Kazan Airport by T De Jong

29 December 2007   Customer Rating :

Flew in on a domestic flight (from Moscow SVO) and exiting the aircraft, getting luggage and leaving the airport took no longer then 15 minutes. No checks at all though (due to it being a domestic flight I guess). Because of those 15 minutes I didn't get a chance to check the airport in itself. During departure though, we needed to wait for 20 minutes in the terminal, or, what you can call a terminal! Had a small bar and some seating areas. There was 1 TV broadcasting a russian soap and that was about it. Coffee was good though; and again boarding the aircraft was relatively quick. It is definitely not (as also stated in another review) a place you want to stay for hours. Luckily boarding and exiting goes really fast and I had no problems at all doing both. Overall impression is Fair.

Kazan Airport by Barry Byrne

28 May 2007   Customer Rating :

Kazan Airport has two terminals but T2, a square shaped building some 50m from T1 seems to be used mainly as a VIP facility. Terminal 1 is a small rectangular building, with separate sections for international and domestic services. Most likely it is the international section you will encounter on the regular LH service from FRA that arrives / departs in the very early morning. To say that Kazan has few facilities for departing passengers is rather an understatement, a preliminary baggage scan leads immediately to a few check in desks, and a very short walk to immigration control, and a further scan for hand baggage. In the small waiting area there are some hard seats in a small waiting room and a bar. The business lounge has a few soft seats, a fish tank, and a television. Drinks here, even coffee, are to be paid for, nothing is free, apparently. There are no shops, banking or change facilities at departure. They bus you the 20m to the aircraft, of course. On the plus side, this very small facility is a pleasant change from the corridors of FRA, but not a place to linger, to arrive too early or any place to be delayed either. It is a reasonably long way from the city, but linked by a good road so it does not take very long to travel to the city. At that hour of the morning the roads are empty also. The domestic area, from one glance, does not seem to have much to offer either.

Kazan Airport by Terry Ferrari

9 January 2007   Customer Rating : n/a

Arrived via DME from LHR and MAN with S7 airlines and same route return. Probably the fastest ever transit through an airport I have ever experienced, even if it is only a small provincial one. Had to return the day after I arrived, and with the assistance of friendly, helpful staff, collected my late luggage. All in all, a great little airport ,if a basic one.

Kazan Airport by David Pryer

13 March 2005

I flew in on Lufthansa's twice weekly flight via Samara no February 1st. They are the only international carrier. Apart from immigration refusing to acknowledge the computer generated form from the Russian Federation's London Embassy (which meant I had to fill one in by hand) everything was fine. I was in and out of the airport inside half-an-hour.

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