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Turku Airport (EFTU) is a Finavia-operated field lying some 8 kilometres north of Turku city centre, in the Maaria-Paattinen ward within the former municipality of Rusko. It offers a single long, ILS-equipped hard-surfaced runway, making it a straightforward and well-equipped destination for a VFR or IFR flight into southwestern Finland.
Turku Airport is Finland's oldest civilian airport in continuous development, now operated by the state-owned company Finavia. It sits close to the city of Turku and handles scheduled and charter passenger traffic as well as cargo, and for the simulator pilot it offers a long, lit runway with an ILS approach, giving good all-weather utility for both airliner and general aviation operations.
The airport lies in Turku, Varsinais-Suomi (Southwest Finland), about 8 kilometres north of the city centre, in the Lentokenttä district of the Maaria-Paattinen ward, an area that became part of Turku in 1957 having previously been the separate municipality of Rusko. The field sits close to the E18 and E63 highway corridors and near the Turku and Naantali sea ports.
Turku has one physical runway, 08/26, a hard-surfaced (asphalt) strip 8,158 feet (2,486 metres) long. Both directions are lit, and an ILS is provided for runway 26.
Turku Airport provides an ATIS on 130.05 MHz and a control tower on 118.3 MHz. An ILS approach is available for runway 26.
Turku Airport traces its origins to 1935, when it was built at Artukainen, making it Finland's first civilian airport; a water airport had earlier operated from Ruissalo Island in the 1920s. Artukainen served as the main airport until a new field was built in the municipality of Rusko in 1955, an area absorbed into the city of Turku in 1957. A new terminal building opened in 1978, and the runway was extended to 2,500 metres in 1980. An air cargo terminal followed in 1991, alongside a cargo apron, and Terminal 1 was renovated and enlarged in 1999. Through the 1990s and 2000s the airport saw a changing pattern of airline service, including Lufthansa CityLine to Hamburg, ELK Airways to Tallinn, and later low-cost carriers such as Wizz Air from 2008 and airBaltic from 2009; a second passenger terminal for low-cost operations opened in 2008. The airport underwent partial closure in July 2014 for runway and taxiway renovation, with Finavia budgeting 14 million euros for the works, and the low-cost terminal was subsequently demolished with its services absorbed into the main terminal. Development plans have also considered lengthening the runway to as much as 3,300 metres to meet future demand.
Turku Airport continues to be operated exclusively by Finavia and remains an active hub for scheduled and charter passenger flights as well as air cargo within Finland's airport network. The surrounding area is marketed as LogiCity, a planned logistics hub intended to capitalise on the airport's proximity to the E18 and E63 road corridors and to the sea ports of Turku and Naantali.
