Zakarpattia will get an international standard airport with the construction in coming years of a $145 million airport in Mukachevo,

Zakarpattia will get an international standard airport with the construction in coming years of a $145 million airport in Mukachevo, Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Krikliy promises on Facebook. Last month, the Cabinet of Minister approved spending $1 million to design an airport on the site of an abandoned Soviet-era air base south of the city. Under the plan, a private investor would build the terminal. The Infrastructure Ministry would build a 2,500-meter long runway, capable of handling B737 and A320 passenger jets for flights to the EU and Turkey and Egypt. Zakarpattia’s current airport, in Uzhgorod, has limited capacity due to restrictions imposed by neighboring Slovakia and the EU.