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Annual passenger traffic at KSD airport.
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From Transportstyrelsen and Karlstad flygplats:[4][1]
Year
Passengers
Domestic
International
1998
245,310
170,283
86,574
1999
271,411
2000
291,503
175,522
115,981
2001
262,105
2002
216,072
2003
171,680
2004
160,335
102,941
57,394
2005
144,365
2006
113,087
2007
119,482
2008
118,762
59,169
59,593
2009
84,880
2010
82,423
2011
108,893
2012
100,349
38,418
61,912
2013
109,574
2014
83,288
2015
93,517
2016
85,848
45,757
40,091
2017
89,936
2018
81,884
2019
52,009
16,926
35,083
2020
10,900
3,097
7,803
2021
3,830
548
3,282
2022
19,840
2,123
17,717
2023
20,463
600
19,863
History
The airport was opened for traffic in 1997. The airport was built since the older Karlstad-Jakobsberg airport (59°21′36″N13°27′58.4″E / 59.36000°N 13.466222°E / 59.36000; 13.466222) was causing noise to many residents due to its location 3 km from Karlstad city centre, and also because a longer runway was desired. The old airport had too short runway for charter flights to southern Europe, but such flights became common from the opening of the new airport. The route to Stockholm had still a large majority of the passengers the first years, but this route declined due to other available transport modes such as car and train on this fairly short route (258 km (160 mi)), and was finally closed in 2020 after reduced demand as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.