If you fly to the city of Volgograd, the Gumrak airport will become the place where your plane will land. It was opened in 1933, and is named after the district of the city in which it is located. Today we offer you better to find out what Gumrak Airport is: about its history, characteristics, rules and the services provided to passengers.
Description of the air harbor of Volgograd
Gumrak Airport 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. Gumrak Air Harbor includes two terminals, one of which accepts or ships exclusively domestic flights, and the other internationally. The airport has three runways with a length of 3000, 2500 and 1700 meters. This air harbor is capable of accepting various types of aircraft.
Airport Rules
According to the internal rules of the Volgograd air harbor, baggage check-in and check-in for a domestic flight opens two hours before the estimated time of departure. Passengers flying on airplanes flying to international destinations can proceed to check-in two hours and thirty minutes before departure. In both cases, registration ends 40 minutes before departure. To complete the registration procedure, you will need to have a passport and a plane ticket with you. If you purchased an electronic ticket, you only need a passport.
To find out the exact time of departure of your flight, you can call the airport terminal or use the online scoreboard at Gumrak Airport, which is available on the new website. mav. ru.
Services
In the terminal building, passengers can comfortably wait for the departure of their flight. Gumrak Airport has shops, cafeterias, ATMs, newsstands on its territory. Passengers can also enjoy free Wi-Fi.
In addition, there is a VIP lounge at the airport (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 go through the check-in and baggage check-in line and get to the plane's gangway by personal transport, accompanied by airport workers.
In addition, the airport infrastructure includes a hotel, consisting of 52 rooms of different levels of comfort, designed for 70 people. It offers guests rooms equipped with all amenities (shower, toilet, television). Free internet access is available in the lobby. The hotel's dining room offers guests three meals a day. Also in the hotel building there is a room for mother and child, which can be used by parents with young children (under seven years old).
Gumrak Airport has ample parking. 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. Nothing will happen to him here. Such a service will cost two hundred rubles a day. If your car will be in the parking lot longer than a month, then you can count on a discount.
Gumrak Airport: how to get
You can overcome the short distance between the air harbor and the center of Volgograd both by taxi or by public transport. So, taking bus number 6, you can get to the stop “Tech. College". You can use minibuses No. 6, 6K and 80A. As for the taxi, you will have to pay about 350-400 rubles to travel from the airport to the city center.
Prospects
Despite the fact that the Gumrak airport today cannot be called an ultramodern air harbor, it will soon be able to find a second life, as they say. Such prospects are associated with plans to host several stages of the World Cup in Volgograd , which will start in 2018. So, the construction of the passenger terminal of international lines has already 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 will be built with an area of more than nine thousand square meters. meters, designed to receive and send domestic flights.
This year, it is planned to begin reconstruction of the airfield complex, which will make it possible to receive long-range Boeing-767 aircraft. Thus, in just 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 the terminals in the largest megacities around the world.