Airport "Eagle". Will there be a prospect for this enterprise?

Airport "Eagle" is located six kilometers from the city center with the same name. The above-mentioned object of transport infrastructure has a rather large landing runway, which is the landing site for airborne ships weighing almost a hundred tons.

A bit of history

Airport "Eagle" began operating in 1909, when he was sent an airplane with cargo. Four years after the establishment of Soviet power, an air station was created in Russia, which became the connecting transport link between the cities of Orel and Moscow.

In 1923 the route was extended to Ukrainian Kharkov. From that moment the terminal began to function in full force. Additional airliners were purchased, which were put on the balance of the transport enterprise.

Airport Experiment Experiment

In 1998, the airport "Orel" became attractive to investors. One of the commercial structures expressed a desire to modernize the terminal building and the landing site. After the reconstruction, the latter became longer, which allowed to increase the status of the object of transport infrastructure.

Airport "Eagle" was updated for several years, and only in late 1999 there was a solemn event about its opening.

It should be noted that after the investor canceled the contract in 2004, the financial situation of the terminal began to deteriorate.

Today, a sad picture opens before those who decided to come to the city of Orel: the airport with the same name hardly works (only one dispatch service for tracking flights). In the spring of 2011, this facility became an integral part of the state program, which provides for the reconstruction of major aviation units.

What are the future prospects for the airport?

However, subsequently, officials of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia said that allocating funds from the state treasury to repair an airport in the city of Orel does not at all mean that it will be fully exploited, since there is no operator and a basic carrier in the region. In this regard, the federal authorities recommended their colleagues from the region to focus on other options for transport communication. After all, another ten years will pass before the financial situation of the airport is corrected, and only then the enterprise will be able to become competitive.

As arguments for the adoption of such an "unpopular" decision, the federal authorities brought the fact that the modernization of the airport would cost more than three billion rubles. On its annual maintenance will need about two hundred million rubles a year. Undoubtedly, the regional budget will not "pull" such a burden.

Experts are sure that the only way out of the created situation is the search for a major investor who, together with the state, will seriously modernize the airport "Eagle".

The flight schedule today confirms the fact that the company can be helped to "get out" of the financial crisis. For example, the routes inside the country will be rescued: Surgut, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Sochi, Anapa, St. Petersburg. You can fly and beyond the home state: Dusseldorf, Hanover, Sharm el-Sheikh, Dubai, Bangkok.