Malmö Airport

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Malmö Airport
IATA: MMX – ICAO: ESMS MMX Location of airport in Skåne
Summary
Airport type		Public (Luftfartsverket)
Operator		Swedavia
Location		Malmö, Sweden
Hub for		Malmö Aviation West Air Sweden Primera Air Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia TUIfly Nordic
Elevation AMSL		236 ft / 72 m
Coordinates		55°31′48″N 13°22′17″E / 55.53°N 13.37139°E / 55.53; 13.37139Coordinates: 55°31′48″N 13°22′17″E / 55.53°N 13.37139°E / 55.53; 13.37139
Website		www.swedavia.se/en/Malmo-Airport
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
11/29	2,615	797	Asphalt
17/35	9,186	2,800	Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers total			1,598,271
International passengers			634,383
Domestic passengers			963,888
Landings total			11,937
Statistics: Swedavia[1]

Malmö Airport, formerly known as Malmö-Sturup Airport (Swedish: Malmö-Sturup flygplats) (IATA: MMX, ICAO: ESMS) is Sweden's fifth busiest airport, located approximately 28 km (17.4 mi) from Malmö and 26 km (16.2 mi) from Lund. Via the Oresund Bridge the airport is located about 55 km (34.2 mi) from central Copenhagen and 47 km (29.2 mi) from Copenhagen Airport. Malmö Airport is also a complement to Copenhagen Airport in the event of problems such as strikes or fog.

History

Malmö airport at night and a Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner.

Completed in 1972, then at a cost of around SEK130 million, almost twice as much as initially forecast, Sturup Airport replaced the current and aging Bulltofta Airport, which had served the region since 1923. Plans to build a new airport were drafted in the early 1960s. Expansion was impossible, due to Bulltofta's close proximity to the now booming city and nearby communities complained about noise pollution from the newly introduced jet aircraft. Construction began in 1970 and two years later, December 3, 1972, the airport was inaugurated. At the same time Bulltofta Airport closed. However, Malmö ATC (Air Traffic Control) remained at the old Bulltofta site until 1983 when it also moved to Malmö Airport.

Around 2005-2008 some low-cost airlines hoped to attract both Danish and Swedish passengers from Sturup in competition with Copenhagen Airport. During autumn 2007 the Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair closed all its routes from Malmö Airport. In the summer of 2011 Ryanair made a comeback in Malmö. During 2008 Danish Sterling Airlines had some lines from Malmö Airport to London (LGW), Alicante, Barcelona, Nice and Florence. Sterling Airlines accounted for about 6-7% of the total number of passengers at Sturup.^{[citation needed]}

Operational facts

• 1 Passenger terminal with 8 connecting gates
• 2 Cargo terminals
• 20 Parking stands for large aircraft

Ground transportation

Bus

• Flygbussarna Airport coaches depart from the airport to downtown Malmö and Lund (about 30 departures/day to each city) The journey to Malmö or Lund takes about 40 minutes. From there there are good train connections, e.g. to Copenhagen (total time to Copenhagen about 80 minutes)^[2]
• Gråhundbus coaches departs to Copenhagen 30 minutes after every Ryanair arrival.

Taxi

• There is a taxi stand at the airport. There is a fixed price to Malmö and Lund 395 SEK.

Airport parking

• There is parking at the airport, with both short-term and long-term parking lots. Short-term parking costs SEK 20 per hour and long-term parking SEK 180 per 24 hours.

Airlines and destinations

A Malmö Aviation Avro RJ100 at the airport

Airlines	Destinations
Al-Naser Airlines operated by Tor Air	Baghdad, Erbil
Cham Wings Airlines	Damascus
Direktflyg	Borlänge, Örebro
Malmö Aviation	Stockholm-Bromma
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Stockholm-Arlanda
Ryanair	London-Stansted, Wroclaw [Begins 29 March 2012] Seasonal: Alicante, Malaga
Scandinavian Airlines	Stockholm-Arlanda
Viking Hellas	Sulaimaniyah, Erbil, Baghdad
Wizz Air	Belgrade, Budapest, Gdańsk, Katowice, Warsaw

Charter airlines

Destinations in Spain, Egypt, Greece and other countries are served by JetX, TUIfly Nordic, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and sometimes other carriers like Jettime or Air Europa. Malmö Aviation flies to several charter destination during both summer and winter. During the winter Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia flies to Phuket International Airport.

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
Air Contractors	Jönköping, Umeå (for Posten)
AirBridgeCargo Airlines	Moscow
Amapola Flyg	Stockholm-Arlanda (for Posten)
Icelandair Cargo	Charlotte, Halifax, New York-JFK, Reykjavik
Pal[disambiguation needed ]	Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai
SAS Cargo Group
TNT Airways	Gdansk, Minsk, St. Petersburg, Turku
UPS Airlines	Cologne/Bonn, Helsinki, Oslo
UPS Airlines operated by ATRAN	Moscow
UPS Airlines operated by West Air Sweden	Aarhus
West Air Sweden	Stockholm-Arlanda (for Posten)

Ground handling and fuel

• SAS Ground Services serves among others Scandinavian Airlines, Direktflyg, Cham Wings Airlines and Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia.
• Aviator Group serves among others JetX (Primera), Norwegian Air Shuttle, Arkia Israel Airlines, Wizzair, TUIfly Nordic, Malmö Aviation, TNT Airways, Amapola Flyg, Air Contractors and UPS Airlines.
• Menzies Aviation cargo handling.
• MTS Aviation FBO Ground Service for Business Aviation www.mtsaviation.se(own Apron and airconditioned Hangar up to B737/A320) VIP Service

There is one company that delivers fuel and that is Malmö Fueling Services. They deliver fuel for Air BP, Shell Aviation and Statoil.

Accidents and incidents

• On 28 January 2008, an EasyJet flight made a high-speed landing at Malmö Airport due to faulty flaps. The flight was bound for Copenhagen but requested to land at Malmö. No injuries were reported.^[3]

See also

• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

References

1. ^ "Statistics". Swedavia. Archived from the original on 18 April 2011. http://www.swedavia.se/en/Start-page/Press/Statistics/?airport=ESMS&startdatesel=60&stopdatesel=71. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 
2. ^ Resrobot, Swedish travel planner
3. ^ "Flygplan med 146 passagerare fick nödlanda". 28 Jan 2008. http://www2.trelleborgsallehanda.se/article/20080128/SENASTENYTT/328936344/1079/SKANE. Retrieved 19 July 2009. 

• http://www.lfv.se/templates/LFV_ArrivalsAndDepartures____2005.aspx
• http://sydsvenskan.se/ekonomi/article270553.ece
• http://sydsvenskan.se/skane/article296833.ece
• http://www.cityairline.com/city-airline-storsatsning-pa-inrikesflyg
• http://www.swedavia.se/sv/Malmo/Press2/Nyheter/Tel-Aviv---ny-destination-pa-Malmo-Airport/

External links

• Official website
• Airport information for ESMS at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• eSMS (English)