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Passenger traffic at Kharkiv International Airport in January-October increased by 37 percent compared to the same period in 2018 and amounted to 1.112 million people, the airport’s press service has said.

In October, some 140,500 passengers used the airport services, which is 70 percent more than in October 2018.

The most popular destinations were Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), Antalya, Istanbul (both Turkey), Kyiv (Boryspil airport), Warsaw, Krakow (both Poland), Tel Aviv (Israel), Vienna (Austria), Wroclaw (Poland), and Dortmund (Germany).

As reported, in 2018 passenger traffic at Kharkiv Airport amounted to 962,500 people, which is 19 percent more than in the previous year.

Kharkiv airport has a runway 2,500 meters long and 50 meters wide. Two passenger terminals with a capacity of 100 and 650 people per hour are located in its territory.