List of the busiest airports in Iceland

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 the busiest air-routes for 2012.

This transport-related list is intended to be regularly updated as new statistics become available from the relevant official authorities.

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Nordic countries

The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland. " Scandinavia" is sometimes used as a synonym for the Nordic countries, although within the Nordic countries the terms are considered distinct, especially since Scandinavia is by definition made up of the countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

The region's five sovereign states and three autonomous regions share much common history as well as common traits in their respective societies, such as political systems and the Nordic model.

Politically, Nordic countries do not form a separate entity, but they co-operate in the Nordic Council. Linguistically, the area is heterogeneous, with three unrelated language groups, the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages and the Finnic and Sami branches of Uralic languages as well as the Eskimo–Aleut language Greenlandic spoken in Greenland.

The Nordic countries have a combined population of approximately 27 million spread over a land area of 3.5 million km² (Greenland accounts for 60% of the total area).

Passengers

At a glance

2021 statistics

Airports for which figures are not available but are likely to be among top 100 include:
* Kangerlussuaq Airport
* Nuuk Airport
* Ilulissat Airport
*Ísafjörður Airport
The ranking does not include these airports.

2020 statistics

Airports for which figures are not available but are likely to be among top 100 include:
* Kangerlussuaq Airport
* Nuuk Airport
* Ilulissat Airport
*Narsarsuaq Airport
*Ísafjörður Airport
The ranking does not include these airports.
Greenland airport administration publishes a figure of 87,672 for Kangerlussuaq and Narsarsuaq together, and 124,762 for all other airports together.

2020 COVID-19 statistics

For the purpose of documenting the large decline in air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, figures for April 2020 are compared with April 2019 (for the 50 busiest airports).

2019 statistics

2018 statistics

International and domestic

2017 statistics

International and domestic

2016 statistics

2015 statistics

2014 statistics

International and domestic

2013 statistics

2012 statistics

Aircraft movements

Note: The statistics provided below do not include any movements by aircraft registered as military or touch and goes.

2012 statistics

Freight and mail tonnes

Note: The statistics below are provided in metric tonnes with three decimal digits, i.e. with an accuracy of number of kilograms handled at each airport. The statistics do not include belly cargo transported on regular or charter passenger flights.

2012 statistics

Greenlandic airports are excluded from this list because of lack of information. The ranking does not include Greenlandic airports.

Busiest metropolitan air-traffic regions

2016 statistics

2015 statistics

2014 statistics

2013 statistics (provisional)

2012 statistics

Passengers

Aircraft movements

Note: The statistics provided below do not include any movements by aircraft registered as military or touch and goes.

Freight and mail tonnes

Note: The statistics below are provided in metric tonnes with three decimal digits, i.e. with an accuracy of number of kilograms handled at each airport. The statistics do not include belly cargo transported on regular or charter passenger flights.

Busiest air routes

Included below are statistics for the busiest air routes in terms of total passengers on board. When air traffic exists to/from or between secondary airports for a city/region, the secondary airports are included in the statistics below according to the footnotes. The main airport is defined as the airport handling the highest number of passengers for each city/region.

Busiest intra-Nordic air routes

These statistics include total passengers on-board between and within the Nordic countries.

¹ Includes Oslo Airport, Rygge Airport, Moss Airport Rygge and Sandefjord Airport, Torp, Torp Sandefjord Airport

² Includes Oslo Airport and Sandefjord Airport, Torp, Torp Sandefjord Airport

³ Includes Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Stockholm-Bromma Airport, Bromma Stockholm Airport

⁴ In these statistics Malmö and Helsingborg/Ängelholm are separated from Copenhagen/Roskilde. When these airports in the Øresund region are considered together, flights between this region and Stockholm carried 2,885,369 passengers in 2012 and 2,789,626 in 2019, making this the busiest intra-Nordic air corridor.

Busiest intra–European Union air routes

These statisticsEurostat>Transport>Data>Database
Search the "avia_par_dk", "avia_par_no" etc datasets (accessed Oct 2021) include total passenger on-board between the Nordic countries and other countries within the European Union and member states of the European Free Trade Association. At the time these values refer to, the United Kingdom was part of the European Union, and is therefore still listed here.

