Alta Airport - Airlines and Destinations

Airlines and Destinations

Alta Airport is served by three scheduled airlines and two charter airlines, providing services to eleven destinations, including two abroad. Both Scandinavian Airlines and Norwegian Air Shuttle serve the airport using Boeing 737 aircraft, each providing two daily services to Oslo and one daily service to Tromsø. Widerøe operates regional services in Finnmark on a public service obligation contract with the Ministry of Transport and Communications. However, its seven daily services to Tromsø are not subsidized. Widerøe operates de Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft on their services, using the 50-passenger Dash 8-300 aircraft to Tromsø and the 39-passenger Dash 8-100 aircraft on services to regional airport.

Alta Airport's catchment area includes Kautokeino (135 kilometers / 84 miles by road), which has no airport. The catchment area partially includes Hammerfest (137 kilometers / 85 miles by road) and Kvalsund (106 kilometers / 66 miles). Both of these areas have Hammerfest Airport as their local airport, but the regional airport does not provide direct flights to Oslo and the prices to Tromsø are higher. In 2007, an estimated 81,000 passenger-flights at Alta Airport were generated by people living in Hammerfest and Kvalsund. Also journeys to and from other parts of western Finnmark to Alta Airport are often made via Alta, for example from the area around Honningsvåg Airport. The pass at Sennalandet is sometimes closed during snow storms.