Kittilä Airport

Kittilä Airport
Kittilän lentoasema
IATA: KTT – ICAO: EFKT
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Finavia
Serves Kittilä, Finland
Elevation AMSL 644 ft / 196 m
Coordinates 67°41′55″N 024°50′53″E / 67.69861°N 24.84806°ECoordinates: 67°41′55″N 024°50′53″E / 67.69861°N 24.84806°E
Website www.finavia.fi/airport_kittila
Map
KTT

Location within Finland

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
16/34 8,202 2,500 Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers 214,493
Landings 1,233
Source: AIP Finland[1]
Statistics from Finavia[2]

Kittilä Airport (IATA: KTT, ICAO: EFKT) (Finnish: Kittilän lentoasema) is a general aviation and commercial airport located in Kittilä, Finland, inside the Arctic Circle. It is one of the main airports in Northern Finland and carried circa 215,000 passengers in 2010.[2]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
ArkeflySeasonal: Amsterdam
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Paris-Charles de Gaulle
FinnairHelsinki, Ivalo
FlybeSeasonal: Birmingham
Germania Charter: Arvidsjaur, Hannover
Jet2.com Seasonal charter: Manchester
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich (begins 19 December 2015)[3]
Monarch Airlines Seasonal charter: Birmingham, London Gatwick, Manchester
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Helsinki
Transavia.com FranceSeasonal: Paris-Orly
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal charter: East Midlands, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester
Thomson AirwaysSeasonal charter: Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Newcastle
TUIflySeasonal charter: Hannover, Munich

Fire

On 27 July 2006, a fire broke out around 19:00 between the old terminal building and the new unfinished section of the new terminal. The airport was ready and operational again in December 2006, with the new terminal open.[4]

Statistics

Passengers

Annual passenger statistics for Kittilä Airport [5][6]
Year Domestic passengers International passengers Total passengers Change
1983 1,821
1985 280
1990 21,103
1995 76,002
2000 170,082
2005 155,008 73,693 228,701 −4.3% Decrease
2006 153,338 91,820 245,158 +7.3% Increase
2007 145,675 94,944 240,619 −1.8%Decrease
2008 164,136 101,428 265,564 +9.8% Increase
2009 165,926 79,387 245,313 −7.6% Decrease
2010 142,197 72,296 214,493 −12.6% Decrease
2011 167,484 71,054 238,538 +11.3% Increase

Freight and Mail

Loaded/Unloaded freight and mail (tons) Kittilä Airport [7]
Year Domestic freight Domestic mail International freight International mail Total freight and mail Change
2005 25 0 0 0 25 −7% Decrease
2006 26 1 0 0 27 +8% Increase
2007 14 0 0 0 14 −48% Decrease
2008 13 0 0 0 13 −7% Decrease
2009 11 0 0 0 11 −15% Decrease

See also

References

  1. ↑ "EFKT Kittilä" (PDF). AIP Suomi / Finland. Vantaa: Finavia. 30 June 2011. pp. EFKT AD 2.1, 1–12. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Finavia's Air Traffic Statistics 2010" (PDF). Vantaa: Finavia. pp. 7, 9. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Lufthansa Adds Winter Munich – Kittila Service from Dec 2015". airlineroute. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Fire at Kittilä Airport". Finavia. 27 July 2006. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  5. ↑ Alakulppi, Jaakko (2006). Lapin ilmailuhistoria II. Jälleenrakentamisesta 1945 Lapin lentomatkailuun ja Hornet-kauteen 2001 [The Aviation History of Lapland, part II. From Reconstruction in 1945 to Air Tourism and Hornet Era in 2001]. Lapin maakuntamuseon julkaisuja 10 (in Finnish). Jaakko Alakulppi. p. 732. ISBN 952-92-0337-3. ISSN 0781-5409.
  6. ↑ "Traffic statistics – Passengers". Finavia. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  7. ↑ "Finavia's Air Traffic Statistics 2009" (PDF). Vantaa: Finavia. p. 13. Retrieved 15 July 2011.

External links

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