Åre Östersund Airport

Åre Östersund Airport
IATA: OSD – ICAO: ESNZ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Swedavia
Serves	Östersund & Åre
Location	Frösön, Sweden
Elevation AMSL	1,233 ft / 376 m
Coordinates	63°11′39″N 14°30′07″E / 63.19417°N 14.50194°ECoordinates: 63°11′39″N 14°30′07″E / 63.19417°N 14.50194°E
Website	www.swedavia.com/ostersund/
Map
OSD Location of airport in Jämtland
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 12/30 8,202 2,500 Asphalt 12L/30R Closed 4,034 1,230 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers total 465,196 International passengers 20,696 Domestic passengers 444,500 Landings total 5,208
Statistics: Swedavia[1]

Åre Östersund Airport (IATA: OSD, ICAO: ESNZ), previously known as Östersund–Frösön Airport is located about 11 km west of Östersund, Sweden and 94 km east of Åre, Sweden. The airport opened in 1958.

Åre Östersund airport is an international airport and served 465,196 passengers in 2015.^[1]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal charter: Rhodes[2][3]
Air Europa	Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca
Direktflyg operated by AIS Airlines	Umeå
BRA operated by Braathens Regional Aviation	Stockholm–Bromma Seasonal: Gothenburg, Malmö[4]
Croatia Airlines	Seasonal charter: Split
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya
easyJet	Seasonal: London–Gatwick (begins 11 December 2016)[5][6]
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya
Novair	Seasonal charter: Rhodes
TUIfly Nordic	Seasonal charter: Gran Canaria
Scandinavian Airlines	Stockholm–Arlanda

Ground transportation

Bus

Airport Coaches (Stadsbussarna) departs from the airport to down town Östersund. In the winter, Åre Flygtransfer, departs in connection to every SAS and BRA flights, to and from Åre.

Taxi

There is a taxi stand at the airport.

Airport parking

There is parking at the airport, including short-term and long-term parking lots.

Events

Östersund hosted a round of the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship in 2012 and 2013.

Incidents and accidents

• On 9 September 2007 an MD83 took off for a charter flight bound for Antalya, Turkey. The plane was overloaded and left the runway very late and touched the landing light equipment that was placed outside the runway. It continued to Antalya where it landed normally.^[7]

See also

• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

References

1. "Statistics". Swedavia. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
2. "A34386 flight history". flightradar24.com. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
3. "A34387 flight history". flightradar24.com. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
4. "Flygtorget » Flygnyheter » Notiser » BRA fortsätter flyga till Åre Östersund från södra Sverige". flygtorget.se. BRA.
5. "easyJet announces new ski route to Sweden from London Gatwick (> Media > News)". Easyjet. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
6. 2016, UBM (UK) Ltd. "easyJet adds London Gatwick – Östersund service from Dec 2016". routesonline. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
7. Statens haverikommission – Rapport RL 2009:14

External links

• Media related to Åre-Östersund Airport at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• Airport information for ESNZ at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.