Kittilä Airport Kittilän lentoasema | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Finavia | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kittilä, Finland | ||||||||||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 644 ft / 196 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 67°41′55″N 024°50′53″E / 67.69861°N 24.84806°E | ||||||||||
| Website | finavia.fi | ||||||||||
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Kittilä Airport (IATA: KTT, ICAO: EFKT), Finnish: Kittilän lentoasema, is a Finnish airport located in Kittilä inside the Arctic Circle. It handles general aviation and mostly seasonal international traffic and is one of the main airports in Northern Finland. It carried 325,160 passengers in 2017 being the fourth busiest airport in Finland.[1]
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| airBaltic[4] | Seasonal: Riga |
| Animawings[5] | Seasonal charter: Bucharest |
| Blue Air[6] | Seasonal charter: Bucharest |
| Finnair | Helsinki Seasonal: Ivalo, Tampere, Turku |
| Lufthansa[7] | Seasonal: Munich |
| TUI Airways[8] | Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| TUI fly Belgium[9] | Seasonal: Brussels |
Statistics
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| Rank | Airport | Passengers (2015) | Operators |
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| 1. |  Helsinki, Finland |  109,855 | Finnair, Nordic Regional Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines |
| 2. | Ivalo, Finland |  30,911 | Finnair |
| 3. |  London–Gatwick, United Kingdom | 18,970 | easyJet, Finnair, TUI Airways |
| 4. | Manchester, United Kingdom | 18,093 | Jet2.com, TUI Airways |
Passengers
| Year | Domestic passengers | International passengers | Total passengers | Change |
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| 1983 | 1,821 | |||
| 1985 | 280 | |||
| 1990 | 21,103 | |||
| 1995 | 76,002 | |||
| 1998 | 115,651 | 12,247 | 127,898 | |
| 1999 | 110,128 | 17,808 | 127,936 | +0,0% |
| 2000 | 143,627 | 26,455 | 170,082 | +32,9% |
| 2001 | 145,757 | 35,781 | 181,538 | +6,7% |
| 2002 | 146,408 | 51,083 | 197,491 | +8,8% |
| 2003 | 144,482 | 69,300 | 213,782 | +8,2% |
| 2004 | 161,854 | 77,109 | 238,963 | +11,8% |
| 2005 | 155,008 | 73,513 | 228,521 | −4.4% |
| 2006 | 153,264 | 91,820 | 245,084 | +7.2% |
| 2007 | 145,675 | 96,291 | 241,966 | −1.3% |
| 2008 | 164,136 | 101,259 | 265,395 | +9.7% |
| 2009 | 165,926 | 79,387 | 245,313 | −7.6% |
| 2010 | 142,197 | 72,179 | 214,376 | −12.6% |
| 2011 | 167,484 | 71,054 | 238,538 | +11.3% |
| 2012 | 186 184 | 77 202 | 263 386 | +10.4% |
| 2013 | 157 465 | 79 757 | 237 222 | −9.9% |
| 2014 | 153 011 | 81 722 | 234 733 | −1.0% |
| 2015 | 140 831 | 85 988 | 226 819 | −3.4% |
| 2016 | 148,274 | 109,263 | 257,537 | +13.5% |
| 2017 | 183,952 | 141,101 | 325,053 | +26.2% |
| 2018 | 208,835 | 145,726 | 354,561 | +9.1% |
| 2019 | 214,357 | 148,804 | 363,161 | +2,4% |
Cargo
| Year | Domestic freight | Domestic mail | International freight | International mail | Total freight and mail | Change |
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| 2005 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | −7% |
| 2006 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | +8% |
| 2007 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | −48% |
| 2008 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | −7% |
| 2009 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | −15% |
Incidents and accidents
- On 27 July 2006, a fire broke out around 19:00 between the old terminal building and the new unfinished section of the new terminal. The airport was ready and operational again in December 2006, with the new terminal open.[14]
See also
- List of the busiest airports in the Nordic countries
References
- ^ https://www.finavia.fi/sites/default/files/documents/Landings-fi_0.pdf
- ^ "EFKT Kittilä" (PDF). AIP Suomi / Finland. Vantaa: Finavia. 30 June 2011. pp. EFKT AD 2.1, 1–12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
- ^ Liu, Jim. "airBaltic resumes Kittila service from late-Dec 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ^ https://boardingpass.ro/animawings-va-opera-un-zbor-charter-de-craciun-spre-laponia/
- ^ https://www.imperatortravel.ro/2018/08/cursa-charter-directa-decembrie-bucuresti-laponia-pentru-o-intalnire-cu-mos-craciun-%EF%81%8A.html
- ^ "Lufthansa Adds Winter Munich – Kittila Service from Dec 2015". airlineroute. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ^ "Flight Timetable". tui.co.uk.
- ^ "Flight plan". tui.be.
- ^ "Database - Eurostat". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ^ Alakulppi, Jaakko (2006). Lapin ilmailuhistoria II. Jälleenrakentamisesta 1945 Lapin lentomatkailuun ja Hornet-kauteen 2001 [The Aviation History of Lapland, part II. From Reconstruction in 1945 to Air Tourism and Hornet Era in 2001]. Lapin maakuntamuseon julkaisuja 10 (in Finnish). Jaakko Alakulppi. p. 732. ISBN 952-92-0337-3. ISSN 0781-5409.
- ^ "Traffic statistics 2019". Finavia. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Finavia's Air Traffic Statistics 2009" (PDF). Vantaa: Finavia. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
External links
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Media related to Kittilä Airport at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- AIP Finland – Kittilä Airport
- Current weather for EFKT at NOAA/NWS
- Airport information for EFKT at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- Airport information for KTT at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- Accident history for KTT at Aviation Safety Network