Sheremetyevo

The capacity of Sheremetyevo Airport has increased. The terminal can receive up to 2100 passengers every hour; the total capacity of the complex is 15 mil passengers a year. Sheremetyevo II is the centre of international air traffic of Russia. Sheremetyevo II was inaugurated in 1980. It’s a 9-storey building with 19 telescopic ladders (fingers). It has been assembled by the West German firm. It has the most up-to-date equipment for handling passengers. There is a new runway which can handle all types of aircraft. Radio navigation equipment and the traffic control system have been modernized. The new check-in counters, computers and 10 automatic luggage conveyors cut the time needed for receiving passengers and handling luggage down to 5 minutes. The automatic baggage conveyors reduce luggage waiting time after arrival to 7 minutes. There are halls for passengers, 4 restaurants, a banquet hall, bars, snack bars to cater for 1600 passengers at a time. There’s a conference hall for 500 seats. There’s a hotel for 500 transit passengers, a modern complex for centralized fueling of aircraft, engineering communications and other facilities. There are arrivals, departures, transit and waiting halls in the terminal. The terminal has all the latest equipment to handle numerous passengers, much cargo and baggage. Boarding is done through one of the 19 passages (telescopic gangways). There are foreign airline offices, on the upper floors. There is a parking place for 1200 cars. It takes only 35 minutes to get to the centre of the city.