Moscow Domodedovo Airport suffers traffic dip but prepares for growth

Moscow's and the Russian Federation's second largest airport, Domodedovo (DME), handled 30.7 million passengers in 2017. Although it returned to growth last year, this figure was virtually unchanged from 2013. Traffic fell again in 1H2018, in spite of a boost from the FIFA World Cup held in Russia this summer.

DME ranked as Europe's 13th biggest airport by passenger numbers in 2017. It is mainly a point-to-point airport, although 17.8% of passengers were transfer traffic last year. Terminal developments to expand and integrate terminals 1 and 2 are aimed in part at improving the handling of transfer traffic at an airport that is dominated by domestic and short/medium haul international flights.

Together with new runway capacity, they are also aimed at ensuring that DME is positioned for more consistent growth in the future.