¹ Includes London Heathrow Airport, Gatwick Airport, London Gatwick Airport, London Stansted Airport and/or London Luton Airport

² Includes Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Stockholm Arlanda Airport, Stockholm-Skavsta Airport, Stockholm Skavsta Airport and Stockholm-Västerås Airport, Stockholm Västerås Airport

³ Includes Oslo Airport, Rygge Airport, Moss Airport Rygge and Sandefjord Airport, Torp, Torp Sandefjord Airport

⁴ Includes Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Orly Airport, Paris Orly Airport

⁵ Includes Oslo Airport and Sandefjord Airport, Torp, Torp Sandefjord Airport

⁶ Includes Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Stockholm-Skavsta Airport, Stockholm Skavsta Airport

⁷ Includes Frankfurt Airport and Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, Frankfurt Hahn Airport

⁸ Includes London Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport, London Gatwick Airport

⁹ Includes Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Beauvais–Tillé Airport, Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport

¹⁰ Includes Göteborg Landvetter Airport, and Gothenburg City Airport, Göteborg City Airport

¹¹ Includes Berlin Tegel Airport and Berlin Schönefeld Airport

¹² Includes Oslo Airport and Rygge Airport, Moss Airport Rygge

¹³ Includes Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly Airport, Paris Orly Airport and Beauvais–Tillé Airport, Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport

¹⁴ Includes Munich Airport and Memmingen Airport, Allgäu Airport Memmingen

¹⁵ Includes Barcelona–El Prat Airport and Girona–Costa Brava Airport

¹⁶ Includes Brussels Airport and Brussels-Charleroi Airport

¹⁷ Includes Rome-Fiumicino Airport and Rome-Ciampino Airport

¹⁸ Refers to Keflavík Airport

Busiest extra–European Union air routes

These statistics include total passengers on board between the Nordic countries and countries outside of the European Union and non-member states of the European Free Trade Association.

¹ Includes the new Istanbul Airport, Istanbul Atatürk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

² Includes Oslo Airport and Sandefjord Airport, Torp, Torp Sandefjord Airport

³ Includes John F. Kennedy International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport

⁴ Includes Newark Liberty International Airport

⁵ Includes Narita International Airport

⁶ Includes Sheremetyevo International Airport

⁷ Includes Keflavík International Airport

⁸ Includes Washington Dulles International Airport, Washington-Dulles and Baltimore–Washington International Airport, Baltimore-Washington airports

