Göteborg Landvetter Airport

Göteborg Landvetter Airport
IATA: GOT – ICAO: ESGG
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Luftfartsverket (1977–2009) Swedavia (2010–present)
Serves	Gothenburg, Sweden
Location	Landvetter
Hub for	Norwegian Air Shuttle Ryanair Scandinavian Airlines Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia TUIfly Nordic
Elevation AMSL	154 m / 506 ft
Coordinates
Website	swedavia.com/landvetter/
Map
GOT Location of airport in Sweden
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 03/21 3,299 10,823 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers total 6,162,456 International passengers 4,731,417 Domestic passengers 1,431,039 Landings total 30,332
Source: Swedish AIP at EUROCONTROL Statistics: Swedavia

Göteborg Landvetter Airport (IATA: GOT, ICAO: ESGG) is an international airport serving the Gothenburg region in Sweden. With 6.2 million passengers in 2015 it is Sweden's second-largest airport after Stockholm-Arlanda. Landvetter is also an important freight airport. During 2007, 60,100 tonnes of air cargo passed through Landvetter, about 60% of the capacity of Arlanda. It is operated by Swedavia, the national airport company. The airport is named after the town of Landvetter, which is located in the municipality of Härryda. It is 11 NM (20 km; 13 mi) east-southeast of Gothenburg and 40 km (25 mi) west of Borås. Since the closure of Gothenburg City Airport for commercial operations it is the city's only commercial passenger airport.

History

The airport was opened in 1977. Passenger services, previously at Torslanda Airport, north of Gothenburg, were moved to Landvetter in 1977. In 2001, some budget airlines began serving the former military base in Säve, which was renamed from Säve Flygplats to Gothenburg City Airport. That airport was closed down in winter 2014–2015 because of large reconstruction needs, meaning an increase of traffic on Landvetter of almost a million annual passengers. There has been a tendency that international travel has increased, especially on tourists, while domestic has declined somewhat (mostly business travel).

In 2013 the international terminal was extended fairly much with new shops, and in 2014 the domestic and international terminal were joined into one terminal.

On 14 April 2015 Swedavia announced a 10-year long contract with DHL Express to build a new 7500 m2 large cargo terminal, replacing the old 1700m2. The construction will begin in spring 2015 and is underway for one year. This was a step included in plans for Airport City. There are also plans to build a shortcut on the railway Gothenburg–Borås with a tunnel and a railway station under the airport. Construction start is planned to be 2020 and operation estimated by 2023.

Terminals

Landvetter Airport has traditionally had two terminals, domestic and international, but they have merged into one common terminal. In 2009 all baggage drop was moved to in the international terminal, since all baggage had to be screened with new regulations. In 2014 the two terminals joined into one with all baggage collected at the arrivals hall in the previous international terminal. The transfer area, which has several shops, cafés and a restaurant, is accessible for all passengers since that year.

