Malmö Airport, formerly known as Malmö-Sturup Airport (Swedish: Malmö-Sturup flygplats) (IATA: MMX, ICAO: ESMS) is Sweden's fifth busiest airport, located approximately 28 km (17.4 mi) from Malmö and 26 km (16.2 mi) from Lund. Via the Oresund Bridge the airport is located about 55 km (34.2 mi) from central Copenhagen and 47 km (29.2 mi) from Copenhagen Airport. Malmö Airport is also a complement to Copenhagen Airport in the event of problems such as strikes or fog. Some parts of Malmö (e.g. Lindeborg) are indeed closer (by road) to Copenhagen Airport than Malmö Airport is.^[2] The airport had a total of 1,945,910 passengers in 2011.^[1]

History

Completed in 1972, then at a cost of around SEK130 million, almost twice as much as initially forecast, Sturup Airport replaced the current and aging Bulltofta Airport, which had served the region since 1923. Plans to build a new airport were drafted in the early 1960s. Expansion was impossible, due to Bulltofta's close proximity to the now booming city and nearby communities complained about noise pollution from the newly introduced jet aircraft. Construction began in 1970 and two years later, 3 December 1972, the airport was inaugurated. At the same time Bulltofta Airport closed. However, Malmö ATC (Air Traffic Control) remained at the old Bulltofta site until 1983 when it also moved to Malmö Airport.

Around 20052008 some low-cost airlines hoped to attract both Danish and Swedish passengers from Sturup in competition with Copenhagen Airport. During autumn 2007 the Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair closed all its routes from Malmö Airport. In the summer of 2011 Ryanair made a comeback in Malmö. During 2008 Danish Sterling Airlines had some lines from Malmö Airport to London (LGW), Alicante, Barcelona, Nice and Florence. Sterling Airlines accounted for about 6-7% of the total number of passengers at Sturup.^{[citation needed]}

Operational facts

• 1 Passenger terminal with 8 connecting gates
• 2 Cargo terminals
• 20 Parking stands for large aircraft

Ground transportation

Bus

• Flygbussarna Airport coaches depart from the airport to downtown Malmö and Lund (about 30 departures/day to each city) The journey to Malmö or Lund takes about 40 minutes. From there there are good train connections, e.g. to Copenhagen (total time to Copenhagen about 80 minutes)^[3]
• Gråhundbus coaches departs to Copenhagen 30 minutes after every Ryanair arrival.

Taxi

• There is a taxi stand at the airport. There is a fixed price to Malmö and Lund 395 SEK.

Airport parking

• There is parking at the airport, with both short-term and long-term parking lots. Short-term parking costs SEK 20 per hour and long-term parking SEK 180 per 24 hours.

Airlines and destinations

Charter airlines

Destinations in Spain, Egypt, Greece and other countries are served by JetX, TUIfly Nordic, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and sometimes other carriers like Jettime or Air Europa. Malmö Aviation flies to several charter destination during both summer and winter. During the winter Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia flies to Phuket International Airport.

Cargo airlines

Ground handling and fuel

• SAS Ground Services serves among others Scandinavian Airlines, Direktflyg, Cham Wings Airlines and Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia.
• Aviator Airport Alliance serves among others JetX (Primera), Jet Time, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Arkia Israel Airlines, Wizzair, TUIfly Nordic, Malmö Aviation, Ryanair, TNT Airways, Amapola Flyg, Air Contractors, UPS Airlines and Deicing for Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia.
• Menzies Aviation provides cargo handling.
• MTS Aviation provides ground and medevac handling as well as FBO services.
• Malmö Fueling Services delivers fuel for Air BP, Shell Aviation and Statoil.

Accidents and incidents

• On 28 January 2008, an EasyJet flight made a high-speed landing at Malmö Airport due to faulty flaps. The flight was bound for Copenhagen but requested to land at Malmö. No injuries were reported.^[4]

See also

• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

References

• http://www.lfv.se/templates/LFV_ArrivalsAndDepartures____2005.aspx
• http://sydsvenskan.se/ekonomi/article270553.ece
• http://sydsvenskan.se/skane/article296833.ece
• http://www.cityairline.com/city-airline-storsatsning-pa-inrikesflyg
• http://www.swedavia.se/sv/Malmo/Press2/Nyheter/Tel-Aviv---ny-destination-pa-Malmo-Airport/

External links

• Official website
• Airport information for ESMS at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• eSMS (English)