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{{Infobox Airport
#REDIRECT[[Helsinki-Conan O'Brian Airport]]
| name = Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
| nativename = {{lang|fi|Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema}} </br> {{lang|sv|Helsingfors-Vanda flygplats}}
| image = Helv.png
| image2 = Helsinki-Vantaa airport Finnair planes.jpg
| caption2 =
| IATA = HEL
| ICAO = EFHK
| type = Public
| owner =
| operator = [[Finavia]]
| city-served = [[Helsinki]]
| location = [[Vantaa]]
| elevation-f = 179
| elevation-m = 55
| coordinates = {{coord|60|19|02|N|024|57|48|E|region:FI-ES_type:airport|display=inline,title}}
| website = [http://www.helsinki-vantaa.fi/home www.helsinki-vantaa.fi]
| metric-elev = yes
| metric-rwy = yes
| r1-number = 04R/22L
| r1-length-f = 11,286
| r1-length-m = 3,440
| r1-surface = [[Asphalt]]
| r2-number = 04L/22R
| r2-length-f = 10,039
| r2-length-m = 3,060
| r2-surface = Asphalt
| r3-number = 15/33
| r3-length-f = 9,518
| r3-length-m = 2,901
| r3-surface = Asphalt
| stat-year = 2008
| stat1-header = Passengers
| stat1-data = {{formatnum:13426901}}<ref name="Statistics" />
| stat2-header = Landings
| stat2-data = {{formatnum:91952}}<ref name="Statistics" />
| footnotes = Source: [[Aeronautical Information Publication|AIP]] Finland<ref name="aip_efhk">{{Cite web |url= https://ais.fi/ais/eaip/pdf/aerodromes/EF_AD_2_EFHK_EN.pdf |title= EFHK Helsinki-Vantaa |accessdate=2009-07-26 |date= 2008-11-20 |format= PDF |work= AIP Suomi / Finland |publisher= Finavia |location= |pages= EFHK AD 2.1, pp. 1–7 }}</ref>
}}
[[Image:Helsinki-Vantaan kiitotie 33.jpg|thumb|One of Helsinki-Vantaa's runways]]
'''Helsinki-Vantaa Airport''' {{Airport codes|HEL|EFHK}} ({{lang-fi|Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema}}, {{lang-sv|Helsingfors-Vanda flygplats}}) in [[Vantaa]], [[Finland]], is the main international [[airport]] of the [[Helsinki]] metropolitan region and the whole of Finland. It is located about {{convert|5|km|0}} from the centre of Vantaa, [[Tikkurila]], and {{convert|9.2|NM|abbr=on|lk=in}} north<ref name="aip_efhk"/> of Helsinki's [[city centre]]. Originally built for the [[1952 Summer Olympics]] in Helsinki, the airport served 13,426,901 passengers in 2008 (2.2% growth since 2007)<ref name="Statistics">{{cite web |url=http://www.finavia.fi/statisticspassengers|title=Annual statistics |accessdate= 29 March 2009 |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= Finavia |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> and it is the [[List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries|fourth largest airport]] in the [[Nordic countries]].

The airport is operated by [[Finavia]], the state-owned enterprise that operates Finland's airports. Helsinki-Vantaa was chosen the best airport in the world in the IATA 1999 survey on the topic. In 2006 global airport customer satisfaction survey [[AETRA]] ranked Helsinki-Vantaa one of the best airports worldwide and according to [[Association of European Airlines]] 2005 delay rates, Helsinki-Vantaa was the most punctual airport in Europe.

The airport's three runways provide a platform for future growth while the airport can accommodate extra-wide aircraft such as the [[Airbus A340]] and [[Airbus A350]], the former already in service and the latter being scheduled to enter service at Helsinki-Vantaa with Finnair in the coming decade. The airport is the international and domestic hub for [[Finnair]], the Finnish flag carrier. It is also the hub for [[Blue1]], the Finnish regional division of [[Scandinavian Airlines System|SAS]]. [[Air Finland]] and [[Finncomm Airlines]] are based at Helsinki-Vantaa as well.

