Enontekiö Airport
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Enontekiö Airport is an airport located in Enontekiö
, Finland
, 5 NM west southwest of Hetta
, the municipal centre of Enontekiö.
It is mainly used by charter flights, whose passengers account for 95% of the airport's passenger volume. Regular flights to Enontekiö are established only in the spring. Flybe Nordic
provides direct flights to Enontekiö from Helsinki-Vantaa between March and May, using ATR72-500s. In 2009, the flights offered will be offered every Saturday from February 14 to May 9.
In August 2009 Finavia informed that the airport would be renamed as Enontekiö-Kautokeino Saami Airport.
Enontekiö
Enontekiö is a municipality in the Finnish part of Lapland with approx. inhabitants. It is situated in the outermost northwest of the country and occupies a large and very sparsely populated area of about between the Swedish and Norwegian border...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
, 5 NM west southwest of Hetta
Hetta
Hetta is a village in the municipality of Enontekiö in Lapland in north-western Finland....
, the municipal centre of Enontekiö.
It is mainly used by charter flights, whose passengers account for 95% of the airport's passenger volume. Regular flights to Enontekiö are established only in the spring. Flybe Nordic
Flybe Nordic
Flybe Nordic is an airline, jointly owned by Flybe and Finnair, and began operations on 30 October 2011.-History:The airline was announced on 1 July 2011, when Flybe and Finnair revealed plans to jointly purchase Finnish Commuter Airlines and rebrand the airline Flybe Nordic, with Flybe and...
provides direct flights to Enontekiö from Helsinki-Vantaa between March and May, using ATR72-500s. In 2009, the flights offered will be offered every Saturday from February 14 to May 9.
In August 2009 Finavia informed that the airport would be renamed as Enontekiö-Kautokeino Saami Airport.
Destinations
Statistics
| Year | Domestic | International | Total | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 669 | 13,028 | 13,697 | −14.8% |
| 2006 | 545 | 16,868 | 17,413 | +27.1% |
| 2007 | 856 | 24,230 | 25,086 | +44.1% |
| 2008 | 772 | 20,473 | 21,245 | −15.3% |
| 2009 | 814 | 16,869 | 17,683 | −16.8% |
| 2010 | 848 | 15,175 | 16,023 | −9.4% |