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Jönköping Airport is proposed as a standby airport in 2023

The Swedish Transport Agency is tasked with negotiating and entering into agreements with 27 designated airports to be standby airports in 2023, of which Jönköping Airport is one of these. The Ministry of Infrastructure writes in a press release that emergency airports cater for socially important aviation for, among other things, healthcare, rescue services, firefighting, coast guard flights and total defence. The airports must be able to receive socially important air transport around the clock.

Due to, among other things, the corona pandemic, there are 27 standby airports in Sweden. The government sees that there is still a need for good access to socially important aviation for, among other things, healthcare, for example ambulance flights, rescue services, firefighting flights, coast guard flights and other actors in crisis preparedness and total defence.

-The current security policy situation in Sweden's immediate area underlines the need for standby airports, among other things based on the needs of the total defense but also to secure socially important aviation for example ambulance flights, fire flights and rescue services, says Infrastructure and Housing Minister Andreas Carlson.

The government therefore intends next week to decide on a task for the Swedish Transport Administration to enter into agreements with the airports listed below that they will be emergency airports in 2023. Note that the proposed emergency airports for 2023 only apply on the condition that the Riksdag approves the government's proposal for expenditure area 22.

  • We welcome the Government's announcement, which is positive for us and an important signal that Jönköping Airport is of great importance to society. The fact that we can open the airport at short notice for, for example, an ambulance flight or an organ transport creates security for the residents of our region, says Sofie Hagman, CEO of Jönköping Airport.
Ambulansflyg parkerat på uppställningsplats. Ambulans uppbackat mot flygplanet för i-/urlastning av patient.

Three new standby airports

Sweden currently has 10 permanent standby airports and 17 temporary ones. Jönköping Airport belongs to the latter category. Three of the temporary ones will be removed next year - Norrköping, Eskilstuna and Skövde - while three new ones will be added: Halmstad, Skavsta and Västerås. According to the infrastructure minister, the goal is to have a better geographical spread with an emergency airport in each county.

The 27 standby airports in 2023 are:
Kiruna Airport, Lycksele Airport, Skellefteå Airport, Örnsköldsviks Airport, Mora-Siljan Airport, Borlänge Airport, Karlstads Airport, Örebro Airport, Västerås Airport, Skavsta Airport, Trollgättan-Vänersborgs Airport, Linköping-Saab Airport, Jönköping Airport, Växjö-Kronobergs Airport, Kalmar Airport, Halmstad Airport, Kristianstad-Österlens Airport, Gällivare Airport, Luleå Airport, Umeå Airport, Sundsvall-Timrå Airport, Åre-Östersund Airport, Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Visby Airport, Göteborg-Landvetter Airport, Ronneby Airport and Malmö-Sturup Airport.

Source: Regeringskansliet

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