Gothenburg City Airport
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Gothenburg City Airport or Göteborg City Airport , formerly (and still informally) known as Säve Flygplats, is Gothenburg's second international airport located 14 kilometres north-west from the centre of Gothenburg (Swedish: [Göteborg] ) on the island of Hisingen, Bohuslän, Sweden. It is located within the borders of Gothenburg Municipality, hence its name. Prior the arrival of Ryanair in 2001, the airport had 9000 passengers per year. In 2005 more than 500,000 flew from City Airport. As well as well as commercial airlines the airport is also operated by a number of rescue services, including the Swedish Coast Guard.
Though it's primarily a low-cost airline airport it is actually located closer to Gothenburg city centre than the main airport (Göteborg-Landvetter Airport with 5.2 million passengers in 2005). This is probably the only city airport Ryanair operates to. Due to its location many business jets prefer flying to City Airport instead of to Landvetter. Gothenburg City Airport can handle planes up to the size of a Boeing 767, an Airbus A320 or similar jets.
Airlines and destinations
Airlines that currently serve this airport:
- Germanwings (Cologne)
- Ryanair (Dublin, Frankfurt-Hahn, Glasgow Prestwick, London Stansted)
- Wizzair (Warsaw, Budapest [starts 19 September 2006])
- Flexflight (Læsø)
- Novair, MyTravel Airways and Britannia Airways will operate some flights out of Gothenburg City Airport 3 July - 14 July due to maintenance work at Göteborg-Landvetter Airport.
Transportation
There are bus services that match every Ryanair, Germanwings and Wizzair departure and arrival, terminating at the bus and train terminal in twenty minutes (cost 50 SEK).Catching a taxi to the city centre costs between 200 and 300 SEK.
Car rental services are Avis, Budget, Hertz and Europcar. They're available from 700 SEK a day.
External links
- [Göteborg City Airport] (official website)
- [Airport information]
- [World Aero Data on this airport (ESGP)]
- [Ryanair]
- [Germanwings]
- [Wizzair]
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