Stockholm Arlanda Airport

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The Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (IATA: ARN, ICAO: ESSA) is the international commercial airport in the Swedish capital Stockholm. He produced in 2011 from over 19 million passengers and is the basis for SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Norwegian and TUIfly Nordic.

In addition to Arlanda Stockholm still has to opened in the 1930s and more central regional Bromma airport, which is primarily used for domestic flights.

General

The Arlanda Airport was opened in 1960 for air traffic. He has now after many construction projects over four passenger terminal with 61 gates and three take-off and landing runways and is considered a national interest.

In 2011, a total of 19.1 million passengers used the airport, about two-thirds for international flights, one third for domestic flights. About 80 airlines fly to Arlanda and create connections to over 170 destinations worldwide. Most passengers come from there a flight to Copenhagen. The airport is the largest in Sweden and behind the airports Kastrup and Oslo Gardermoen is the third largest in Scandinavia based on the number of passengers.

During the construction of the airport Lars Hellberg suggested in 1958 the name Arland before which an older term for the medieval Harde - Ärlinghundra Härad - was where the airport would be. However, the place-names Commission amended the proposal in Arlanda, which was then adopted by the government and determined.

During operation of the Space Shuttle, the airport was a possible emergency landing in the event of an unscheduled landing, but he was due to its high latitude outside the usual orbits.

Location and Transport

The airport is located 35.6 km north of Stockholm and 29.2 km south of Uppsala in the vicinity of the place Märsta.

The fastest way to get to the center of Stockholm is 200 km / h Arlanda Express, which requires for the ride depending on embarkation only 18 or 15 minutes. For short distances from the gate to the train two stations provide on the airport grounds.

It also is the Arlanda C station for long-distance trains (SJ Snabbtåg or regional ) and for the Pendeltåglinie J38 of the Stockholm transport (SL ) under the airport. The Pendeltåglinie J38 Uppsala - Arlanda Stockholm C- C- Älvsjö took in December 2012 on the operation. Thus Arlanda is also well connected to Uppsala.

To use the Arlanda C a separate surcharge ( Särskild passage - avgift ) is payable.

Furthermore, buses ( Flygbussarna ) directly between the various terminals and downtown Stockholm. As of March 1, 2014 there is a new airport bus service with endpoint in Liljeholmen district. The new bus service runs from Liljeholmen southwest of the city through the districts of Södermalm, Kungsholmen and Vasastan harboring numerous hotels, to the Karolinska hospital and then without stopping further to the airport.

Less well known and also considerably slower but also the most favorable is the ability to use the SL- bus 583. All terminals from Arlanda to be served by the bus route 583, which leads to the bus terminal in Märsta from where the onward journey by local train to Stockholm Pendeltåg J36 is possible. The journey to Stockholm Central Station is between 6 clock in the morning and 23 clock in the evening a total of about 60 minutes, otherwise about 85 minutes.

By car Arlanda can be reached via the motorway E 4 ( connection points 181 and 182 ); the airport is just 2 km east of Highway 273 on Riksväg and has 20,400 parking.

Others

The four terminals of Arlanda wear Curiously, the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5; a terminal 1 does not exist. The background to this is a change in planning the expansion of the airport. As part of this expansion, all the old and planned terminals received new designations in 1992. The actual construction of the planned terminals 1, however, was never carried out after the designation of the other terminals.