Bergen Airport, Flesland

Bergen Airport Flesland is Norway's second-busiest airport after Oslo-Gardermoen and the principal aviation gateway to western Norway, serving the Bergen metropolitan area's roughly 290,000 residents and drawing catchment from Vestland county, parts of Rogaland, and the western Norwegian fjord region from Sognefjord south to Hardangerfjord. Located 11 mi (18 km) south of downtown Bergen at 170 ft (52 m) elevation on the island of Flesland in Bergen municipality, BGO handles 90 routes across 57 destinations through 18 airlines. The airport dates to its 1955 opening as a combined civil-military facility and is co-located with the Royal Norwegian Air Force's Bergen Flesland Air Station. BGO is a major operating base for SAS and the principal western Norway base for Norwegian Air Shuttle, the country's largest low-cost carrier. Widerøe, the regional carrier specializing in short-runway turboprop operations, runs extensive service to smaller Norwegian fjord and coastal airports that are inaccessible by road or require long ferry connections. Foreign carriers include KLM (Amsterdam), Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich), Air France (Paris–Charles de Gaulle), British Airways (London–Heathrow), Icelandair (Reykjavík), Finnair (Helsinki), SWISS (Zürich), LOT (Warsaw), Wizz Air, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines (Istanbul), and Eurowings. The North Sea offshore oil and gas industry drives a substantial portion of BGO traffic, with dedicated helicopter operations (primarily via CHC and Bristow) to offshore platforms operated from an adjacent heliport, plus heavy fixed-wing traffic supporting industry workers rotating from UK, Polish, and other European bases. The airfield operates a single asphalt runway — 17/35 at 9,810 ft (2,990 m) — capable of full widebody operations and used by transatlantic and long-haul charter flights as well as occasional transatlantic ferry movements. A new main terminal — Terminal 3 — opened in 2017, designed by Nordic Office of Architecture with distinctive rectilinear massing, extensive natural timber interior, and large glass façades framing views of Bergen's surrounding mountains and the North Sea. The airport was one of the first Norwegian facilities directly connected to a light-rail line, with the Bybanen (Bergen Light Rail) Line 1 terminating at the airport.