Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
IATA: HEL - ICAO: EFHK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Civil Government
Serves		Helsinki, Finland
Elevation AMSL		179 ft (55 m)
Coordinates		60°19′02″N, 24°57′48″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
04R/22L	11,286	3,440	Asphalt
04L/22R	10,039	3,060	Asphalt
15/33	9,518	2,901	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 15 kilometers from the Helsinki city centre. Originally built for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the airport today serves more than 13 million passengers a year and is one of the major airports in the Nordic countries.

The International and Domestic terminals are 250 m apart and are linked by an internal pedestrian connection.

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. There will be a train link, Kehärata, to Helsinki center.

Helsinki-Vantaa was chosen the best airport in the world in the IATA 1999 survey on the topic. The managing body of the airport is Finavia.

Airlines

• Aero Airlines (Joensuu, Kokkola, Kuopio, Mariehamn, Riga, Tallinn, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa, Vilnius)
• Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
• Airest (Tallinn)
• Air Baltic (Riga, Vilnius)
• Air Berlin (Düsseldorf)
• Air Finland
• Air Åland (Mariehamn)
• Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
• Avies (Tallinn)
• Blue1
• Britannia Nordic (Finnmatkat)
• British Airways (London-Heathrow)
• Cargolux (Hong Kong, Luxembourg)
• City Airline (Birmingham (UK), Gothenburg)
• CSA Czech Airlines (Prague)
• DHL
• Finnair (Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Brussels, Budapest, Catania, Copenhagen, Dubai, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Faro, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Guangzhou, Halifax, Hamberg, Hong Kong, Ivalo, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kajaani, Kemi/Tornio, Kittilä, Kuopio, Kuusamo, Larnaca, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Miami, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow Sheremetyevo, Munich, New York-JFK, Nice, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo, Oulu, Paphos, Paris-Charles De Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, St. Petersburg, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Stockholm/Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto, Vaasa, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich)
• Finncomm Airlines (Dusseldorf, Kemi/Tornio, Oslo, Stuttgart)
• FlyMe (Stockholm Arlanda)
• Futura International Airways
• Germanwings (Cologne)
• Golden Air (Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kokkola, Lappeenranta, Pori, Savonlinna, Seinäjoki, Tampere, Vaasa, Varkaus)
• KLM (Amsterdam)
• Lithuanian Airlines (Vilnius)
• LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
• MALÉV Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
• MyTravel Airways
• NTD Air Cargo (Stockholm Skavsta)
• Pegasus Airlines
• Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (St. Petersburg)
• SAS (Copenhagen, Stockholm)
• Severstal Aircompany (Petrozavodsk)
• SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
• Sterling Airlines (Barcelona, Bologna, Budapest, Chania, Edinburgh, Faro/Algarve, Malaga, Nice, Prague, Rome-Ciampino)
• TNT (Liege)
• Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)
• Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev)
• UPS
• West Air Sweden (Copenhagen)

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