Helsinki-Vantaa Airport Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema Helsingfors-Vanda flygplats
IATA: HEL – ICAO: EFHK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Finavia
Serves		Helsinki
Location		Vantaa
Elevation AMSL		55 m / 179 ft
Coordinates		60°19′02″N 024°57′48″E / 60.31722°N 24.96333°E / 60.31722; 24.96333Coordinates: 60°19′02″N 024°57′48″E / 60.31722°N 24.96333°E / 60.31722; 24.96333
Website		www.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)
Passengers			13,426,901[1]
Landings			91,952[1]
Source: AIP Finland[2]

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 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Helsinki 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]

Contents 1 Terminals 2 Ground transportation 3 Statistics 4 Airlines and destinations 4.1 Terminal 1 4.2 Terminal 2 4.3 Cargo airlines 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Terminals

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.

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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%

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Terminal 1

• 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)
  • Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Frankfurt, Munich)
• TAP Portugal (Lisbon)
• Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
• Estonian Air (Tallinn)

[edit] Terminal 2

• 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-Otopeni, 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, 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)
• Icelandair (Reykjavík-Keflavík)
• Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
• Rossiya (St Petersburg)
• Severstal (Petrozavodsk)
• Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
• Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)

[edit] Cargo airlines

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

[edit] See also

• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

• Helsinki-Vantaa airport – Airport homepage in English
• AIP Finland – Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
• Current weather for EFHK at NOAA/NWS
• Airport information for EFHK at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• Airport information for HEL at Great Circle Mapper. Data current as of October 2006.
• Accident history for HEL at Aviation Safety Network

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