Zakarpattia’s new airport will be located outside of Mukachevo, the region’s second largest city, announced

Kyrylo Khomyakov, the Head of the Ukrinfraproject, yesterday on Facebook. Zakarpattia’s current airport, outside of Uzhgorod, has proven unviable because the runway ends at the national border with Slovakia. A search committee recently abandoned a site at Seredenje, midway on the 40 km highway between the two cities. Local businessmen had snapped up land to resell at high prices. Mukachevo, a city of 85,000, is already a transportation hub, served by trains from Hungary and Slovakia on European gauge tracks and trains from Lviv on broad gauge tracks.