NEW TERMINAL Kazan airport to begin work in the TEST MODE
At the international airport terminal 1A `Kazan` in test mode was passenger check flight Kazan - Astrakhan. The new terminal is visited Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, head of the Gorky Railway - branch of JSC Russian Railways `` Anatoly Lesun, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Minister of Transport and Roads RT Lenar Safin, Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of Tatarstan Irek Faizullin, press office of mayor of Kazan. AEX.ru
Before that, they got acquainted with the reconstruction of the railway station and from there drove to the international airport of Kazan `` by rail, explained in the press service of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Reconstruction of the railway station - one of the stages of the project on the organization of intermodal transport from the station `` Kazan airport. Total project cost - 11 billion rubles. In the last year of its implementation has been allocated 3.1 billion rubles.
The project is implemented by the investment funds of `Russian Railways#39;, the press service said.
After the reconstruction of the railway station to the international airport of Kazan `` can be reached in 25 minutes at speeds up to 140 km / h. At the railway station planned stopping points Kazan `` `` Vakhitova, #39;Combine#39;, #39;Jubilee#39;, `Birchwood`, `Stolbische`, `Airport`.
`Construction of a new terminal at the international airport in Kazan` `was launched in September 2009. The terminal capacity is the total area of 20 thousand square meters - 1.2 million passengers a year. The cost of construction amounted to more than 2 billion rubles.
In the terminal building has a comfortable waiting rooms, 19 check-in desks, 6 passport control booths and 4 special control points, shops, eating establishments, business lounges, a mother and child. For passengers with disabilities are provided for ramps, elevators, restrooms, expanded doorways, sliding doors, private parking #39;, - recalled in the city hall.
For the first time in the new terminal will be checked in passengers on domestic flights. International Zone will start working by the end of the year - after there will be organized border and customs services.
