According to RBC, citing informed sources, the capital's authorities will open the "Airport Vnukovo" metro station on the Solntsevskaya (yellow) line tomorrow, September 6. It will be the first metro station located at an airport.
Last month, the chairman of Mosgosstroynadzor, Igor Voystratenko, said that the construction of the station in Vnukovo was in its final stage.
After the opening, the final station of the Solntsevskaya metro line will become a convenient gateway to the capital of Russia for passengers arriving on domestic and international flights to Vnukovo Airport, and will also significantly improve transport accessibility for 350 thousand residents of residential areas of the Vnukovskoye settlement, connecting them with the city center.
The total area of the station complex will be 12.6 thousand square meters. The walls of the station will be decorated with a composition with portraits of Russian aircraft designers Andrei and Alexei Tupolev. Visitors and employees of Vnukovo will be able to get from the metro to the terminal building via an underground pedestrian crossing.
After the opening, the metro will become an alternative to the Aeroexpress, but Vnukovo co-owner and Chairman of the Board of Directors Vitaly Vantsev believes that there will be no competition between these passenger delivery routes.
As far as I know from the inside of Aeroexpress, they hold roughly the same opinion. On the Aeroexpress, the cost of a trip is 500 rubles, and there are people with computers who need a good connection. There is no such thing in the metro. Therefore, no one will replace the express. But this will affect buses, probably some routes will be closed.