Mariehamn Airport guide

Mariehamn Airport is the main air gateway to the Åland Islands, an autonomous Finnish province in the Baltic Sea. It stands in the municipality of Jomala, about 3 km north-west of the centre of Mariehamn. The airport opened to the public in 1937, and scheduled flights began in 1940. The station, air traffic control building, car park and access road were completed in the 1960s, and Finavia renovated the terminal and enlarged its passenger area in 1991.

The single runway, 03/21, is about 1,900 metres long and has an instrument landing system. The airport handles scheduled and general aviation traffic. Finnair flies to Helsinki, and PopulAir connects Mariehamn with Stockholm Arlanda and Turku.

Traffic peaked at 64,114 passengers in 2006 and fell to 18,247 in 2021 during the pandemic. It has recovered since, reaching 39,569 passengers in 2024 and 42,308 in 2025, of which 23,139 were international. On 8 November 1963 an Aero Douglas DC-3 crashed on approach about 1.5 km short of the runway, killing 22 people. Finavia named Mariehamn its airport of the year for 2009.