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Stockholm Arlanda Airport

Metropolitan Stockholm

  • IATAARN
  • ICAOESSA
24.3 million Passengers a year (2025)
Serves
Metropolitan Stockholm
Operator
Swedavia
Owner
Not recorded
Opened
1 April 1962
Elevation
137 ft (42 m)
Runways
3 (longest 3,301 m)
Airlines based here
Scandinavian Airlines, PopulAir

About the airport

Stockholm Arlanda Airport (IATA: ARN, ICAO: ESSA) is the main international airport serving Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. It is located in Sigtuna Municipality, 37 km (23 mi) north of Stockholm and nearly 40 km (25 mi) southeast of Uppsala. The airport is located within Stockholm County. Arlanda is the largest airport in Sweden and the third-largest airport in the Nordic countries. The airport is the major gateway to international air travel for large parts of Sweden. Arlanda Airport was used by nearly 27 million passengers in 2017, with 21.2 million international passengers and 5.5 million domestic. The facility covers an expanse of about 2,500 hectares (9.7 sq mi) of airport property. Stockholm Arlanda serves as a major hub for Scandinavian Airlines and Norwegian Air Shuttle. Stockholm Arlanda Airport is larger than Stockholm's other airport, Stockholm Bromma Airport, which is located 7 km (4.3 mi) northwest of central Stockholm, but can be used only by smaller aircraft. Two further airports outside of Stockholm County are also included in STO, the IATA airport code for the Stockholm Metropolitan Area: Stockholm Skavsta Airport and Stockholm Västerås Airport, both located around 100 kilometres…

This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.

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