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Bergen Airport, Flesland

Vestlandske Luftfartsselskap flew services northwards along the coast to towns in and to Trondheim. An additional 700 parking spaces are provided by the private Flesland Parkering; although located further away, it provides a shuttle bus service to the terminal. The military funding was arranged by Langhelle, who by then had been appointed. A substantial traffic is generated by and to offshore in the. The airport had from the start. The first airport in the Bergen area was , built by the on the island of. The control tower is next to the helicopter terminal and has an area of 160 square meters 1,700 sq ft.

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Within two years it had secured a thirty-percent market share of the offshore traffic. Norwegian originally flew to Kristiansand, Haugesund, Molde and Kristiansund. By 1950 land airports had been built for , , and. New terminals were opened in 1988 and in August 2017. Half a million cubic meters 18 million cu ft of rock were blasted and a similar amount of earthwork moved in the construction process. They alternate operating via and , At Flesland Quay, connected to the airport by shuttle bus, there are several services to , , and.

Bergen Airport, Flesland

All eighteen people on board were killed in the crash. The plans were passed by Parliament on 25 April 1952. Twice per week the Stavanger flight corresponded with services to and. The airport has an ; there are both a surveillance radar and a backup located on. Another important factor during the 1960s was the low range of the aircraft—thus Bergen was a stop-over for aircraft from and Copenhagen. Archived from on 5 February 2012. .

Bergen Airport, Flesland

A series of public institutions made various reports between 1931 and 1938, which largely recommended Flesland as a location, which was at the time located in the then independent municipality of. There is a possibility for some passengers for example, those allergic to perfume to ask security to use a narrow corridor which bypasses the shop. They are served by domestic flights. The from Bergen supported Bøe's concerns and recommended that place construction of an airport serving Bergen on hold. The air station was upgraded in 1962 and consisted of a series of mountain halls, which could house more than twenty-five fighter aircraft. Flesland is operated by the state-owned.

Bergen Airport, Flesland

The has looked at the possibility of building an mainland railway from in the city center. From the opening, Flesland was served by three airlines. A municipal committee recommended therefore in 1938 that Herdla be chosen, to be jointly financed by the state and the municipality. All thirteen people on board 2 crew, 11 passenger were killed in the crash. It was in 2007 the seventh-busiest route in Europe. There are a series of other hangars and buildings at the airport, owned by various airlines, ground handling companies, aviation clubs and general aviation companies.

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The new terminal will have an area of 78,000 square meters 840,000 sq ft and have a capacity for 10 million annual passengers. Norway's first scheduled airline service was started by between Bergen, and in 1920, and operated out of , a water aerodrome just north of the city center. Instead the traffic flatted out and the old main terminal was converted to a helicopter terminal. The has its final stop at the airport and opened in April 2017. Bergen has ten percent of the Norway's international traffic. The proposal is launched as a response to the idea that a new freight terminal be built at Flesland. The route to is among the busiest in Europe.

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Until 1999 of the was co-located at the airport. Components for nuclear bombs were most probably stored at Flesland, although the warheads were probably not stored there. Archived from on 16 July 2011. The runway, main taxiway and all areas to the north of the civil aviation area are owned by the military. However, its director, , was skeptical to the Herdla plans, citing the lack of possibilities to extend the runway past the initially proposed 1,500 meters 4,900 ft and the long travel distance from Herdla to the city. The work consisted of a 2,440-by-45-meter 8,005 by 148 ft runway and an equivalently long taxiway, although it was only half the width.

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Archived from on 6 October 2011. Archived from on 12 March 2012. The gates at the new terminal are numbered B15 to B20. Since 2003, the percentage of passengers traveling from Bergen who are dependent on transferring abroad before reaching their ultimate destination has fallen from about 60 percent to below 40 percent. There are six intersections between W and Y, one of which leads to the military area. In addition to larger terminal capacity, it will give the airport six new gates. Four taxi companies operate at the airport.

Bergen Airport, Flesland

På grønne vinger over Norge in Norwegian. At the time there was no bridge either from Herdla to Askøy nor from Askøy to the mainland, nor was there a road across the island. It has since been replaced by the new terminal. The shop has also been criticized for informing passengers who purchase less than their permitted tax-free quota of alcohol that they are allowed to purchase more. The domestic terminal was expanded with 500 square meters 5,400 sq ft and a new baggage sorting area with 800 square meters 8,600 sq ft in 2001.

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The terminal has reached its capacity for simultaneous passengers, and especially security, check-in, arrival hall and baggage handling have limited space. The domestic airline market was deregulated on 1 April 1994, so airlines no longer needed a concession to operate domestic routes. The final demise of the air station came in 1999, when all stationary assets were sold, including 30 vehicles. The following on the route saw lower ticket prices and increased capacity. Archived from on 3 October 2018.