Hammerfest Airport

Coordinates: 70°40′47″N 023°40′07″E / 70.67972°N 23.66861°E / 70.67972; 23.66861
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Hammerfest Airport

Hammerfest lufthavn
AMSL
80 m / 262 ft
Coordinates70°40′47″N 023°40′07″E / 70.67972°N 23.66861°E / 70.67972; 23.66861
Websiteavinor.no
Map
HFT is located in Norway
HFT
HFT
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 880 2,890 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers145,396
Aircraft movements13,822
Cargo (tonnes)16
Source:[1][2]

Hammerfest Airport (

Dash 8-100. Up to eight daily flights are provided to Tromsø and public service obligation flights are flown eastwards to other airports in Finnmark. The airport is the base for offshore helicopter services operated by Bristow Norway and CHC Helikopter Service. An estimated 40,000 people from Hammerfest Airport's catchment area annually use Alta Airport for flights to Oslo
.

Hammerfest was served from 1935 by scheduled

nationalized two years later. A Dash 8 was damaged beyond repair after a hard landing
in 2005. Because of the limited space for expansion and unfavorable wind conditions, there is a proposal to build a new airport at Grøtnes.

History

The first plans for serving Hammerfest with an airline route was launched in a government plan from 1933. It proposed that flights in Northern Norway be carried out using seaplanes, and proposed Hammerfest as one of several stops on a route from Trondheim to Vadsø. Norwegian Air Lines (DNL) received the concession to operate all routes in Norway from 1935, resulting in the coastal route from Bergen to Tromsø commencing. The following year a connecting route from Tromsø via Hammerfest to Honningsvåg was subcontracted to Widerøe. The water aerodrome in Hammerfest was located at Rypefjord and consisted of a buoy where the aircraft parked; passengers were transported to the aircraft in a boat. All flights were terminated in 1939 and remained so until the end of World War II in 1945.[3]

DNL resumed the Hammerfest route in 1946, connecting the town to Tromsø, Vadsø, and

air ambulance base at Hammerfest in 1961.[4] With the opening of Alta Airport, Norving applied for permission and subsidies to operate a feeder service from Hammerfest to Alta, but the application was rejected by the government.[5]

Widerøe de Havilland Canada Dash 7 in 1987

The mid-1960s saw several proposals for regional airports in Finnmark. A committee appointed by

de Havilland Canada Twin Otter aircraft.[3] The airline established its technical base for Finnmark at Hammerfest.[9]

Widerøe introduced the

Ministry of Transport and Communications from 1 April 1997. The routes to Tromsø had a sufficient patronage that they were operated without subsidies.[14]

Widerøe de Havilland Canada Dash 8 at Hammerfest Airport

The helicopter operations were taken over by Norsk Helikpoter (later renamed Bristow Norway) when they opened their base on 11 November 2004.[3] Airport security was introduced on 1 January 2005.[15] Hammerfest was the second airport to receive SCAT-I, a Global Positioning System-based landing system, when it was installed in 2007.[16] SCAT-I allows aircraft with the system installed to make a safer and less fuel-consuming landings using a gliding instead of step-down approach.[17] This was followed up with an upgrade to the runway safety area and runway lights in 2008 and 2009.[18]

Facilities

The

control tower.[18] The asphalt runway measures 880 by 30 meters (2,887 by 98 ft) and aligned 05–23.[1] There are no possibilities of extending the runway, largely because of the terrain at the east end.[19] The tarmac has room for five aircraft the size of Dash 8, in addition to helicopters.[18] The airport is six to seven minutes' drive from the town center and has parking, taxis and car rental.[20] Forty-five people work at the airport.[19]

Airlines and destinations

The terminal building

The main route at Hammerfest is Widerøe's service to Tromsø, which is operated up to eight times per day using Dash 8-100/Q200 aircraft. Widerøe also operates flights eastwards to other communities in Finnmark on public service obligations with the Ministry of Transport and Communications.[19] Two helicopter operators have bases at the airport: Bristow Norway, which operates two Eurocopter EC225 Super Pumas, and CHC Helikopter Service, which operates a Sikorsky S-92. Both companies operate flights to offshore installations. One of the Super Pumas is used for search and rescue operations for the petroleum industry and when the Royal Norwegian Air Force's Westland Sea Kings based at Station Group Banak are not available, for instance if they are on another mission or the aircraft are being maintained.[21]

Forty-two percent of the airport's traffic is generated from routes to Oslo and abroad, while twenty-nine percent is to Tromsø.

Kvalsund area largely use Alta Airport instead.[19]

AirlinesDestinations
Vardø[22]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at HFT airport. See Wikidata query.

