Kuressaare Airport

Kuressaare Airport
Kuressaare Airport; Kuressaare lennujaam
	IATA: URE – ICAO: EEKE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Kuressaare Lennujaam
Serves	Kuressaare, Estonia
Elevation AMSL	14 ft / 4 m
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Map
	URE Location on a map of Estonia
Runways
Statistics (2005)
Passengers	18,071
Cargo (tonnes)	32
Aircraft movements	2,022
	Source:

Kuressaare Airport (Estonian: Kuressaare lennujaam, IATA: URE, ICAO: EEKE) is an airport in Estonia. The airport is situated 3 km from the town of Kuressaare on Saaremaa island.

Overview

The first runway was built in the last half of the 1930s. The airport was opened officially on 6 March 1945. The air traffic increased during the proceeding years and between 1949 and 1953 there were between 10 and 14 flights every day between Kuressaare and Tallinn. During this period around 400 passengers flew to or from Kuressaare each day. The airport did not get electricity until 1958. The present terminal building was built in 1962. The second runway 05/23 was built in 1976 and in 1999 the main runway was lengthened. The terminal building was modernized in 2007.

The airport is owned by AS Tallinna Lennujaam. It also owns the Ruhnu Airfield.

19,702 passengers travelled via Kuressaare Airport in 2010.

Scheduled airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Avies	Tallinn
Luftverkehr Friesland Harle	Seasonal: Ruhnu

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