Sheremetyevo International Airport

Sheremetyevo International is Russia's busiest airport and the principal international gateway to Moscow, handling roughly 43M passengers (2024) across 203 weekly routes to 130 destinations on 31 airlines. SVO is the flagship hub of Aeroflot, the SkyTeam Russian flag carrier, as well as its low-cost subsidiary Pobeda — together accounting for the majority of daily movements. The airport sits 29 km (18 mi) northwest of central Moscow in the town of Khimki, operating from a campus that was largely rebuilt in the 2010s with new terminals and a third parallel runway commissioned in 2019. The airport's current configuration spans six terminals — B, C1, C2, D, E, and F — with the B-C northern complex serving most international Aeroflot departures and the D-E-F southern complex handling domestic and Schengen traffic, connected by an underground people-mover that opened in 2018. Three parallel runways include the longest at 12,139 ft (3,700 m) and two others at 11,647 ft (3,550 m) and 10,499 ft (3,200 m), permitting simultaneous independent operations. Sheremetyevo opened in 1959 as Moscow's replacement international airport and was significantly expanded for the 1980 Olympics and again for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. International reach has contracted substantially since 2022 as Western European and North American carriers suspended Russian operations following the invasion of Ukraine. Current international connectivity is concentrated on Turkey, UAE, China, India, and Central Asia — Beijing, Shanghai, Istanbul, Dubai, Baku, Yerevan, and Tashkent operate as daily or multi-daily markets. Aeroflot continues to operate the densest domestic network in Russia, with SVO functioning as the principal connecting point between European Russia, Siberia, and the Far East, reaching Vladivostok (6,400 km), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and Anadyr.