Stavanger Airport
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Stavanger, Norway
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Elevation AMSL | 9 m / 29 ft | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 58°52′36″N 005°38′16″E / 58.87667°N 5.63778°E | ||||||||||||||
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Stavanger Airport (
The airport had 85,306 air movements and 4,501,368 passengers in 2015. [
History
Facilities
Stavanger Airport, Sola is Norway's oldest airport, opened by
Originally, the idea was to locate the Stavanger airport at
Stavanger Airport has two passenger terminals, one for
Expansion of the airplane terminal took place in 2009. The new gates were built without jetbridges. The airport's two largest airlines, SAS and Norwegian, showed little interest in such amenity and desired quicker turnaround times.[5] SAS though later said that they did want jetbridges for their larger jet aircraft, and only wanted gates without jetbridges for their smaller turboprop aircraft.[6] The lack of jetbridges angered the societies representing the disabled and multiple sclerosis afflicted, and prompting several Rogaland politicians to put pressure on Avinor to reconsider the building.[7] In April 2009, Avinor decided not to build jetbridges.[8]
Offshore helicopter flights out of Stavanger commenced in 1966. Instead of operating out of Sola, the operator
Civilian airlines
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Opening_of_Sola_Airport.jpg/220px-Opening_of_Sola_Airport.jpg)
When the oil exploration in the Norwegian part of the
Foreign airlines
The oil industry has also required scheduled routes between Stavanger and
The Norwegian authorities have denied, among others,
In 2005, work to upgrade the terminal building started. A new domestic arrival hall was opened in the summer of 2005, followed by the refurbishing of the international arrival hall. A new international lounge finished in 2006 and a new baggage sorting system, and an extension of the check-in areas was completed in 2007. Avinor is working on the instrument landing system category II/LVTO approach system at the airport. This will allow planes to land with as little as 300 meters of horizontal visibility. [citation needed]
On 15 February 2010, Scandinavian Airlines announced that Widerøe would take over their regional routes connecting airports in Western Norway, including the route from Stavanger to Kristiansand. SAS will retire their five Fokker 50 aircraft by November 2010, and Widerøe will take over the operations and 75 employees, and serve the routes using Q300 and Q400 aircraft.[14]
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Stavanger Airport:
Airlines | Destinations |
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Aegean Airlines | Seasonal charter: Chania,[15] Rhodes[15] |
AIS Airlines | Esbjerg[16] |
Braathens International Airways | Charter: Gran Canaria[citation needed] Seasonal charter: Larnaca,[citation needed] Palma de Mallorca (begins 25 June 2024),[citation needed] Tenerife–South[citation needed] |
KLM | Amsterdam |
Loganair | Newcastle upon Tyne |
Lufthansa | Frankfurt[17] |
Sunclass Airlines [citation needed] | Seasonal charter: Antalya, Chania, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Sal (begins 10 November 2024), Varna[26] |
Bergen, Sandefjord, Trondheim
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Wizz Air | Gdańsk, Kraków |
Traffic and statistics
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Sola Air Station
The armed forces have a number of functions located at the airport. The
The Sola AFB is a NATO 24-hour readiness base for deployment of aircraft and military personnel in the event of a military escalated tension or conflict.
Technical facilities
Sola has a number of technical facilities, and has the largest aviation technical environment in Norway, including the largest helicopter maintenance facilities in Northern Europe, Braathens had its technical main base at Sola, as does Norwegian Air Shuttle, CHC Helikopter Service, Heli-One Norway, Bristow Norway, Norsk Helikopterservice, Norcopter, Pratt & Whitney Norway Engine Centre and the air force's helicopter main technical base. The former Braathens hangars now house SAS Technical Services, Norwegian Technical Services (which has their technical main base for their Boeing 737 fleet here) and Norsk Helikopterservice is to move into the former Braathens paint-hangar. [citation needed] Heli-One (when part of Helikopter Service) had final assembly of most of the Bell 412 helicopters when introduced to the RNoAF. Both Bristow and Heli-One have their heavy duty maintenance facilities for their Sikorsky S-92A at the airport. Heli-One also specialises in the maintenance of the Turbomecca engines and the gearbox of the Super Puma. The airport also has the only Norwegian education school for aircraft mechanics, they are certified by Eurocopter qualifying them to make conversions of Eurocopter helicopters, they perform heavy duty maintenance tasks for many operators and air forces of foreign nations.
