Jönköping Airport

Jönköping Airport Jönköping flygplats
Jönköping Airport in mid-August 2009
IATA: JKG ICAO: ESGJ
Summary
Airport type	Public (City of Jönköping)
Operator	Jönköping Airport AB
Location	Jönköping
Elevation AMSL	741 FT ft / 226 m
Coordinates	57°45′30″N 014°04′18″E / 57.75833°N 14.07167°E / 57.75833; 14.07167Coordinates: 57°45′30″N 014°04′18″E / 57.75833°N 14.07167°E / 57.75833; 14.07167
Map
JKG Airport in Sweden
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01/19 2,203 7,250.6 Asphalt 11/29 600 2,000 Grass
Statistics (2016)
Passengers total 112,506 International passengers 78,768 Domestic passengers 33,738 Landings total 6,714
Statistics: Swedish Transport Agency

Jönköping Airport (IATA: JKG, ICAO: ESGJ), called Axamo is an airport located about 8 km from Jönköping, Sweden.

The airport was founded and opened in 1961 and was nationally owned until December 2009. It has been owned by the city of Jönköping since then.

It has lost many passengers, and was considered to be too small for a national airport. In 2008 it had 76,611 passengers, compared with 252,241 in 1998. The connection with Copenhagen has been closed and reopened a few times. Many drive to their destination or a competing airport. The driving distance to the Göteborg Landvetter Airport is 140 km, to Stockholm 320 km and to Copenhagen 330 km.

The airport currently offers two year-round scheduled routes to and Frankfurt as well as one seasonal route to Visby. Additionally, it serves a number of charter flights, all of which are organised by either Quality Travel, TUI or Ving, with the exception of the Germania inward charters.

Länstrafiken buses depart in connection to some flights.

In the arrival terminal there is a telephone direct connected to the local taxi company.

There is parking at the airport, short-term and long-term parking lots.