Sheremetyevo International Airport took second place in terms of direct connectivity growth among European airports with more than 25 million passengers a year according to Airport Industry Connectivity Report 2018 by ACI Europe.
Sheremetyevo showed steady growth by 17.8% compared to 2017 and ranked second due to the launching of flights by new airlines as well as due to the growth in the frequency of flights. The same factors let Sheremetyevo jump from the 30th position in 2008 among European airports to the 10th this year in terms of overall direct connectivity that stands for the range of direct air routes available from the airport including frequency of flights.
The direct connectivity of Sheremetyevo increased by 109.5% from 2008 and by 50.8% from 2013. Sheremetyevo network has expanded from 181 routes in 2013 to 200 in 2018 and showed a significant increase in the frequency of flights. Some of the destinations, which saw a significant rise in daily flights to and from are Tel Aviv (from 1 to 5), Sochi (from 5 to 12), Yerevan (from 3 to 7), Riga (from 4 to 8), Saint Petersburg (from 15 to 23).
Sheremetyevo increased its hub connectivity and moved to the 17th position worldwide from the 35th back in 2008. Hub connectivity measures the number of connecting flights that can be facilitated by the hub airport in question — taking into account a minimum and maximum connecting times, and weighting the quality of the connections by the detour involved and connecting times.
Sheremetyevo shows sustained growth in transit traffic: 8 million 376 thousand passengers switched flights at the airport in 2017. It is 74% more than in 2013. Due to the rise of international passenger traffic, the routes connecting destinations in distant foreign countries became the most popular among transfer passengers.
TOP 3 transfer routes with a stopover at Sheremetyevo
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2017
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Vladivostok — Saint Petersburg
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Tel Aviv — New York
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Kiev — Beijing
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Bangkok — Tel Aviv
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Kiev — New York
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Los Angeles — Yerevan
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Implementation of the Long-Term Development Program will let Sheremetyevo achieve increased capacity of 80 million passengers per year by 2026 and enter the TOP 10 world largest passenger hubs.