Kärdla Airport

Kärdla Airport Kärdla lennujaam
IATA: KDL – ICAO: EEKA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SC Kärdla Airport
Serves	Kärdla, Estonia
Elevation AMSL	18 ft / 5 m
Coordinates
Map
KDL Location on a map of Estonia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 1,520 4,987 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Passengers 11,073 Aircraft movements 1,488
Source:

Kärdla Airport (Estonian: Kärdla lennujaam, IATA: KDL, ICAO: EEKA) is an airport in Estonia. The airport is situated 7 km (4 mi) east of the town of Kärdla on Hiiumaa island.

The airport has an asphalt runway of 1,520 metres (4,990 ft) length and 30 metres (98 ft) width. The directions are 14 and 32. The runway was upgraded in 1998.

Overview

Kärdla Airport opened in 1963. During the next years there was fairly high activity at the airport, with regular flights to Tallinn, Haapsalu, Vormsi, Kuressaare, Riga, Pärnu, Viljandi and Tartu, and charter flights to Murmansk, Vilnius and Kaunas. 24,335 passengers travelled via Kärdla Airport in 1987. Air traffic sank dramatically after Estonia became independent in 1991, and in 1995 only 727 passengers travelled via the airport. Since then the traffic has increased again, and 10,551 passengers travelled via the airport in 2010.

The airport has annual Flight Days in the first weekend of August.

On 23 November 2001 an airplane with 17 people on board crashed on its way from Tallinn to Kärdla, near Palade at Hiiumaa. Two people died in the crash. The investigation and the trial still continues.[1], [2]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Avies	Tallinn

Statistics

Baltic's busiest airports by passenger traffic in 2011

Rank	City	Airport	Passengers (2011)
1.	Riga	Riga International Airport	5,106,692
2.	Tallinn	Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport	1,913,172
3.	Vilnius	Vilnius International Airport	1,714,258
4.	Kaunas	Kaunas International Airport	872,618
5.	Palanga	Palanga International Airport	111,133
6	Tartu	Tartu Airport	18,583
7.	Kuressaare	Kuressaare Airport	17,822
8.	Kärdla	Kärdla Airport	10,695
9.	Pärnu	Pärnu Airport	3,863

Baltic's busiest airports by passenger traffic in 2010

Rank	City	Airport	Passengers (2010)
1.	Riga	Riga International Airport	4,663,692
2.	Tallinn	Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport	1,384,831
3.	Vilnius	Vilnius International Airport	1,373,859
4.	Kaunas	Kaunas International Airport	809,732
5.	Palanga	Palanga International Airport	102,528
6	Tartu	Tartu Airport	23,504
7.	Kuressaare	Kuressaare Airport	19,702
8.	Kärdla	Kärdla Airport	10,551
9.	Pärnu	Pärnu Airport	5,148

External links

• hiiumaa.ee about Kärdla Airport
• Official website
• Estonia air transport infrastructure (.pdf)
• Airport information for EEKA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.