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| IATA: MMX – ICAO: ESMS
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public (Luftfartsverket) | ||
| Operator | Swedavia | ||
| Location | Malmö, Sweden | ||
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| Elevation AMSL | 236 ft / 72 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 11/29 | 2,615 | 797 | Asphalt |
| 17/35 | 9,186 | 2,800 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers total | 1,598,271 | ||
| International passengers | 634,383 | ||
| Domestic passengers | 963,888 | ||
| Landings total | 11,937 | ||
| Statistics: Swedavia[1] | |||
Malmö Airport, formerly known as Malmö-Sturup Airport (Swedish: Malmö-Sturup flygplats) (IATA: MMX, ICAO: ESMS) is Sweden's fifth busiest airport, located approximately 28 km (17.4 mi) from Malmö and 26 km (16.2 mi) from Lund. Via the Oresund Bridge the airport is located about 55 km (34.2 mi) from central Copenhagen and 47 km (29.2 mi) from Copenhagen Airport. Malmö Airport is also a complement to Copenhagen Airport in the event of problems such as strikes or fog.
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Completed in 1972, then at a cost of around SEK130 million, almost twice as much as initially forecast, Sturup Airport replaced the current and 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, December 3, 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.
Around 2005-2008 some low-cost airlines hoped to attract both Danish and Swedish passengers from Sturup in competition with Copenhagen Airport. During autumn 2007 the Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair closed all its routes from Malmö Airport. In the summer of 2011 Ryanair made a comeback in Malmö. During 2008 Danish Sterling Airlines had some lines from Malmö Airport to London (LGW), Alicante, Barcelona, Nice and Florence. Sterling Airlines accounted for about 6-7% of the total number of passengers at Sturup.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Al-Naser Airlines operated by Tor Air | Baghdad, Erbil |
| Cham Wings Airlines | Damascus |
| Direktflyg | Borlänge, Örebro |
| Malmö Aviation | Stockholm-Bromma |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Ryanair | London-Stansted, Wroclaw [Begins 29 March 2012] Seasonal: Alicante, Malaga, Pisa |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Wizz Air | Belgrade, Budapest, Gdańsk, Katowice, Warsaw |
Destinations in Spain, Egypt, Greece and other countries are served by JetX, TUIfly Nordic, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and sometimes other carriers like Jettime or Air Europa. Malmö Aviation flies to several charter destination during both summer and winter. During the winter Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia flies to Phuket International Airport.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Contractors | Jönköping, Umeå (for Posten) |
| AirBridgeCargo Airlines | Moscow |
| Amapola Flyg | Stockholm-Arlanda (for Posten) |
| Icelandair Cargo | Charlotte, Halifax, New York-JFK, Reykjavik |
| Pal | Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai |
| SAS Cargo Group | |
| TNT Airways | Gdansk, Minsk, St. Petersburg, Turku |
| UPS Airlines | Cologne/Bonn, Helsinki, Oslo |
| UPS Airlines operated by ATRAN | Moscow |
| UPS Airlines operated by West Air Sweden | Aarhus |
| West Air Sweden | Stockholm-Arlanda (for Posten) |
There is one company that delivers fuel and that is Malmö Fueling Services. They deliver fuel for Air BP, Shell Aviation and Statoil.
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