Turku Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Turku Airport
nativename = Turun lentoasema
Åbo flygplats


caption = Departure hall
IATA = TUR
ICAO = EFTU
type = Public
owner =
operator = Finavia
city-served = Turku
location = Turku
elevation-f = 161
elevation-m = 49
coordinates = coord|60|30|51|N|22|15|46|E|type:airport_region:FI
website = [http://www.ilmailulaitos.fi/airport_turku]
metric-elev = yes
metric-rwy = yes
r1-number = 08R/26L
r1-length-f = 8,202
r1-length-m = 2,500
r1-surface = Asphalt

Turku Airport Airport codes|TKU|EFTU, is located some 8 kilometers from Turku, Finland. It serves approximately 300,000 passengers per year, being the fifth biggest (by number of passengers) airport in Finland. The airport has a secondary passenger terminal specifically designed for low-cost airlines. There is a logistic concept LogiCity [http://www.pilotturku.com/page/en] to create a logistic hub around Turku Airport, in where all ways of cargo transportation can be connected together in same area. From 1st of September in 2008 TNT Air Cargo made Turku Airport as its logistic hub for its Finnish operations.

Passenger (scheduled)

DOMESTIC
* Finnair (Helsinki, Kittilä)
* Finncomm Airlines (Helsinki)
* Wingo xprs (Tampere, Oulu)
* Turku Air (Mariehamn)INTERNATIONAL
* Blue1 (Stockholm)
* Scandinavian Airlines Systems (Copenhagen)
* Cimber Air (Copenhagen)
* Wizz Air (Gdansk)

Former airlines and destinations

* Finnair (Tukholma, Oslo)
* Blue1 (Oulu, kopenhagen, marianhamn)
* ELK airways (Tallinn)

Cargo

* TNT Air Cargo
* DHL
* Finnair
* SAS/Blue1
* EXEL

Logicity

Logicity is project of Pilot Turku Ltd (founded in 2003) which is improving logistic operations in the Turku region. Logicity will be a logistic hub built around Turku Airport. Plan is to link the different modes of transport together which is possible by the three following facts, Turku Airport is just 20 minutes reach by two significant sea ports the Port of Turku and the Port of Naantali which combined values are comparable to the Port of Vuosaari in Helsinki, Both E18 highway to St. Petersburg and E63 to Tampere go via Turku Airport, and also rail transport connection to Russia and China is inside Logicity area. Pilot Turku describers Turku Region as "the meeting point of the East, the West and the Nordic countries" and as "the multimodal transport centre of the Nordic Triangle" [http://www.pilotturku.com/page/en/turkuregion/] .

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Transport Connections

by bus

The bus number 1 departs from the airport in every 20 minutes. You can buy your ticket on board and it is valid for next two hours in all local buses inside the city borders. Bus number 1 goes via the Market Square (Kauppatori, local bus centre) to the port of Turku in which there are excellent connections to Stockholm with Baltic Sea cruiseferries (Ruotsinlaiva). The bus route 1 operates from 05:20 to 00:50. Last bus from airport waits extra 10 minutes if needed.

by taxi

Taxis are usually available after every scheduled flight, but taxis can be reached by calling [phone]. Local taxi fare is approx. 17€ to Turku and the trip takes about 20 minutes. There is also an Airport taxi service, [phone], with fixed fare of 12€ per person, e.g. between the airport and the city centre.

History

Turku airport was Finland's first airport when it was built in Artukainen in 1935. It served as the main airport of Turku until new airport was built in current location in 1955.

District

Turku Airport ("Turun lentoasema" in Finnish; "Åbo flygstation" in Swedish) is also a district in the Maaria-Paattinen ward of Turku. The district has a population of 127 (as of 2004), and an annual growth of 0.79%. 22.05% of the district's population are under 15 years old, while 16.54% are over 65. The district's linguistic makeup is 92.13% Finnish, 0.79% Swedish, and 7.09% other.

See also

* Districts of Turku
* Districts of Turku by population

External links

* [http://www.ilmailulaitos.fi/airport_turku Turku Airport] (official site)
* [http://www.pilotturku.com/page/en Pilot Turku] LogiCity
* [http://www.turkuair.fi Turku Air]
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