Sheremetyevo Airport

Sheremetyevo (JSC MASH) is one of the largest Russian airports in terms of the number of regular international transportation.

The largest national air carrier, Aeroflot - Russian Airlines, is based at Sheremetyevo. The airport services are used by representatives of the three main aviation alliances in the world: Sky Team, Star Alliance and Oneworld. Sheremetyevo also cooperates with leading CIS and Baltic airlines.

Sheremetyevo Airport, terminal B. Photo: museum.ru

Owners

In February 2020, it became known that the state's share in the Moscow Sheremetyevo airport will be sold in private hands - the Sheremetyevo Holding filed an application for the corresponding deal, holding 66.1 percent of the shares.

The company decided to take advantage of the previously acquired call option - a contract for the purchase of an asset at a pre-agreed price in the future. In this case, the option gives the right to buy out 30.46 percent of the airport owned by the Federal Property Management Agency.

The parent company of Sheremetyevo Holding is TPS Avia Holding, registered in Cyprus, owned by the structures of businessmen Alexander Ponomarenko and Alexander Skorobogatko.

TPS Avia Holding gained control of Sheremetyevo in 2017 as a result of the consolidation of airport assets. Then the individual objects belonging to her on the territory of Sheremetyevo were converted into shares of the air hub. The private company pledged to invest in the airport and build several facilities, including a new passenger terminal.

Sheremetyevo Airport: infrastructure

• 3 Runways - Airport Research Center, Germany simulation data
• 135 take-off and landing operations/hour airfield capacity
• 6 passenger terminals (A, B, C, D, E, F) area of ​ ​ the terminal complex > 570 thousand m2
• 80 million passengers/year - terminal capacity
• > 380 thousand tons of cargo/year - capacity of the cargo complex
• 3 refuelling systems

Airport specificity

• Load heterogeneity. The need for resources and the load on airport systems is constantly changing throughout the day. The needs of equipment and personnel depend not only on the time, but also on the location.
• Infrastructure. The airport is a complex infrastructure facility. The area of ​ ​ the airport complex exceeds 570 thousand square meters. m, and the routes of traffic between the apron sections exceed 10 km.
• Cost. Infrastructure and equipment at the airport are expensive. Prices per unit of equipment exceed a million dollars, and a shortage of equipment leads to millions of fines.
• Interaction. Many services and organizations take part in the maintenance of aircraft and passengers. Delay in either inevitably leads to costs and delays.
• Weather and seasonality. The airport operates 365 days a year. Snow, rain and wind affect the technology of operation, the punctuality of aircraft, the need for equipment and personnel.
• Regulation. The activities of the airport are strictly regulated at different levels of legislation of the Russian Federation and international standards in aviation.

Safety

2019: 2,087 weapons identified and seized at Sheremetyevo Airport during the year

On February 6, 2020, Sheremetyevo International Airport announced that as of February, the airport has two high-tech zonal management centers for ensuring transport security in the Southern and Northern terminal complexes. Point operators monitor the entire airport area in real time and automatically receive alarming messages with information about the scene.

In total, the Sheremetyevo security service prevented more than 20 thousand attempts to smuggle dangerous objects and substances into aircraft in 2019. So, at the end of the year, during the inspection of passengers, hand luggage and luggage, as well as cargo and mail at Sheremetyevo airport, 2087 weapons were identified and seized. Including: 5 units of firearms, 88 units of cold, 34 units of weapons of other types, 1830 units of special means, 2123 units of stabbing and cutting objects.

Ensuring the highest standards of transport and aviation safety is an unconditional priority for the airport. Taking into account all the requirements when planning a terminal complex, analyzing the best world and domestic practices, carefully selecting technical systems and equipment, training and constant advanced training of our employees give us the opportunity to comprehensively approach this activity in the context of continuous growth in passenger traffic, - emphasized Viktor Ermakov, Deputy General Director of JSC MASH for Security.

For the first time, Sheremetyevo Airport used innovative technologies in Terminal S. According to MASH, an automated system for sorting hand luggage and returning trays is used to speed up pre-flight screening of passengers in the Terminal. Trays with passenger belongings are automatically sorted into two parallel lines - "clean" and a manual inspection line. The analysis of hand luggage images transmitted from introscopes is carried out by a computer and inspectors in a separate operating room, which reduces the impact of the human factor on the quality of the inspection procedure. This solution allows you to conduct a high-quality inspection of suspicious hand luggage without stopping the main line, which doubles the throughput of the inspection area, the company noted.

