Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
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Helsinki-Vantaa Airport Template:Airport codes 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, Kehärata, to Helsinki center.
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 Associaton of European Airlines 2005 delay rates, Helsinki-Vantaa was the most punctual airport in Europe.
The managing body of the airport is Finavia.
Airlines
- Aero Airlines (Joensuu, Kokkola, Kuopio, Mariehamn, Riga, Tallinn, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa, Vilnius)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Airest (Tallinn)
- airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- Air Berlin (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, London-Stansted, Milan-Bergamo, Palma, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Vienna, Zurich)
- Air Finland
- Air Åland (Mariehamn)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Avies (Tallinn)
- Blue1 (Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Dublin, Göteborg, Hamburg, Kittilä, Kuopio, Copenhagen, London, Nice, Oslo, Oulu, Paris, Rome, Rovaniemi, Stockholm, Vaasa, Warsaw, Zürich)
- Britannia Nordic (Finnmatkat)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Cargolux (Hong Kong, Luxembourg)
- City Airline (Birmingham (UK), Gothenburg)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- DHL
- Finnair (Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Brussels, Budapest, Catania, Copenhagen, Dubai, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Faro, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Guangzhou, Halifax, 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-Charles De Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, St. Petersburg, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Stockholm/Arlanda, 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/Bonn)
- Golden Air (Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kokkola, Lappeenranta, Pori, Savonlinna, Seinäjoki, Tampere, Vaasa, Varkaus)
- Icelandair (Reykjavik)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Lithuanian Airlines (Vilnius)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
- MALÉV Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- MyTravel Airways
- NTD Air Cargo (Stockholm Skavsta)
- Pegasus Airlines
- Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St. Petersburg)
- SAS (Copenhagen, Stockholm)
- Severstal Aircompany (Petrozavodsk)
- SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Sterling Airlines (Barcelona, Bologna, Budapest, Chania, Edinburgh, Faro/Algarve, Malaga, Nice, Prague, Rome-Ciampino)
- TNT (Liege)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)
- Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev)
- UPS
- West Air Sweden (Copenhagen)
External links
- Helsinki-Vantaa - Airport homepage in English
- Runway details (pdf)
- Template:WADde:Flughafen Helsinki-Vantaa
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