Gothenburg / Säve Airport
Gothenburg City Airport | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | ESGP |
IATA code | GSE |
Coordinates | |
Height above MSL | 18 m (59 ft ) |
Transport links | |
Distance from the city center | 17 km northwest of Gothenburg |
Street | Säve Flygplatsväg |
Local transport | Västtrafik |
Basic data | |
opening | 1941 |
operator | Swedavia |
Terminals | 1 |
Passengers | 1,082 (2016) |
Air freight | 33 t (2016) |
Flight movements |
23,484 (2016) |
Runways | |
01/19 | 2039 m × 45 m asphalt |
04/22 | 871 m × 30 m asphalt |
The Gothenburg City Airport ( English Gothenburg City Airport , Swedish Säve Flygplats ) is Gothenburg's second international airport, next to the larger, southern Gothenburg / Landvetter Airport .
In January 2015, the owner Swedavia announced that the airport would be gradually shut down, as the company was not prepared to make the necessary investments of SEK 250 million. A routine check of the taxiways has shown that there is a problem with the bearing capacity of the ground. A thorough renovation would be necessary.
Commercial traffic will be transferred to Gothenburg / Landvetter Airport.
Directions
The airport is located 17 km northwest of the city center on the island of Hisingen in the Göteborg district of Säve-Tuve and thus closer to the city center than the main Gothenburg / Landvetter airport.
A public bus stops near the airport, the city center can only be reached by changing trains.
particularities
Opened in 1940 as a purely military airfield , the airport had developed into a destination for some low-cost airlines since its opening to civil air traffic in 1979 . Ryanair in particular expanded its commitment significantly. As a result, the number of passengers increased significantly (from 536,000 (2006) to 744,000 (2007) passengers). In the summer of 2009, Ryanair offered nine destinations from the airport, including Niederrhein Airport and Frankfurt-Hahn . Wizz Air also offered (three routes) flights from City Airport.
Göteborg City Airport (GSE) is also home to two aviation clubs, where it is possible to obtain both private and commercial pilot's licenses for airplanes and helicopters .
Former Säve Air Base
Since 1941, took Swedish Air Force (Flygvapnet) the airbase ( Swedish Flygbas ) for the Flygflottilj (season) F9. During the Second World War, an aircraft cavern was built to protect against air raids, consisting of four underground, interconnected, bunkered aircraft shelters in the northeastern part below the tower. During the Cold War , an aircraft cavern (mountain hangar), which is better protected against NBC attacks, was built under the rock at a depth of ten meters east of the cross of pistes . The access was protected with pressure relief tunnels and heavyweight armored gates. One could get to the three lower-lying aircraft hangars via a quarter-circle access ramp. A squadron with 14 fighters could be kept ready for action. The strategic location was intended to protect the Swedish metropolis with the safely stored fighter aircraft of the type Saab J-35 "Draken" and Saab JA-37 Viggen from Soviet bomber attacks with nuclear weapons. When the military airfield was closed in 2002, the aircraft cavern was converted into an aircraft museum known as the “Aeroseum”.
Web links
- Transportstyrelsen: Trafikstatistik svenska flygplatser 2014
- Official website (Swedish / English)
- Museum page of the Aeroseum in English
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passenger frequency at Swedish airports. (Excel; 277 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), February 20, 2017, accessed May 5, 2017 (Swedish).
- ↑ Freight frequency at Swedish airports. (Excel; 263 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), January 24, 2017, accessed May 5, 2017 (Swedish).
- ↑ Landing frequency of the Swedish airports. (Excel; 258 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), February 20, 2017, accessed May 5, 2017 (Swedish).
- ↑ Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) , accessed on January 13, 2015
- ↑ Göteborgs Posten, queried on January 17, 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release from the airport, requested on January 17, 2015 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Passenger frequency at Swedish airports in 2014. (Excel; 390 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), accessed May 5, 2017 (Swedish).