STOCKHOLM-SKAVSTA AIRPORT

'Stockholm-Skavsta Airport' (Swedish: 'Stockholm-Skavsta flygplats', is an international airport located 100km (62.5 miles) south of Stockholm, Sweden in the municipality of Nyköping. It serves low-cost airlines and cargo operators. Stockholm-Skavsta Airport is Stockholm's second largest airport, and the fourth largest in Sweden.

Contents

History

Ground transportation

Airlines and destinations

Charter airlines

Incidents and accidents

See also

External links

References

History

The airport was established as a military air base in the 1940s and developed into a civilian airport in 1984. In 1997 the airport got their first international route to London Stansted with Ryanair. In 2003 Ryanair established a hub at Stockholm-Skavsta with 6 new routes. After that Wizzair has opened routes to Eastern Europe. For a short period in 2005, Finnair flew from Boston to Helsinki with a stop at Skavsta, but the airline has since moved the route to the larger Stockholm-Arlanda Airport.^[1] In May 2006 Fritidsresor started charter flights from the airport.

Ground transportation

★ Car rental

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★ Car rental is available from Avis, Europcar, Hertz and Sixt.

★ Bus

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★ Airport coaches travel directly between Stockholm-Skavsta Airport and the City Terminal in Stockholm (approx. 90 min travel time and costs SEK 130) where airport coaches and a high speed train (Arlanda Express) connects to Stockholm-Arlanda Airport. There are also airport coaches to Södertälje, Linköping and Norrköping.

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★ Local buses 715 and 515 travel to Nyköping and Oxelösund from 4 am to midnight (20 SEK).

★ Taxi

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★ Taxi must be preordered and it takes about 60 min to down town Stockholm and costs about SEK 1300.

★ Parking

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★ There is parking at the airport, at the terminal, and at short-term and long-term parking lots. Terminal parking costs SEK 20 per hour and long-term parking is slightly less expensive depending on the length of time.

Airlines and destinations

★ Ryanair (Alghero, Alicante [starts October 2007], Basel [starts October 2007], Berlin [starts October 2007], Bratislava [starts October 2007], Bremen, Dublin [starts October 2007], Düsseldorf-Weeze, Eindhoven [starts October 2007], Frankfurt-Hahn, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hamburg-Lübeck, Karlsruhe Baden [starts October 2007], Liverpool [starts October 2007], London-Stansted, Malta [starts October 2007], Marseille, Milan-Bergamo, Paris-Beauvais, Riga, Pisa [starts October 2007], Porto [starts October 2007], Rimini, Rome-Ciampino, Salzburg [starts December 2007], Trapani [starts October 2007], Valencia [starts October 10, 2007], Venice-Treviso)

★ Vildanden (Skien)

★ Wizzair (Budapest, Gdansk, Katowice, Warsaw, Poznan)

Charter airlines

★ TUIfly Nordic (Fritidresor) (Antalya, Burgas, Chania, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Palma, Phuket) [Seasonal]

★ MyTravel Airways (Ving) (Las Palmas, Tunisia) [Seasonal]

Incidents and accidents

★ 21 July 2005 - A Ryanair crew carried out an "irrational and inexplicable" steep approach at Stockholm-Skavsta Airport according to the Irish Air Accident Investigation Unit. ^[2]

See also

★ List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

External links

★ Stockholm-Skavsta Airport

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References

1. [1]
2. Flight International 12-18 December 2006