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Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (UKLL/LWO) is Ukraine's principal gateway in the west of the country, sited a few miles from the historic city of Lviv near the Polish border. Once a busy hub for Wizz Air, Ryanair, LOT and other carriers, the airport has been closed to civilian traffic since the Russian invasion of February 2022, though its operator has expressed hope of a return to scheduled flying in 2025. For the simulator pilot it offers a long, lit ILS-equipped runway and a site with roots stretching back to interwar Polish military aviation.
Lviv International Airport lies close to the city of Lviv in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, and is operated as a state enterprise. It is the second-largest airport in the country and has long served as a focus city for a mix of Ukrainian and European carriers. The field's long, hard-surfaced runway and full ILS make it a substantial international-standard aerodrome, and its layered history as a Polish military base, Soviet regimental airfield and post-independence civil airport gives it plenty of character for anyone flying in virtually.
The airport sits in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland, a position that has been cited as a reason it is considered a likely candidate for early reopening once Ukrainian airspace becomes available to civil traffic again. Ukraine closed its airspace to civilian flights on 24 February 2022 following the Russian invasion, and Lviv has remained shut to scheduled commercial operations since that date.
The field has a single physical runway, 13/31, hard-surfaced and lit, equipped with an ILS on both approach directions. Recorded lengths are 9,498 ft for runway 13 and 10,636 ft for runway 31, giving ample length for large jet operations. Field elevation is 1,070 ft.
Published frequencies for the field are Approach on 126 MHz, ATIS on 128.7 MHz and Tower on 128 MHz. The runway is served by an ILS, consistent with the airport's history of handling scheduled jet traffic.
The airfield's origins lie in the interwar period: from 1923 Polish authorities chose the village of Skniłów, near Lviv, as the site for a permanent air base after the existing Lewandówka airfield became too small for expanding military aviation. The 6th Aviation Regiment of the Polish Military Aviation was based here from 1925 until the Second World War. The Lwów-Skniłów airport became fully operational in 1929 and was named after Polish President Ignacy Mościcki. Alongside military use and a local aeroclub, it handled civilian services, including a domestic route to Warsaw and Kraków, an international route to Bucharest launched in 1930 and extended to Sofia and Thessaloniki in 1931, and further extended to Athens and Lydda in 1936. After the Second World War the Polish-Soviet border shifted west and Lviv became part of the Ukrainian SSR; the base subsequently housed the Soviet Air Forces' 243rd Independent Mixed Aviation Regiment from 1960 to 1992. A terminal opened in 1955 and served as the airport's only passenger building until a new Terminal A opened in 2012 following a roughly $200 million expansion undertaken ahead of the Euro 2012 football championships, which included a 700-metre extension to the existing runway. The older terminal was later reopened for domestic flights in June 2019.
Before the war, Lviv was a focus city for airlines including Ukraine International Airlines, Wizz Air, LOT Polish Airlines and Ryanair, and in 2021 it handled some 1.8 million passengers. Since Ukraine's airspace closure to civil aviation on 24 February 2022, the airport has been shut to scheduled commercial operations. As of early 2025 the airport's management has expressed hope of reopening to scheduled flights in the spring or summer of that year, with several airlines, including Wizz Air, airBaltic, Turkish Airlines, SkyUp, Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa and LOT, reported as ready to resume services once conditions allow. No current operating hours, fuel availability or prior-permission requirements are established while the field remains closed to civil traffic.