The Chairman of the Board of Directors of MASH JSC Alexander Ponomarenko emphasised: “The third runway is the most complicated technical object of the airfield infrastructure, necessary to expand the capacity of the Sheremetyevo International Airport. The commissioning of the new runway, Terminal C under construction, and a number of other facilities together create favourable conditions for achieving our strategic goal by 2026 to enter the top 10 largest airports in the world with a capacity of 100 million passengers per year.”

Thanks to the new independent runway, Sheremetyevo significantly increased the airdrome capacity from 65 to 90 takeoff and landing operations per hour and became the first Russian airport with three runways. The modern airfield and terminal infrastructure of Sheremetyevo opens up new wide opportunities for long-term growth and development for base carriers and new airlines.

Runway-3 will remove infrastructure constraints, create conditions for increasing demand for air transportation at Sheremetyevo Airport and the possibility of restoring the operational suitability of existing elements of the airfield of the airfield, including the planned reconstruction of Runway-1, while maintaining and further increasing the volume of air transportation.

Runway-3 has dimensions 3200x60 m, which allows landing of all types of aircraft, both Russian and foreign. Runway 3 will provide III A ICAO  category approaches.

During the construction of Runway-3, an innovative solution for the construction of a bridge crossing designed for aircraft traffic was implemented for Russia. This is the first project of this kind in the country. The bridge design will be able to withstand all types of modern and promising aircraft, as well as the modifications, including the A380.

The runway-3 complex at Sheremetyevo Airport has modern production treatment facilities for domestic and surface wastewater in accordance with state regulatory requirements and environmental standards.

In the future, taking into account the commissioning of new passenger terminals, Sheremetyevo Airport plans to enter the league of the largest aviation hubs in the world and strengthen the status of the main transit hub between Europe and Asia.

Noting, 60 years ago on August 11, 1959, the first runway at the time of the Sheremetyevo airfield (formerly the Central Air Force of the USSR Air Force) landed the first flight. The Tu-104 airliner delivered 100 passengers from Leningrad. The glorious history of the Sheremetyevo International Airport began with this event.

The construction of the new runway complex (Runway-3) of the Sheremetyevo International Airport was carried out in the period from 2011 to 2017 within the framework of the federal target program “Expansion of the transport system of Russia (2010-2021)”, and since 2018, within the framework of the state program of the Russian Federation “Development of the transport system”. The state customer of the project was the Federal Air Transport Agency. The customer-developer is FSUE Administration of Civil Airports (Aerodromes). The general designer is FSUE GPI and NII GA Aeroproject. The general contractor is Transstroimekhanizatsiya LLC. Financing of Runway-3 construction was carried out from the federal budget.

The implementation of the Runway-3 project was associated with a significant amount of work on preparing the construction site, including changing and restructuring the Klyazma and Alba river channels, restructuring engineering and transport communications (oil and gas pipelines, water pipelines, power lines, roads) passing through the construction site , its release from residential and other facilities.

The Transstroimehanizatsiya company as a whole carried out the construction of the runway-3 complex facilities using the parallel method of organising work, taking into account modern effective technological methods. During the construction work, measures were taken to protect the environment. In particular, mechanical assembly technologies were used with further utilisation of pollutants and technologies for biological treatment and soil regeneration.

Construction work was completed on the Runway-3 complex with 3200х60м in size with equipping with radio-technical flight support facilities and light-signalling equipment, a taxiway network, a command and control station combined with a start-up and rescue station, a patrol production and patrol road, an airfield complex fencing, and treatment facilities surface drains, other objects.

Sheremetyevo International Airport - is included in the TOP-10 airports hubs in Europe, the largest Russian airport in terms of passenger and freight traffic. At the end of 2018, the airport served 45 million 836 thousand passengers, which is 14.3% higher than the results of 2017. At the end of 2018, Sheremetyevo became the best in quality of service in the category of the largest airports in Europe with a passenger flow of more than 40 million passengers per year. According to the results of 2018, the airport served 45 million 836 thousand passengers, which is 14.3% higher than the results of 2017.

At the end of 2018, Sheremetyevo became the best in quality of service in the category of the largest airports in Europe with a passenger flow of more than 40 million passengers a year according to the ASQ ACI program and entered the top list of the best airports in the world according to the International Council of Airports - ACI Director General's Roll of Excellence. Sheremetyevo is recognised as the best airport in the world according to the global analytical study of the British company Stasher. Sheremetyevo Airport is the holder of the highest 5-star Skytrax rating.

Sheremetyevo International Airport

- is the TOP-10 of the largest hub airports in Europe in terms of passenger traffic.

- for six consecutive years it has been the best airport in Europe in terms of passenger service quality.

- the absolute world leader in punctuality of flights for the second year in a row according to the British research company OAG.

- in 2018, Sheremetyevo was recognized as the best in service quality in the category of the largest European airports with a passenger flow of more than 40 million people according to the results of the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) ACL study program.

- in 2018, Sheremetyevo Airport was included in the top list of the best airports in the world - ACI Director * 'General's Roll of Excellence.

- new Terminal B at Sheremetyevo is the best infrastructure project in Russia in 2019

- inter-terminal transition (ICC) - the best innovative project of Russia in 2018

- In 2018, Sheremetyevo Airport served over 45 million 836 thousand passengers. Compared with 2017, the passenger flow of Sheremetyevo increased by 14.3%. The number of takeoff and landing operations (VPO) was 357,228 with an increase of 15.9%.

- from 2010 to 2018 the passenger flow at Sheremetyevo Airport increased 2.5 times (from 19.3 to 45.8 million passengers per year).

- Sheremetyevo is the leader among Russian airports in passenger traffic from China, as well as the only European air hub serving 8 Chinese airlines: Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Capital Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Lucky Air, Sichuan Airlines, Tianjin Airlines.

- The airport ranks first in the world in transfer between China and Europe: in 2018, more than 1.2 million passengers made a flight with a transfer to Sheremetyevo, and the total passenger flow between SVO and China exceeded 2.36 million people.