In general, as of February 2020, the airport operates more than 530 units of stationary inspection equipment and more than 200 units of mobile and portable equipment:

• one- and two-projection X-ray television introscopes,
• tomographs,
• multi-zone stationary and manual metal detectors,
• gas analyzers,
• microwave scanners.

In addition to security inspection, Sheremetyevo uses many other security measures:

• search dogs of the dog service are used;
• patrols are carried out in terminals and forecourts;
• in passenger traffic there are profiler inspectors in civilian clothes;
• the airport perimeter is equipped with a Russian high-tech security system:
• video surveillance cameras that allow you to search for persons in passenger traffic.

Sheremetyevo Airport's transport and aviation security system complies with Russian regulations and meets the requirements of international security standards. In 2019, ICAO auditors confirmed the airport's compliance with the organization's aviation security standards.

Information Technology

Main article: Information technology at Sheremetyevo Airport

Performance indicators

2023: Passenger traffic growth by 29% to 36.3 million

In 2023, the passenger traffic of Sheremetyevo Airport amounted to 36.3 million people against 28.2 million a year earlier (an increase of 29%). This is evidenced by the data of the Federal Air Transport Agency, published at the end of January 2024.

According to Interfax, citing materials from the department, in 2023 Sheremetyevo, where the Aeroflot group is based, retained the status of the largest airport in Russia in terms of the number of passengers transported. The second in this indicator was the St. Petersburg Pulkovo, which in 2023 served 20.4 million people (+ 12%), shifting Domodedovo to third place.

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In early January 2024, Sheremetyevo Deputy General Director Andrei Nikulin said that in 2023 the airport increased passenger traffic in 2023 by 28.7% compared to the previous year, to 36.6 million people. According to Nikulin, there were 27 million passengers on domestic airlines in 2023 (+ 22%), and 9.6 million on international airlines (+ 50%). The most popular domestic destinations included St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad , Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, foreign ones - Antalya, Istanbul, Yerevan , Minsk and Beijing.

According to Interfax, the statistics of the Federal Air Transport Agency and Sheremetyevo itself differ in that the airport includes children under 2 years old. Excluding them, as follows from the data of the Federal Air Transport Agency, the passenger traffic of Sheremetyevo Airport on domestic airlines in 2023 amounted to 26.8 million passengers (in 2022 - 21.9 million), on international - 9.5 million - (in 2022 - 6.3 million).

Sheremetyevo has only five passenger terminals, of which only two were operating by the end of 2023 - located on the northern side of Airport B and C. Among the foreign carriers served by the airport are Etihad, Qatar Airways, Chinese Hainan Airlines and China Southern Airlines.^[1]

2021: 2nd busiest airport in Europe

Main article: Airports in the world

Europe's 10 busiest airports in 2021:

1. Airport "Istanbul" - 36.9 million passengers

2. Moscow Sheremetyevo - 30.9 million

3. Charles de Gaulle Paris - 26.2 million

4. Amsterdam "Schiphol" - 25.5 million

5. Moscow Domodedovo - 25.1 million

2020: 60.3% reduction in passenger traffic

Passenger traffic at Sheremetyevo Airport in 2020 decreased by 60.3% compared to 2019 and amounted to 19.8 million people. In 2019, this air harbor served just over 49.9 million passengers.

As reported on the website of the Russian airport, passenger traffic on international airlines in 2020 amounted to 6.38 million passengers, on domestic airlines - 13.4 million passengers. The most popular international destinations for the year:

• Antalya;
• Istanbul;
• Yerevan;
• Phuket;
• Bangkok.

Federal:

• Sochi;
• Simferopol;
• Saint Petersburg;
• Krasnodar;
• Yekaterinburg.

Sheremetyevo passenger traffic decreased by 60.3% in 2020

According to the published statistics, the number of passengers served by Sheremetyevo Airport on international airlines in December 2020 reached 260 thousand people, on domestic airlines - a little more than 1 million people. This growth is due to a natural increase in the airport's passenger traffic during the New Year holidays. The number of takeoff and landing operations amounted to 13,093 HPE.

