Göteborg Landvetter Airport

Göteborg Landvetter Airport
IATA: GOT – ICAO: ESGG
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Luftfartsverket (1977–2009)
Swedavia (2010–present)
Serves Gothenburg, Sweden
Location Landvetter
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 154 m / 506 ft
Coordinates 57°39′36″N 012°17′28″E / 57.66000°N 12.29111°E / 57.66000; 12.29111Coordinates: 57°39′36″N 012°17′28″E / 57.66000°N 12.29111°E / 57.66000; 12.29111
Website swedavia.com/landvetter/
Map
GOT

Location of airport in Sweden

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
03/21 3,299 10,823 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers total 6 162 456
International passengers 3,846,032 (2,014)
Domestic passengers 1,369,979 (2,014)
Landings total 30, 332 (2,014)
Source: Swedish AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics: Swedavia[2]

Göteborg Landvetter Airport (IATA: GOT, ICAO: ESGG) is an international airport serving the Gothenburg region in Sweden. With 6.2 million passengers in 2015 it is Sweden's second-largest airport after Stockholm-Arlanda.[2] Landvetter is also an important freight airport. During 2007, 60,100 tonnes of air cargo passed through Landvetter,[3] about 60% of the capacity of Arlanda. It is operated by Swedavia, the national airport company. The airport is named after the town of Landvetter, which is located in the municipality of Härryda. It is 11 NM (20 km; 13 mi) east-southeast[1] of Gothenburg and 40 km (25 mi) west of Borås. Since the closure of Gothenburg City Airport for commercial operations it is the city's only commercial passenger airport.

History

The airport was opened in 1977.[4] Passenger services, previously at Torslanda Airport,[5] north of Gothenburg, were moved to Landvetter in 1977. In 2001, some budget airlines began serving the former military base in Säve, which was renamed from Säve Flygplats to Gothenburg City Airport. That airport was closed down in winter 2014–2015 because of large reconstruction needs, meaning an increase of traffic on Landvetter of almost a million annual passengers. There has been a tendency that international travel has increased, especially on tourists, while domestic has declined somewhat (mostly business travel).

In 2013 the international terminal was extended fairly much with new shops, and in 2014 the domestic and international terminal were joined into one terminal.

On 14 April 2015 Swedavia announced a 10-year long contract with DHL Express to build a new 7500 m2 large cargo terminal, replacing the old 1700m2. The construction will begin in spring 2015 and is underway for one year. This was a step included in plans for Airport City. [6] There are also plans to build a shortcut on the railway Gothenburg–Borås with a tunnel and a railway station under the airport. Construction start is planned to be 2020 and operation estimated by 2023.[7]

Terminals

Landvetter Airport has traditionally had two terminals, domestic and international, but they have merged into one common terminal. In 2009 all baggage drop was moved to in the international terminal, since all baggage had to be screened with new regulations. In 2014 the two terminals joined into one with all baggage collected at the arrivals hall in the previous international terminal. The transfer area, which has several shops, cafés and a restaurant, is accessible for all passengers since that year.

There are eight air bridges, at gates 12–17, 19, and 20.[8] Gates 10–11, 18A–18G and 21A–21D transport passengers to the aircraft via an airside bus transfer. The eight air bridges are not enough, so airside bus transfer is regularly used. Traditionally gates 10–15, which are accessed without passing through immigration, used to be limited to domestic flights but nowadays cater to international flights within the Schengen Area, which are treated as domestic flights. Gates 20 and 21A–21D belong to an area designated for flights outside the Schengen Area, and access is only possible after passing through immigration. Gate 19 is positionable so that, depending on upcoming flights, reaching it may or may not require passing through immigration. The freight terminal uses gate numbers below 10.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel
Air France
operated by HOP! 		Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
AIS Airlines[9] Borlänge
British Airways London-Heathrow
British Airways
operated by SUN-AIR 		Aarhus, Cambridge, Manchester
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Czech Airlines Hamburg, Prague
Eurowings Düsseldorf
Finnair Helsinki
Gotlandsflyg
operated by Braathens Regional		Visby
Iberia Express Seasonal: Madrid (begins 20 June 2016)[10]
Icelandair Seasonal: Reykjavík-Keflavík
Iran Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini
KLM Amsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine 		Munich
Malmö Aviation Stockholm-Bromma, Umeå
Seasonal: Östersund[11]
NextJet Sundsvall
Norwegian Air Shuttle Alicante, Barcelona, London-Gatwick, Malaga, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda
Seasonal: Gran Canaria, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Salzburg, Tenerife-South
RyanairAlicante, London-Stansted, Málaga, Warsaw-Modlin
Seasonal: Bergamo, Edinburgh, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Zadar
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen, Luleå, Malaga, Stockholm-Arlanda, Umeå
Seasonal: Athens, Alanya-Gazipasa, Brussels (ends 29 February 2016), Geneva, London-Stansted (ends 29 February 2016), Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle (ends 29 February 2016), Pristina, Pula, Split, Östersund
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva
Swiss International Air Lines
operated by Helvetic Airways 		Zürich
Swiss International Air Lines
operated by Swiss Global Air Lines 		Zürich
TAP Portugal Lisbon (ends 27 March 2016)[12]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona
Widerøe Oslo-Gardermoen
Wizz Air Belgrade, Budapest, Gdańsk, Skopje, Tuzla, Warsaw-Chopin

