Turku Airport

Turku Airport
Turun lentoasema
Åbo flygplats
Departure hall in Terminal 1
IATA: TKU – ICAO: EFTU
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Finavia
Serves Turku
Location Turku, Finland
Elevation AMSL 49 m / 161 ft
Coordinates
Website www.finavia.fi/...
Map
TKU
Location within Finland
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 2,500 8,202 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers 357,259
Landings 14,455
Source: AIP Finland[1]
Statistics from Finavia[2]

Turku Airport (IATA: TKU, ICAO: EFTU), is located in Turku, Finland, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north[3] of Turku city centre. It serves approximately 350,000 passengers per year, being the fourth busiest (by the number of passengers) airport in Finland.[2] Turku Airport is operated by a stated-owned company Finavia exclusively. The airport has a secondary passenger terminal specifically designed for low-cost airlines. There is a region promoted and developed logistic concept LogiCity[4] to create a logistic hub around Turku Airport, in where all ways of cargo transportation can be connected together in same area. From 1 September 2008, TNT Airways made Turku Airport as its logistic hub for its operations in Finland.

Contents

Logicity

Logicity was at first a project of Pilot Turku Ltd (founded in 2003) but now operated by Turku Municipal Property Corporation after contract with Pilot Turku Ltd ended 2010.[5] Logicity will be a logistic hub built around Turku Airport. Logicity is supposed to link the different modes of transport together due to facts that Turku Airport is just in 20 minutes reach by sea ports of Turku and Naantali which combined values are comparable to the Port of Vuosaari in Helsinki, Both E18 highway to St. Petersburg and E63 to Tampere go via Turku Airport, and also rail transport connection to Russia and China passes by Logicity area. Pilot Turku describers Turku Region as "the meeting point of the East, the West and the Nordic countries" and as "the multimodal transport centre of the Nordic Triangle".[6]

Logicity is estimated to make at least 3,000 to 5,000 new jobs. The length of runway at Turku airport has an option to be upgraded to reach 3,300 m (10,827 ft) to meet new demands.[7] There are several plans set for the nearby area: new roads, commercial centres, retail parks, industrial estates, logistic terminals and offices. In fact there is already big commercial area along with the E18 ring road just few kilometers away in Kuninkoja. Logicity is planned in two phases which of phase one allows now to build 400,000 m2 (4,305,564 sq ft) of floorspace and second phase will raise it to 1,000,000 m2 (11,000,000 sq ft).[8] Project is regionally important and many towns near airport including Turku were taking part as shareholders of Pilot Turku Ltd e.g. Kaarina, Lieto and Naantali.

History

Turku Airport was Finland's first civilian airport when it was built in Artukainen in 1935 but already 1920s there was water airport in Ruissalo island. Artukainen served as the main airport of Turku until the new airport was built on the current location in 1955. In the beginning of 1990s first logistic terminal was constructed and beginning of millennium Terminal 1 was enlarged.

District

Turku airport is located in Lentokenttä (Finnish for airfield; Swedish: Flygfältet) district in the Maaria-Paattinen ward of Turku. The district has a population of 127 (as of 2004), and an annual growth of less than 1%. 22% of the district's population are under 15 years old, while 17% are over 65. The district's linguistic makeup is 92% Finnish, 1% Swedish, and 7% other.

Transportation

Bus

The bus number 1 departs from the airport in every 20 minutes. Bus tickets are available on board. Bus number 1 goes via the Market Square (Kauppatori, local bus centre) to the port of Turku in where there are connections to Stockholm with Baltic Sea cruiseferries (Ruotsinlaiva). The bus route 1 operates from 05:20 to 00:50. Days' last bus has flexible time schedule for passengers' convenience.

