Malmö Airport Malmö flygplats | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Swedavia | ||||||||||||||
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| Location | Svedala Municipality,Skåne County,Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 3 December 1972; 52 years ago (1972-12-03) | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 72 m / 236 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 55°31′48″N013°22′17″E / 55.53000°N 13.37139°E /55.53000; 13.37139 | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Malmö Airport (IATA:MMX,ICAO:ESMS) is an international airport located inScania,Sweden, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) east ofMalmö. It is Sweden'sfifth-busiest airport, with just over 905,000 passengers in 2024 - 53% domestic and 47% international.[2]
The airport opened in 1972 to replaceBulltofta Airport, and was known until 2007 asMalmö-Sturup Airport (Swedish:Malmö-Sturups flygplats).[3] It is owned and operated bySwedavia, Sweden's state-owned airport company, and features one passenger terminal, two cargo terminals, and a single 2,800-metre runway.[4]
Located inSvedala Municipality, Malmö Airport is about 55 kilometres (34 mi) from centralCopenhagen, and 47 kilometres (29 mi) fromCopenhagen Airport via theÖresund Bridge. Malmö itself is roughly the same distance by road to Copenhagen Airport as to Malmö Airport.[5]
Completed in 1972, then at a cost of around SEK130 million, almost twice as much as initially forecast, Sturup Airport replaced the agingBulltofta 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.[citation needed]
Construction began in 1970, and the airport was inaugurated two years later on 3 December 1972. 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.[6]
According to theOfficial Airline Guide (OAG), three airlines were serving the airport in the fall of 1996 includingKLM Cityhopper with nonstopFokker F50 turboprop flights toAmsterdam (AMS),Malmo Aviation with nonstopBritish AerospaceBAe 146 jet flights toLondon City Airport (LCY) as well asStockholmBromma Airport (BMA), andScandinavian Airlines System (SAS) with nonstopMcDonnell Douglas MD-80 andMD-87 jet flights toStockholmArlanda Airport (ARN).[7]
Around 2005–2008 several low-cost airlines hoped to attract both Danish and Swedish passengers to Sturup Airport in competition with Copenhagen Airport. Malmö airport, due to its lower landing fees, is seen by some low-cost airlines as a less expensive way of accessing the Copenhagen area. The airport caters to low-cost carriers such asWizz Air.[8]
During 2008 DanishSterling Airlines was operating service from Malmö Airport toLondon Gatwick Airport (LGW), Alicante, Barcelona, Nice and Florence. However, other low-cost carriers such aseasyJet useCopenhagen Airport.Norwegian Air Shuttle uses Malmö Airport for a few flights a day to and fromStockholm Arlanda Airport while the majority of flights to the region go to Copenhagen Airport. In 2014,Ryanair moved their operations to Copenhagen Airport as well.[citation needed]
The Malmö Airport Masterplan from 2018 describes how the airport will develop in the years to come, e.g. by extending the hall for arriving luggage and with new traffic flows to and from the airport. The works are projected in order to allow for a future second passenger terminal, as well as a second, parallel, runway northwest of the present one.[9]
Malmö Airport features one passenger and two cargo terminals as well as 20 aircraft stands.
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Malmö:[10]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Braathens International Airways | Seasonal charter:Rhodes[11] |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Stockholm–Arlanda[12][13] |
| Sunclass Airlines | Seasonal charter:Antalya,[14]Chania,[14]Gran Canaria,[14]Heraklion,[14]Larnaca,[14]Palma de Mallorca,[14]Rhodes,[14]Tenerife–South[14] |
| Trade Air | Seasonal charter:Pristina[15] |
| Wizz Air[16] | Belgrade,Bucharest–Otopeni,[17]Cluj-Napoca,Gdańsk,Iași,[18]Skopje,Tirana |
| Rank | Airport | Passengers handled | % change 2022/23 |
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| 1 |  Stockholm, Sweden (Arlanda andBromma) | 584,549 |  0.5 |
| 2 |  Skopje, North Macedonia | 74,940 | 26.2 |
| 3 |  Belgrade, Serbia | 67,200 | 12.6 |
| 4 |  Gdańsk, Poland | 62,352 | 32.5 |
| 5 |  Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 46,349 | 14.9 |
| 6 |  Budapest, Hungary | 45,300 |  5.8 |
| 7 |  Zagreb, Croatia | 35,795 | 21.5 |
| 8 | Bucharest, Romania | 34,682 | 0.5 |
| 9 | Warsaw, Poland | 33,030 | 21.4 |
| 10 |  Gran Canaria, Spain | 30,686 | 19.2 |
| 11 |  Pristina, Kosovo | 29,731 | 16.3 |
| 12 |  Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 26,998 | 5.7 |
| 13 | Niš, Serbia | 26,443 | 8.5 |
| 14 | Katowice, Poland | 26,418 | 10.3 |
| 15 | Ohrid, North Macedonia | 23,262 | 11.4 |
| Rank | Country | Passengers | % change 2022/23 |
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| 1 | Poland | 121,800 | 4.9 |
| 2 | North Macedonia | 98,202 | 22.4 |
| 3 | Serbia | 93,643 | 11.4 |
| 4 | Romania | 81,031 | 8.3 |
| 5 | Spain | 65,451 | 4.5 |
| 6 | Hungary | 45,300 | 5.8 |
| 7 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 39,442 | 46.3 |
| 8 |  Greece | 36,324 | 13.7 |
| 9 | Croatia | 35,798 | 21.3 |
| 10 | Kosovo | 29,731 | 16.3 |
The airport is not served bySkånetrafiken's regional public transport,[20] however has regularFlygbussarna coach connections by toMalmö city centre as well as byBuss Bogdan Skåne toLund. Additionally,Neptunbus connects allWizz Air flights withCopenhagen.[21]
Media related toMalmö Airport at Wikimedia Commons
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