Malmö Airport

Malmö Airport

*Malmö flygplats*
Malmö Airport; Malmö flygplats
	IATA: MMX; ICAO: ESMS;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Swedavia
Serves	Metropolitan Malmö (Sweden); Lund, Sweden; Copenhagen metropolitan area (Denmark);
Location	Svedala
Opened	3 December 1972; 51 years ago
Elevation AMSL	72 m / 236 ft
Coordinates	55°31′48″N 013°22′17″E / 55.53000°N 13.37139°E
Website	www.swedavia.com/malmo
Map
	MMX/ESMS Location within Skåne MMX/ESMS MMX/ESMS (Sweden)
Runways
Statistics (2019)
Passengers
Passengers	1.975.479 (8%)
Aircraft movements	18.676 (7%)

Malmö Airport (IATA: MMX, ICAO: ESMS) — until 2007 known as Sturup Airport (Swedish: Sturups flygplats) — is Sweden's fourth busiest airport, handling 1,975,479 passengers in 2019.^[2] The airport is located in Svedala Municipality, approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Malmö and 26 kilometres (16 mi) south-east of Lund.

Via the Öresund Bridge the airport is located about 55 kilometres (34 mi) from central Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and 47 kilometres (29 mi) from Copenhagen Airport. The city of Malmö has roughly the same distance by road to Copenhagen Airport as to Malmö Airport.^[3]

History

Early years

Completed in 1972, then at a cost of around SEK130 million, almost twice as much as initially forecast, Sturup Airport replaced the aging Bulltofta Airport, which had served the region since 1923. Plans to build a new airport were drafted in the early 1960s. Expansion was impossible, due to Bulltofta's close proximity to the now booming city and nearby communities complained about noise pollution from the newly introduced jet aircraft.^{[citation needed]}

Construction began in 1970, and the airport was inaugurated two years later on 3 December 1972. At the same time Bulltofta Airport closed. However, Malmö ATC (Air Traffic Control) remained at the old Bulltofta site until 1983 when it also moved to Malmö Airport.^[4]

According to the Official Airline Guide (OAG), three airlines were serving the airport in the fall of 1996 including KLM Cityhopper with nonstop Fokker F50 turboprop flights to Amsterdam (AMS), Malmo Aviation with nonstop British Aerospace BAe 146 jet flights to London City Airport (LCY) as well as Stockholm Bromma Airport (BMA), and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) with nonstop McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and MD-87 jet flights to Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ARN).^[5]

Development since the 2000s

Around 2005–2008 several low-cost airlines hoped to attract both Danish and Swedish passengers to Sturup Airport in competition with Copenhagen Airport. Malmö airport, due to its lower landing fees, is seen by some low-cost airlines as a less expensive way of accessing the Copenhagen area. The airport caters to low-cost carriers such as Wizz Air.^{[citation needed]}

During 2008 Danish Sterling Airlines was operating service from Malmö Airport to London Gatwick Airport (LGW), Alicante, Barcelona, Nice and Florence. However, other low-cost carriers such as easyJet use Copenhagen Airport. Norwegian Air Shuttle uses Malmö Airport for a few flights a day to and from Stockholm Arlanda Airport while the majority of flights to the region go to Copenhagen Airport. In 2014, Ryanair moved their operations to Copenhagen Airport as well.^{[citation needed]}

The Malmö Airport Master Plan from 2018 describes how the airport will develop in the years to come, e.g. by extending the hall for arriving luggage and with new traffic flows to and from the airport. The works are projected in order to allow for a future second passenger terminal, as well as a second, parallel, runway northwest of the present one.^[6]

Facilities

Malmö Airport features one passenger and two cargo terminals as well as 20 aircraft stands.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Malmö:^[7]

Airlines	Destinations
Braathens Regional Airlines	Stockholm–Bromma Seasonal: Visby
Braathens International Airways	Seasonal charter: Rhodes^[8]
Ryanair^[9]	Seasonal: Zagreb
Scandinavian Airlines^[10]	Stockholm–Arlanda
Sunclass Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya,^[11] Chania,^[11] Gran Canaria,^[11] Heraklion,^[11] Larnaca,^[11] Palma de Mallorca,^[11] Rhodes,^[11] Tenerife-South^[11]
Trade Air	Charter: Pristina^{[citation needed]}
Wizz Air^[12]	Belgrade, Bucharest–Otopeni (begins 29 October 2024),^[13] Cluj-Napoca, Gdańsk, Skopje, Tirana

Statistics

**Busiest routes to and from Malmö Airport (2023)**^[14]
Rank	Airport	Passengers handled	% change 2022/23
1	Stockholm, Sweden (Arlanda and Bromma)	584,549	0.5
2	Skopje, North Macedonia	74,940	26.2
3	Belgrade, Serbia	67,200	12.6
4	Gdańsk, Poland	62,352	32.5
5	Cluj-Napoca, Romania	46,349	14.9
6	Budapest, Hungary	45,300	5.8
7	Zagreb, Croatia	35,795	21.5
8	Bucharest, Romania	34,682	0.5
9	Warsaw, Poland	33,030	21.4
10	Gran Canaria, Spain	30,686	19.2
11	Pristina, Kosovo	29,731	16.3
12	Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina	26,998	5.7
13	Niš, Serbia	26,443	8.5
14	Katowice, Poland	26,418	10.3
15	Ohrid, North Macedonia	23,262	11.4

Countries with most handled passengers to/from Malmö Airport (2023)**^[14]**
Rank	Country	Passengers	% change 2022/23
1	Poland	121,800	4.9
2	North Macedonia	98,202	22.4
3	Serbia	93,643	11.4
4	Romania	81,031	8.3
5	Spain	65,451	4.5
6	Hungary	45,300	5.8
7	Bosnia and Herzegovina	39,442	46.3
8	Greece	36,324	13.7
9	Croatia	35,798	21.3
10	Kosovo	29,731	16.3

Ground transportation

The airport has regular coach connections by Vy Flygbussarna to Malmö's city center as well as by Buss Bogdan Skåne to Lund. Additionally, Neptunbus connects all Wizz Air flights with Copenhagen.^[15]