Gallery

File:Copenhagen airport from air.jpg, Copenhagen Airport, aerial view
File:CPH LUFTHAVNEN 2011 (ubt).JPG, Copenhagen Airport, terminal and main hangar area with new low-cost terminal to the left
File:Border control at Copenhagen Airport.jpg, Copenhagen Airport, non-schengen border control at pier C
File:OslPlane.JPG, Oslo Airport, domestic concourse
File:OslDomEn.JPG, Oslo Airport, entrance to domestic area
File:Oslcheckin2.JPG, Oslo Airport, check-in area
File:Arlanda 1 Publish.jpg, Stockholm Arlanda Airport, aerial view from the north
File:Aéroport d'Arlanda - Stockholm0360.JPG, Stockholm Arlanda Airport, terminal 5
File:Arlanda Flightower.jpg, Stockholm Arlanda Airport, control tower
File:Helsinki-vantaa aerial.jpg, Helsinki Airport, aerial view from the east
File:Helsinki-Vantaan kiitotie 33.jpg, Helsinki Airport, aerial view from runway 33
File:Helsinki-Vantaa airport Finnair planes.jpg, Helsinki Airport, apron view
File:Fleslandflyplass.JPG, Bergen Airport Flesland, terminal view
File:Departures entrance at Landvetter.JPG, Göteborg Landvetter Airport, terminal entrance
File:Sola lufthavn.jpg, Stavanger Airport Sola, terminal
File:Vaernes terminal.jpg, Trondheim Airport Værnes, terminal
File:Billundin lentoasema, Billund, Tanska, 3.8.2008.JPG, Billund Airport, Capella Bar in terminal
File:StockholmSkavsta2004.jpg, Stockholm Skavsta Airport, terminal entrance
File:BrommaAirportTerminalEntrance KaptenKaos.jpg, Stockholm Bromma Airport, terminal entrance
File:2006-05-27-082806 Iceland Keflavík.jpg, Keflavík International Airport, aerial view of terminal
File:Sturup airport.jpg, Malmö Airport, terminal from domestic side
File:Langnes.jpg, Tromsø Airport Langnes, aerial view
File:Bodø lufthavn.jpg, Bodø Airport, aerial view
File:Moss lufthavn, Rygge.jpg, Moss Airport Rygge, terminal
File:Aalborg Lufthavn 2006 entrance.jpg, Aalborg Airport, terminal entrance
File:Sandefjord Airport, Torp from the air cropped.jpg, Torp Sandefjord Airport, aerial view
File:Luleå airport entrance.jpg, Luleå Airport, terminal entrance
File:07.9.2010 EFOU08.jpg, Oulu Airport, terminal overview
File:Umeå Flygplats-20080726.jpg, Umeå City Airport, terminal entrance
File:Aeropuerto de Kristiansand.jpg, Kristiansand Airport Kjevik, apron view
File:Alesund-lufthavn-facade.jpg, Ålesund Airport Vigra, terminal entrance
File:Gothenburg City Airport.JPG, Göteborg City Airport, taxi line at terminal
File:Tampere-Pirkkala Airport 1.jpg, Tampere-Pirkkala Airport, terminal overview
File:Aeropuerto Haugesund 01.jpg, Haugesund Airport Karmøy, parking at terminal
File:Gate 30 at Harstad-Narvik airport.jpg, Harstad/Narvik Airport Evenes, terminal at Gate 30
File:Denmark-Aarhus Airport.JPG, Aarhus Airport, terminal
File:Molde Airport.jpg, Molde Airport Årø, terminal in background
File:Reykjavik Airport aerial.jpg, Reykjavík Airport, aerial view
File:Rovaniemen lentoasemarakennus.jpg, Rovaniemi Airport, terminal
File:Ängelholm airport overview 2.JPG, Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport, terminal view from air aide
File:Åre östersund flygplats.jpg, Åre Östersund Airport Airport, terminal view
File:Eftu 23.JPG, Turku Airport, terminal check-in area
File:Kristiansund Airport.png, Kristiansund Airport Kvernberget, aerial view
File:Alta-lufthavn.jpg, Alta Airport, terminal
File:Visby flygplats.JPG, Visby Airport, road to terminal
File:Vaasan lentoasema.jpg, Vaasa Airport, terminal land side
File:Kirkenes Airport 20081006.jpg, Kirkenes Airport Høybuktmoen, terminal air side
File:Kuopio airport from air cropped.jpg, Kuopio Airport, apron and terminal
File:Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport (Terminal building).JPG, Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport, terminal land side
File:Skelleftea airport.JPG, Skellefteå Airport, terminal and ATC-tower land side
File:Kittilän lentoasema.jpg, Kittilä Airport, terminal and ATC-tower air side
File:EKRN (Bornholm airport).jpg, Bornholm Airport, terminal and ATC-tower air side
File:Ronneby airport.jpg, Ronneby Airport, terminal land side
File:Vágar Airport, Faroe Islands.JPG, Vágar Airport, service buildings adjacent to apron
File:Bardufoss lufthamn.jpg, Bardufoss Airport, runway and approach lights
File:Smaland Airport.jpg, Växjö Småland Airport, terminal land side
File:Kalmar airport.jpg, Kalmar Airport, terminal land side
File:Kiruna flygplats.jpg, Kiruna Airport, terminal land side
File:Brønnøysund Airport, Brønnøy inside.jpg, Brønnøysund Airport Brønnøy, inside terminal
File:ESOW från parkeringen.jpg, Stockholm Västerås Airport, terminal land side
File:Hammerfest Airport runway.jpg, Hammerfest Airport, airport overview
File:Nuuk airport.jpg, Nuuk Airport, terminal and runway

See also

*List of the busiest airports in Europe
*List of busiest airports by passenger traffic
*List of busiest passenger air routes

References

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