Accidents and incidents

The Widerøe Dash 8-103 aircraft LN-WIK underwent a

starboard landing gear collapsing. The aircraft slid on its belly along the runway for 650 meters (2,130 ft) and was damaged beyond repair. Widerøe permitted aircraft to land in the maximum certified wind conditions, a cross-wind of 18 meters per second (36 knots) and 5 meters per second (10 knots) tail wind.[23] Twenty-five passengers and the three crew members were all transported to hospital, although there were no serious injuries. Widerøe enforced its strictest wind restrictions of any airport at Hammerfest after the accidents.[24]

Future

View of airport from a nearby hill

Avinor is considering building a new airport at Grøtnes, which would be built as

reclaimed land 15 kilometers (9 mi) from Hammerfest. The terminal would be located on a peninsula while the runway would be built on a filling in the fjord. Avinor has studied two possible runway lengths, 1,199 meters (3,934 ft) and 1,550 meters (5,090 ft). The former would cause operational problems during winter for 50-passenger aircraft, while the longer alternative would allow for operation of 70-seat turboprops, such as the Dash 8-Q400 and the ATR 72. Avinor estimated in 2012 the costs of a new airport with a short runway to NOK 1.6 billion and of a longer runway to NOK 2.2 billion. Avinor's calculations give a negative net present value for society of between NOK 1.2 and 1.4 billion. The main gain comes from that the use of slightly larger aircraft will allow for cheaper flights.[19]

A 2008 report from the Institute of Transport Economics, financed by Hammerfest and Kvalsund Municipalities, looked into two possible runway lengths of an airport at Grøtnes: 1,199 meters (3,934 ft) and 1,999 meters (6,558 ft). It concluded that the former would have a negative cost for society, while the latter would break even. The report concluded that the latter could allow for three daily direct flights to Oslo, and estimated the 2013 traffic, if airport had been built, at 190,000, of which 99,000 would have been generated by the petroleum industry. A major uncertainty in the model is the unknown activity of the petroleum industry in the future.[25] A report by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute the same year concluded that the weather at Grøtnes was well-suited for an airport.[26]

Avinor's proposal for

Lakselv Airport, Banak and reduce traffic to a level that there would not be sufficient patronage at any airport to allow for two airlines to compete on the Oslo route.[27] Instead Avinor recommends improving the road to Alta airport (138 kilometers (86 mi) driving distance). Such a road improvement, costing 540 M kr, is partly finished, partly still planned (as of 2018).[28]
A part of this route (E6 at Sennalandet) is sensitive to snow storms, causing risk of missed flights.

References

  1. ^ a b "ENHF – Hammerfest" (PDF). AIP Norge/Norway. Avinor. 8 March 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Månedsrapport" (XLS). Avinor. 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Gynnild, Olav (2009). "Flyplassenes og flytrafikkens historie". Kulturminner på norske lufthavner – Landsverneplan for Avinor (in Norwegian). Avinor. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  4. ^ Melling: 31
  5. ^ Melling: 43
  6. ^ Melling: 54
  7. ^ Melling: 109
  8. ^ Melling: 117
  9. ^ Arnesen: 124–130
  10. ^ Arnesen: 136–139
  11. ^ Melling: 105
  12. ^ Hay, Trine (3 February 1990). "Widerøe vant, får fly i nord". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 12.
  13. ^ Rapp, Ole Magnus (27 July 1994). "Staten kjøper flyplasser på krita". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 4.
  14. ^ Tuv, Kirsten (2 November 1996). "Widerøe-monopol". Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian). p. 10.
  15. ^ Solberg, Pål E. (30 September 2004). "Tre usikre flyplasser i Midt-Norge". Adresseavisen (in Norwegian). p. 4.
  16. ^ Hermstad, Glenn Anders (30 October 2007). "Åpnet SCAT-1 med pomp og prakt". Brønnøysund Avis (in Norwegian).
  17. ^ "Sikrere innflygning til Hammerfest lufthavn". Avinor. 2 July 2008. Archived from the original on 9 March 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  18. ^ a b c "Konsekvenser for luftfart" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Avinor. October 2012. pp. 44–45. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g "Nasjonal transportplan 2014–2023: Framtidsrettet utvikling av lufthavnstrukturen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Avinor. 15 February 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  20. ^ "Getting to and from the airport". Avinor. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  21. ^ Gustavsen, Øyvind; Ege, Rune Thomas (27 October 2012). "Helikopterberedskapen kollapset da 14 fiskere måtte evakueres". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 1 January 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  22. ^ "Flight Timetables". Avinor. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  23. Aviation Safety Network. Archived
    from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  24. ^ Libråten, Tone (2 May 2005). "– Strengest vindbegrensning i landet på Hammerfest lufthavn". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  25. ISBN 978-82-480-0900-9. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  26. ^ Palm, Eirik (28 April 2008). "Nærmere landing på Grøtnes". Finnmark Dagblad (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 5 June 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  27. ^ Reiulf, Grønnevik (29 November 2011). "Nei til større fly på Grøtnes". Altaposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  28. ^ Rv. 94 Skaidi–Hammerfest (Norwegian)

Bibliography

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hammerfest Airport.
  • Arnesen, Odd (1984). På grønne vinger over Norge (in Norwegian). Widerøe's Flyveselskap.
  • Melling, Kjersti (2009). Nordavind fra alle kanter (in Norwegian). Oslo: Pilotforlaget.
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