OREANDA-NEWS. July 29, 2011. Regular flights from a new runway at the airport Donetsk which was solemnly opened by vice Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of an infrastructure Boris Kolesnikov are begin.

At first today at 3 o'clock 41 minutes on local time on the new runway the plane from Tel Aviv of “Aerosvit” arrived.

According to general director "International airport "Donetsk", at 14 o'clock 40 minutes new ranway has already accepted 29 planes - 15 on a landing and 14 on rise. Under the plan, by the end of day the strip will accept 18 more flights.

As a whole, the new runway in Donetsk is capable to accept 38 planes per hour - 19 by departure and landing.

As a whole aviation infrastructure of "International airport "Donetsk" in following year will be capable to accept one and a half million passengers and to provide service of a volume of passenger traffic increasing on 30 % annually.