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at Tallinn Airport]] Tallinn Airport or '''Ülemiste Airport''' ( and home base of the national airline Estonian Air . Tallinn Airport is open to both domestic and international flights. It is located approximately 4 kilometers from the city center of Tallinn on the eastern Shore of Lake Ülemiste . The airport has a single asphalt-concrete Runway that is 3070 meters long and 45 meters wide, four Taxiway s and eight Terminal gates. 1.4 million passengers travelled via Tallinn Airport in 2005 , an increase by 40.5% from 2004 http://www.tallinn-airport.ee/public/files/2005.pdf. HISTORY The building of Tallinn Airport started in 1932 , and the airport was opened officially on 20 September 1936 , although the airport had been operational a good while before the official opening. Before World War II , Tallinn Airport had regular connections to abroad by at least Lufthansa , LOT and the Finnish company Aero (now Finnair ). Between 1945 and 1989 Aeroflot was the only airline that served Tallinn Airport. Regular flights with jet planes started in 1962 . A new terminal building was built in the late 1970 , and the Runway was also lengthened then. The first foreign airline that did regular flights from Tallinn after World War II was SAS in the autumn of 1989 . The terminal building was modernized in 1999 . The airport has also served military uses as an Interceptor Aircraft base. It was home to 384 IAP (384th Interceptor Aircraft Regiment) which flew MiG-23 P aircraft. TERMINAL BUILDING There are a small number of vendors in the Terminal Building , including a cafe with light snacks and a duty free shop. The terminal area also contains a Post Office , telephone services, and free wired/wireless Internet access. Car Rental , travel agency, currency exchange, and porter services are also available from the terminal. There are 2 bus stops in front of terminal, one stop is front of departure doors (bus comes from city center) and second one is front of arrival doors (bus goes to city center). RENAMING Boeing 737-500 at Tallinn Airport]] After the death of former -era construction (in one memorable case Meri, having arrived from Japan , led the group of journalists that were expecting him, to the airport's Toilet s to do the interview there, in order to point out the shoddy condition of the facilities City paper—The Baltic States ). The name change was discussed at a board meeting on , nothing official has come out of the proposal. AIRLINES
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