 40 minutes before departure. To complete the registration procedure, you will need to have your passport and plane ticket with you. If you purchased an e-ticket, you only need a passport.
To find out the exact departure time of your flight, you can call the airport terminal or use the online scoreboard of the Gumrak airport, which is posted on the new website. mav. en.
Services
In the terminal building, passengers can comfortably wait for their flight to depart. Airport "Gumrak" has on its territory shops, cafeterias, ATMs, newsstands. Passengers can also use free wireless internet access.
In addition, the airport also has a VIP lounge (it is located in the international terminal building). Here, passengers can spend time in a comfortable room with Internet and TV, visit a bar, hold business negotiations in a specially equipped hall. Also, VIP guests have the opportunity to go through check-in and baggage clearance without a queue and get to the plane's gangway by personal transport, accompanied by airport employees.
Besides this, the infrastructure of the airport includes a hotel, consisting of 52 rooms of different levels of comfort, designed for 70 people. Torooms equipped with all conveniences (shower, toilet, TV) are at guests' disposal. Free internet access is available in the hotel lobby. The dining room of the hotel offers guests three meals a day. There is also a mother and child room in the hotel building, which can be used by parents with small children (under seven years old).
Gumrak Airport has ample parking. If you arrived at 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. Nothing will happen to him here. This service will cost two hundred rubles a day. If your car stays in the parking lot for more than a month, you can count on a discount.
Gumrak Airport: how to get there
You can overcome the short distance between the air harbor and the center of the city of Volgograd either by taxi or by using public transport. So, taking the bus number 6A, you can get to the stop "Teh. College". You can also use minibuses No. 6, 6K and 80A. As for a taxi, you will have to pay about 350-400 rubles for travel from the airport to the city center.
Prospects
Despite the fact that Gumrak Airport cannot be called an ultra-modern air harbor today, it will soon be able to find, as they say, a second life. Such prospects are connected with the plans to hold several stages of the World Cup in Volgograd, which starts in 2018. Yes, construction has begun.passenger terminal of international lines, the area of which will be six and a half thousand square meters. meters. This building is expected 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.
This year it is planned to begin the reconstruction of the airfield complex, which will make it possible to receive long-haul Boeing-767 aircraft. Thus, in a few years, Volgograd residents will be able to meet and escort guests through an updated modern and convenient terminal, which will in no way be inferior to terminals in the largest megacities around the world.
