Kittilä Airport

Kittilä Airport (IATA: KTT, ICAO: EFKT), Finnish: Kittilän lentoasema, is a Finnish airport located in Kittilä inside the Arctic Circle. It handles general aviation and mostly seasonal international traffic and is one of the main airports in Northern Finland. It carried 325,160 passengers in 2017 being the fourth busiest airport in Finland.[1]

Kittilä Airport

Kittilän lentoasema
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorFinavia
ServesKittilä, Finland
Time zoneEET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST)EEST (UTC+3)
Elevation AMSL644 ft / 196 m
Coordinates67°41′55″N 024°50′53″E
Websitefinavia.fi
Map
KTT
Location within Finland
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
16/34 8,202 2,500 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers325,160[1]
Passenger change 16–17 26.3%
Landings1,598[2]
Source: AIP Finland[3]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Seasonal charter: Dublin[4]
Air Astana Seasonal charter: Nur-Sultan
ASL Airlines France Seasonal charter: Paris–Charles de Gaulle[5]
EasyJet Seasonal charter: London–Gatwick, Bristol
Edelweiss Air Seasonal charter: Zürich
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Finnair Helsinki
Seasonal: Brussels (begins 19 December 2020),[6] Ivalo, London–Gatwick, Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[7] Tampere, Turku, Zürich[7]
Helvetic Airways Seasonal: Zürich
Jet2.com Seasonal charter: Manchester, Newcastle, East Midlands
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich[8]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Helsinki
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Helsinki
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal charter: Geneva
Transavia Seasonal charter: Amsterdam
Transavia FranceSeasonal charter: Paris–Orly
TUI Airways Seasonal: Birmingham (begins 2 December 2020),[9] Bristol, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne[10]
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal charter: Brussels
TUI fly Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal charter: Kiev–Boryspil

Statistics
Apron view
4 busiest routes by passengers handled:[11]
Rank Airport Passengers
(2015)		 Operators
1. Helsinki, Finland
109,855
 Finnair, Nordic Regional Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines
2. Ivalo, Finland
30,911
 Finnair
3. London–Gatwick, United Kingdom
18,970
 easyJet, Finnair, TUI Airways
4. Manchester, United Kingdom
18,093
 Jet2.com, TUI Airways

Passengers
Annual passenger statistics for Kittilä Airport[12][13]
YearDomestic passengersInternational passengersTotal passengersChange
1983 1,821
1985 280
1990 21,103
1995 76,002
1998 115,65112,247127,898
1999 110,12817,808127,936+0,0%
2000 143,62726,455170,082+32,9%
2001 145,75735,781181,538+6,7%
2002 146,40851,083197,491+8,8%
2003 144,48269,300213,782+8,2%
2004 161,85477,109238,963+11,8%
2005 155,00873,513228,521−4.4%
2006 153,26491,820245,084+7.2%
2007 145,67596,291241,966−1.3%
2008 164,136101,259265,395+9.7%
2009 165,92679,387245,313−7.6%
2010 142,19772,179214,376−12.6%
2011 167,48471,054238,538+11.3%
2012 186 18477 202263 386+10.4%
2013 157 46579 757237 222−9.9%
2014 153 01181 722234 733−1.0%
2015 140 83185 988226 819−3.4%
2016 148,274109,263257,537+13.5%
2017 183,952141,101325,053+26.2%
2018 208,835145,726354,561+9.1%
2019 214,357148,804363,161+2,4%

Cargo
Handled freight and mail at Kittilä Airport in tons[14]
YearDomestic freightDomestic mailInternational freightInternational mailTotal freight and mailChange
2005 2500025−7%
2006 2610027+8%
2007 1400014−48%
2008 1300013−7%
2009 1100011−15%

Incidents and accidents
  • On 27 July 2006, a fire broke out around 19:00 between the old terminal building and the new unfinished section of the new terminal. The airport was ready and operational again in December 2006, with the new terminal open.[15]

See also

References
  1. https://www.finavia.fi/sites/default/files/documents/Passengers%20by%20Airport-fi_0.pdf
  2. https://www.finavia.fi/sites/default/files/documents/Landings-fi_0.pdf
  3. "EFKT Kittilä" (PDF). AIP Suomi / Finland. Vantaa: Finavia. 30 June 2011. pp. EFKT AD 2.1, 1–12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  4. "Visit Santa". visitsanta.ie.
  5. "ASL Airlines France - Planes for People". ASL Airlines France. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  6. Liu, Jim. "Finnair adds seasonal Kittila – Brussels route in W20". Routesonline. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  7. "News - Finnair". company.finnair.com. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  8. "Lufthansa Adds Winter Munich – Kittila Service from Dec 2015". airlineroute. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  9. https://www.tui.co.uk/flight/timetable
  10. "Flight Timetable". tui.co.uk.
  11. "Database - Eurostat". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  12. Alakulppi, Jaakko (2006). Lapin ilmailuhistoria II. Jälleenrakentamisesta 1945 Lapin lentomatkailuun ja Hornet-kauteen 2001 [The Aviation History of Lapland, part II. From Reconstruction in 1945 to Air Tourism and Hornet Era in 2001]. Lapin maakuntamuseon julkaisuja 10 (in Finnish). Jaakko Alakulppi. p. 732. ISBN 952-92-0337-3. ISSN 0781-5409.
  13. "Traffic statistics 2019". Finavia. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  14. "Finavia's Air Traffic Statistics 2009" (PDF). Vantaa: Finavia. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  15. "Fire at Kittilä Airport". Finavia. 27 July 2006. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2011.

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