Kalmar Airport guide

Kalmar Öland Airport (ICAO ESMQ) sits about 5 km west of central Kalmar in south-eastern Sweden. It serves Kalmar County and the island of Öland, which is reached by the Öland Bridge on the east side of the city.

The airfield began as the Kalmar Wing (F 12), a Swedish Air Force base established in 1942 at Stora Törneby. Civil flights started on a trial basis on runway 05/23 in April 1957. The air force wing closed in 1980 and the field then became a civil airport. The current name dates from 2013.

The airport has two paved runways. Runway 16/34 is 2,050 m long and takes the commercial traffic. Runway 05/23 is 664 m long. The terminal is a single building with check-in, a security checkpoint, a restaurant, a shop and car rental. Scheduled service is SAS to Stockholm Arlanda. Seasonal charter flights for tour operators run to Mediterranean and Canary Island resorts such as Rhodes, Mallorca and Gran Canaria. Traffic was 243,271 passengers in 2018, of which about 202,900 were domestic.