The Russian government is considering setting up a company to manage three Moscow-based airports, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo, and Vnukovo, business daily Vedomosti reported Tuesday, quoting Sheremetyevo’s General Director Mikhail Vasilenko.

“Should the decision be made, we are ready to take part,” Vnukovo’s co-owner Vitaly Vantsev told the newspaper.

A government official said that specific suggestions are to be formulated by July.

Andrei Rozhkov, an analyst at investment company Metropol, said the airports could not attract required amounts for the construction of runways themselves. Merging the whole Moscow airport network, financed by investors and airports, is the best option, he said.

The government lacks 14 billion rubles for the construction of a third runway at Sheremetyevo and 33 billion rubles for the same purposes at Domodedovo.

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