Jyväskylä Airport (; ) is an airport in

Jyväskylä Jyväskylä () is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Central Finland. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Jyväskylä is approximately , while the Jyväskylä sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately ...

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. It is in the center of the Finnish Lake District, about north of the center of

. The airport terminal was renovated in the fall of 2004. The

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operations are stationed at the airport. The main campus of the Air Force Academy is about from the airport. The Aviation Museum of Central Finland is near the airport.

History

The airport was founded as an air-force base in 1939. The first commercial flight left the airport 6 years later in 1945. On August 2, 2010, Finncomm Airlines announced it will stop its service between

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and

on August 16, 2010. However the break was very short as Finnair and Finncomm reached an agreement in September 2010 that Finncomm will take over several Finnair's domestic routes. As a result of that, Finnair stopped its flights to Jyväskylä in late October 2010 and Finncomm started to operate those flights as co-operation with Finnair. On September 9, 2011,

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announced that they will end flights to Jyväskylä, the last flight would be on October 29, 2011. Finnair flights to Jyväskylä had been operated by Finncomm Airlines. Finnair has been responsible for ticket sales on the route, Finncomm being solely the operator. After the joint acquisition of Finncomm Airlines by Finnair and Flybe Nordic, it was announced that the link to Helsinki would be taken over by the new FlyBe Nordic on 30 October. The service between Helsinki and Jyväskylä was then operated by NyxAir until the spring of 2021, when it became non-operational; a new PSO tender re-enabled a twice-daily service which started operating October 31, 2022.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Jyväskylä Airport:

Statistics

Ground transport

There are no public transit connection directly to the passenger terminal. A car rental service is available. Taxi is available upon request. Bus-line number 22 goes from a nearby town to downtown Jyväskylä.

References

External links

Finavia – Jyväskylä Airport

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jyvaskyla Airport Airports in Finland

Airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...