Malmö Airport

Malmö Airport, until 2007 known as Sturup Airport (Swedish: Sturups flygplats) (IATA: MMX, ICAO: ESMS) is Sweden's fourth busiest airport, handling 1,975,479 passengers in 2019.[2] The airport is located in Svedala Municipality, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Malmö and 26 kilometres (16 mi) south-east of Lund.

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Malmö Airport

Malmö flygplats
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSwedavia
Serves
LocationSvedala
Opened3 December 1972 (1972-12-03)
Elevation AMSL236 ft / 72 m
Coordinates55°31′48″N 013°22′17″E
Websiteswedavia.com/malmo/
Map
MMX is located in Skåne
MMX
MMX
Location within Skåne
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 800 2,624 Asphalt
17/35 2,800 9,186 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers total1 975 479[1] (Decrease8%)
Aircraft Movements18 676[1] (Decrease7%)

Via the Öresund Bridge the airport is located about 55 kilometres (34 mi) from central Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and 47 kilometres (29 mi) from Copenhagen Airport. The city of Malmö has roughly the same distance by road to Copenhagen Airport as to Malmö Airport.[3]

History

Early years

Completed in 1972, then at a cost of around SEK130 million, almost twice as much as initially forecast, Sturup Airport replaced the aging Bulltofta 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.

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.[4]

According to the Official Airline Guide (OAG), three airlines were serving the airport in the fall of 1996 including KLM Cityhopper with nonstop Fokker F50 turboprop flights to Amsterdam (AMS), Malmo Aviation with nonstop British Aerospace BAe 146 jet flights to London City Airport (LCY) as well as Stockholm Bromma Airport (BMA), and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) with nonstop McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and MD-87 jet flights to Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ARN).[5]

Development since the 2000s

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 as Wizz Air.

During 2008 Danish Sterling Airlines was operating service from Malmö Airport to London Gatwick Airport (LGW), Alicante, Barcelona, Nice and Florence. However, other low-cost carriers such as easyJet use Copenhagen Airport. Norwegian Air Shuttle uses Malmö Airport for a few flights a day to and from Stockholm 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.

The Malmö Airport Master Plan 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.[6]

Facilities

Malmö Airport features one passenger and two cargo terminals as well as 20 aircraft stands.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Malmö:[7]

AirlinesDestinations
BRA Braathens Regional Airlines Stockholm–Bromma
Seasonal: Sälen-Trysil, Visby
Ryanair[8] Stockholm–Arlanda, Zagreb
Scandinavian Airlines[9] Stockholm–Arlanda
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya,[10] Chania,[10] Gran Canaria,[10] Heraklion,[10] Larnaca,[10] Palma de Mallorca,[10] Rhodes,[10] Tenerife-South[10]
Trade Air Pristina
Wizz Air[11] Belgrade, Bucharest–Otopeni (ends 27 October 2023),[12] Budapest (ends 28 October 2023), Cluj-Napoca, Gdańsk, Katowice (ends 27 October 2023), Niš (ends 27 October 2023), Skopje, Warsaw–Chopin (ends 28 October 2023)
Seasonal: Ohrid (ends 28 October 2023),[13] Tirana

Statistics
Check-in area
Baggage reclaim area
Control tower
Busiest routes to and from Malmö Airport (2022)[14]
RankAirportPassengers handled % change
2021/22
1Sweden Stockholm, Sweden (Arlanda and Bromma)581,779Increase 94.0
2Serbia Belgrade, Serbia59,703Increase 68.1
3North Macedonia Skopje, North Macedonia59,380Increase 52.8
4Hungary Budapest, Hungary48,104Increase 191.7
5Poland Gdańsk, Poland47,055Increase 177.7
6Poland Warsaw–Chopin, Poland42,014Increase 72.9
7Romania Cluj-Napoca, Romania40,328Increase 51.6
8Kosovo Pristina, Kosovo35,527Decrease 16.9
9Romania Bucharest, Romania34,495Increase 34.0
10Croatia Zagreb, Croatia29,469Increase 266.6
11Bosnia and Herzegovina Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina28,616Increase 16.5
12Bosnia and Herzegovina Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina27,195Increase 80.4
13Spain Palma de Mallorca, Spain26,421Increase 208.3
14Spain Gran Canaria, Spain25,741Increase 171.4
15Serbia Niš, Serbia24,380Increase 90.1
Countries with most handled passengers to/from Malmö Airport (2022)
Rank Country Passengers  % change
2021/22
1  Poland 116,107 Increase 156.7
2  Serbia 84,083 Increase 73.9
3  North Macedonia 80,259 Increase 61.7
4  Romania 74,823 Increase 42.9
5  Bosnia and Herzegovina 73,514 Increase 79.2
6  Spain 62,610 Increase 189.6
7  Hungary 48,104 Increase 191.7
8  Kosovo 35,527 Decrease 16.9
9  Greece 31,945 Increase 155.3
10  Croatia 29,517 Increase 265.3

Ground transportation

Bus
  • Flygbussarna Airport coaches depart from the airport to downtown Malmö. The journey to Malmö takes about 40 minutes. From there, there are train connections to destinations including Copenhagen.
  • Gråhundbus coaches departs to Copenhagen 30 minutes after every Ryanair arrival.
  • There is also Wizzair's bus to Copenhagen.

See also

References
  1. Flygplatsstatistik 2019
  2. "Statistics". Swedavia. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  3. Copenhagen Airport → Lindeborg (28.3 km or 17.6 mi) vs. Malmö Airport → Lindeborg (29.3 km or 18.2 mi)
  4. "Om flygplatsen | Malmö Airport". www.swedavia.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  5. Oct. 27, 1996 edition OAG Pocket Flight Guide, Malmo flight schedules
  6. Swedavia Malmö Airport Masterplan 2018
  7. swedavia.com - Destinations retrieved 23 October 2019
  8. "Ryanair".
  9. "SAS Makes Your Travel Easier". www.flysas.com.
  10. "Flight". ving.se.
  11. "WIZZ – Dream more. Live more. Be more".
  12. "Wizz Air suspendă 12 rute din România în sezonul de iarnă 2023/4". 29 May 2023.
  13. https://wizzair.com/en-gb#/
  14. "Antal ankommande och avresande passagerare på Swedavias flygplatser, 2022" (XLSX). Swedavia.se. Retrieved 16 January 2023.

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