The city of Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation, embraces more than sixteen million people every day. Residents of suburban quarters and regional satellite cities, the so-called commuters, people who work in the capital, but are not among those living in Moscow, visitors and other cities and countries for permanent or temporary work, expats, as well as tourists make up this mass about one-third of the total number of people living in one place.
Moscow Air Hub
Serving million-plus cities by air has always been a headache for local authorities. In the capital, the role of a multi-thousandth air hub is performed by a combination of three main airports in the Moscow region: Domodedovo DME, Vnukovo VKO and Sheremetyevo SVO. It is difficult to say which airport is the main or main one in this triad. It is difficult to single out any one air gate over others by the fact that all of them daily send international flights from their terminals and work simultaneously inone of the busiest aviation corridors in Europe.
Development history
According to the international classification, the airfield is called Sheremetyevo Moscow SVO. What airport is hidden under this designation? It begins its history on September 1, 1953, when the Council of Ministers of the USSR issued a resolution on organizing the construction of a central aviation site for the air forces of the Soviet Union. Four years later, the first runway and taxiways were put into operation, and two years later, in 1959, the first plane with passengers from Leningrad landed here. Coordination and management of commercial and technical services was carried out from a special Central Control Center, organized by order of General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev. He was struck by the grandeur and scope of the London Heathrow Aviation Center, and returning from an official visit to the United Kingdom, he allegedly dropped the phrase, they say, it would be time for the country of the Soviets to have a similar complex. In those days, such remarks from the political leadership were considered a call to action, and three months later the status of a passenger flight center for the Sheremetyevo Moscow SVO airfield was received. What other airport in the world can boast such a rapid reorganization?
Further development
Since 1961, charter flights to Cuba, the United States of America and Canada, as well as Mexico, Argentina andAustralia. On November 20, 1967, the first Aeroflot airliner took off from the runway of the airfield heading for the city of New York. In the late sixties and early seventies, the palm of the championship of the largest air and air complex in the USSR was acquired by the airport for which Moscow was famous - SVO. Which airport is large in terms of area, one could see by visiting it personally.
Sheremetyevo-2, aka Terminal F
The current Terminal F, and before the renaming it was the Sheremetyevo-2 air terminal, was inaugurated on May 6, 1980, a few days before the official opening of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. During the international sports tournament, the airport served about half a million foreign air passengers. Designed to serve more than six million passengers a year, it was thoroughly renovated in 2009. The sterile passenger traffic area was made as voluminous as possible, without unnecessary fences and partitions. The location of Duty Free shops has been carefully thought out and optimized for the convenience of passengers departing from Sheremetyevo SVO. Which airport of our vast Motherland shows so much care for its customers?
Charter Popularity
Since March 2007, part of the international flights arriving at the capital's northern airport have been booked into the new terminal. In itinerary receipts of arriving passengers, the place of arrival was indicated as Sheremetyevo SVO C Moscow. Which airport will be theirthe end point of the trip, the tourists did not raise any questions. But what is Terminal C?
Increased demand for charter flights in the early 2000s forced airport officials to face the growing problem of lack of actual space for two passenger terminals. Passenger traffic is steadily growing every year. More and more people are finding the time and means to spend their two weeks of summer vacation abroad. And this applies not only to residents of the capital. Many destinations, especially on a charter basis, run through Sheremetyevo Airport SVO. Which airport of departure is not particularly taken into account when drawing up flight plans. The main task, from a commercial point of view, is to host all arriving flights and help travelers continue on their journey, and, of course, make money from it.
Terminal C
To solve these problems, it was decided to introduce a new terminal - Sheremetyevo SVO C. What airport of departure is needed, it was clear to everyone, but how to get to the new building and where is it located? Especially to resolve these issues, the management of the airline complex launched a free bus route from Terminal F to Terminal B and with an intermediate stop near Terminal C, not far from the former Sheremetyevo-1.
An ordinary traveler immediately has doubts. Like, cheap charter flights entail an appropriate service. But what is the level of service in SVO C? The airport offersHere, the same standard qualities are offered to its customers as in the main terminals. For the convenience of passengers, 30 check-in counters and 36 passport control booths are involved. The safety of pre-flight procedures is ensured by an automatic three-level baggage screening and sorting system. A large covered car park with 1,000 spaces is connected to the new terminal by a pedestrian gallery. Since October 2008, an Orthodox chapel has been open to visitors on the third floor of the terminal.
Smart and safe
In 2011, the Sheremetyevo Airport Control Center SVO was opened. What airport really is now, what it is, anyone can understand by looking deeper into the specially designed business processes for coordinating the work and managing passenger services, their baggage, and the aircraft that carry them. An integrated video surveillance system, luggage and hand luggage screening contributes to the safety of passengers. There is also a separate cynological service and a 24-hour profiling system for passengers on the territory of the airport in order to identify potentially dangerous individuals by psychological testing. Special attention deserves the 20/12 standard, first implemented in the SVO D terminal. Which airport in Russia is ready to deliver its passengers luggage 12 minutes after the airliner is parked at the telescopic ladder, and no later than 20 minutes for the last suitcase?
