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Luleå Airport (Swedish: Luleå flygplats) is located about 10 km southeast of Luleå
Luleå

Lule? , is a Cities in Sweden with a population of 57 144 in the urban area, and 73 416 including connecting suburbs. The city is located at the coast of Norrbotten in northern Sweden....
, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, near the village of Kallax
Kallax

Kallax is a urban areas of Sweden with 291 inhabitants situated in Lule? Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden. Lule? Airport is situated near Kallax....
. It is the largest airport in northern Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 (Norrland
Norrland

Norrland is one of the three lands of Sweden , the northern part, consisting of nine Provinces of Sweden. The term Norrland is not used for any administrative purpose, but it is common in everyday language, e.g....
), and the 5th largest in Sweden. The airport had 902,168 passengers in 2005, most of whom flew to/from Stockholm
Stockholm

is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
.

airport opened in 1984.

A connection to Murmansk
Murmansk

Murmansk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and seaport in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, 12 km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 was operated since the early 1990s by the Russian airline Arkhangelsk Airlines.






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Luleå Airport (Swedish: Luleå flygplats) is located about 10 km southeast of Luleå
Luleå

Lule? , is a Cities in Sweden with a population of 57 144 in the urban area, and 73 416 including connecting suburbs. The city is located at the coast of Norrbotten in northern Sweden....
, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, near the village of Kallax
Kallax

Kallax is a urban areas of Sweden with 291 inhabitants situated in Lule? Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden. Lule? Airport is situated near Kallax....
. It is the largest airport in northern Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 (Norrland
Norrland

Norrland is one of the three lands of Sweden , the northern part, consisting of nine Provinces of Sweden. The term Norrland is not used for any administrative purpose, but it is common in everyday language, e.g....
), and the 5th largest in Sweden. The airport had 902,168 passengers in 2005, most of whom flew to/from Stockholm
Stockholm

is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
.

History

The airport opened in 1984.

A connection to Murmansk
Murmansk

Murmansk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and seaport in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, 12 km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 was operated since the early 1990s by the Russian airline Arkhangelsk Airlines. With the route starting from Archangelsk, it was the only connection from these cities to Sweden. Their Russian machines were, however, banned in 2006 because of tighter noise and pollution restrictions imposed by the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
. Nordkalottflyg
Nordkalottflyg

Barents AirLink is an airline based in Sweden. It was established as Nordkalottflyg in 1974 and operates scheduled domestic and international services....
 (Barents AirLink) took over the connection in May 2006 but discontinued it in 2007.

Around the year 2000 the runway at Luleå Airport was extended and is now the longest in Sweden. The purpose of the extension was to attract heavy long-distance cargo flights, and the airport was planned to serve as a fuel stop for cargo flights from such cities as Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 and San Francisco. The distance e.g. Tokyo-Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 is shorter if routed through Luleå, compared to flying over China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. So far Russian bureaucracy and fees for trans-Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
n flights have obstructed these plans, but a lower fee closer to standard values was accepted by Russian authorities in 2006, which has seen cargo traffic slowly increasing.

Airlines and destinations

  • Barents AirLink (Pajala)
  • City Airline
    City Airline

    City Airline is a regional airline based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is privately owned and operates a small European network, as well as charters and wet leases....
     (Gothenburg-Landvetter)
  • Direktflyg
    Direktflyg

    Direktflyg, officially Svenska Direktflyg AB is a regional airline based in Borl?nge Municipality, Sweden. It operates services to thirteen destinations in Sweden and Norway....
     (Sundsvall)
  • Norwegian Air Shuttle
    Norwegian Air Shuttle

    Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA , trading as Norwegian, is the fifth-largest low-cost airline airline in Europe, and the second-largest airline in Scandinavia....
      (Stockholm-Arlanda)
  • Nextjet
    Nextjet

    Nextjet is a Swedish airline based in Sollentuna, which serves five domestic destinations with a 19-seater Beech 1900D from Stockholm-Arlanda Airport's Terminal 3: Hagfors, Mora-Siljan, Sveg, Torsby and ?rebro....
     (Umeå, Östersund)
  • Scandinavian Airlines (Stockholm-Arlanda, Kiruna)


See also

  • List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries


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