Bergen Airport, Flesland (NorwegianNorwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. Norwegian is closely related to and generally mutually intelligible with Swedish and Danish. Together with these, as well as Faroese, Icelandic and a ...Norwegian: Bergen lufthavn, Flesland) (IATAAn IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The characters prominently ...IATA: BGO, ICAOThe ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. These codes are defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization, and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators. The ICAO codes are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning. They are not the same as the IATA codes ...ICAO: ENBR) is the airport in Bergen, Norwayis a city, a municipality, and a former county, in the county of Hordaland, Norway. The city of Bergen was separated from Hordaland as a county of its own in 1831. It was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipality of Bergen landdistrikt ...Bergen, Norway, located 19 km south of the city center. It was opened in 1955Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar).1955, and built with funds from NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; ; also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance, or the Western Alliance) is a military alliance, established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949. With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium,Boulevard Leopold III-laan, B-1110 ...NATO. It has functioned as a combined civil and military airport since its opening. Flesland is owned and operated by AvinorAvinor is a state owned limited company in Norway that operates most of the civil airports in the country. The Norwegian state through the Ministry of Transport and Communications controls 100% of the share capital. Avinor was created on January 1 2003, through the privatization of the Norwegian Civil Aviation Administration known as Luftfartsverket. Avinor owns and operates 46 airports in Norway, ...Avinor.

Flesland is Norway's second largest airport, having 95,484 aircraft movements and 4,580,474 passengers in 2006. Seven airlines offer domestic flights to 16 destinations while eight airlines offer flights to 19 international destinations, including daily flights to AberdeenAberdeen (IPA: ; ) is Scotland's third largest city with an official population of 202,370. Nicknames include the Granite City and the Silver City with the Golden Sands. During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, whose ...Aberdeen, Amsterdamis the capital city of the Netherlands, located in the south of the province North Holland. The name Amsterdam literally means Amstel dam.Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Vol 1, p896-898. The city was founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village. 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An important settlement for around two millennia, London is today one of the world's leading business, financial and ...London and RigaRiga (Latvian: Rīga) the capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states. The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the city is particularly notable for its extensive Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) architecture, comparable in significance only with Vienna and Saint Petersburg.Riga. Some of the traffic comes from Flesland's role as a hub for regional traffic from Sogn og Fjordaneis a county in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud and Hordaland. The county administration is in Leikanger.Sogn og Fjordane, with many flights with 37 seat Dash 8:"Dash 8" is also a series of diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives The de Havilland Canada DHC-8, popularly known as the Dash 8, is a series of twin-turboprop airliners designed by de Havilland Canada (DHC) in 1984. They are now produced by Bombardier Aerospace which purchased DHC from Boeing in 1992. Since 1996, the aircraft have been known as the Q Series, for "quiet" due to installation ...Dash 8 airplanes operated by WiderøeWiderøes Flyveselskap ASA, branded simply as Widerøe, is the largest regional airline in the Nordic countries, having a turnover of NOK 1.8 billion and carrying 1.5 million passengers. Widerøes Flyveselskap ASA operates 29 Dash 8 aircraft to 35 destinations in Norway and 6 destinations abroad ...Widerøe and ATR 42The ATR 42 is a twin-turboprop, short-haul regional airliner built in France by ATR. The name "42" comes from the aircraft's seating, which varies from 40 to 50. The aircraft was the basis for the ATR 72.ATR 42 planes by Danish Air TransportDAT Danish Air Transport is an airline based in Vamdrup, Denmark. It operates scheduled passenger and cargo services, and ad hoc passenger and cargo charters. Its main base is Vamdrup Kolding Airport (EKVD), with hubs at Esbjerg Airport, Florø Airport and Copenhagen Airport.Danish Air Transport. The old terminal is converted to a heliportA heliport is a small airport suitable only for use by helicopters. Heliports typically contain one or more helipads and may have limited facilities such as fuel, lighting, a windsock, or even hangars. In larger towns and cities, customs facilities may be available at a heliport. Generally heliports can be situated closer to a town or city centre than an airport, which gives advantages in terms of travel time to many urban destinations, or even to the city's airport, which can be much faster than driving there. The early ...heliport, which primarily serves oil platformsAn oil platform is a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean. Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be attached to the ocean floor, consist of an artificial island, or be floating. Generally, oil platforms are located on the continental shelf, though as technology improves, drilling and production in deeper waters becomes both feasible and profitable. A typical platform may have around thirty wellheads located on the ...oil platforms in the North SeaThe North Sea (also formerly known as German Ocean and Germanic Sea"The North Sea was known as the German Ocean until the early 20th C., when hostilities with Germany meant this name became politically unacceptable in Britain." in ; Latin: Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Norway ...North Sea. Still, the most important route is the one to Oslo, with about 35 daily flights with Boeing 737The Boeing 737 is the world's most popular short to medium range, single aisle, narrow body airliner. With over 7,000 ordered and over 5,000 delivered, it is the most ordered and produced commercial passenger jet of all time and has been continuously manufactured by Boeing since 1967. The 737 is now so widely used that at any given time, there are over 1,250 airborne worldwide.737 Facts. Boeing. Access date: 30 October 2006. On average, somewhere around the world, a 737 takes off or lands ...Boeing 737 aircraft operated by NorwegianNorwegian Air Shuttle is a Norwegian low-cost airline, with headquarters at Fornebu outside Oslo and its main base at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. Norwegian Air Shuttle is also referred to as Norwegian, which is the company's commercial brand.About Norwegian It operates low-cost flights in Scandinavia and in Europe. The airline operates a fleet of 22 Boeing 737-300 aircraft. Its operational centres are in Oslo and Bergen and its technical center is at Stavanger Airport, Sola.Norwegian and Scandinavian AirlinesScandinavian Airlines System or SAS is a multi-national airline for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and the leading carrier in the Nordic countries, based in Stockholm, Sweden and owned by SAS AB. It is a founding member of the Star Alliance. It is also the founder of Spanair, Thai Airways International ...Scandinavian Airlines. This route is the seventh busiest in Europe

Its current terminal was designed by the local architectAn architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a building's construction. The word "architect" (Latin: architectus) derives from the Greek arkhitekton (arkhi (chief) + tekton (builder))")Online Etymology of the term ...architect Halfdan Grieg and was opened in 1988Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman-numeral digits (11), and it is the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac.1988. The same architect also designed the old terminal. The terminal has 11 gates with jetbridgesJetway is the registered trademark of FMC Technologies, Inc. for their line of enclosed, moveable jet bridge connectors (also termed loading bridges, aerobridges/airbridges, or passenger boarding bridges) which extend from an airport terminal gate to an airplane, thereby ...jetbridges, numbered 21-32 (gate 30 is for airplanes on the apron). In general, gates on the south side of the terminal are used for international flights while gates on the north side are for domestic flights. Gates in the middle, i.e. the west side, have various assignments.