Visby Airport
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IATA: VBY – ICAO: ESSV | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public (Luftfartsverket) | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Swedavia | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Visby | ||||||||||||||
Location | Gotland, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 164 ft / 50 m | ||||||||||||||
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Website | swedavia.com/visby/ | ||||||||||||||
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Visby Airport (IATA: VBY, ICAO: ESSV), is located about 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Visby, Gotland, Sweden.
Visby airport is Gotland's only commercial airport and the 12th largest airport in Sweden. The airport had 406906 passengers in 2014.[2] The traffic has a large seasonal variation with many more passengers in the summer; in 2010 it had 17,606 passengers in January and 51,193 in July. And during Almedalsveckan the airport is slot coordinated. Gotland is a popular tourist destination for Swedes.
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Airlines and destinations
Airlines | Destinations |
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Aegean Airlines | Seasonal charter: Chania |
BRA | Göteborg, Malmö, Stockholm–Bromma Seasonal: Helsinki, Sandefjord, Split, Stockholm–Skavsta, Sundsvall-Härnösand, Ängelholm |
Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki |
Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal charter: Chania, Corfu, Rhodes |
Scandinavian Airlines | Stockholm–Arlanda |
SunExpress | Seasonal charter: Antalya |
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia | Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca |
Widerøe | Seasonal: Oslo–Gardermoen |
Statistics
Rank | Airport | Passengers handled | % change 2014/15 |
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1 | Sweden, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stockholm-Bromma | 353,036 | 6.7 |
2 | Sweden, Gothenburg | 32,187 | 3.6 |
3 | Sweden, Malmö | 19,332 | 5.2 |
4 | Norway, Oslo | 5,000 | 27.4 |
5 | Turkey, Antalya | 3,749 | 12.1 |
Unusual Railroad Crossing
Before the railroad was closed down on the island of Gotland, the main line from Visby actually crossed the runway. It is one of the few airports in the world where this happened. [4]
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References
External links
- Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Airport information for ESSV at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.