Despite the investments in Uzhhorod airport, the ministry plans to make Mukachevo – 45 minutes to the east – the main airport for Zakarpattia

Despite the investments in Uzhhorod airport, the ministry plans to make Mukachevo – 45 minutes to the east – the main airport for Zakarpattia for the 2020s. A former Cold War air base, Mukachevo’s abandoned airfield features a 2.5 km runway with steel rebar rusting through broken concrete. Omelyan predicts that in 2019-2020, the Infrastructure Ministry will get budget money to completely rebuild the runway and to build an international terminal. The other option was to build a completely new airport in Khust, a two-hour drive east of Uzhhorod.