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Malmö Airport

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
Malmö flygplats
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSwedavia
Serves
LocationSvedala Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden
Opened3 December 1972; 53 years ago (1972-12-03)
Elevation AMSL72 m / 236 ft
Coordinates55°31′48″N 013°22′17″E / 55.53000°N 13.37139°E / 55.53000; 13.37139
Websitewww.swedavia.com/malmo
Map
MMX/ESMS is located in Skåne
MMX/ESMS
MMX/ESMS
Location within Skåne
MMX/ESMS is located in Sweden
MMX/ESMS
MMX/ESMS
MMX/ESMS (Sweden)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 800 2,624 Asphalt
17/35 2,800 9,186 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers1.975.479[1] (Decrease8%)
Aircraft Movements18.676[1] (Decrease7%)

Malmö Airport (IATA: MMX, ICAO: ESMS) is an international airport located in Scania, Sweden, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Malmö. It is Sweden's fifth-busiest airport, with just over 905,000 passengers in 2024 - 53% domestic and 47% international.[2]

The airport opened in 1972 to replace Bulltofta Airport, and was known until 2007 as Malmö-Sturup Airport (Swedish: Malmö-Sturups flygplats).[3] It is owned and operated by Swedavia, Sweden's state-owned airport company, and features one passenger terminal, two cargo terminals, and a single 2,800-metre runway.[4]

Located in Svedala Municipality, Malmö Airport is about 55 kilometres (34 mi) from central Copenhagen, and 47 kilometres (29 mi) from Copenhagen Airport via the Öresund Bridge. Malmö itself is roughly the same distance by road to Copenhagen Airport as to Malmö Airport.[5]

History

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Early years

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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.[6]

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).[7]

Development since the 2000s

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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.[8]

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.[citation needed]

The Malmö Airport Masterplan 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.[9]

Facilities

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

Airlines and destinations

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Malmö:[10]

AirlinesDestinations
Ryanair London–Stansted,[11] Warsaw–Modlin,[12] Zagreb[13]
Scandinavian Airlines Stockholm–Arlanda[14][15]
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya,[16] Chania,[16] Gran Canaria,[16] Heraklion,[16] Larnaca,[16] Palma de Mallorca,[16] Rhodes,[16] Tenerife–South[16]
Trade Air Seasonal charter: Pristina[17]
Wizz Air[18] Belgrade,[19] Bucharest–Otopeni,[20][21] Cluj-Napoca,[22] [citation needed], Iași,[23][24] Podgorica,[25] Skopje,[26] Tirana,[27] Tuzla[28]

Statistics

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Check-in hall
Baggage reclaim area
Control tower
Busiest routes to and from Malmö Airport (2024)[1]
Rank Airport Passengers handled % change
2023/24
1 Stockholm[a] 466,938 Decrease 20.1
2 Skopje 64,009 Decrease 14.6
3 { Cluj-Napoca 38,514 Decrease 16.9
4 Zagreb 33,972 Decrease 5.1
5 Gdańsk 33,303 Decrease 46.6
6 Tirana 30,181 Increase 35.8
7 Pristina 28,072 Decrease 5.6
8 Gran Canaria 27,832 Decrease 9.3
9 Palma de Mallorca 21,306 Decrease 0.01
10 Rhodes 16,368 Increase 69.7
Traffic by calendar year[29]
Year Passenger volume Change Domestic Change International Change
2025 855,483 Decrease5.5% 351,383 Decrease26.7% 504,100 Increase18.3%
2024 905,443 Decrease30.2% 479,215 Decrease20.1% 426,228 Decrease38.9%
2023 1,296,830 Increase0.5% 599,560 Increase0.7% 697,270 Increase0.2%
2022 1,290,964 Increase95.2% 595,250 Increase96.0% 695,714 Increase94.4%
2021 661,507 Increase25.7% 303,700 Increase18.0% 357,807 Increase33.1%
2020 526,179 Decrease73.4% 257,304 Decrease75.4% 268,875 Decrease71.1%
2019 1,975,479 Decrease8.0% 1,045,980 Decrease10.5% 929,499 Decrease5.1%
2018 2,147,933 Decrease1.7% 1,168,199 Decrease6.7% 979,734 Increase5.0%
2017 2,185,485 Decrease1.5% 1,251,994 Increase0.8% 933,491 Decrease4.5%
2016 2,219,565 Increase2.2% 1,241,764 Increase3.5% 977,801 Increase0.6%
2015 2,171,557 Increase4.0% 1,199,414 Increase1.6% 972,143 Increase7.0%
2014 2,088,388 Decrease1.8% 1,180,123 Increase0.9% 908,265 Decrease3.1%
2013 2,127,564 Increase1.1% 1,190,264 Decrease0.5% 937,300 Increase3.3%
2012 2,104,013 1,196,830 907,183

