Tampere-Pirkkala Airport
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Tampere–Pirkkala Airport Tampere-Pirkkalan lentoasema |
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| Airport type | Public/Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Finavia | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tampere, Finland | ||||||||||
| Location | Pirkkala | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 119 m / 390 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 61°24′55″N 023°35′16″E / 61.41528°N 23.58778°ECoordinates: 61°24′55″N 023°35′16″E / 61.41528°N 23.58778°E | ||||||||||
| Website | finavia.fi | ||||||||||
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 TMP
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Source: AIP Finland
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| Passengers | 208,930 |
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Tampere–Pirkkala Airport (IATA: TMP, ICAO: EFTP) is located in Pirkkala, 7 NM (13 km; 8.1 mi) south-west of Tampere city centre. The airport is the eighth busiest airport in Finland, as measured by the number of passengers (208,930 in 2016), and the third busiest airport in Finland, as measured by the number of international passengers (122,652 in 2016).
The airport is also home to the Satakunta Air Command base of the Finnish Air Force. F-18 Hornets were stationed at Tampere-Pirkkala airport until the middle of 2014 when the 21st flight of the Satakunta Air command was dissolved.
Tampere Airport was founded in 1936 in Härmälä neighbourhood, locating 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the centre of Tampere. At that time the airport was connected to Helsinki, Vaasa, Oulu and Kemi by Aero O/Y (now Finnair). The first terminal building was built in 1941. Karhumäki Airways began to fly to Stockholm in the 1950s. The runway was paved in 1958. Between 1936 and 1979 Härmälä airport served 1.5 million passengers. In 1979, Härmälä airport was closed and the new Tampere–Pirkkala Airport was opened.
The current terminal 1 building was completed in 1996.Ryanair started flights to Tampere–Pirkkala in April 2003. Its first destinations were Stockholm-Skavsta, London-Stansted, Frankfurt-Hahn and Riga. This made the airport one of Finland's fastest growing airports and increased its annual passenger numbers from 256,380 to 709,356 between 2000 and 2008. In 2011, Ryanair had 13 destinations from Tampere–Pirkkala. Wizz Air flew to Gdansk during summers 2010 and 2011. airBaltic will resume flights to Riga in March 2017.
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