The [[Aviapolis]] is a new international [[business park]] adjacent to the Helsinki-Vantaa airport area, already hosting the operations of numerous companies around the airport. Several hotels are located near the airport as well. Construction of a train link, [[Kehärata]], to the center of Helsinki began in the spring of 2009<ref name="keharata_2">[http://www.keharata.fi/?pageid=10&parent0=4&newsid=7 Ring Rail Line – Press Release]</ref>. The [[Finnish Aviation Museum]] is located near the airport.<ref name="aviation_museum">[http://www.suomenilmailumuseo.fi/en/index.html Finnish Aviation Museum]</ref>

On November 25, 2008, Finavia opened a wireless network free of charge at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport.<ref name="finavia20081125">{{Cite web |url= http://www.helsinki-vantaa.fi/hel_pressrelease?id=73292 |title= Finavia opens wireless network free of charge at Helsinki-Vantaa|accessdate=8 January 2009|date= [[2008]]-[[11-25]] |publisher= Finavia }}</ref>

==Terminals==
[[Image:Helsinki-Vantaa departure hall2.jpg|thumb|left|International terminal departure hall]]
[[Image:Helsinki-Vantaa lounge.jpg|thumb|left|Lounge area at Helsinki-Vantaa departures]]
The airport is nominally divided into an international and a domestic terminal, located {{convert|250|m}} apart and linked by an internal pedestrian connection both airside and landside. In practice, however, the airside parts of the terminal buildings are not divided into domestic and international but to [[Schengen agreement|Schengen]] and non-Schengen areas. The non-Schengen area is under enlargement and will be ready in by the end of 2009, enabling the airport to receive eight wide-body aircraft at the same time, compared to the current five wide-body gates (of which only two are suitable for Finnair's new [[Airbus A340]]). From the fall of 2009, terminal 1 (the current domestic terminal) will serve [[Star Alliance]] members only, whereas terminal 2 (the current international terminal) will serve other airlines.

==Ground transportation==
The Helsinki-Vantaa airport is located about {{convert|20|km}} from the center of the City of Helsinki. Bus service by the public transit line [http://aikataulut.ytv.fi/linjat/en/s615.html 615] to center takes approximately 30–45 minutes, depending on the time of day. The quickest bus to the center is the direct Finnair bus, costing a little extra. The bus route [http://aikataulut.ytv.fi/linjat/en/v61.html 61] to Tikkurila train station provides access to [[Helsinki commuter rail|commuter trains]] as well as to long-distance trains in the directions of [[Tampere]] and [[Lahti]], including the [[Saint Petersburg]] line. The construction of the [[Kehärata]] rail link to the airport is scheduled to start in 2009, with an opening scheduled for 2013.<ref name="keharata">[http://www.keharata.fi/?pageid=33&parent0=33 Ring Rail Line – Timetable]</ref>

==Statistics==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|+ Annual passenger statistics for '''Helsinki-Vantaa Airport '''<ref name="Statistics" />
! Year !! Domestic passengers !! International passengers !! Total passengers !! Change
|-
! 2005
| 2,804,304 || 8,326,285 || 11,130,589 || +3.7%
|-
! 2006
| 2,927,627 || 9,220,154 || 12,147,781 || +9.1%
|-
! 2007
| 2,875,289 || 10,215,455 || 13,090,744 || +7.8%
|-
! 2008
| 2,700,350 || 10,726,551 || 13,426,901 || +2.2%
|}

