As of October 27, Sheremetyevo International Airport switched to its winter schedule, which will run until March 29, 2020. During the winter navigation period, Sheremetyevo will operate flights along 194 routes (60 domestic and 134 international). During the fall-winter season, the airport plans to serve 18.5 million passengers.

In the upcoming winter season, Sheremetyevo's major carrier, Aeroflot, will operate flights to 149 destinations including 54 in Russia and 95 in CIS and globally.

This season, the airline will increase the number of flights to Geneva to three flights daily. The number of flights to Phuket, which is traditionally popular in the winter season, will increase from 10 to 15 flights per week. According to the winter schedule, the carrier will add flights to domestic destinations: Izhevsk (three instead of two flights daily), Mineralnye Vody (six instead of four flights daily), and Belgorod (three instead of two flights daily). Aeroflot will also continue to operate flights to Marseille, which were launched in the summer season of 2019.

During the winter navigation period, Nordwind Airlines will start operating flights to Jeddah and Camagbey, which will be new international destinations for Sheremetyevo. The carrier will also increase the number of flights to Yerevan (from 16 to 19 flights weekly), Phuket (from four to six flights weekly), and Varadero (from one to two flights weekly). Nordwind Airlines will expand its domestic flight schedule to include flights to Belgorod and increase the number of flights to Mineralnye Vody (up to five flights weekly). Ikar Airlines will start operating flights to Yerevan and will maintain its flights to Chinese destinations (Fuzhou, Jinan, and Taiyuan), which were launched in the summer season.

Royal Flight Airlines will start regular flights to Punta Cana and Varadero. Flights to both destinations will depart twice a week.

Sheremetyevo Airport has completed winterization of the airfield and aircraft ground handling equipment. To ensure sustainable take-off and landing operations and maintenance of the airfield complex under all weather conditions, the airport will use over 160 units of special-purpose vehicles and mechanisms, including towed and self-propelled plow/broom vehicles, liquid and granular de-icing agent sprayers, displacement and rotary plows, tractors and bulldozers for airfield operations, as well as rescue vehicles and equipment. 39 de-icing vehicles and 75 aircraft heaters will be used for the ground handling of aircraft.

To ensure the safety of airfield operations, the airport has calibrated its means of measuring the friction coefficient, and an emergency stock of de-icing agents has been created to remove ice formations from the airfield surfaces. A set of measures has been put in place to inspect and clean elements of the drainage network, and daily marking of the airfield artificial turfs has been updated.

Buildings, structures, indoor terminal equipment of SIA JSC, engineering networks, and communications have all been prepared for the winter operation. The technical, sanitary, and fire-fighting conditions of the airport's technical and personnel premises have been inspected. Employees from Sheremetyevo engineering and technical services have received additional training and certification on winterization.

Contributed by Sheremetyevo International Airport