Thursday, June 2, 2011

Ukrainian passport control


1 million football fans estimated to visit Ukraine during 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. So the passport control procedure will be considerably hastened for EURO guests in order to make their staying comfortable from the very first minute i.e. from the arrival. Therefore RFID-card terminals (tags with identification data of a passenger) will be installed at the four host cities airports, Kyiv, Donetsk, Lviv and Kharkov, and additionally at the Dnipropetrovsk IA and Odesa IA.
There already are these magnetic stripe cards in Kiev and Kharkiv, other cities will be equipped with by the end of this year. Representatives of State Border Guard Service of Ukraine say that it is very important step for Ukraine in airport preparation for EURO 2012.
Now the most important thing is to extend the sales network of RFID-cards and to start advertising campaigns that will promote the advantages of these new cards during border crossing. Such promo videos will be broadcast at the airports.
Nowadays more than 25.000 people provided themselves with RFID-cards that permit to go through passport control more rapidly and comfortably.
However, there are several construction and reconstructions of all airports that will receive EURO 2012 guests. Therefore new equipment installation and new jobsite creation are on in the Lviv airport. Also runway is extending and it will permit to land all types of airplanes. New terminal will have 900 passengers per hour capacity but during EURO 2012 it will be able to service some 1900 passengers. According to the Project Director the new Lviv Terminal will be ready by the end of December.
The biggest airport of Ukraine - Boryspil International Airport, now have a new Terminal “D” under construction. It will be finished by the end of this year. As the Donetsk new airport will. Now it is in homestretch and only some finishing works are left. New runway is still under-construction in Kharkiv IA.
According to Boris Kolesnikov, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine all new airport terminals for EURO 2012 will be done in time.

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