Lappeenranta Airport ( IATA : LPP , ICAO : EFLP ) ( Fin. Lappeenrannan lentoasema ) is an international airport in Lappeenranta , Finland.
| Lappeenranta Airport | |||||||
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| Lappeenrannan lentoasema | |||||||
| IATA : LPP - ICAO : EFLP | |||||||
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| Type of | Civil | ||||||
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| Location | Lappeenranta, Finland | ||||||
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| Owner | Municipality of Lappeenranta | ||||||
| Operator | Saimaan lentoasema oy | ||||||
| NUM height | 106 | ||||||
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| Annual passenger flow | 61,100 | ||||||
The airport was opened in 1918 and is the oldest of the current airports in Finland. The airport houses the Aviation Museum of Karelia.
Since 2015, due to the termination of flights of the airline Ryanair , the airport was on the verge of closure [3] .
Content
- 1 Airlines and destinations
- 2 Statistics
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Airlines and destinations
Currently (April 2019), flights from Lappeenranta Airport to Athens, Thessaloniki, Milan (Bergamo), and Budapest are operated. It is expected that the airport will be popular among Russian tourists, due to the termination of international flights of Pobeda Airlines from Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg.
Statistics
| Year | Domestic flights | International flights | Total Passengers | Change |
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| 2005 | 46,536 | 3,112 | 49,648 | +1.7% ▲ |
| 2006 | 40,779 | 8,724 | 49,503 | −0.3% ▼ |
| 2007 | 18,948 | 4,036 | 22,984 | −53.6% ▼ |
| 2008 | 19,056 | 4,283 | 23,339 | +1.5% ▲ |
| 2009 | 8.265 | 5,798 | 14,063 | −39.7% ▼ |
| 2010 | 4,190 | 56,910 | 61,100 | +324.7% ▲ |
| 2011 | 310 | 115,957 | 116,267 | +90.3% ▲ |
| 2012 | 112 | 93,650 | 93,762 | −19.4% ▼ |
| 2013 | 147 | 98,153 | 98,300 | + 4.8% ▲ |
| 2014 | 325 | 89,226 | 89,551 | −8.8% ▼ |
| 2015 | 586 | 35,206 | 35,792 | -60.0% ▼ |
The reason for the reduction in passenger traffic since 2007 was the construction of a new Lahti-Kerava railway line, opened in September 2006, which allowed a sharp reduction in the time of a railway trip to Helsinki. In 2010, Ryanair began flying from Lappeenranta, its second airport of presence in Finland after Tampere Pirkkala .
A large number of passengers from Russia passed through the airport, using Ryanair's low-cost flights to Barcelona , Bergamo and Dusseldorf , but in 2015 the company ceased operations in Finland [3] .
The reduction in flights of low-cost airlines led to a decrease in passenger traffic. In 2010, passenger traffic amounted to approximately 61 thousand people [2] . In January - February 2013, 60% fewer passengers passed through the airport than during the same period of 2012 [6] .
On November 30, 2015, the municipality of Lapeeenranta bought the airport for 2 euros from the state-owned company Finavia . For the construction and runway, an additional 800 thousand euros were requested. The airport and property transferred January 1, 2016 [7]
Earlier, local officials said that the airport will resume operations in the second half of 2016. At the same time, the Minister of Transport of Finland Anna Berner reported that the decision on financial assistance in the amount of 1 million euros to the Lappeenranta airport will be made, as expected, only in the second half of 2016. [8]
Lomamamatkat Airlines plans to operate the airport on charter flights, which are scheduled for autumn 2016 and spring 2017.
Notes
- ↑ EFLP Lappeenranta unopened (PDF) (inaccessible link) . AIP Suomi / Finland EFLP AD 2.1, 1–8. Finavia (August 26, 2010). Date of treatment July 31, 2011. Archived June 8, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Finavia's Air Traffic Statistics 2010 (PDF) (link not available) 7, 9. Vantaa: Finavia. Date of treatment July 31, 2011. Archived July 4, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Lappeenranta city authorities are at a loss: what to do with the airport ?. // © Yle Uutiset = Yle News Service. = Website of the television and radio company Yleisradio Oy (yle.fi) August 13, 2015. (Retrieved August 16, 2015)
- ↑ Fontanka.fi ›Articles› Passenger traffic at Lappeenranta Airport halved . Date of treatment March 18, 2013. Archived March 22, 2013.
- ↑ Lappeenranta Airport will become the property of the new owner / News (inaccessible link) . Finavia. Date of treatment March 14, 2016. Archived March 15, 2016.
- ↑ Lappeenranta Airport will be sold for only 2 euros . www.dp.ru. Date of treatment March 14, 2016.
Links
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lappeenranta (airport)
- Finavia - Lappeenranta Airport
- AIP Finland - Lappeenranta Airport
- Current weather for EFLP at NOAA / NWS
- Airport LPP incident history on Aviation Safety Network
- Airport Site - Planned Departures