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Coordinates: 55°31′48″N 013°22′17″E / 55.53000°N 13.37139°E / 55.53000; 13.37139
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Malmö Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSwedavia
Serves
LocationSvedala
Opened3 December 1972 (1972-12-03)
Elevation AMSL236 ft / 72 m
Coordinates55°31′48″N 013°22′17″E / 55.53000°N 13.37139°E / 55.53000; 13.37139
Websiteswedavia.com/malmo/
Map
MMX is located in Skåne
MMX
MMX
Location within Skåne
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 800 2,624 Asphalt
17/35 2,800 9,186 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers total1 975 479[1] (Decrease8%)
Aircraft Movements18 676[1] (Decrease7%)

Malmö Airport, until 2007 known as Sturup Airport (Swedish: Sturups flygplats) (IATA: MMX, ICAO: ESMS) is Sweden's fourth busiest airport, handling 1,975,479 passengers in 2019.[2] The airport is located in Svedala Municipality, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Malmö and 26 kilometres (16 mi) south-east of Lund.

Via the Öresund Bridge the airport is located about 55 kilometres (34 mi) from central Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and 47 kilometres (29 mi) from Copenhagen Airport. The city of Malmö has roughly the same distance by road to Copenhagen Airport as to Malmö Airport.[3] Residents of the Malmö region use Copenhagen Airport more than Malmö Airport for scheduled international air travel.

History

Early years

Completed in 1972, then at a cost of around SEK130 million, almost twice as much as initially forecast, Sturup Airport replaced the aging Bulltofta Airport, which had served the region since 1923. Plans to build a new airport were drafted in the early 1960s. Expansion was impossible, due to Bulltofta's close proximity to the now booming city and nearby communities complained about noise pollution from the newly introduced jet aircraft.[citation needed]

Construction began in 1970, and the airport was inaugurated two years later on 3 December 1972. At the same time Bulltofta Airport closed. However, Malmö ATC (Air Traffic Control) remained at the old Bulltofta site until 1983 when it also moved to Malmö Airport.[4]

According to the Official Airline Guide (OAG), three airlines were serving the airport in the fall of 1996 including KLM Cityhopper with nonstop Fokker F50 turboprop flights to Amsterdam (AMS), Malmo Aviation with nonstop British Aerospace BAe 146 jet flights to London City Airport (LCY) as well as Stockholm Bromma Airport (BMA), and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) with nonstop McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and MD-87 jet flights to Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ARN).[5]

Development since the 2000s

Around 2005–2008 several low-cost airlines hoped to attract both Danish and Swedish passengers to Sturup Airport in competition with Copenhagen Airport. Malmö airport, due to its lower landing fees, is seen by some low-cost airlines as a less expensive way of accessing the Copenhagen area. The airport caters to low-cost carriers such as Wizz Air.[citation needed]

During 2008 Danish Sterling Airlines was operating service from Malmö Airport to London Gatwick Airport (LGW), Alicante, Barcelona, Nice and Florence. However, other low-cost carriers such as easyJet use Copenhagen Airport. Norwegian Air Shuttle uses Malmö Airport for a few flights a day to and from Stockholm Arlanda Airport while the majority of flights to the region go to Copenhagen Airport. In 2014, Ryanair moved their operations to Copenhagen Airport as well. Malmö Airport has not been attractive for travellers to/from Denmark.

The Malmö Airport Master Plan from 2018 describes how the airport will develop in the years to come, e.g. by extending the hall for arriving luggage and with new traffic flows to and from the airport. The works are projected in order to allow for a future second passenger terminal, as well as a second, parallel, runway northwest of the present one.[6]

