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Turku Airport
Airport Directory » Finland » Turku » Turku AirportAirport information for Turku AirportCountry: FinlandLocation: Turku Coordinates: 60.31.00N / 022.16.00E IATA Code: TKU Timezone: GMT +2 Direct flights form Turku Airport Direct flights to Turku Airport Find connecting flights to Turku Airport Find connecting flights from Turku Airport |
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Turku Airport (IATA: TKU, ICAO: EFTU), is turn up some eight kilometres from Turku, Finland. It assists about 320,000 riders per yr, being the 5th largest (by figure of riders) airport in Finland. The airport has a secondary rider depot specifically projected for low-cost air hose. There is a logistical conception LogiCity to make a logistical hub around Turku Airport, in where all manners of freight transportation system is able to be linked together in same area . From first of September in 2008 TNT Airways do Turku Airport as its logistical hub for its Finnish functioning.
Logicity
Logicity is labor of Pilot Turku Ltd (constituted in 2003) which is furthering logistical functioning in the Turku district. Logicity shall be a logistical hub constructed around Turku Airport. Plan is to connect the different ways of transport together which is possible by the 3 coming after facts, Turku Airport is merely 20 min. hit by 2 eminent sea ports the Port of Turku and the Port of Naantali which united rates are comparable to the Port of Vuosaari in Helsinki, Both E18 main road to St. Petersburg and E63 to Tampere travel via Turku Airport, and also rail transport connexion to Russia and China is turn up Logicity area . Pilot Turku describers Turku Region as "the running across point of the East, the West and the Nordic commonwealths" and as "the multimodal transport center of the Nordic Triangle".
Logicity is approximated to do at smallest 3000 to 5000 new line of work. The length of landing track at Turku airport shall be upgraded to 3000 m to run across new claims. There are many programs set in the nearby area : new routes, commercial centers, retail parklands, industrial estates, logistical depots and business office. In fact there is already large commercial area alongside with the E18 ringway merely few km off. Logicity is be after in 2 stages which of stage 1 lets currently to make 400,000 square meter of floorspace and 2nd stage will raise it to 1,000,000 square meter. Many neighbour cities are regarded in the labor as stockholders of Pilot Turku e.g. Kaarina, Lieto, Naantali and Turku.
Transport Connections
by coach
The coach number one goes away from the airport in every 20 min.. You is able to purchase your ticket on board and it is valid for next 2 60 minutes in all local passenger vehicle inside the town metes. Bus number one travels via the Market Square (Kauppatori, local passenger vehicle center) to the port of Turku in which there are excellent connexions to Stockholm with Baltic Sea cruiseferries (Ruotsinlaiva). The bus path one functions from 05:20 to 00:50. Last coach from airport waits duplicate ten min. if demanded.
by cab
Taxis are normally available after every scheduled voyage, but cab is able to be hit by naming +358 (0)2 10041. Local cab menu is approx. 17€ to Turku and the trip takes approximately 20 min.. There is also an Airport cab service, +358 (0)400 919 940, with restored menu of 12€ per mortal, e.g. between the airport and the town center.
History
Turku airport was Finland's 1st airport when it was built in Artukainen in 1935. It assisted as the independent airport of Turku until the new airport was built on the current place in 1955.
District
Turku Airport (Turun lentoasema in Finnish; Åbo flygstation in Swedish) is also a land in the Maaria-Paattinen ward of Turku. The land has a population of 127 (as of 2004), and an one-year development of 0.79%. 22.05% of the land's population are under 15 yr old, while 16.54% are over 65. The land's lingual make-up is 92.13% Finnish, 0.79% Swedish, and 7.09% other.
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