There are eight air bridges, at gates 12–17, 19, and 20. Gates 10–11, 18A–18G and 21A–21D transport passengers to the aircraft via an airside bus transfer. The eight air bridges are not enough, so airside bus transfer is regularly used. Traditionally gates 10–15, which are accessed without passing through immigration, used to be limited to domestic flights but nowadays cater to international flights within the Schengen Area, which are treated as domestic flights. Gates 21A–21D belong to an area designated for flights outside the Schengen Area, and access is only possible after passing through immigration. Gate 19 and 20 are positionable so that, depending on upcoming flights, reaching them may or may not require passing through immigration. The freight terminal uses gate numbers below 10.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel
Air France operated by HOP!	Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
AIS Airlines	Borlänge
BRA	Stockholm-Bromma, Umeå Seasonal: Visby, Östersund
British Airways	London-Heathrow
British Airways operated by SUN-AIR	Aarhus, Manchester
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Czech Airlines	Hamburg, Prague
Eurowings	Düsseldorf
Finnair	Helsinki
Iberia Express	Seasonal: Madrid (begins 20 June 2016)
Icelandair	Seasonal: Reykjavík-Keflavík
Iran Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini
KLM	Amsterdam
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti	Munich
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Munich
NextJet	Sundsvall
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Alicante, Barcelona, London-Gatwick, Malaga, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda Seasonal: Chania, Gran Canaria, Madrid (begins 8 August 2016), Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Salzburg, Tenerife-South
Ryanair	Alicante, London-Stansted, Málaga, Warsaw-Modlin Seasonal: Bergamo, Edinburgh, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Zadar
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen, Malaga, Stockholm-Arlanda Seasonal: Alicante, Athens, Geneva, Luleå, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Pula, Split, Umeå, Östersund
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber	Copenhagen
Scandinavian Airlines operated by CityJet	Stockholm-Arlanda
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Jet Time	Copenhagen
Swiss International Air Lines	Seasonal: Geneva
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Helvetic Airways	Zürich
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss Global Air Lines	Zürich
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk
Vueling	Seasonal: Barcelona
Widerøe	Oslo-Gardermoen
Wizz Air	Belgrade, Budapest, Gdańsk, Skopje, Tuzla, Warsaw-Chopin

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Amapola Flyg	Stockholm-Arlanda, Jönköping, Sundsvall
DHL Aviation	Copenhagen, Leipzig/Halle
TNT Airways	Oslo-Gardermoen, Liege, Turku, Tallinn

Statistics

Main check-in hall

In front of the passenger terminals

Logistics facilities

Busiest routes to and from Göteborg Landvetter Airport (2015)

Rank	Airport	Passengers handled	% change 2014/2015
1	Sweden, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stockholm-Bromma	1,342,857	0.1
2	United Kingdom, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, London-Stansted	617,473	60.1
3	Germany, Frankfurt	328,978	4.8
4	Netherlands, Amsterdam	297,647	12.0
5	Denmark, Copenhagen	295,295	11.5
6	Germany, Berlin	231,836	7.5
7	Finland, Helsinki	205,463	0.7
8	Germany, Munich	185,841	6.0
9	Turkey, Istanbul	184,668	0.5
10	Belgium, Brussels	162,639	12.7
11	France, Paris-Beauvais, Paris-Charles de Gaulle	156,480	10.6
12	Turkey, Antalya	151,504	7.9
13	Spain, Gran Canaria	132,185	2.5
14	Spain, Palma de Mallorca	107,286	29.0
15	Spain, Alicante	99,412	156.4
16	Spain, Malaga	95,328	92.3
17	Greece, Chania	83,973	10.8
18	Spain, Barcelona	75,540	19.1
19	Spain, Tenerife	75,325	0.1
20	Norway, Oslo-Gardermoen	71,831	7.1
21	Germany, Düsseldorf	56,742	8.0
22	Cyprus, Larnaca	55,921	14.4
23	Greece, Rhodes	55,820	10.4
24	Italy, Rome-Ciampino, Rome-Fiumicino	54,065	93.7
25	Macedonia, Skopje	50,141	1188.3
26	Hungary, Budapest	45,958	1010.2
27	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuzla	42,875	1139.5
28	Poland, Warsaw-Chopin, Warsaw-Modolin	42,295	1289.4
29	Serbia, Belgrade	41,977	1111.1
30	Portugal, Lisbon	37,440	108.0

Ground transportation

Bus

Flygbussarna and Swebus takes passengers to the city of Gothenburg in 20 minutes, and in 30 minutes to Gothenburg Central station. Swebus takes passengers to Borås central station in 35–40 minutes

Road

The road distance to Gothenburg is 25 kilometres (16 mi) and to Borås 40 kilometres (25 mi), both via the Riksväg 40 motorway. To go northeast to Alingsås and beyond, the official route is via Partille. Most locals use a 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) shorter shortcut between Härryda and Lerum signposted "Härskogen". There are 7,300 parking spaces at the airport.

See also

• Swedish Civil Aviation Administration
• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Current weather for ESGG at NOAA/NWS