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Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
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| Helsinki-Vantaa Airport Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema |
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| IATA: HEL – ICAO: EFHK | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Finavia | ||
| Serves | Uusimaa | ||
| Location | Vantaa | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 55 m / 179 ft | ||
| Coordinates | Coordinates: | ||
| Website | |||
| 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 |
Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (IATA: HEL, ICAO: EFHK) in Vantaa, Finland, is the main airport of the Helsinki metropolitan region and the whole of Finland. It is located about 5 kilometers from the center of Vantaa, Tikkurila, and 15 kilometers from the Helsinki city centre. Originally built for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the airport served over 12 million passengers in 2006 [1] and it is the fourth largest airport in the Nordic countries.
The International and Domestic terminals are 250 m apart and are linked by an internal pedestrian connection both airside and landside. However, the airside parts of the terminal buildings are under one roof and that space is 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 2009, allowing the airport to receive eight wide-body airplanes at the same time compared to current 5 gates (of which only 2 are suitable for Finnair's new Airbus A340).
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. A train link, Kehärata, to Helsinki center is planned.
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 managing body of the airport is Finavia.
Suomen ilmailumuseo (The Finnish Aviation Museum) is located adjacent to the airport. [1]
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Helsinki-Vantaa airport is located about 20 kilometers from Helsinki city centre. Bus service to centre takes 30-45 minutes depending on the time of day. The construction of the Kehärata rail link to airport may start as soon as 2008.
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- Aero Airlines (Joensuu, Kokkola, Kuopio, Riga, Tallinn, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Air Åland (Mariehamn)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf)
- Air Finland (Alicante, Málaga)
- airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Blue1 (Amsterdam [ends February 10, 2008], Athens, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel [ends February 10, 2008], Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Kittilä [seasonal], Kuopio, London-Stansted, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Oslo, Oulu, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, Stockholm-Arlanda, Vaasa, Warsaw, Zürich)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Sun Air of Scandinavia (Billund)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Estonian Air
- operated by Estonian Air Regional (Tallinn)[2]
- Finnair (Amsterdam, Athens, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin-Tegel, Boston [seasonal, leisure flight], Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Copenhagen, Delhi, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gdansk [seasonal], Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Ivalo, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kajaani, Kiev-Boryspil, Kittilä, Kokkola/Pietarsaari, Krakow [seasonal], Kuopio, Kuusamo, Larnaca, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Munich, Nagoya-Centrair, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo, Östersund [seasonal], Oulu, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa [seasonal], Ponta Delgada (seasonal), Prague, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, St. Petersburg, Shanghai-Pudong, Seoul-Incheon [starts June 2008], Stockholm-Arlanda,Tel Aviv [seasonal], Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson [seasonal], Vaasa, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, 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) [Seasonal]
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
- Lufthansa CityLine (Frankfurt, Munich)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Rossiya (St. Petersburg)
- Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Severstal Aircompany (Petrozavodsk)
- Skyways (Sundsvall [from 14.1.08])
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
- Volareweb (Milan-Malpensa)
- Airest (Tallinn)
- Avies (Tallinn)
- Cargolux (Hong Kong, Luxembourg)
- DHL (Stockholm, Cologne/Bonn)
- TNT (Liege)
- UPS (Malmö)
- West Air Sweden (Copenhagen)
- Helsinki-Vantaa airport - Airport homepage in English
- Airport information for EFHK at World Aero Data