On August 11, 2019, Sheremetyevo International Airport celebrates its 60th anniversary. The first flight was served on this day in 1959: the TU-104 passenger airliner made the flight from Leningrad to Moscow and landed at the Sheremetyevo airfield (formerly the main airfield of the USSR Air Force). Thus, the order of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU N.S. Khrushchev redesigning Sheremetyevo from a military airfield to a civilian airport was completed.
The main air gate of the country has many glorious pages in its annals. For more than six decades, Sheremetyevo has been meeting and seeing off leaders of states, polar heroes, Olympic athletes, famous cultural figures and world stars. Every day, the airport serves more than one hundred and fifty thousand passengers and provides more than a thousand take-off and landing operations. For comparison, in 1960 Sheremetyevo Airport served 270 thousand passengers, and according to forecasts for the jubilee 2019 year, the airport will set a new record and will receive more than 50 million passengers.
Sheremetyevo Airport pays particular attention to the quality of passenger and airline services, creating and maintaining a technologically advanced comfortable environment, friendly atmosphere and stylish aesthetic space. The results of this work have received wide international recognition fr om a number of industry institutes and agencies in recent years.
In August 2019, the British company Stasher, according to the results of a global analytical study on key factors, awarded the world championship to Sheremetyevo International Airport. Experts rated Sheremetyevo at 6.5 points out of a possible 8 in the aggregate of categories. The airport received the highest scores - 10 out of 10 - in two categories: punctuality of flights and the cost of parking. Experts took into account the positive feedback, quality food, the number of waiting rooms, access to shops and their assortment, the level of service in hotels, ensuring transport accessibility to the center of the capital and other indicators.
According to the results of the program of independent assessment of the quality of airport services Airport Service Quality (ASQ), constantly conducted by ACI, at the end of 2018, Sheremetyevo was recognized as the best in the category of the largest airports in Europe with a passenger flow of more than 40 million people. Also the airport entered the top list of the best airports in the world according to International Airport Council - ACI Director General's Roll of Excellence. This honorary list includes airports that have been recognized as the best in the ASQ ACI passenger service rating by at least five times in the past 10 years.
By constantly improving the level of passenger service, Sheremetyevo Airport remains the leader in international ratings of punctuality of flights: by the end of 2018, Sheremetyevo was recognized as the most punctual airport in the world in the category of airports with an annual passenger departure of 20 million to 30 million people, according to the OAG rating.
In March 2019, Sheremetyevo Airport received the highest international rating of 5 Skytrax stars. Thus, Sheremetyevo became the first of the largest airports in Russia to receive the prestigious Skytrax certificate.