Facilities

Malmö Airport features one passenger and two cargo terminals as well as 20 aircraft stands.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Malmö:[7]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Leap[8] Stockholm–Bromma
Amapola Flyg[9] Stockholm–Bromma
Ryanair Kraków[10]
Scandinavian Airlines Stockholm–Arlanda[11]
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya,[12] Chania,[12] Fuerteventura,[12] Gran Canaria,[12] Heraklion,[12] Larnaca,[12] Palma de Mallorca,[12] Rhodes,[12] Tenerife–South[12]
TUI fly Nordic[13] Seasonal charter: Gran Canaria, Sälen–Trysil (begins 21 February 2021)[14]
Wizz Air Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdańsk, Katowice, Niš, Ohrid, Skopje, Tuzla, Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Amapola Flyg Göteborg,[15] Stockholm–Arlanda,[15] Sundsvall–Timrå[15]

Statistics

Check-in area
Baggage reclaim area
Busiest routes to and from Malmö Airport (2018)[16]
Rank Airport Passengers handled % change
2017/2018
1  Sweden, Stockholm–Arlanda, Stockholm–Bromma 1,022,427 Decrease 10.2
2  North Macedonia, Skopje 94,193 Decrease 6.1
3  Poland, Gdańsk 94,069 Decrease 7.0
4  Hungary, Budapest 74,560 Increase 8.8
5  Serbia, Belgrade 72,036 Increase 5.7
6  Poland, Warsaw-Chopin 67,850 Decrease 16.0
7  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuzla 55,489 Decrease 5.3
8  Poland, Katowice 54,931 Increase 3.3
9  Romania, Cluj-Napoca 43,294 Increase 11.0
10  Romania, Bucharest 40,979 Increase 10.4
11  Spain, Gran Canaria 38,116 Decrease 18.7
12  Poland, Kraków 33,414 Decrease 24.7
13  Spain, Palma de Mallorca 29,101 Decrease 32.3
14  Austria, Vienna 28,921 Increase NEW
15  Serbia, Niš 23,641 Decrease 26.9
Countries with most handled passengers to/from Malmö Airport (2019)
Rank Country Passengers Change
2018/19
1  Poland 250,752 Decrease18.5%
2  North Macedonia 116,313 Increase16.0%
3  Spain 113,972 Decrease12.0%
4  Serbia 95,677 Decrease4.8%
5  Romania 84,273 Decrease0.2%
6  Hungary 74,560 Decrease15.1%
7  Bosnia and Herzegovina 55,755 Decrease4.8%
8  Greece 50,278 Decrease4.2%
9  Austria 34,669 Increase436.3%
10  Cyprus 21,755 Increase23.6%

Ground transportation

Bus

  • Flygbussarna Airport coaches depart from the airport to downtown Malmö. The journey to Malmö takes about 40 minutes. From there, there are train connections to destinations including Copenhagen.
  • Gråhundbus coaches departs to Copenhagen 30 minutes after every Ryanair arrival.
  • There is also Wizzair's bus to Copenhagen

See also

References

  1. ^ a b https://www.swedavia.se/globalassets/statistik/fpl_201912.pdf
  2. ^ "Statistics". Swedavia. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  3. ^ Copenhagen Airport → Lindeborg (28.3 km or 17.6 mi) vs. Malmö Airport → Lindeborg (29.3 km or 18.2 mi)
  4. ^ "Om flygplatsen | Malmö Airport". www.swedavia.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  5. ^ Oct. 27, 1996 edition OAG Pocket Flight Guide, Malmo flight schedules
  6. ^ Swedavia Malmö Airport Masterplan 2018
  7. ^ swedavia.com - Destinations retrieved 23 October 2019
  8. ^ https://www.airleap.se/
  9. ^ https://www.amapola.nu/
  10. ^ "Ryanair W17 new routes as of 05MAR17". Routesonline. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  11. ^ "SAS Makes Your Travel Easier". www.flysas.com.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Flight". ving.se.
  13. ^ "Only Flight". TUI.se.
  14. ^ "TUI lanserar sju nya flyglinjer till Scandinavian Mountains Airport Sälen-Trysil". Mynewsdesk. 21 October 2020.
  15. ^ a b c Flightradar24. "Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker!". Flightradar24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ swedavia.se [dead link]

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