Åre Östersund Airport

Åre Östersund Airport
IATA: OSD – ICAO: ESNZ OSD Location of airport in Jämtland
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Swedavia
Serves		Östersund & Åre
Location		Frösön, Sweden
Hub for		Nextjet
Elevation AMSL		1,233 ft / 376 m
Coordinates		63°11′39″N 014°30′07″E
Website		www.swedavia.se/en/Are-Ostersund
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
12/30	8,202	2,500	Asphalt
12L/30R Closed	4,034	1,230	Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Passengers total			377,868
International passengers			25,979
Domestic passengers			351,889
Landings total			2,794
Statistics: Swedavia

Åre Östersund Airport (IATA: OSD, ICAO: ESNZ), previously known as Östersund–Frösön Airport is located about 11 km west of Östersund, Sweden and 94 km east of Åre, Sweden. The airport opened in 1958.

Åre Östersund airport is an international airport and served 377,868 passengers in 2011.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal charter: Kos, Rhodes
Air Europa	Seasonal charter: Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca
Atlantic Airways	Seasonal charter: Copenhagen
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya
Direktflyg	Umeå
Flybe	Seasonal charter: Manchester
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya
Nextjet	Stockholm–Bromma
Scandinavian Airlines	Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal: Gothenburg–Landvetter, Malmö, Ängelholm
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Blue1	Seasonal: Helsinki

Ground transportation

Bus

Airport Coaches (Stadsbussarna) departs from the airport to down town Östersund. In the winter, Åre Flygtransfer, departs in connection to every SAS and Nextjet flights, to and from Åre.

Taxi

There is a taxi stand at the airport.

Airport parking

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

Incidents and accidents

• On 9 September 2007 an MD83 took off for a charter flight bound for Antalya, Turkey. The plane was overloaded and left the runway very late and touched the landing light equipment that was placed outside the runway. It continued to Antalya where it landed normally.

See also

• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

External links

• Official website
• Airport information for ESNZ at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.