Epress.am News from Armenia
Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin confirmed on Friday plans to close Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport for up to three months to reconstruct one of its runways.
Vnukovo is the oldest of Moscow’s operating airports. The airport has two intersecting runways of 3,000 m and 3,060 m in length. While the renovation of Runway 2 was completed in March 2009, Runway 1 has not been overhauled since 1985.
“It has to be reconstructed. We believe that the planes will not be able to land there for two-three months,” Levitin said on the sidelines of the 9th International Investment Forum Sochi-2010.
The minister said that the reconstruction would be most likely carried out during the off-peak passenger traffic season, which falls on February-April.