Turku Airport , is located in
Turku
Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...
,
Finland
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, north of the center,
in ''Lentokenttä'' (
Finnish
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for 'airfield'; sv, Flygfältet) district in the
Maaria-Paattinen
Maaria-Paattinen (Finnish; ''S:t Marie-Patis'' in Swedish) is a ward (, ) of Turku, Finland, also known as Ward 9. The ward includes almost half of the city's land area, and is its most sparsely populated district. It is located to the north of th ...
ward of Turku. It serves approximately 450,000 passengers per year, being the fourth busiest airport in Finland by the number of passengers (in 2019) and second busiest airport by the amount of cargo tonnes (in 2012).
Turku Airport is exclusively operated by the state-owned company
Finavia
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. Among normal operation the airport offers differentiated service specifically designed for
low-cost airline
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s since 2008.
Turku Airport and its surroundings are marketed as LogiCity
in hopes to attract logistic companies and manufacturers near the airport.
History
Early years
Turku Airport was Finland's first civilian airport when it was built in
Artukainen
Artukainen (Swedish ''Artukais'') is a district of the city of Turku, Finland. It is located in the western part of the city, five kilometres from the city centre. It has a population of 78 (as of 2004) making it one of the smallest districts of T ...
in 1935, but already in the 1920s there was a water airport on
Ruissalo
Ruissalo (; sv, Runsala) is an island in the Archipelago Sea and a district of the city of Turku, Finland. The island is located to the south-west of the city, between Hirvensalo and Pansio in the mainland. It is rather sparsely populated, hav ...
Island. Artukainen served as a main airport of Turku until the new airport was built in the municipality of
Rusko
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It is located in Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of
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which
is water. The population density is
.
The municipali ...
in 1955. The location became part of Turku in 1957. A new terminal building was opened in 1978. The runway was upgraded to 2500 m in 1980. An air cargo terminal was opened in 1991 as well as an air cargo plate. Terminal 1 was renovated and enlarged in 1999. In the 1990s,
Lufthansa CityLine
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operated flights to
Hamburg
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and ELK Airways to
Tallinn
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.
Development during the 2000s
A second cargo terminal was opened in 2003 and a second passenger terminal for low-cost airlines in 2008.
Wizz Air
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launched flights to Turku in April 2008 and
AirBaltic
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in July 2009.
Wingo xprs operated flights to
Stockholm-Bromma
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in spring 2009 and
Jet Air to
Gdańsk
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in 2009–2010.
Development since the 2010s
Norwegian Air Shuttle
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flew to
Stockholm-Arlanda
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and
Flybe Nordic
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to
Tallinn
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during the winter season 2011–2012.
Ryanair
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operated flights to
Brussels-Charleroi,
London-Stansted
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,
Málaga
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and
Barcelona-Girona only during the summer season 2012. According to Ryanair the period was very successful but they could not tolerate the raised airport costs of Finavia and promised to return all routes as soon as the price raise would be withdrawn. During the Ryanair's stay there was a 27% growth on passenger statistics. Turku Airport was closed partially in July 2014 for the renovation of the runway and taxiways. Terminal 1 and the passenger apron were also renovated; Finavia budgeted 14 million euros for the renovations and improvements. However,
Scandinavian Airlines
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flights to
Copenhagen
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, one of the most important destinations operated since 2006, were discontinued after the renovations. This had an immediate impact in passenger volumes.
Terminal 2 was closed and its passenger services migrated to the main terminal due to an oil leakage clean up of a spare power unit in autumn 2014. In June 2015 Finavia announced that the low-cost terminal would be completely demolished and the low-cost concept would be continued in the first floor of main terminal in new premises.
Logicity
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Logicity started as a project of Pilot Turku Ltd (founded in 2003) but is now operated by Turku Municipal Property Corporation after the contract with Pilot Turku Ltd ended in 2010.
LogiCity will be a logistic hub built around Turku Airport. Logicity is supposed to link the different modes of transportation together. The location is considered ideal due to facts that Turku Airport is just 20 minutes from the
sea port
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s of
Turku
Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...
and
Naantali
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(), and is located in the region of Southwest Finland, west ...
, whose combined values are comparable to the
Port of Vuosaari
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in Helsinki. Both
E18 highway to St. Petersburg and
E63 to
Tampere
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go via Turku Airport, and also rail transport connection to Russia and China passes by the Logicity area. Pilot Turku describes the 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".
Logicity is estimated to create at least 3,000 to 5,000 new jobs. The length of the runway at Turku airport has an option to be upgraded to reach to meet new demands.
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 a big commercial area along with the E18 ring road just few kilometers from the airport. Logicity is planned in two phases: Phase One allows to build of floorspace and Phase Two will increase it to .
The project is regionally important and many towns near the airport (including Turku) are involved in the project as shareholders of Pilot Turku Ltd e.g.
Kaarina
Kaarina (; sv, S:t Karins, i.e. " Saint Catherine's") is a small town and municipality of Finland.
It is located in the Southwest Finland region and is a neighbouring town of Turku, which is the capital of Southwest Finland, therefore Kaarina ...
,
Lieto
Lieto (; sv, Lundo) is a a city and municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The p ...
and
Naantali
Naantali (; sv, Nådendal) is a town in southwestern Finland, and, as a resort town during the summer, an important tourist centre of the country. The municipality has a population of
(), and is located in the region of Southwest Finland, west ...
.
Currently in 2015, there are three
zoning plans pending in the Logicity area: the northern side of the runway, the railway sites on the east and the industrial zones near the railway.
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Turku Airport:
Statistics
Passengers
* During 2014 the airport was operating only 11 months due to renovation of the runway
Freight and mail
* Finavia has not published Turku Airport's cargo statistics since 2014; 2015–2019 by Eurostat
See also
*
List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries
This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in the Nordic countries by passengers per year, aircraft movements per year and freight and mail tonnes per year.
The list also includes yearly statistics for the busiest metropolitan airport systems and ...
References
External links
Finavia – Turku Airport(official site)
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