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| Airport type | Public (Luftfartsverket) | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Swedavia | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Visby | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Gotland, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 164 ft / 50 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 57°39′46″N 018°20′46″E / 57.66278°N 18.34611°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | swedavia.com/visby/ | ||||||||||||||
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Visby Airport (IATA: VBY, ICAO: ESSV), is located about 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Visby, Gotland, Sweden.
Visby airport is Gotland's only commercial airport and the 12th largest airport in Sweden. The airport had 463,616 passengers in 2016.[2] The traffic has a large seasonal variation with many more passengers in the summer; in 2016 it had 18,070 passengers in January and 57,302 in July. During the Almedalen Week the airport is slot coordinated.[4]
History
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Visby Airport was opened on 27 January 1942. The first aircraft to land was a Junkers Ju 52/3m named Göteland from AB Aerotransport.[5] In October the same year regular traffic between Visby and the Swedish mainland started, in the beginning mostly with Ju 52s. In 1958 a new terminal building, a new control tower and a new runway made of asphalt was inaugurated. A runway which also featured a railway crossing. The current terminal and control tower opened in 1985.
Airlines and destinations
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Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| AirGotland[6] | Stockholm–Bromma |
| Air Leap[7] | Gothenburg, Stockholm–Arlanda,[8] Stockholm–Bromma[9] |
| Amapola Flyg[10] | Stockholm–Bromma |
| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle[11] | Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Stockholm–Arlanda |
| Sunclass Airlines[12] | Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca |
Cargo
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Amapola Flyg | Stockholm–Arlanda[13] |
Statistics
| Rank | Airport | Passengers handled | % change 2018/19 |
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| 1 |  Sweden, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stockholm-Bromma | 374,720 |  4.0 |
| 2 | Sweden, Gothenburg | 30,561 | 5.8 |
| 3 | Sweden, Malmö | 19,108 | 8.0 |
| 4 |  Finland, Helsinki | 4,345 |  7.1 |
| 5 | Sweden, Umeå | 2,290 | 10.2 |
| Rank | Country | Passengers | Change 2018/19 |
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| 1 | Finland | 4,345 | 7.1% |
| 2 |  Greece | 4,007 | 5.0% |
| 3 |  Spain | 1,849 | 8.6% |
| Year | Passenger volume | Change | Domestic | Change | International | Change |
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| 2019 | 446,864 | 4.5% | 433,408 | 4.6% | 13,456 | 0.4% |
| 2018 | 467,855 | 4.8% | 454,483 | 4.2% | 13,402 | 17.2% |
| 2017 | 491,503 | 6.0% | 474,684 | 5.7% | 16,189 | 9.1% |
| 2016 | 463,616 | 7.5% | 448,784 | 8.0% | 14,832 | 8.3% |
| 2015 | 431,430 | 6.0% | 415,251 | 6.5% | 16,179 | 6.0% |
| 2014 | 406 998 | 389,793 | 17,205 |
Other aviation
Apart from the commercial aviation at Visby airport, there is also a flying club and a parachuting club based at the airport. And the Swedish Maritime Administration has a search and rescue helicopter based in Visby.
Unusual railroad crossing
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Before the railroad was closed down on the island of Gotland, the main line from Visby to the northern parts of the island actually crossed the runway. It was one of the few airports in the world where this happened. [15] The railway traffic was ended in 1960 and the tracks removed a few years later.
See also
References
- ^ "ESSV – Visby" (PDF). AIP Sverige/Sweden. Norrköping: The LFV Group. 23 August 2012. pp. AD 2 ESSV 1-1..8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
- ^ a b c "Flygplatsstatistik". Transportstyrelsen. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
- ^ "Statistics". Swedavia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ Carlsson, Anders. "Almedalsveckan sätter nya rekord i Visby". Flygtorget (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ Hammarhjelm, Bengt (1999). Beredskap på Gotland 175 år: 1811-1986 (in Swedish) (2nd, utök. uppl., jämte komplement till 2000 ed.). Visby: Ödin. p. 164. ISBN 91-85716-84-7. SELIBR 7751982.
- ^ https://www.airgotland.se/
- ^ https://www.airleap.se/
- ^ Liu, Jim. "Air Leap adds new routes from Stockholm in May/June 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ https://mitti.se/nyheter/flygbolag-oppnar-arlanda/
- ^ https://www.amapola.nu/
- ^ "Route map". norwegian.com.
- ^ "Flight". ving.se.
- ^ https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airlines/hp-apf/routes
- ^ "Statistik". Retrieved 2019-04-16.
- ^ "Gotland 65 år före Stockholm". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Archived from the original on November 11, 2010.
External links
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Media related to Visby Airport at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Airport information for ESSV at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.