==Airlines and destinations==
[[Image:Frozen Helsinki airport.jpg|thumb|Helsinki airport during winter]]
[[Image:Visit-suomi-2009-05-by-RalfR-048.jpg|thumb|Finnair Embraer 190 aircraft at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport]]
===Terminal 1===
{{Airport-dest-list
| [[airBaltic]] | Riga
| [[Austrian Airlines]] | Vienna
| [[Blue1]] | Athens, Barcelona, Biarritz, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Ivalo, Kittilä, Kuopio, Kuusamo, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oulu, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, Split, Stockholm-Arlanda, Vaasa, Zürich
| [[Brussels Airlines]] | Brussels
| [[City Airline]] | Gothenburg-Landvetter
| [[Dubrovnik Airline]] | Zagreb
| [[KLM]] | Amsterdam
| [[LOT Polish Airlines]] | Warsaw
| [[Lufthansa]] | Frankfurt, Munich
| [[TAP Portugal]] | Lisbon
| [[Scandinavian Airlines System|Scandinavian Airlines]] | Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda
| [[Estonian Air]] | Tallinn
}}
===Terminal 2===
{{Airport-dest-list
| [[Aeroflot]] | Moscow-Sheremetyevo
| [[Aer Lingus]] | Dublin
| [[Air Berlin]] | Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg
| [[Air Åland]] | Mariehamn
| [[Air Finland]] | Alicante, Málaga
| [[British Airways]] | London-Heathrow
| [[Czech Airlines]] | Prague
| [[EasyJet]] | London-Gatwick
| [[Fly Lappeenranta]] | Lappeenranta
| [[Finnair]] | Amsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Bergen, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Copenhagen, Delhi, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Ivalo, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kajaani, Kiev-Boryspil, Kittilä, Kokkola, Kuopio, Kuusamo, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Miami [Begins November 9], Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Munich, Nagoya-Centrair, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oulu, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Prague, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, St Petersburg, Shanghai-Pudong, Seoul-Incheon, Stockholm-Arlanda, Toronto-Pearson, Tokyo-Narita, Vaasa, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Yekaterinburg, Zürich
| [[Finncomm Airlines]] | Enontekiö [seasonal], Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kemi/Tornio, Kokkola/Pietarsaari, Kuopio, Kuusamo [seasonal], Pori, Savonlinna, Seinäjoki, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa, Norrköping-Begins Aug 31
| [[Icelandair]] | Reykjavík-Keflavík
| [[Malév Hungarian Airlines]] | Budapest
| [[Rossiya (airline)|Rossiya]] | St Petersburg
| [[Severstal]] | Petrozavodsk
| [[Turkish Airlines]] | Istanbul-Atatürk
| [[Ukraine International Airlines]] | Kiev-Boryspil
}}
===Cargo airlines===
{{Airport-dest-list
| [[Airest]] | Tallinn
| [[Avies]] | Tallinn
| [[Cargolux]] | Hong Kong, Baku, Luxembourg
| [[DHL]] | Leipzig/Halle
| [[TNT Air Cargo|TNT]] | Liege
| [[United Parcel Service|UPS]] | Malmö
| [[West Air Sweden]] | Copenhagen
}}

==See also==
*[[List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commonscat|Helsinki-Vantaa Airport}}
* [http://www.helsinki-vantaa.fi/home Helsinki-Vantaa airport] – Airport homepage in English
* [https://ais.fi/ais/eaip/html/efhk.htm AIP Finland – Helsinki-Vantaa Airport]
* {{NWS-current|EFHK}}
* {{ASN|HEL}}

{{Airports in Finland}}
{{Public transport in Helsinki}}

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Revision as of 03:43, 5 August 2009

Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema
Helsingfors-Vanda flygplats
File:Helv.png
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorFinavia
ServesHelsinki
LocationVantaa
Elevation AMSL55 m / 179 ft
Coordinates60°19′02″N 024°57′48″E / 60.31722°N 24.96333°E / 60.31722; 24.96333
Websitewww.helsinki-vantaa.fi
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04R/22L 3,440 11,286 Asphalt
04L/22R 3,060 10,039 Asphalt
15/33 2,901 9,518 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Passengers13,426,901[1]
Landings91,952[1]
Source: AIP Finland[2]
One of Helsinki-Vantaa's runways

Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (IATA: HEL, ICAO: EFHK) (Finnish: Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema, Swedish: Helsingfors-Vanda flygplats) in Vantaa, Finland, is the main international airport of the Helsinki metropolitan region and the whole of Finland. It is located about 5 kilometres (3 mi) from the centre of Vantaa, Tikkurila, and 9.2 NM (17.0 km; 10.6 mi) north[2] of Helsinki's city centre. Originally built for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the airport served 13,426,901 passengers in 2008 (2.2% growth since 2007)[1] and it is the fourth largest airport in the Nordic countries.

The airport is operated by Finavia, the state-owned enterprise that operates Finland's airports. Helsinki-Vantaa was chosen the best airport in the world in the IATA 1999 survey on the topic. In 2006 global airport customer satisfaction survey AETRA ranked Helsinki-Vantaa one of the best airports worldwide and according to Association of European Airlines 2005 delay rates, Helsinki-Vantaa was the most punctual airport in Europe.

The airport's three runways provide a platform for future growth while the airport can accommodate extra-wide aircraft such as the Airbus A340 and Airbus A350, the former already in service and the latter being scheduled to enter service at Helsinki-Vantaa with Finnair in the coming decade. The airport is the international and domestic hub for Finnair, the Finnish flag carrier. It is also the hub for Blue1, the Finnish regional division of SAS. Air Finland and Finncomm Airlines are based at Helsinki-Vantaa as well.

