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Flesland Airport
Airport Directory » Norway » Bergen » Flesland AirportBergen Airport, Flesland (Norwegian: Bergen lufthavn, Flesland) (IATA: BGO, ICAO: ENBR) is the airport in Bergen, Norway, turn up 19 kilometre southward of the town centre. It was opened in 1955, and constructed with monetary funds from NATO. It has operated as a combined polite and armed forces airport since its opening. Flesland is owned and functioned by Avinor.
Flesland is Norway's 2nd biggest airport, assisting 4,852,740 riders in 2007. Seven air hose offer domestic voyages to 16 destinations while 8 air hose offer voyages to 19 international destinations, including daily voyages to Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London and Stockholm. Some of the traffic come up from Flesland's office as a hub for regional traffic from Sogn og Fjordane, with many voyages with 37 sit Dash eight planes functioned by Widerøe and ATR 42 aeroplanes by Danish Air Transport. The old depot has been changed over to a heliport, which mainly assists oil platforms in the North Sea. Still, the most eminent path is the 1 to Oslo, with approximately 35 daily voyages with Boeing 737 aircraft functioned by Norwegian and Scandinavian Airlines. This path is the 7th busiest in Europe
Terminal
Its current depot was projected by the local designer Halfdan Grieg and was opened in 1988. The same designer also planned the old depot. The depot has 11 entrances with jetbridges, amounted 21-32 (entrance 30 is for planes on the apron). In general, entrances on the southward side of the depot are used for international voyages while entrances on the northward side are for domestic voyages. Gates in the center, i.e. the west side, have various duty assignment.
All riders move on international voyage moldiness pass through the duty free in say to get to their voyage. There is a possibility for some riders (for instance, those allergic to essence) to inquire security to use a narrow coridor which go around the store. Nonetheless, the layout has been picked apart by teetotaler organisations. The airport's response is that the layout was demanded due to the depot's little size. The store has also been picked apart for informing riders who buy small than their allowed tax-free quota of alcoholic drink that they are let to buy more. The Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs pointed that this may go against the ban on alcoholic drink advertizing.
History
The 1st measures towards an airport at Flesland were taken in 1937 when divisions of the farm Flesland were expropriated by the City. In 1952 the dominances make up one's mind to construct an airport there, and in 1955 it was complete with a landing track at 2 999 metres. The original airport was principally financed by NATO. A new depot opened in 1988 and a new tower in 1991.
Future programmes
Avinor has make up one's mind to use 461 million NOK to upgrade the airport, with amongst other things extension of the international depot, more better aircraft parkland, modify to the taxi strip, new operational constructions, defrosting platform, solid ground radio detection and ranging, secondary microwave radar and landing track centre visible radiation.
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