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It just occured to me that the Moscow international airport is Sheremetyevo... what is this domodedovo thing?
Yeah, that used to be the main one I think, but I believe Domododevo has picked up some traffic in the past few years. I did a quick googlization and it seems as though domestic air travel and international BA and Swissair use it.
You're right that Domodedovo has picked up some traffic in the past few years. They seem to have made a renovation a few years ago, which allowed them to invite British Airways and other large international airlines. But Lufthansa still uses Sheremetyevo. To be honest, I don't like Sheremetyevo. It's so busy in summer! The airport was built in the USSR and I don't think that they thought then there would ever be many 'Soviet' people willing to go abroad. I mean to say, that very few could go abroad in the SU, so the Soviets didn't need a massive airport.
Sheremetyevo ought to get a renovation, otherwise it will remain one of the worst airports I've ever seen. Though it's not so bad in winter...
Yeah, I heard somewhere that it was made to look much better and had a more confortable environment, so more people were, naturally, interested in going there. The only one I've been to is Pulkovo, which I wasn't fond of: arrived to wait in a long line to do a visa process I'd never been through before, then proceeded to go to some crappy, busted old bus and load my luggage in rain. On the departure, I arrived at like 2 am; then had to sit for 2 hours in an empty, closed down airport hall. On the other hand, I suppose I did get to where I was going in one piece, so that's something to be happy about! And Frankfurt was a nicer -- but it was still an airport and it was on the euro which REALLY sucked.