Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport

Introduction

Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) is located almost 30 kilometres from Moscow and is one of the city's 3 airports, along with Domodedovo International Airport (DME) and Vnukovo (VKO).

For more information about other airports throughout the world, also see the list of airports.

Getting there and away

• Car: The main road leading to the airport is Leningradskoe Highway which can get jam-packed with cars during the rush hour, so start out early. It takes from 20 minutes to several hours!
• Taxi: about US$30-40, widely available
• Minivans (marshrutkas) and shuttles have fixed prices and are basically shared taxis
• Buses are much slower, but there are a few lines connecting to the metro network
• Rail: In 2008, a rail terminal opened in front of Terminal F with direct service from Savyolovsky Rail Terminal. The journeys takes 35 minutes. In 2009 the line was continued to Belorussky Rail Terminal, future plans include a new central rail terminal which will service all three of Moscow's main airports. The rail link is operated by Aeroexpress, a subsidiary of Russian Railways.

Getting around

A shuttle bus service takes passengers from Terminal F (railway station) to the other terminals.

Airlines, Destinations and Terminals

There are 5 terminals (B to F) at the airport. For more information, also see the list of airlines or the details about flying with budget airlines.

Terminal B

• Avianova - Astrakhan, Archangelsk, Gelendzhik, Kazan, Krasnodar, Nizhnekamsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, St.Petersburg, Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Ulyanovsk, Yekaterinburg
• Belavia - Minsk
• Ural Airlines - Yekaterinburg

Terminal C

• Aerosvit Airlines - Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kiev-Boryspil, Odessa, Simferopol
• Air Algérie - Algiers
• Ariana Afghan Airlines - Kabul
• Armavia - Yerevan

Terminal D

• Aeroflot - Antalya, Astrakhan, Athens, Baku, Barcelona, Barnaul, Berlin-Schonefeld, Brussels, Cairo, Dresden, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Eilat-Ovda, Frankfurt, Gelendzik, Geneva, Hamburg, Hanoi, Hanover, Havana, Heraklion, Irkutsk, Istanbul-Ataturk, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Larnaca, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Magadan, Malaga, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nizhnevartovsk, Norilsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, St Petersburg, Samara, Simferopol, Sochi, Split, Tel Aviv, Tokyo-Narita, Tyumen, Ufa, Ulan Bator, Venice-Marco Polo, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Zagreb, Zürich
• Aeroflot operated by Donavia - Mineralnye Vody, Neryungri, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Surgut, Ufa, Volgograd
• Aeroflot operated by Nordavia - Anapa, Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar, Murmansk, Naryan-Mar, Omsk, Syktyvkar, Yekaterinburg
• Delta Air Lines - Atlanta, New York-JFK
• Nordavia - Simferopol
• Rossiya - St Petersburg

Terminal E

• Air Astana - Almaty, Astana
• Air France - Paris-Charles de Gaulle
• Estonian Air - Tallinn
• KLM - Amsterdam

Terminal F

• Adria Airways - Ljubljana
• Aeroflot - Amsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Bishkek, Bucharest-Henri Coanda, Budapest, Copenhagen, Damascus, Delhi, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Hurghada, Innsbruck, Karlovy Vary, Kiev-Boryspil, Los Angeles, Luanda, New York-JFK, Nice, Prague, Salzburg, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tashkent, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan
• airBaltic - Riga
• Air China - Beijing-Capital
• Air Koryo - Pyongyang
• Air Malta - Malta
• Alitalia - Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino, Turin
• Bulgaria Air - Burgas, Sofia, Varna
• China Eastern Airlines - Shanghai-Pudong
• China Southern Airlines - Urumqi
• Cyprus Airways - Larnaca
• Czech Airlines - Karlovy Vary, Prague
• Finnair - Helsinki
• Hainan Airlines - Beijing-Capital
• Hong Kong Airlines - Hong Kong
• Iran Air - Tehran-Imam Khomeini
• Jat Airways - Belgrade
• Korean Air - Seoul-Incheon
• LOT Polish Airlines - Warsaw
• Malév Hungarian Airlines - Budapest
• MIAT Mongolian Airlines - Berlin-Tegel, Ulan Bator
• Royal Air Maroc - Casablanca
• Scandinavian Airlines - Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda
• Transaero Airlines - Antalya, Dalaman, Heraklion, Hurghada, Punta Cana, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv
• Turkish Airlines - Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen
• Turkish Airlines operated by Anadolujet - Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen

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