Åre Östersund Airport

Åre Östersund Airport
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Swedavia
Serves Östersund & Åre
Location Frösön, Sweden
Elevation AMSL 1,233 ft / 376 m
Coordinates 63°11′39″N 14°30′07″E / 63.19417°N 14.50194°E / 63.19417; 14.50194Coordinates: 63°11′39″N 14°30′07″E / 63.19417°N 14.50194°E / 63.19417; 14.50194
Website www.swedavia.com/ostersund/
Map
OSD
Location of airport in Jämtland
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 8,202 2,500 Asphalt
12L/30R
Closed		 4,034 1,230 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers total 465,196
International passengers 20,696
Domestic passengers 444,500
Landings total 5,208
Statistics: Swedavia[1]

Åre Östersund Airport (IATA: OSD, ICAO: ESNZ), previously known as Östersund–Frösön Airport is located about 11 km west of Östersund, Sweden and 94 km east of Åre, Sweden. The airport opened in 1958.

Åre Östersund airport is an international airport and served 465,196 passengers in 2015.[1]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean AirlinesSeasonal charter: Rhodes[2][3]
Air EuropaSeasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca
Direktflyg Umeå (PSO)
BRA Braathens Regional Airlines Stockholm–Bromma
Seasonal: Gothenburg, Malmö[4]
Croatia AirlinesSeasonal charter: Split
Corendon AirlinesSeasonal charter: Antalya
easyJetSeasonal: Bristol (begins 9 December 2018), Copenhagen,[5][6] London–Gatwick[7][8]
Freebird AirlinesSeasonal charter: Antalya
NovairSeasonal charter: Rhodes
TUI fly NordicSeasonal charter: Gran Canaria
Scandinavian Airlines Stockholm–Arlanda

Ground transportation

Bus

Airport Coaches (Stadsbussarna) departs from the airport to down town Östersund. In the winter, Åre Flygtransfer departs in connection with every SAS and BRA flight, to and from Åre.

Events

Östersund hosted a round of the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship in 2012 and 2013.

Incidents and accidents

  • On 9 September 2007 an MD83 took off for a charter flight bound for Antalya, Turkey. The plane was overloaded and left the runway very late and touched the landing light equipment that was placed outside the runway. It continued to Antalya where it landed normally.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Statistics". Swedavia. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "A34386 flight history". flightradar24.com. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "A34387 flight history". flightradar24.com. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Flygtorget » Flygnyheter » Notiser » BRA fortsätter flyga till Åre Östersund från södra Sverige". flygtorget.se. BRA.
  5. ↑ http://www.svenskaflygbolag.com/
  6. ↑ https://www.swedavia.com/ostersund/news/flyg-direkt-till-kopenhamn-med-easyjet/
  7. ↑ "easyJet announces new ski route to Sweden from London Gatwick (> Media > News)". Easyjet. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  8. ↑ 2016, UBM (UK) Ltd. "easyJet adds London Gatwick – Östersund service from Dec 2016". routesonline. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  9. ↑ Statens haverikommission – Rapport RL 2009:14 Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine.


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