Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport

International airport serving Lviv, Ukraine

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport is an international airport in Lviv, Ukraine, located from the central city. It is the second largest and busiest airport in Ukraine. The airport is named after King Daniel of Galicia, the historical founder of the city in 1256 AD. On 24 February 2022, Ukraine closed airspace to civilian flights due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In 2010, the airport carried 481,900 passengers. In preparation for Euro 2012, Lviv International Airport has undergone a $200m expansion project. Lviv airport's new terminal building has an area of 34,000m² with a capacity of handling 1,000 passengers an hour. Unreliable source: reason=domain on WP:BLACKLIST Of the $200m, it was expected that the Ukrainian government would provide $70m, including $14m in 2008, and $130m would come from private investors. The expansion project included a 700 meter extension of the existing runway and a new airport terminal capable of handling up to 2,000 passengers per hour (5.69 million passenger annually). The airport used to be a focus city for Wizz Air Ukraine, which served four international routes to Italy (Naples, Bergamo, and Treviso) and Germany (Dortmund) until the airline was dissolved April 2015 (by contrast, routes from Kyiv International Airport continued after being taken over by the parent company). In January 2017, Wizz Air announced that it would be resuming flights to Lviv, initially with the introduction of a route to Wroclaw. In March 2017, Ryanair announced that it would be launching seven routes to Lviv starting October 2017. These plans were scrapped in July after Ryanair's failure to reach an agreement with Boryspil and its subsequent decision to postpone entry into the Ukrainian market. Immediately the Ukrainian government put pressure on Boryspil and accused Ukraine International Airlines in sabotaging the agreement. This resulted in the continuation of talks with Ryanair and as of March 2018, it was announced that Ryanair would go on to open 10 new routes from Boryspil and 5 new routes from Lviv.

The airport has two terminals (1 and A), though only terminal A is currently in operation. Terminal A was opened in 2012. There are 29 check in desks, of which nine are for domestic flights and the remaining twenty for international flights. There had been tentative plans to use it for VIP passengers in the future. However, in June 2019, the terminal was re opened for domestic flights, with future plans to move charter flights to the terminal as well.

A dedicated express link bus to Lviv railway station runs every 90 minutes. The airport is also served by Lviv's public transport, specifically the bus route 48 and the trolleybus route 29, both of which terminate in the city centre. Taxis are also available at the airport, as well as car rental services.

The airfield was the site of the Sknyliv air show disaster in 2002, which killed 77. On 4 October 2019, Ukraine Air Alliance Flight 4050, an Antonov An 12 crash landed in a field close to the village of Sokilnyky short of the runway of Lviv airport, killing at least five people. The Ukraine Air Alliance (Ukraine Aeroalliance) plane ran out of fuel before a planned stopover at Lviv, en route from Vigo in Spain to Istanbul. On 18 March 2022, during the Russo Ukrainian War, an aircraft repair plant near the airport was hit by several Russian missiles.