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.