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Lviv International Airport during the period of the hosting of the Euro 2012 European football championship from June 8 to June 17, 2012 serviced over 600 international and domestic flights, the Lviv 2012 media center has reported.

The center said that most of the charter and additional flights
arrived from the countries whose teams were playing – Germany, Denmark,
Portugal, as well as from Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria.

The number of passengers serviced in the period from June 7 to June 17, 2012 came to nearly 40,000.

Over the period of the tournament, the airport serviced eight class D
passenger aircraft (Airbus-310, Boeing-767) with football fans.

The Lviv airport started fulfilling several new flights of foreign
and Ukrainian airlines with the start of the servicing of flights for
the period of Euro 2012: UTair Airline (Russia) – Lviv-Surgut, Astra
Airlines (Greece) – Lviv-Thessaloniki, Air Onix (Crimea) – Lviv-Tivat
and Lviv-Simferopol and Azerbaijan Airlines – Lviv-Baku.

The report says that at present, 13 foreign and four Ukrainian
airlines service their flights at the airport. The number of
international routes is 18 (Moscow, Warsaw, Naples, Vienna, Munich,
Prague, Istanbul, Timisoara, Dortmund, Venice, Wroclaw, Krakow,
Thessaloniki, Hurghada, Antalia, Surgut, Tivat and Baku).

The Lviv airport plans to service up to 50,000 passengers during the Euro 2012 period.