Ventspils Airport terminal ( Photo: Ventspils Airport) Ventspils Airport is an airport in Latvia. It is the newest airport and along with Liepaja International Airport and Riga International Airport is one of the three notable airports in the country. This file has been listed on Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images, because it is missing information on its source or copyright status. ...
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Liepāja International Airport terminal (Photo courtesy Liepāja Airport) The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain technical limitations. ...
Riga International Airport terminal (Photo: RIX) Rīga International Airport is located about eight miles (13km) southwest from Rīga, the capital of Latvia. ...
Ventspils Airport was founded in 1975. One asphalt-concrete runway (1300m x 35m) and apron (100m x 100m) was built. At that time there was air control dispatchers point at aerodrome and 40 - 45 employees worked in the airport. Aerodrome was used by aircrafts AN-24, AN-2, YAK-40, MI-2. Geography of flight was small and there was only two scheduled flights Ventspils - Riga and Ventspils - St. Petersburg. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. ...
Riga (in Latvian language orthography Rīga), the capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast at the mouth of the Daugava River, at 56°58′ N 24°8′ E. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic States and serves as a major cultural, educational, political, financial, commercial...
Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. ...
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...
Different state departments made other kind of flights too. There was flights of state border control, flights for oil pipeline control, forests patrol, traffic control, fishing inspection flights and others. Airport operation was closed in 1983 cause of political decisions of government. 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The question about the airport operation renewal first was discussed in mid nineties after the sovereignty of Latvia when Ventspils became an important transport traffic hub. The efficiency and importance on rehabilitation of the Ventspils Airport was evaluated.
The most important conclusions of the research were that the rehabilitation of the airport would enhance the efficiency of the existing transport corridors and foster economic activities in the region. The region has all the social and economic preconditions that define the potential demand for air traffic. Operative Ventspils Airport would promote competitiveness of the Ventspils transport hub in the European and global markets.
Air transport costumers of Ventspils region and corporative clients used airport of Riga at that moment that is 202 kilometres far from Ventspils. One trip by air transport for customer takes about 6 - 8 hours extra time for transport change to get by road transport to the airport in Riga and return after to Ventspils. These opportunities did not satisfy the demand for air transport traffic.
Work on project "The rehabilitation of the Airport Ventspils" was started in 1997. Implementation of this project was started in 1999. The project was developed within the National Transport Development Programme of the Republic of Latvia (1996-2010).
At the start of 2001 all documentation for the airport exploitation was prepared as well as airport security program was worked out. The plan of safety improvements for security standards was current in that moment which followed with equipping of the temporary passenger service building and electric security system establishing.
The most important result of all undertaken activities was start of operation in year 2000 after receiving of certificate. Certificate confirmed that the aerodrome is suitable for exploitation and the first programs of flights were for conclusion that the first cycle of Ventspils Airport development was completed.
See also The following is a list of airports in Latvia. ...
Railways: total: 2,347 km broad gauge: 2,314 km 1. ...
External links - Ventspils Airport (http://www.airport.ventspils.lv/)
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