Stockholm-Skavsta Airport
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| Stockholm-Skavsta Airport | |||
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| IATA: NYO - ICAO: ESKN | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | public | ||
| Serves | Stockholm, Sweden | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 140 ft (43 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 08/26 | 9,442 | 2,878 | Asphalt |
| 16/34 | 6,690 | 2,039 | Asphalt
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Stockholm Skavsta Airport (Swedish: Skavsta Flygplats) (IATA: NYO, ICAO: ESKN) is an international airport located 100km (62.5 miles) south of Stockholm, Sweden in the municipality of Nyköping. It serves low-cost airlines and cargo operators. Stockholm-Skavsta Airport is Stockholm's second largest airport, and the 4th largest in Sweden.
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[edit] History
The airport was established as a military air base in the 1940s and developed into a civilian airport in 1984. In 1997 the airport got their first international route to London Stansted with Ryanair. In 2003 Ryanair established a hub at Stockholm-Skavsta with 6 new routes. After that Wizzair have opened routes to Eastern Europe. For a short period in 2005, Finnair flew from Boston to Helsinki with a stop at Skavsta, but the airline has since moved the route to the larger Stockholm-Arlanda Airport.[1] In May 2006 Fritidsresor started charter flights from the airport.
[edit] Ground transportation
[edit] Car rental
The following car rental firms have offices at the airport:
[edit] Bus
- Airport coaches travel directly between Stockholm-Skavsta Airport and the City Terminal in Stockholm (approx. 90 min travel time and costs 130 SEK) where airport coaches and a high speed train (Arlanda Express) connects to Stockholm-Arlanda Airport. There are also airport coaches to Södertälje, Linköping and Norrköping.
- Local bus 715 travels to Nyköping and Oxelösund from 4 am to midnight.
[edit] Taxi
- You have to preorder taxi and it takes about 60 min to down town Stockholm and costs about 1300 SEK.
[edit] Airport parking
- There is parking at the airport, both at the terminal, short-term and long-term parking lots. Terminal parking costs 20 Swedish kronor/h and long-term parking is slightly less expensive depending on the length of time.
[edit] Facilities
Businesses and services:
- Shops:
- Buy and Fly
- Gate Zero
- Restaurants:
- Alpha Retail
- Hotel
- Hotel Connect will open outside the airport in 2008.
[edit] Incidents and accidents
- 21 July 2005 - A Ryanair crew carried out an "irrational and inexplicable" steep approach at Stockholm-Skavsta Airport according to the Irish Air Accident Investigation Unit. [1]
[edit] Passenger airlines
- Ryanair (Brussels-Charleroi, Gdansk, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, London-Stansted, Lübeck, Milan-Bergamo, Paris-Beauvais, Riga, Rome-Ciampino, Kaunas, Weeze)
- Vildanden (Skien)
- Wizzair (Budapest, Gdansk, Katowice, Warsaw, Poznan)
[edit] Charter airlines
- TUIfly Nordic (Fritidresor) (Antalya (seasonal), Burgas (seasonal), Chania (seasonal), Lanzarote (seasonal), Las Palmas (seasonal), Palma (seasonal), Phuket (seasonal)
- MyTravel Airways (Ving) (Las Palmas (seasonal))(Tunisia (seasonal))
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Stockholm-Skavsta Airport
- World Aero Data airport information for ESKN
[edit] References
- ^ Flight International 12-18 December 2006
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