Storuman Airport is an airport about 35 km east of

Storuman Storuman ( sma, Luspie, Ume Sami: ''Lusspie'') is a locality and the seat of Storuman Municipality in Västerbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 2,207 inhabitants in 2010. It is situated by the Ume River, at the southeastern end of ...

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, in the small village of Gunnarn. It had 12,753 passengers in 2006 but since June 2010 there is no scheduled traffic anymore.

History

It was built as a military airbase (called Gunnarn), hence the relatively long runway. Scheduled passenger traffic to Stockholm began in 1993. The government and the relevant authority decided not to support the traffic financially from autumn 2008. The reason is that the

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is located only 75 km (47 mi) from Storuman centre. Air traffic cannot continue without public financial support. The municipality thought it was important to have its own airport so it financed an operator itself from 2009. On 18 January 2010, Storuman Municipality decided to stop supporting the air traffic and to end the agreement with Avion Express.Västerbottens-Kuriren - Flygtrafiken i Gunnarn upphör
Traffic continued with only one flight per day until June 2010 when all scheduled traffic ended. Since 2018, flights from Vilhelmina make a landing at

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, making a drive (110 km/68 mi) to Lycksele the fastest way of travelling from Storuman to Stockholm.

Statistics

References

External links

Official web site
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