In August and September 2012 from the International Airport "Kharkiv" will be carried out a number of direct charter flights to the capital of Turkmenistan - Ashgabat. This was reported by the airport management.
"After the reconstruction carried out in preparation of Kharkiv for Euro 2012, our airport is able to take the aircrafts Boeing 767 and Airbus A-310of type. Certainly, it has widened our geography of direct flights from Kharkiv to various towns in the continent. Confirmation of this is another new direction: flights to Ashgabat. For now we are talking about one-off charter flights, but we do not rule out that the new direction will be appreciated by passengers. This, in turn, will allow us to begin negotiations on the organization of regular flights," - said Volodymyr Vasilchenko, General Director of "New Systems AM" (the operating company of the International Airport "Kharkiv", is a member of Aleksander Yaroslavskiy`s DCH Group).
According to him, the first charter flights will be made on August 21, August 28, September 4, September 11 and September 18. The flights will carried out by Turkmenistan Airlines on Boeing 737 type aircrafts.
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Ashgabat - the capital of Turkmenistan, a major administrative and political, industrial, scientific and cultural center of the state. Ashgabat is a separate administrative unit - a city with the power of velayat (region).
Airline Turkmenistan Airlines belongs to the state. State National Service "Türkmenhowaýollary" named after Great Saparmurat Turkmenbashi is a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Positioned as the safest airline in Asia. Base airport - Ashgabat airport named after Saparmurat Turkmenbashi.
International Airport "Kharkiv" (http://hrk.aero/) - one of the key objects of Slobozhanshchina capital, reconstructed in preparation for the finals of the European Football Championship 2012. A start to a large-scale project was given on April 1, 2008, when the company "New Systems AM" (DCH group, the owner - a well-known Ukrainian businessman, the general investor and coordinator of Kharkiv's preparations for Euro 2012, the president of FC "Metalist" Aleksander Yaroslavskiy) has won the competition for the long-term rent of the entire property of Kharkiv airport complex.
Reconstruction of the International airport "Kharkiv" was implemented in the format of a public-private partnership. Aleksander Yaroslavskiy`s total investment in the project is $ 107.2 million (the airport complex and the surrounding area). The amount of funding allocated from the state budget for the reconstruction of the airport complex - $ 191.3 million.
