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Airport information for Tampere-Pirkkala Airport Country: Finland Location: Tampere Coordinates: 61.25.00N / 023.35.00E IATA Code: TMP Timezone: GMT +2 Direct flights form Tampere-Pirkkala Airport Direct flights to Tampere-Pirkkala Airport Find connecting flights to Tampere-Pirkkala Airport Find connecting flights from Tampere-Pirkkala Airport

You can fly to Tampere-Pirkkala from: Direct fligths from Stockholm Arlanda Airport Direct fligths from Milan Orio Al Serio Airport Direct fligths from Bremen Airport Direct fligths from Dublin Airport Direct fligths from Helsinki Vantaa Airport Direct fligths from Frankfurt Hahn Airport Direct fligths from Riga Airport Direct fligths from London Stansted Airport Direct fligths from Turku Airport Direct fligths from Kittila Airport Direct fligths from Kuopio Airport Direct fligths from Oulu Airport

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Tampere-Pirkkala Airport (IATA: TMP, ICAO: EFTP), turn up in Pirkkala, some 17 klicks south west from the town of Tampere, is the 3rd busiest airport and the 2nd busiest international airport in Finland. Tampere-Pirkkala is also 1 of Finland's fastest turning airports, having increased its one-year rider figure from 256,380 in 2000 to 632,010 in 2006. Most of this development is able to be ascribed to Ryanair's low cost voyages to and from a figure of destinations in Central and Western Europe.

There are 2 depots in Tampere-Pirkkala. Low-cost bearer Ryanair uses Terminal two and the other air hose use the independent depot (Terminal one). Tampere-Pirkkala is linked to Helsinki, Turku, Oulu, Stockholm, London Stansted, Milan, Hahn, Dublin, Bremen and Riga. A previous path to Liverpool has been halt.

Tampere-Pirkkala also place to the Satakunta Air Command ground of the Finnish Air Force, with F-18 Hornets posted there.

History

Tampere Airport was constituted in 1936 in Härmälä (a land in Tampere) turn up some six km from the center of Tampere. At that clip Härmälä airport was linked to Helsinki, Vaasa, Oulu and Kemi by Aero Oy (a predecessor of Finnair). The 1st depot construction was built in 1941.

Veljekset Karhumäki (an air hose, in English "Karhumäki Brothers", subsequently known as Karhumäki Airways and Kar-Air) started to wing to Stockholm in the 1950s. The landing track wasn't paved until 1958. Between 1936 and 1979 Härmälä airport assisted 1.5 million riders. In 1979 Härmälä airport was closed and the new airport opened in Pirkkala.

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