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Sweden: the country's third airport will close its doors

2021-04-22T16:43:59.907Z


The closure of the local "Orly" is debated in the Swedish political class. Imagine that the French government, despairing of this pandemic which is pinning planes and passengers to the ground, decides to abandon Orly to build a new residential area. It's a bit of a shock Sweden has just experienced with the announced closure of Bromma, which, with 2.4 million passengers, was the country's third airport in 2019. Because Bromma was in a way the Orly of Sweden: an airport


Imagine that the French government, despairing of this pandemic which is pinning planes and passengers to the ground, decides to abandon Orly to build a new residential area.

It's a bit of a shock Sweden has just experienced with the announced closure of Bromma, which, with 2.4 million passengers, was the country's third airport in 2019.

Because Bromma was in a way the Orly of Sweden: an airport very close to the capital, 5-6 kilometers from the city center, more dedicated to domestic flights.

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But today, the oldest airport in the Swedish capital, the first in Europe to have paved runways, is only a shadow of itself.

Only a few planes take off each day for the island of Gotland or Malmö and Angelhölm, in the south of the country.

The terminal seems deserted and, according to the state-owned Swedavia, which manages the ten largest airports in the country, "

its operation is no longer commercially viable

".

The number of passengers,

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Source: lefigaro

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