SVG From Norway, joined Sep 1999, 284 posts, RR: 1 Posted (12 years 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 725 times:
Plans are underway for another international airport in the Oslo region. Rygge (south of Oslo) may be the site of a new travel hub that could handle 800,000 passengers a year by autumn 2001 if authorities approve. The airport is already used by the air force.
Heisan67 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (12 years 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 686 times:
These plans are not new.
By opening Rygge to civilian traffic (Rygge is the only 100% military airport in Norway) OSL will probably loose even more pax, which I do find disturbing.
I'll be the first to agree that OSL never should have been built were it is situated (50km north of Oslo), but be chossing this place, most people using OSL lives south of the airport. This means that when Rygge is opened, there will be two international airports just south of Oslo, Rygge and Sandefjord - TRF. TRF is already a hit by linking south of the Oslo area with nonstop flights to Amsterdam, Copenhagen, London, Stockholm and Gothenburg, and several domestic flights.
There are even some rumors that København lufthavne (CPH) is looking to finance some of the costs....
There are still some work to be done in order to open the airport for commercial traffic, so for the next years to come OSL or TRF will be the closest airports.
Ctbarnes From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 3491 posts, RR: 54 Reply 4, posted (12 years 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 681 times:
I thought Gardemoen (sp?) was supposed to be the big new Oslo airport. I know it was used for widebody operations because Fornebu's runways were too short, but now I understand it is being used for everything.
By looking at Rygge for a new airport, has Gardemoen reached capacity already? Or have there been complaints about its distance from Oslo? While we're at it, is Fornebu still even open?
Can anyone set me straight?
Charles
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