Description
The airport of Kukes has a runway of 2.2 kilometers, and it gives the opportunity to land airplanes of about 75 tons such as Airbus A318 Airbus A319 Airbus A320 Airbus A321 and in rare cases Airbus A330 Airbus A340 Airbus A350-1000XWB From Boeing can Boeing 737-300 Boeing 737-400 Boeing 737-500 Boeing 737-600 Boeing 737-700 Boeing 737-800 Boeing 737-900ER for daily use, possible are Boeing 757-200 Boeing 757-300 and in rare cases Boeing 767-200 Boeing 767 -300ER Boeing 777-200ER Boeing 747-400ER Boeing 787-8 Boeing 787-9 Boeing 787-10 and for emergency cases Boeing 777-300ER and Boeing 747-8i. Companies Embraer, Bombardier, Mitsubishi Aerospatiale, etc. are completely possible to sit down. Airbus A380-800/861 and Antonov An-225 are impossible to land. The airport holds 3 planes at a time and 4 planes per hour. The construction of this airport started in May 2002. This airport covers an area of about 65 hectares, 3 kilometers from the city of Kukes, and is of international category C. According to the construction project, up to 3 planes are expected to land at this airport at the same time. The airport is equipped with all means of airspace control. The airport will be functionalized soon after the approval of the agreement with the Rinas concessionaire, according to the Minister of Transport. The agreement has been ratified by the council of ministers and is expected to be ratified in the following days in the parliament. This airport will be the second civilian airport in Albania after Rinas. 2 low cost companies such as RyanAir and WIzz Air are interested in this airport.
