Passenger traffic through the Boryspil international airport (Kiev) may increase by 15% in 2014, compared with last year. Ukraine’s acting Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Kozak made this forecast at a briefing in Kiev on Wednesday, the Interfax Ukraine news agency reports.
Thus, the airport may serve 9.1 million passengers in 2014. As reported, passenger traffic through the airport reduced by 6.5% to 7.93 million in 2013.
At the same time, according to the acting minister, passenger traffic through the Boryspil airport increased by 26.4% to 584,300 in January this year.
The airport expects passenger traffic to increase by 25% in the first quarter.
Kozak also announced a decision to expand the apron in front of the airport’s terminal D without specifying the margin of the expansion.
In general, according to the acting minister, passenger traffic through Ukrainian airports increased by 22.5% to 1.04 million in January.
