Kittilä Airport
Airport in Lapland, Finland
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Kittilä Airport (IATA: KTT, ICAO: EFKT), Finnish: Kittilän lentoasema, is a Finnish airport located in Kittilä inside the Arctic Circle. It handles general aviation and mostly seasonal international traffic and is one of the main airports in Northern Finland. During the winter, Kittilä receives visitors from countries such as Germany, France, United Kingdom, Ukraine, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and Canada.[4] The airport serves the nearby ski resorts of Levi and Ylläs. It carried 363,161 passengers in 2019 and 206,251 passengers in 2020 (due to COVID-19) being the fourth busiest airport in Finland.[5]
Kittilä Airport Kittilän lentoasema | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Finavia | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kittilä, Lapland, Finland | ||||||||||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 196 m (643 ft) | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 67°41′55″N 024°50′53″E | ||||||||||
| Website | finavia.fi | ||||||||||
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| Source: AIP Finland[3] | |||||||||||
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Kittilä Airport:
Statistics
| Rank | Airport | Passengers (2015) |
Operators |
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| 1. | Helsinki, Finland |  109,855 |
Finnair, Nordic Regional Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines |
| 2. | Ivalo, Finland |  30,911 |
Finnair |
| 3. | London–Gatwick, United Kingdom | 18,970 |
easyJet, Finnair, TUI Airways |
| 4. | Manchester, United Kingdom | 18,093 |
Jet2.com, TUI Airways |
Passengers
| Year | Domestic passengers | International passengers | Total passengers | Change |
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| 1983 | 1,821 | |||
| 1985 | 280 | |||
| 1990 | 21,103 | |||
| 1995 | 76,002 | |||
| 1998 | 115,651 | 12,247 | 127,898 | |
| 1999 | 110,128 | 17,808 | 127,936 | +0,0% |
| 2000 | 143,627 | 26,455 | 170,082 | +32.9% |
| 2001 | 145,757 | 35,781 | 181,538 | +6.7% |
| 2002 | 146,408 | 51,083 | 197,491 | +8.8% |
| 2003 | 144,482 | 69,300 | 213,782 | +8.2% |
| 2004 | 161,854 | 77,109 | 238,963 | +11.8% |
| 2005 | 155,008 | 73,513 | 228,521 | −4.4% |
| 2006 | 153,264 | 91,820 | 245,084 | +7.2% |
| 2007 | 145,675 | 96,291 | 241,966 | −1.3% |
| 2008 | 164,136 | 101,259 | 265,395 | +9.7% |
| 2009 | 165,926 | 79,387 | 245,313 | −7.6% |
| 2010 | 142,197 | 72,179 | 214,376 | −12.6% |
| 2011 | 167,484 | 71,054 | 238,538 | +11.3% |
| 2012 | 186 184 | 77 202 | 263 386 | +10.4% |
| 2013 | 157 465 | 79 757 | 237 222 | −9.9% |
| 2014 | 153 011 | 81 722 | 234 733 | −1.0% |
| 2015 | 140 831 | 85 988 | 226 819 | −3.4% |
| 2016 | 148,274 | 109,263 | 257,537 | +13.5% |
| 2017 | 183,952 | 141,101 | 325,053 | +26.2% |
| 2018 | 208,835 | 145,726 | 354,561 | +9.1% |
| 2019 | 214,357 | 148,804 | 363,161 | +2.4% |
| 2020 | 128,093 | 78,158 | 206,251 | -43.2% |
| 2021 | 118,618 | 63,869 | 182,487 | -11.5% |
| 2022 | 175,527 | 161,671 | 337,198 | +84.8% |
| 2023 | 184,005 | 190,621 | 374,626 | +11.1% |
| 2024 | 199,420 | 212,298 | 411,718 | +9.9% |
| 2025 | 189,189 | 256,722 | 445,911 | +8.3% |
Cargo
| Year | Domestic freight | Domestic mail | International freight | International mail | Total freight and mail | Change |
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| 2005 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | −7% |
| 2006 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | +8% |
| 2007 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | −48% |
| 2008 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | −7% |
| 2009 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | −15% |
Incidents and accidents
- On 27 July 2006, a fire broke out around 19:00 between the old terminal building and the new unfinished section of the new terminal. The airport was ready and operational again in December 2006, with the new terminal open.[53]
- On 4 January 2018, a Gulfstream G150 aircraft registered to Austria and carrying Russian passengers was being prepared for take-off to return to Russia when due to pressure built inside the aircraft the door slammed on the German captain during exterior inspection killing him instantly. There were no passengers in the aircraft.[54]
- On 28 December 2025, a Nextant 400XT jet and a Swiss International Air Lines aircraft that landed from Germany carrying 150 passengers were blown off the runway into a pile of snow while taxiing due to strong winds caused by Storm Johannes. No injuries were reported.[55]
