Skelleftea Airport

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Skellefteå flygplats
Skelleftea Airport.jpg
Terminal and tower of Skellefteå Airport, 2011
Characteristics
ICAO code ESNS
IATA code SFT
Coordinates

64 ° 37 '29 "  N , 21 ° 4' 37"  E Coordinates: 64 ° 37 '29 "  N , 21 ° 4' 37"  E
Height above MSL 48 m (157  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 15 km southeast of Skellefteå
Local transport Taxi, airport bus from Skelleftebuss AB
Basic data
opening 1961
operator Skellefteå municipality
Passengers 280,926 (2016)
Air freight 79 t (2016)
Flight
movements 		4,190 (2016)
Start-and runway
10/28 2100 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Skellefteå Airport ( IATA : SFT, ICAO : ESNS) is an airport near the village Falmark, the southeast of the northern Swedish city located 15 kilometers Skellefteå and about five kilometers west of the town Bureå is.

The inauguration of the airport took place in 1961. In 1966 the runway was widened and the instrument landing was introduced in the same year . The original runway was extended to 1,800 meters in 1979 and the terminal expanded in 1991. The runway was given its current length of 2100 meters in 2002 and a new tower was built in 2004. The municipality of Skellefteå took over the management of the airport on April 1, 2010 from the state-owned company LFV after its restructuring after LFV had decided to concentrate more on its core business in Stockholm.

There are mainly scheduled services at the airport. In 2009, only 10,000 of the total of 205,000 passengers traveled in charter traffic. Regularly is Stockholm / Arlanda airport by SAS Scandinavian Airlines fly. Charter destinations offered are, for example, Antalya (with Corendon Airlines ) or Palma de Mallorca (with Air Europa ). Ryanair also connects Skellefteå with London-Stansted and Girona .

Web links

Commons : Skellefteå Airport  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c AIP SWEDEN ES-AD-2-ESNS. (PDF; 109 KB) In: lfv.se. LFV , December 8, 2015, accessed May 6, 2017 (Swedish, English).
  2. ↑ Website of the airport bus (Swedish)
  3. ↑ Passenger frequency at Swedish airports. (Excel; 277 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), February 20, 2017, accessed May 6, 2017 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ Freight frequency at Swedish airports. (Excel; 263 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), January 24, 2017, accessed May 6, 2017 (Swedish).
  5. ↑ Landing frequency of the Swedish airports. (Excel; 258 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), February 20, 2017, accessed May 6, 2017 (Swedish).
  6. ^ History of the airport in Västerbottens Folkblad from January 25, 2010 (Swedish)