Mosjøen Airport, Kjærstad

Mosjøen Airport, Kjærstad Mosjøen lufthavn, Kjærstad
IATA: MJF – ICAO: ENMS MJF Location of airport in Nordland
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner/Operator		Avinor
Serves		Mosjøen
Location		Kjærstad
Elevation AMSL		72 m / 237 ft
Coordinates		65°47′02.39″N 013°12′53.69″E / 65.7839972°N 13.2149139°E / 65.7839972; 13.2149139
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
16/34	919	3,015	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Passengers			57,159UNIQ4a01,432f451fe58c-ref-00,000,000-QINU

Mosjøen Airport, Kjærstad (IATA: MJF, ICAO: ENMS) (Norwegian: Mosjøen lufthavn, Kjærstad) is a regional airport serving Mosjøen in Nordland, Norway. In 2007 Mosjøen Airport had 76,294 passengers. It is owned and operated by the state owned Avinor.

Service

The airport is served by Widerøe with Dash 8 aircraft connecting the community to Bodø and Trondheim. The routes are operated on public service obligation with the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications.

History

The airport was opened in 1987 as part of the last group of regional airports to be built in Norway.

In 2002 the Ministry of Transport launched an idea of merging the three airports serving Northern Helgeland, Mosjøen Airport, Sandnessjøen Airport and Mo i Rana Airport into a new airport at Drevjadalen in Vefsn, 15 km north of Mosjøen city (55 km from Sandnessjøen, 70 from Mo i Rana). Meteorological tests performed by Avinor showed however that the area had too much fog to serve as an airport. The idea was to build one new airport with a large enough runway to take down Airbus A320/Boeing 737 aircraft directly from Oslo, and make it unnecessary to operate subsidied regional aircraft to Helgeland. The road tunnel Korgfjelltunnelen opened in 2005 created a reliable and fast road between Mosjøen and Mo i Rana. A better road to Sandnessjøen is planned. As of 2007 the idea of a new airport is abandoned by both Avinor and the Ministry of Transport.^[2][3]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Widerøe	Bodø, Mo i Rana, Namsos, Sandnessjøen, Trondheim[4]

Ground transportation

The airport is located 10 minutes out of town. There is no bus service to the airport, but taxis are available.

References

1. ^ Avinor (2008). "Årsoversikt passasjerer 2007". http://www.avinor.no/tridionimages/2007%20Passasjerer_tcm181-51564.xls. 
2. ^ Avinor. "Utreder ny felles flyplass på Helgeland" (in Norwegian). http://www.avinor.no/Norsk/Om_oss/Arsrapport/Arsrapport_2002/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=861. Retrieved 2007-02-02. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ Statens Vegvesen. "Nasjonal Transportplan, forslag til handlingsplan region nord" (in Norwegian). http://www.vegvesen.no/hprog/region_nord/Finnmark/Disp_Finnmark.pdf. Retrieved 2007-02-02. ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ wideroe.no

External links

• Avinor entry for Mosjøen Airport
• Avinor entry for Mosjøen Airport (Norwegian) (more detail)