Åre Östersund Airport

Åre Östersund Airport
IATA: OSD – ICAO: ESNZ OSD Location of airport in Jämtland
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Swedavia
Serves		Östersund & Åre
Location		Frösön, Sweden
Hub for		Nextjet
Elevation AMSL		1,233 ft / 376 m
Coordinates		63°11′39″N 014°30′07″E / 63.19417°N 14.50194°E / 63.19417; 14.50194Coordinates: 63°11′39″N 014°30′07″E / 63.19417°N 14.50194°E / 63.19417; 14.50194
Website		www.swedavia.se/en/Are-Ostersund
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
12/30	8,202	2,500	Asphalt
12L/30R Closed	4,034	1,230	Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers total			356,093
International passengers			20,952
Domestic passengers			335,141
Landings total			3,426
Statistics: Swedavia[1]

Åre Östersund Airport (IATA: OSD, ICAO: ESNZ), previously known as Östersund-Frösön Airport is located about 11 km west of Östersund, Sweden and 94 km east of Åre, Sweden. The airport opened in 1958.

Åre Östersund airport is an international airport and the 9th largest airport in Sweden and served about 390,000 passengers in 2005.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Europa	Seasonal Charter: Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca
Amsterdam Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Amsterdam
Atlantic Airways	Seasonal Charter: Copenhagen
bmi	Seasonal Charter: London-Heathrow
City Airline	Seasonal: Gothenburg-Landvetter
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Antalya
Direktflyg	Umeå [begins 30 October]
Flybe	Seasonal Charter: Manchester
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Antalya
Nextjet	Luleå [ends 27 October], Stockholm-Bromma, Umeå [ends 27 October]
Orbest Orizonia Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Rhodes
Scandinavian Airlines	Stockholm-Arlanda

Ground transportation

Bus

Airport Coaches (Stadsbussarna) departs from the airport to down town Östersund. In the winter, Åre Flygtransfer, departs in connection to every SAS and Nextjet flights, to and from Åre.

Taxi

There is a taxi stand at the airport.

Airport parking

There is parking at the airport, including short-term and long-term parking lots.

Incidents and accidents

• On 9 September 2007 an MD83 took off for a charter flight bound for Antalya, Turkey. The plane was overloaded and left the runway very late and touched the landing light equipment that was placed outside the runway. It continued to Antalya where it landed normally.^[2]

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=ESNZ&startdatesel=60&stopdatesel=71. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 
2. ^ Statens haverikommission - Rapport RL 2009:14

External links

• Official website
• Airport information for ESNZ at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.