Ground transportation

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The airport will, starting in August 2026 be served by Skånetrafiken's regional public transport, with a new bus line, 147 taking passengers between the airport and Svedala Stortorget,[30] close to a railway station. The airport also has regular Flygbussarna coach connections by to Malmö city centre as well as by Buss Bogdan Skåne to Lund. Additionally, Neptunbus connects all Wizz Air flights with Copenhagen.[31]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Includes flights to/from Stockholm–Arlanda and Stockholm–Bromma

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Antal ankommande och avresande passagerare på Swedavias flygplatser, 2024" (XLSX). Swedavia.se. Archived from the original on 15 March 2024. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  2. ^ "Statistik inom luftfart - Transportstyrelsen". www.transportstyrelsen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Malmö Airport". flyg24nyheter (in Swedish). 29 March 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  4. ^ "About | Swedavia - Malmö Airport | Routes". www.routesonline.com. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  5. ^ Copenhagen Airport → Lindeborg (28.3 km or 17.6 mi) vs. Malmö Airport → Lindeborg (29.3 km or 18.2 mi)
  6. ^ "Om flygplatsen | Malmö Airport". www.swedavia.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  7. ^ Oct. 27, 1996 edition OAG Pocket Flight Guide, Malmo flight schedules
  8. ^ "Wizz Air to expand at Malmö Airport by launching two new routes to Romania". News Powered by Cision. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  9. ^ Swedavia Malmö Airport Masterplan 2018
  10. ^ swedavia.com - Destinations retrieved 7 December 2024
  11. ^ "Nyheter från flyget i Sverige". SVENSKA FLYGBOLAG (in Swedish). Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  12. ^ Lemański, Grzegorz (24 October 2025). "Wysyp nowych tras od Ryanaira. Wakacyjne hity z Poznania, Wrocławia i Modlina". Fly4free.pl - wydawaj mniej, podróżuj więcej - tanie loty, wczasy, hotele (in Polish). Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  13. ^ Liu, Jim (4 July 2022). "Ryanair July 2022 Zagreb Operation Changes - 03JUL22". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
  14. ^ Liu, Jim (30 October 2024). "SAS NW24 Europe Service Changes – 27OCT24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  15. ^ "SAS Makes Your Travel Easier". www.flysas.com.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h "Flight". ving.se.
  17. ^ swedavia.com - Pristina retrieved 7 December 2024
  18. ^ "WIZZ – Dream more. Live more. Be more". 2004.
  19. ^ "Belgrade, Serbia BEG". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 26 (11). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 128–129. May 2025. ISSN 1466-8718. OCLC 41608313.
  20. ^ "Bucharest, Romania BUH". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 26 (11). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 184–186. May 2025. ISSN 1466-8718. OCLC 41608313.
  21. ^ "Wizz Air: București - Coasta Amalfi și reia două rute spre București și Iași". boardingpass.ro. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  22. ^ "Cluj, Romania CLJ". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 26 (11). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 267–268. May 2025. ISSN 1466-8718. OCLC 41608313.
  23. ^ "Iasi, Romania IAS". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 26 (11). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 491–491. May 2025. ISSN 1466-8718. OCLC 41608313.
  24. ^ "Wizz Air NW24 Network Additions – 14SEP24". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  25. ^ Aviation, EX-YU (14 October 2025). "Wizz Air launching Podgorica base with fourteen new routes". EX-YU Aviation News. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
  26. ^ "Skopje, Macedonia FYR SKP". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 26 (11). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 1072–1073. May 2025. ISSN 1466-8718. OCLC 41608313.
  27. ^ "Tirana, Albania TIA". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 26 (11). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 1129–1131. May 2025. ISSN 1466-8718. OCLC 41608313.
  28. ^ "Wizz Air unveils Tuzla base with nine new routes". 19 August 2025.
  29. ^ "Statistik inom Swedavia". www.swedavia.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  30. ^ ulo. "Bergkvara vinner Trelleborgstrafik | Bussmagasinet" (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 January 2026.
  31. ^ swedavia.com - Busses | Malmö Airport retrieved 21 September 2024
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