Car

In vicinity of Airport there are two highways E63 (Finnish national road 9) that goes from Turku to Tampere and Jyväskylä, and E18 (Finnish national road 1) which goes from Naantali via the Turku Ring Road and from Turku to Helsinki and Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Airlines and destinations

Scheduled

Airlines Destinations Terminal
airBaltic Oulu [ends 25 March][9], Riga 1
Blue1 operated by Golden Air Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda 1
Finnair operated by Flybe Nordic Helsinki 1
Flybe operated by Flybe Nordic Tallinn
Seasonal: Kittilä		 1
Norwegian Stockholm-Arlanda 1
Ryanair Brussels-Charleroi [begins 27 March], London-Stansted [begins 27 March]
Seasonal: Barcelona-Girona [begins 6 April], Malaga [begins 4 April][10][11]		 2
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen 1
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber Sterling Copenhagen 1
Turku Air Mariehamn 1
Wizz Air Budapest [begins 31 March], Gdańsk[12] 2

Charter

Airlines Destinations Terminal
Finnair Rhodes[13] 1
Orbest Orizonia Airlines Gran Canaria, Tenerife[14] 1
Sun Express Antalya[15] 1

Cargo airlines

Airlines Destinations
DHL Aviation Leipzig/Halle, Tallinn
EXEL
TNT Airways Gothenburg, Liège
Irregular: Billund, Malmö, Nuremberg, Tallinn, Riga
Turku Air

Statistics

Passengers

Annual passenger statistics for Turku Airport [16]
Year Domestic passengers International passengers Total passengers Change
2006 127,582 212,338 339,920 +3.6%
2007 130,666 178,116 308,782 −9.2%
2008 102,003 216,094 318,097 +3.0%
2009 90,746 187,275 278,021 −12.6%
2010 104,533 252,726 357,259 +28.5%

Freight and mail

Loaded/Unloaded freight and mail (tons) Turku Airport [17]
Year Domestic freight Domestic mail International freight International mail Total freight and mail Change
2006 132 260 2,883 3 3,278 +9,8%
2007 50 102 3,304 3 3,459 +5,5%
2008 43 0 4,650 1 4,695 +35,7%
2009 157 0 6,761 0 6,919 +47,4%
2010 72 0 6,988 0 7,061 +2,1%

See also

References

  1. ^ "EFTU Turku" (PDF). AIP Suomi / Finland. Finavia. 30 June 2011. pp. EFTU AD 2.1, 1–14. https://ais.fi/ais/eaip/pdf/aerodromes/EF_AD_2_EFTU_EN.pdf. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  2. ^ a b "Finavia's Air Traffic Statistics 2010" (PDF). Vantaa: Finavia. pp. 7, 9. http://www.finavia.fi/files/finavia2/liikennetilastot_pdf/Lentoliikennetilasto_2010.pdf. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  3. ^ "Turku Airport – Transport Connections". Finavia. http://www.finavia.fi/airports/airport_turku?pg=1091738. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  4. ^ "LogiCity". City of Turku. http://www.logicity.fi/page/en. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  5. ^ "How to contact LogiCity". City of Turku. 1 July 2010. http://www.pilotturku.com/page/en/media/archive/226. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  6. ^ "Why the Turku region?". City of Turku. http://www.logicity.fi/page/en/turkuregion/. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  7. ^ Heino, Jari (9 April 2008). "Kiitorata pidemmäksi, tieyhteys kentän pohjoispuolelle. Lentokentän seudusta puuhataan 3 000 ihmisen työpaikka-aluetta" (in Finnish). Turun Sanomat. Turku: TS-Yhtymä Oy. http://www.turunsanomat.fi/kotimaa/?ts=1,3:1002:0:0,4:2:0:1:2008-04-09,104:2:532122,1:0:0:0:0:0:. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  8. ^ "LogiCity is a logistically logical location". City of Turku. http://www.logicity.fi/page/en/logicity/. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  9. ^ http://www.lennalomalle.com/content/view/2534/1/lang,en/
  10. ^ http://www.finavia.fi/medialle/tiedotearkisto/finavia_tiedotteet/finavia_tiedote?id=7303377
  11. ^ Turun Sanomat 11.11.2011
  12. ^ http://wizzair.com/?language=EN
  13. ^ http://www.tjareborg.fi/turku
  14. ^ http://www.tjareborg.fi/turku
  15. ^ http://www.tjareborg.fi/turku
  16. ^ "Traffic statistics – Passengers". Finavia. http://www.finavia.fi/statisticspassengers. Retrieved 30 July 2011. 
  17. ^ "Publications". Finavia. http://www.finavia.fi/press/publications. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 

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