Chernivtsi Leonid Kadeniuk International Airport ( uk, Міжнародний аеропорт «Чернівці» імені Леоніда Каденюка) is an

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in the city of

Chernivtsi Chernivtsi ( uk, Чернівці́}, ; ro, Cernăuți, ; see also other names) is a city in the historical region of Bukovina, which is now divided along the borders of Romania and Ukraine, including this city, which is situated on the u ...

in western

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History

Early history

First scheduled flights in Chernivtsi commenced in 1928, on the route

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– Cernăuți (as it was the name of the city in the

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, when it was part of the

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). The flights were operated by SNNA (Serviciul Național de Navigație Aeriană, in 1930 renamed LARES - Romanian Air Lines Exploited by the State) using Farman F.168Bn4 aircraft. In 1929, SNNA (using Avia BH-25J) flew the long air service Bucharest –

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– Iași – Cernăuți, followed in 1930 by Galați – Cernăuți route. On 1 November 1931, LARES opened an air service on the Bucharest - Galați –

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– Cernăuți route, with a length of and served by Junkers F.13 aircraft.Airline companies in Romania (1918-1945)
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– Bucharest – Cernăuți –

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. Both airline companies operated their Lockheed L-10A Electra on this service, later supplemented by the

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. On 15 June 1938, the domestic route Cernăuți –

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– Arad was launched (operated with Lockheed Electra,

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and later Douglas B-23 Dragon aircraft).

Recent years

In 2016, scheduled operations were resumed by national carrier

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. The carrier inaugurated a route linking its hub in Kyiv-Boryspil with Chernivitsi on 12 July, initially operated on a daily basis with flights carried out by partner airline Dniproavia using their Embraer 145 fleet. In the end of 2017,

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started using Embraer 190s. At the end of 2017, the Ukrainian airline Yanair arrived at the airport with an audit. On 12 December, a major press conference was held at the City Council building, at which the company management announced that they were absolutely satisfied with the state of the airport and ready to continue cooperation with the airport. There was only one problem - the existing runway can not accept large aircraft. However, among the most promising destinations for scheduled and charter flights, Yanair sees Italy, Egypt, Finland, Georgia, Germany and Israel. In 2017, the airport management began negotiations with Romanian low-cost carrier

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. There are

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aircraft in the airline fleet, which the airport can accept without restrictions in weight. There are ongoing negotiations between the airline and the airport. In July 2018, the airport received a request from

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, but due to bad state of runway, they were unable to start flights to the airport. In September 2018, the airport was named after Ukrainian astronaut Leonid Kadeniuk.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at the airport:airportchernivtsi.cv.ua
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Statistics

References

External links

Official website
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