Umeå Airport

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The Umeå airport is named after the Luleå Airport is the second largest in northern Sweden ( Norrland ) Airport.

With a passenger volume of 815 154 in 2009, he is the seventh largest in Sweden and is used as a domestic airport. Aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 767 can land in Umeå. The majority of flights operated the route Stockholm- Arlanda; the flight time is at a distance of about 500 kilometers between 1h and 1:05 h Colloquially the Alvik Airport is named after the district of Umeå, in which it is located since 1961. No airport in Sweden is built closer to a city. Before building a grass runway at Nordmaling was used for flights to Umea, about 50 kilometers to the south of the present airport site.

In December 2008, the name of the airport of Umeå flygplats was changed to Umeå City Airport, on 12 January 2011 the operator Swedavia changed the name to Umea Airport, analogous to the renaming of all ten operated by Swedavia airports for the key city plus Airport.