What airport is SVO?
SVO is
Sheremetyevo International Airport
Moscow, Russia
Why the code is SVO
SheremetyeVO.
The airport authority or a contemporaneous record states this directly.
The airport
- IATA code
- SVO
- ICAO code
- UUEE
- Airport
- Sheremetyevo International Airport
- City
- Moscow, Russia
- Code origin
- Documented
Moscow has four commercial airports and no single code that dominates, which is why MOW exists as the metropolitan code. Sheremetyevo's transit zone held Edward Snowden for 39 days in 2013 while he was between passports.
Codes people book by mistake
| Code | What it actually is |
|---|---|
| DME | Domodedovo, Moscow's other main international airport. |
The other code, UUEE
Every airport has two codes. The three-letter IATA code, SVO, is the one on your boarding pass and your luggage tag, and it is assigned for commercial use. The four-letter ICAO code, UUEE, is the one pilots and controllers use, and it is assigned geographically: the first letter or two identify the region, so every airport in the same part of the world shares a prefix. That is why UUEE looks nothing like SVO.
Common questions
- What airport is SVO?
- Sheremetyevo International Airport, in Moscow, Russia.
- Why is Moscow's airport called SVO?
- SheremetyeVO.
- What is the difference between SVO and UUEE?
- SVO is the IATA code, used commercially — tickets, timetables, luggage tags. UUEE is the ICAO code, used operationally by pilots and air traffic control, and assigned geographically by region.
- Is SVO the same as DME?
- No. DME is domodedovo, Moscow's other main international airport.
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Sources
- OurAirports — OurAirports (Public domain)