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Amapola Flyg Stockholm-Arlanda, Jönköping, Sundsvall
DHL Aviation Copenhagen, Leipzig/Halle
TNT Airways Oslo-Gardermoen, Liege, Turku, Tallinn

Statistics

Main check-in hall
In front of the passenger terminals
Logistics facilities
Busiest routes to and from Göteborg Landvetter Airport (2014)[13]
Rank Airport Passengers handled % change
2013/14
1  Sweden, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stockholm-Bromma1,345,323Increase 3.8
2  United Kingdom, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, London-Stansted385,457Increase 12.0
3  Denmark, Copenhagen333,649Increase 9.6
4  Germany, Frankfurt313,751Increase 3.0
5  Netherlands, Amsterdam265,719Decrease 1.3
6  Germany, Berlin215,472Increase 6.1
7  Finland, Helsinki206,893Increase 8.5
8  Turkey, Istanbul185,663Increase 3.5
9  Germany, Munich175,314Increase 5.8
10  Turkey, Antalya164,510Decrease 0.2
11  Belgium, Brussels144,301Increase 1.2
12  France, Paris141,422Increase 13.9
13  Spain, Gran Canaria128,913Decrease 6.9
14  Spain, Palma de Mallorca85,155Increase 15.3
15  Greece, Chania75,777Increase 17.0
16  Spain, Tenerife75,397Decrease 2.2
17  Norway, Oslo-Gardermoen67,054Decrease 0.3
18  Spain, Barcelona63,388Increase 2.1
19  Greece, Rhodes62,327Increase 13.3
20  Germany, Düsseldorf52,506Decrease 18.4
21  Spain, Malaga49,561Increase 25.9
22  Cyprus, Larnaca48,857Decrease 22.6
23  Spain, Alicante38,763Increase 27.6
24  Turkey, Dalaman31,240Decrease 33.1
25  Italy, Rome-Ciampino, Rome-Fiumicino27,905Increase 30.0
26  France, Nice25,788Increase 22.3
27  Thailand, Phuket25,548Increase 10.8
28  Spain, Lanzarote22,856Increase 11.0
29  Croatia, Split21,100Increase 33.3
30  Portugal, Lisbon17,996NEW

Parking

There are several parking options at Landvetter Airport.


1. Swedavia, which is the main parking service at the Airport

2. Landvetter Flygplats Parkering, which is private parking close to the airport

3. Landvetter Parkering Service, which is private parking close to the airport

4. Park It Smart, which is private parking on the airport location with a parking garage.

Ground transportation

Bus

Flygbussarna and Swebus takes passengers to the city of Gothenburg in 20 minutes, and in 30 minutes to Gothenburg Central station. Swebus takes passengers to Borås central station in 35-40 minutes

Road

The road distance to Gothenburg is 25 kilometres (16 mi) and to Borås 40 kilometres (25 mi), both via the Riksväg 40 motorway. To go northeast to Alingsås and beyond, the official route is via Partille. Most locals use a 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) shorter shortcut between Härryda and Lerum signposted "Härskogen". There are 7,300 parking spaces at the airport.

See also

References

External links

Media related to Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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