The Aviapolis is a new international business park adjacent to the Helsinki-Vantaa airport area, already hosting the operations of numerous companies around the airport. Several hotels are located near the airport as well. Construction of a train link, Kehärata, to the center of Helsinki began in the spring of 2009[3]. The Finnish Aviation Museum is located near the airport.[4]

On November 25, 2008, Finavia opened a wireless network free of charge at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport.[5]

Terminals

International terminal departure hall
Lounge area at Helsinki-Vantaa departures

The airport is nominally divided into an international and a domestic terminal, located 250 metres (820 ft) apart and linked by an internal pedestrian connection both airside and landside. In practice, however, the airside parts of the terminal buildings are not divided into domestic and international but to Schengen and non-Schengen areas. The non-Schengen area is under enlargement and will be ready in by the end of 2009, enabling the airport to receive eight wide-body aircraft at the same time, compared to the current five wide-body gates (of which only two are suitable for Finnair's new Airbus A340). From the fall of 2009, terminal 1 (the current domestic terminal) will serve Star Alliance members only, whereas terminal 2 (the current international terminal) will serve other airlines.

Ground transportation

The Helsinki-Vantaa airport is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the center of the City of Helsinki. Bus service by the public transit line 615 to center takes approximately 30–45 minutes, depending on the time of day. The quickest bus to the center is the direct Finnair bus, costing a little extra. The bus route 61 to Tikkurila train station provides access to commuter trains as well as to long-distance trains in the directions of Tampere and Lahti, including the Saint Petersburg line. The construction of the Kehärata rail link to the airport is scheduled to start in 2009, with an opening scheduled for 2013.[6]

Statistics

Annual passenger statistics for Helsinki-Vantaa Airport [1]
Year Domestic passengers International passengers Total passengers Change
2005 2,804,304 8,326,285 11,130,589 +3.7%
2006 2,927,627 9,220,154 12,147,781 +9.1%
2007 2,875,289 10,215,455 13,090,744 +7.8%
2008 2,700,350 10,726,551 13,426,901 +2.2%

Airlines and destinations

Helsinki airport during winter
Finnair Embraer 190 aircraft at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

Terminal 1

AirlinesDestinations
airBaltic Riga
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Blue1 Athens, Barcelona, Biarritz, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Ivalo, Kittilä, Kuopio, Kuusamo, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oulu, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, Split, Stockholm-Arlanda, Vaasa, Zürich
Brussels Airlines Brussels
City Airline Gothenburg-Landvetter
Dubrovnik Airline Zagreb
KLM Amsterdam
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
TAP Portugal Lisbon
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Estonian Air Tallinn

Terminal 2

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aer Lingus Dublin
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg
Air Åland Mariehamn
Air Finland Alicante, Málaga
British Airways London-Heathrow
Czech Airlines Prague
EasyJet London-Gatwick
Fly Lappeenranta Lappeenranta
Finnair Amsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Bergen, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Copenhagen, Delhi, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Ivalo, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kajaani, Kiev-Boryspil, Kittilä, Kokkola, Kuopio, Kuusamo, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Miami [Begins November 9], Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Munich, Nagoya-Centrair, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oulu, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Prague, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, St Petersburg, Shanghai-Pudong, Seoul-Incheon, Stockholm-Arlanda, Toronto-Pearson, Tokyo-Narita, Vaasa, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Yekaterinburg, Zürich
Finncomm Airlines Enontekiö [seasonal], Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kemi/Tornio, Kokkola/Pietarsaari, Kuopio, Kuusamo [seasonal], Pori, Savonlinna, Seinäjoki, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa, Norrköping-Begins Aug 31
Icelandair Reykjavík-Keflavík
Malév Hungarian Airlines Budapest
Rossiya St Petersburg
Severstal Petrozavodsk
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil

Cargo airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Airest Tallinn
Avies Tallinn
Cargolux Hong Kong, Baku, Luxembourg
DHL Leipzig/Halle
TNT Liege
UPS Malmö
West Air Sweden Copenhagen

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Annual statistics". Finavia. Retrieved 29 March 2009. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ a b "EFHK Helsinki-Vantaa" (PDF). AIP Suomi / Finland. Finavia. 2008-11-20. pp. EFHK AD 2.1, pp. 1–7. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  3. ^ Ring Rail Line – Press Release
  4. ^ Finnish Aviation Museum
  5. ^ "Finavia opens wireless network free of charge at Helsinki-Vantaa". Finavia. 2008-11-25. Retrieved 8 January 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ Ring Rail Line – Timetable

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