During the New Year holidays from December 25, 2020 to January 10, 2021, Sheremetyevo Airport served 876 thousand passengers. The number of takeoff and landing operations was 7,627. The most popular international destinations on holidays were:

• Antalya;
• Istanbul;
• Dubai;
• Male;
• Yerevan.

Domestic:

• Sochi;
• Saint Petersburg;
• Simferopol;
• Krasnodar;
• Kaliningrad.

It also follows from the press release that Sheremetyevo is one of the ten largest European airports and is the largest in Russia in terms of passenger and freight traffic. Sheremetyevo is the best airport in terms of service quality in Europe, the absolute world leader in flight punctuality, the owner of the highest rating of 5 Skytrax stars, the company said.^[2]

History

2022

Pobeda moves from Vnukovo to Sheremetyevo and will pay a penalty of 2 billion rubles

"Victory" due to the rupture of long-term agreements Vnukovo Airport with UTG should pay about 2 billion rubles penalties. About this at the end of August 2022 writes "" Businessman with reference to sources in the aviation market. More. here

Appointment of Ilya Petrov as Deputy Board of Directors

On March 2, 2022, a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Sheremetyevo International Airport Joint-Stock Company (MASH JSC) took place.

Ilya Sergeyevich Petrov was elected Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of MASH JSC. Read more here.

Departure of Alexander Ponomarenko from the post of Head of the Board of Directors of Sheremetyevo after inclusion in the EU sanctions list

Alexander Ponomarenko, in connection with the inclusion in the EU sanctions lists, resigned from the powers of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of MASH JSC. This is stated in his personal statement issued on March 1, 2022 by Sheremetyevo International Airport. Read more here.

2021

The purchase of 75% of Biblio-Globe cost Sheremetyevo airport 410 million rubles

In early June 2022, the cost of a deal to sell 75% of the Biblio-Globus tour operator to Sheremetyevo Airport became known. We are talking about the amount of 410 million rubles, according to the accounting statements of the airport for 2021. Read more here.

Purchase of the travel operator "Biblio-Globus"

On August 12, 2021, Sheremetyevo Airport announced the purchase of the travel operator Biblio-Globus. It is planned to close the deal, the cost of which the companies did not disclose at the end of September 2021. Read more here.

2020

Testing for Covid-19 at the health center

On June 3, 2020, Sheremetyevo International Airport organized the opportunity for passengers, guests and employees of third-party organizations to be tested for coronavirus infection. On June 3, medical services are provided at the health center of Terminal B, and after the resumption of international flights, they will be available at the health center of Terminal C.

To receive the service, you must:

• pre-receive a receipt for payment at information the Terminal B rack operating in round-the-clock mode;
• pay for the testing service at Sberbank's additional office in Terminal B or through an ATM;
• go to the health center - present a receipt of payment, sign an agreement (passport is required), fill out a questionnaire indicating the email address,
• get tested.

After testing, medical personnel will register the study in the information system of a specialized laboratory with the client's contact details. The result of the analysis will be sent to e-mail within 3 business days.

PCR diagnosis of the presence of a virus in the body is carried out in visitors without signs of ARVI. The analysis is carried out by passing a biomaterial - a swab from the nose or oropharynx. The collection of biomaterials is carried out by qualified medical officers of the health centers of Sheremetyevo Airport. At the same time, it is recommended to refrain from eating and smoking for three hours before testing.

The health centers of Terminals B and C are located on the 1st floor in the public arrival area. It is possible to undergo diagnostics subject to advance payment daily around the clock. The cost of the study is 2300 rubles, to conclude a contract for the provision of services with you you need to have passport.

Sheremetyevo Airport is fully implementing a set of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection in accordance with the instructions and recommendations of state bodies and medical institutions:

• increased disinfection of all rooms, increased frequency of wet cleaning; automatic contactless hand sanitizers are installed in the bathrooms of the airport terminals;
• contactless thermometry of arriving passengers is performed in all terminals of the airport; personnel involved in passenger services are provided with personal protective equipment;
• in order to maintain social distance in places of possible accumulation of passengers, bright floor markings were applied; in the arrival zones, information about the method of remote registration of sick leave without violating the self-isolation regime is posted;
• the airport has organized full-scale informing of passengers about the prevention of the spread of coronavirus infection, sound announcements are broadcast, information with the recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor is posted on information racks and monitors in airport terminals.