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Landvetter Airport
Airport Directory » Sweden » Gothenburg » Landvetter AirportGothenburg-Landvetter Airport (Swedish: Göteborg-Landvetter flygplats, (IATA: GOT, ICAO: ESGG)) is an international airport assisting the Gothenburg district in Sweden. With 4.3 million riders in 2006 it is Sweden's second-largest airport (after Stockholm-Arlanda). It is functioned by the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration (Luftfartsverket).
The airport is named after the small city of Landvetter, which is turn up in the municipality of Härryda. It is 20 kilometre east of Gothenburg and 40 kilometre due west of Borås. Gothenburg's 2nd international airport is Gothenburg City Airport. Landvetter Airport has 2 depots, domestic and international, even though all check-in is do in the international depot currently, since all baggage has to be tested. The conveyance area has several stores, coffee bar, and a eating house. There is a hotel 350 m from the depot. The rider going and reaching operates are on 1 stage. The domestic depot area is on 1 side of the series of building adjacent to the international going area , which is adjacent to the international reaching area .
The domestic depot has 4 air spans, entrance 12-15A, and a staircase to the dry land at entrance 15 named 15B, and 2 entrances with airside jitney conveyance, named entrance 10-11. The domestic entrances are hit through the security check in the domestic depot.
The international depot also has 4 air spans, entrance 16A, 17, 19A, 20A. There are also steps to the dry land for them. Gates 18A-18G are for airside jitney conveyance.
The international depot has an outside-Schengen area with nonindulgent recommendation check over. The entrance 20, the airside jitney entrances named 21A-21D belong to this area . The entrance 19 is able to flexibly be inside or outside Schengen. Gates 16-18 are inside Schengen. The load depot uses entrance figure beneath 10. Swedish usages patterns needs nonindulgent separation of domestic and international entrances. In several airports in other divisions of Europe, intra-Schengen and domestic voyages use entrances next to each other.
History
The airport was opened in 1977. Passenger services, antecedently at Torslanda Airport, northward of Gothenburg, were travel to Landvetter in 1977. Later, some budget air hose set about assisting the former army base in Säve, which was renamed from Säve Flygplats to Gothenburg City Airport.
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