On 16 June 2006 the board of SAS decided to close the SAS owned Braathens Technical Services at Sola, which resulted in over 300 job losses. [citation needed]This was despite Beaathens Technical Services being the only profit making heavy maintenance center in the SAS Group and award winner in achievements, the SAS unions having the upper hand since SAS acquired Braathens. Braathens Technical Services undertook services for many customers including Boeing. [citation needed]
On 31 March 2012 the board of Pratt & Whitney also decided to close the Pratt & Whitney Norway Engine Center.[27] The last engine left the shop on 20 June 2012. All 195 jobs were lost. Later Gulf Aero Services opened a new engine center in the same building complex under the company name Aero Gulf,[28] delivering basically the same services as the former Pratt & Whitney Norway Engine Center. As per June 2017 maintaining and servicing CFM56-3/7b/5b jet engines under the company name Aero Norway AS Quality Engines for a growing number of both domestic and international airlines.[29]
Runways
The airport has two asphalt paved runways: the main runway 18/36 measures 2,556 by 60 metres (8,386 ft × 197 ft) (Mark up, original 80 m wide, and runway 10/28 is 2,449 by 45 metres (8,035 ft × 148 ft) although initially built 65 m wide,.[1] The two airstrips cross each other, but since they have a different orientation, they could never operate as individual runways for planes, but 10/28 is most commonly used as the activate helicopter runway, whilst 18/36 for planes, although the helicopters utilise the CATII on runway 18/36. 10/28 is used when the situation demands for it to serve as the main runway, typically when heavy winds from The Atlantic Ocean occurs, and landing in heavy gusts of crosswind makes it demanding to operate to and from 18/36. Although the orientation isn't ideal for operating planes from both runways, they are both most commonly active at the same time, 18/36 for planes and 10/28 for helicopters operating from it, having to keep well within the bounds of their intersection allowing for helicopters to operate from 28 to taxiway H, and departure from 11 from taxiway H, utilising both directions for helicopters, hotel and to the outer edge. Runway 18–36 has a CAT II landing system, enabling landing in very poor visibility. 10/28 has no traditional instrument approaches such as ILS, and is less frequently used, among other considerations to reduce noise emissions and flying over built areas, catering for population living in central parts of Sola municipality. The runway does however have low RNP approaches to both runway 10 and 28.
Accidents
See 1961 Holtaheia Vickers Viking crash.
On 9 August 1961
On 7 January 2020 a major fire broke out in the main parking garage, later found to have started from a vehicle with faulty wiring (2005 Opel Zafira) as the driver attempted to start the vehicle and it subsequently caught fire then quickly spread to nearby cars. The fire burned for nearly 7 hours, causing a partial collapse of the parking garage and destroying an estimated two to three hundred vehicles. An important factor that influenced the spread of the fire was a lack of a sprinkler system. No injuries or fatalities were reported.
References
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- ^ "Passenger statistics from Avinor" (xls). Avinor. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
- ^ "Aircraft Movement statistics from Avinor". Avinor. Archived from the original (xls) on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "Cargo statistics from Avinor". Avinor. Archived from the original (xls) on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
- ^ Helgesen, Jan Petter (December 19, 2008). "Ingen gangbruer til flyene" (in Norwegian). Aftenbladet. Archived from the original on October 1, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ Helgesen, Jan Petter (January 24, 2009). "Uakseptabelt for SAS" (in Norwegian). Aftenbladet. Archived from the original on February 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ Tollaksen, Tor Gunnar (February 1, 2009). "Fylket ber Navarsete legge press på Avinor" (in Norwegian). Aftenbladet. Archived from the original on September 16, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ Helgesen, Jan Petter (April 6, 2009). "Rasende på Avinor" (in Norwegian). Aftenbladet. Archived from the original on April 7, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ Olsen-Hagen: 35
- ^ Olsen-Hagen: 37
- ^ Olsen-Hagen: 39
- ^ airlineroute.net - SAS Cancels Stavanger – Houston Route 15 September 2015
- ^ "AIRFRANCE Ends 3 European Routes in W15". Airline Route. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "Widerøe vil overta for SAS på Vestlandskysten". Adressavisen (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 15 February 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ^ a b "Only Flight". tui.no.
- ^ "Hollandsk flyselskab debuterer i Esbjerg Lufthavn". 14 April 2023.
- ^ "Lufthansa gjenåpner populær flyrute fra Sola". 14 December 2021.
- ^ "Route map". norwegian.com.
- ^ "Norwegian Releases Summer 2022 Schedule - Connecting the UK and Ireland to Scandinavia with 142 weekly flights". Mynewsdesk.
- ^ "Norwegian NS24 Network Additions – 14NOV23". AeroRoutes.
- ^ "Norwegian åpner nye direkteruter fra Trondheim og Stavanger". 26 January 2022.
- ^ "Norwegian med ny direkterute fra Stavanger til Rhodos". 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Norwegian Adds Stavanger – Tenerife Service from Nov 2022".
- ^ "Trafic programme". sas.no.
- ^ "SAS RETURNS TO AFRICA BY FLYING TO AGADIR THIS UPCOMING WINTER".
- ^ a b c d "Stavanger Airport - Avinor". avinor.no.
- ^ "195 ansatte mister jobben".
- ^ "Pratt & Whitney blir Aero Gulf". 29 August 2013.
- ^ "Aero Norway AS – Quality Engines".
- ^ "Flight International 4 October 1962 "Stavanger Accident Report"".
- ^ "British Pathe News".
Bibliography
- Olsen-Hagen, Bernt Charles (2014). Offshore Helicopters: Helikopteraktiviteten på norsk kontinentalsokkel. Aviation Forlag. ISBN 978-82-999547-0-9.
External links
Media related to Stavanger Airport, Sola at Wikimedia Commons
- Avinor entry for Stavanger Airport, Sola
- Avinor entry for Stavanger lufthavn, Sola (in Norwegian) (more detail)
- History of Sola Air Station at the Wayback Machine (archived 12 October 2007)
- ENZV – STAVANGER / Sola. AIP from Avinor, effective 22 Apr 2021.
- Aeronautical chart and airport information for ENZV at SkyVector
- Accident history for SVG at Aviation Safety Network