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Airport in Luleå, Sweden

Luleå AirportLuleå flygplats
IATA: LLAICAO: ESPA
Summary
Airport type Military/public
Operator Swedavia
Serves Luleå
Location Luleå, Sweden
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Elevation AMSL 65 ft / 20 m
Coordinates 65°32′37″N 022°07′19″E / 65.54361°N 22.12194°E / 65.54361; 22.12194
Website www.swedavia.com/lulea/
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 14/32 10,990 3,350 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers total1,034,866International passengers67,032Domestic passengers967,834
Statistics: Swedavia[1]

Luleå Airport (IATA: LLA, ICAO: ESPA) is located about 7 km (4.3 mi) south-southeast of Luleå, Sweden, near the village of Kallax. The official name according to the Swedish Aeronautical Information Publication is Luleå/Kallax Airport.[2] The airport had a total of 1,034,866 passengers in 2023,[1] and is thus Sweden's fifth largest airport. It is the largest airport in northern Sweden (Norrland). The runway is also used by the Norrbotten Wing (F 21).

The airport began as the military airfield Norrbotten Wing (F 21) in 1941 and later opened up to civilian traffic to Stockholm on September 11, 1944.[3] Winter operations began in 1948 when a hangar was built and runway lights were operational. International tourist charters started in 1969. The present terminal building was opened in 1984. The number of passengers increased a lot in the 1980s and then decreased much in the 1990s, both here and in all of Sweden, reached one million at Luleå in 1991, a figure which was reached again 2011. The passenger figures have still been fairly steady at Luleå since other transport modes and other airports are less attractive when going to Luleå. In 1999 the runway at Luleå Airport was extended to 3,350 meters for cargo flights, but that has not led to an increase in traffic; the airport authority attributes the lack of growth to the economy.[4]

Airlines and destinations

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Luleå Airport:

Airlines Destinations
Braathens International Airways Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca,[5] Rhodes[6][7]
Jonair Pajala
Norwegian Air Shuttle Stockholm–Arlanda
Scandinavian Airlines Gothenburg,[8] Stockholm–Arlanda[8]
Transavia Seasonal: Paris–Orly
Vueling Seasonal: Paris–Orly[9]
Airlines Destinations
Zimex Aviation Umeå[10]

Busiest routes to and from Luleå Airport (2023)[11]

Rank Airport Type Passengers handled % change2022/23
1 Sweden Stockholm, Sweden Regular 943,044 Increase 10.4
2 Sweden Gothenburg, Sweden Regular 18,294 Increase 45.9
3 Greece Rhodes, Greece Charter 14,486 Increase 117.4
4 Spain Gran Canaria, Spain Charter 12,846 Increase 2.0
5 Greece Chania, Greece Charter 8,210 Increase 26.4
6 Spain Palma de Mallorca, Spain Charter 6,712
7 France Paris, France Regular 5,281
8 Sweden Pajala, Sweden Regular 4,228
9 Turkey Antalya, Turkey Charter 4,054
10 Croatia Split, Croatia Charter 2,978
11 Cyprus Larnaca, Cyprus Charter 2,922
12 United Kingdom London, United Kingdom Regular 2,121
13 Greece Heraklion, Greece Charter 2,117
14 Germany Düsseldorf, Germany Regular 1,808

Traffic by calendar year[11][12]

Year Passenger volume Change Domestic Change International Change
2023 1,034,754 967,832 66,920
2019 1,162,424 Decrease3.3% 1,071,783 Decrease3.5% 90,641 Decrease0.8%
2018 1,201,623 1,110,297 91,326
  1. ^ a b "Statistics" (PDF). Swedavia.
  2. ^ "AD 1.3 Index to aerodromes" (PDF). IAIP - AD 1 Aerodromes - Introduction. Norrköping: Luftfartsverket. p. 3. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  3. ^ Historik Archived 2014-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (Swedish)
  4. ^ "About the airport". www.swedavia.com. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
  5. ^ "BRA A319 NS23 SCHEDULED CHARTER OPERATIONS".
  6. ^ "BRA och Ving ingår partnerskap värt 2 miljarder". 16 June 2022.
  7. ^ Liu, Jim (27 March 2024). "BRA NS24 Charter Program With Apollo / Spies / VING". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
  8. ^ a b Liu, Jim (30 October 2024). "SAS NW24 Europe Service Changes – 27OCT24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  9. ^ "Vueling Adds Paris Orly – Nordic Service in NW24".
  10. ^ "Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map".
  11. ^ a b "Antal ankommande och avresande passagerare på Swedavias flygplatser, 2023" (XLSX). Swedavia.se. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  12. ^ "Flygplatsstatistik". Transportstyrelsen. Retrieved 17 February 2020.

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