Malmö Airport

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Malmö Airport
IATA: MMX – ICAO: ESMS
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Swedavia
Serves Malmö,  Sweden
Location Svedala
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 236 ft / 72 m
Coordinates 55°31′48″N 013°22′17″E / 55.53000°N 13.37139°E / 55.53000; 13.37139Coordinates: 55°31′48″N 013°22′17″E / 55.53000°N 13.37139°E / 55.53000; 13.37139
Website swedavia.com/malmo/
Map
MMX

Location within Skåne

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 800 2,624 Asphalt
17/35 2,800 9,186 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers total 2,088,628

Malmö Airport, until 2007 known as Sturup Airport (Swedish: Sturups flygplats) (IATA: MMX, ICAO: ESMS) is Sweden's fourth busiest airport, handling 2,169,901 passengers in 2015, a new all-time high.[1] The airport is located in Svedala Municipality, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Malmö and 26 kilometres (16 mi) south-east of Lund. Via the Öresund Bridge the airport is located about 55 kilometres (34 mi) from central Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and 47 kilometres (29 mi) from Copenhagen Airport. The entire city of Malmö is indeed closer located to Copenhagen Airport than to Malmö Airport, by road (city to city around 25 km). For train passengers are only Copenhagen Airport available. Malmö Airport is a small airport with regular flights only to Stockholm, to this can a few charter-alike irregular departures be added, but Copenhagen Airport is fifteen times as large.[2]

History

Early years

Completed in 1972, then at a cost of around SEK130 million, almost twice as much as initially forecast, Sturup Airport replaced the aging Bulltofta Airport, which had served the region since 1923. Plans to build a new airport were drafted in the early 1960s. Expansion was impossible, due to Bulltofta's close proximity to the now booming city and nearby communities complained about noise pollution from the newly introduced jet aircraft.

Construction began in 1970 and two years later, 3 December 1972, the airport was inaugurated. At the same time Bulltofta Airport closed. However, Malmö ATC (Air Traffic Control) remained at the old Bulltofta site until 1983 when it also moved to Malmö Airport.

Development since the 2000s

Around 2005–2008 some low-cost airlines hoped to attract both Danish and Swedish passengers from Sturup in competition with Copenhagen Airport. Malmö airport, due to its lower landing fees is seen by some low cost airlines as a cheaper way of accessing the Copenhagen area. The airport caters for low cost carriers like Wizz Air.

During 2008 Danish Sterling Airlines had some lines from Malmö Airport to London (LGW), Alicante, Barcelona, Nice and Florence. However other low cost carriers such as easyJet use Copenhagen Airport. Norwegian Air Shuttle use Malmö Airport for a few flights a day to and from Stockholm-Arlanda Airport while the majority of flights to the region go to Copenhagen Airport. In 2014, Ryanair moved their operations to Copenhagen Airport as well.

Facilities

Malmö Airport features one passenger and two cargo terminals as well as 20 aircraft stands.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Check-in area
Baggage reclaim area
AirlinesDestinations
Adria Airways Seasonal: Pristina[3]
AIS Airlines[4] Borlänge, Örebro
BRA Stockholm-Bromma
Seasonal: Visby
Norwegian Air Shuttle Stockholm-Arlanda
Seasonal: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Quality Travel
operated by BRA 		Seasonal charter: Girona (listed as Andorra)[5]
Scandinavian AirlinesStockholm-Arlanda
Seasonal: Östersund
Wizz Air Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Debrecen, Gdańsk, Katowice, Niš, Poznań, Skopje, Sofia, Tuzla, Vilnius, Warsaw-Chopin

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Posten
operated by ASL Airlines Ireland 		Stockholm-Arlanda
Posten
operated by Amapola Flyg		 Örebro, Umeå, Stockholm-Arlanda
TNT AirwaysBillund, Gdańsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Minsk-National, St. Petersburg, Turku
TNT Airways
operated by ATRAN 		Moscow-Sheremetyevo
UPS AirlinesCologne/Bonn, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen
UPS Airlines
operated by West Air Sweden 		Aarhus

Statistics

Busiest routes to and from Malmö Airport (2015)[6]
Rank Airport Passengers handled % change
2014/2015
1  Sweden, Stockholm–Arlanda, Stockholm–Bromma1,169,076Increase 1.6
2  Hungary, Budapest97,391Increase 10.9
3  Macedonia, Skopje88,773Increase 30.5
4  Poland, Gdansk80,334Increase 2.1
5  Poland, Warsaw60,578Increase 21.2
6  Serbia, Belgrade59,244Increase 2.7
7  Turkey, Antalya55,475Decrease 18.0
8  Poland, Katowice50,145Increase 25.8
9  Spain, Palma de Mallorca48,269Decrease 1.9
10  Spain, Gran Canaria44,487Decrease 26.6
11  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuzla37,341Increase 21.4
12  Greece, Chania34,646Increase 34.4
13  Romania, Bucharest33,347Increase 51.0
14  Bulgaria, Sofia32,615Increase 68.6
15  Romania, Cluj-Napoca30,161Increase 5127.2
16  Spain, Tenerife29,982Decrease 15.5
17  Greece, Rhodes25,007Increase 12.1
18  Cyprus, Larnaca20,625Increase 8.0
19  Lithuania, Vilnius19,602Increase 981.2
20  Sweden, Visby19,137Increase 4.6

Ground transportation

Bus

Taxi

There is a taxi stand at the airport. There is a fixed price to Malmö and Lund 395 SEK.

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Statistics". Swedavia. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  2. ↑ Copenhagen Airport → Lindeborg (28.3 km or 17.6 mi) vs. Malmö Airport → Lindeborg (29.3 km or 18.2 mi)
  3. ↑ "ADRIA to Start Pristina – Malmo Seasonal Service June – August 2014". Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "AIS Airlines assumes majority of Direktflyg´s remaining network". ch-aviation. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  5. ↑ http://www.qtravel.se/
  6. ↑ {{http://www.swedavia.se/PageFiles/6089690/flode2015.xlsx}}
  7. ↑ Resrobot, Swedish travel planner
  8. ↑ "Flygplan med 146 passagerare fick nödlanda". 28 Jan 2008. Retrieved 19 July 2009.

External links

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