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Increased air transport
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Air transport, Q3 2010

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Increased air transport

Passengers carried to and from Norwegian airports totalled 12.5 million in the 3rd quarter of 2010. The corresponding quarter in 2009 had 11.4 million airport passengers. This is an increase of over 10 per cent.

Oslo Airport Gardermoen had 5.5 million airport passengers; 472 000 more than in the 3rd quarter of 2009. Moss Rygge had 463 000 airport passengers in the 3rd quarter of 2010, which is more than triple the level one year ago.

Passengers in Norwegian air transport. Million. 2009Q1-2010Q3

Airport passengers in Norway. Million. 2009Q1-2010Q3

Bergen second largest airport

Of 12.5 million airport passengers in the 3rd quarter of 2010, Oslo Airport represented 44 per cent of total traffic with 5.5 million passengers. Bergen Flesland had 12 per cent, while Stavanger Sola and Trondheim Værnes both had 7 per cent of total traffic. The four largest airports thus had around 70 per cent of total airport traffic in the 3rd quarter of 2010.

Scheduled passenger transport dominates

Commercial traffic at airports is classified by type of aircraft and the regularity of flights. Scheduled passenger flights carried 11.6 out of the 12.5 million passengers in the 3rd quarter of 2010. Non-scheduled passenger flights carried 0.9 million passengers, while remaining passengers were found on freight flights, helicopters, and smaller aircrafts.

Oslo Airport Gardermoen dominates international traffic

In the 3rd quarter of 2010 there were 3.6 million passengers on domestic flights, while international flights had 5.3 million passengers. Not surprisingly, Oslo Airport Gardermoen dominates with 3.1 million1 international passengers. Goods to and from Norway totalled about 10 800 tonnes in the 3rd quarter of 2010 while domestic transport was 3 300 tonnes. Oslo Airport Gardermoen handled most of the international traffic.

Every third seat empty between Oslo and Trondheim

In the 3rd quarter of 2010 there were 1 800 departures with 276 000 seats from Trondheim to Oslo. The aircrafts carried 188 000 passengers making every third seat vacant.

Passengers

Airport passengers is the sum of passengers carried at arrival and passengers carried at departure. Aircraft passengers is found by adjusting for double counting on domestic flights.

New statistics production

Earlier publications on air transport were based on aggregated data from Avinor. Starting with data for January 2009, primary data is per aircraft movement. The publication is quarterly. StatBank also has monthly figures.

1  The figure was corrected 23 Mars 2011.

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