Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
From Freepedia
| Helsinki-Vantaa Airport | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | |||
| IATA | HEL | ICAO | EFHK |
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Civil Government | ||
| Serves | Helsinki, Finland | ||
| Elevation MSL | 179 ft (55 m) | ||
| Coordinates | 60°19′ N 24°57′ E
| ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 04R/22L | 11,286 | 3440 | Paved |
| 04L/22R | 9,843 | 3000 | Paved |
| 15/33 | 9,514 | 2900 | Paved |
The Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (IATA: HEL, ICAO: EFHK) in Vantaa, Finland is the main airport of the Helsinki metropolitan region and the whole of Finland. It is located about 15 kilometers from the Helsinki city centre. Originally built for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the airport today serves more than 13 million passengers a year and is one of the major airports in the Nordic countries.
The International and Domestic terminals are 250 m apart and are linked by an internal pedestrian connection.
Helsinki-Vantaa is the international and domestic hub for Finnair, the Finnish flag carrier. It is also the hub for Blue1, the Finnish regional feeder for SAS.
The Aviapolis area for international businesses is scheduled to be built in the Helsinki-Vantaa airport area. There will be a train link, Marjarata, to Helsinki center.
Airlines
- Aero Airlines (Joensuu, Kokkola, Kuopio, Mariehamn, Riga, Tallinn, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa, Vilnius)
- Aeroflot (Moscow Sheremetyevo)
- Airest (Tallinn)
- Air Baltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- Air Finland
- Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
- Avies (Tallinn)
- Blue1
- British Airways (London Heathrow)
- Cargolux (Hong Kong, Luxembourg)
- City Airline
- CSA Czech Airlines (Prague)
- DHL
- European Executive Express (Mikkeli)
- Finnair (Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin Tegel, Brussels, Budapest, Catania, Copenhagen, Dubai, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Faro, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Guangzhou, Hamberg, Hong Kong, Ivalo, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kajaani, Kemi/Tornio, Kittilä, Kuopio, Kuusamo, Larnaca, London Heathrow, Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Miami, Milan Malpensa, Moscow Sheremetyevo, Munich, New York JFK, Nice, Osaka Kansai, Oslo, Oulu, Paphos, Paris CDG, Prague, Rome Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, St. Petersburg, Shanghai Pudong, Singapore, Stockholm Arlanda, Stockholm Skavsta, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Tokyo Narita, Toronto, Vaasa, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich)
- Finncomm Airlines (Dusseldorf, Kemi/Tornio, Oslo, Stuttgart)
- FlyMe (Stockholm Arlanda)
- Futura International Airways
- Germanwings (Cologne)
- Golden Air (Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kokkola, Lappeenranta, Pori, Savonlinna, Seinäjoki, Tampere, Vaasa)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Lithuanian Airlines (Vilnius)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
- MALÉV Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- MyTravel
- Nouvelair
- NTD Air Cargo (Stockholm Skavsta)
- Pegasus Airlines
- Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St. Petersburg)
- SAS (Copenhagen, Stockholm)
- Severstal Aircompany (Petrozavodsk)
- SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- TNT
- Ukraine International Airlines
- UPS
- West Air Europe (Copenhagen)
External links
- Helsinki-Vantaa - Airport homepage in English
- Runway details (pdf)
