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The Kharkiv international airport has commissioned a new apron, the press service of DCH Group, the key asset of which is Kharkiv airport, has reported.

The report says that the apron is an element of the airport complex and used as a parking site for aircraft and servicing aircraft near the airport’s terminals.

The new apron can accommodate up to 21 medium haul aircraft of all types.

Director General of New Systems AM (the operator of the airport, part of DCH Group), Volodymyr Vasylchenko, said that thanks to the new apron, the airport would be able to considerably accelerate the servicing of aircraft.

The first aircraft to use the new apron was a Fokker-100 of Austrian Airlines.

Kharkiv airport has a runway 2,220 meters long and 50 meters wide, and two passenger terminals with capacities of 100 and 650 passengers per hour respectively.

DCH was created on the basis of assets under the name of UkrSibbank Group after two partners of the group (Oleksandr Yaroslavsky and Ernest Haliyev) decided to separate their assets.

The group has assets in the spheres of industry, finance, construction and related sectors such as construction materials and development.

Among the assets controlled by DCH are chemical giant OJSC Cherkasy Azot, construction and developing firms, a glass container producer, the Kharkiv-based Metalist Football Club, and Kharkiv Airport.