Kyiv’s Sikorsky (Zhulyany) Airport plans to handle 1 million more passengers this year, a 56%

increase over last year, Denis Kostrzhevsky, the airport’s board chairman, tells Interfax. Through March, passenger traffic is up by 50%, on track for Ukraine’s second busiest airport to handle 2.8 million passengers this year, the airport official predicts. Located 7 km from the city center, the airport is spending $20 million this year to expand Terminal A, the main terminal which opened in 2012. Long term, the airport would like to extend its runway by 25%, to 3,000 meters, to allow landings by Airbus A321 and Boeing 737-900.