Mo i Rana Airport, Røssvoll

Mo i Rana Airport, Røssvoll Mo i Rana lufthavn, Røssvoll
IATA: MQN – ICAO: ENRA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Avinor
Serves	Mo i Rana
Location	Røssvoll, Rana, Norway
Elevation AMSL	229 ft / 70 m
Coordinates	66°21′50″N 014°18′06″E / 66.36389°N 14.30167°ECoordinates: 66°21′50″N 014°18′06″E / 66.36389°N 14.30167°E
Map
MON Location in Norway
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 14/32 2,858 871 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 104,474 Aircraft movements 7,374 Cargo (tonnes) 13
Source: [1][2]

Mo i Rana Airport, Røssvoll (Norwegian: Mo i Rana lufthavn, Røssvoll) (IATA: MQN, ICAO: ENRA) is a regional airport serving the town of Mo i Rana in the municipality of Rana in Nordland county, Norway. The airport is located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) outside the town in the village of Røssvoll. In 2014 Mo i Rana Airport served 104,474 passengers. It is operated by Avinor.

Service

The airport is served by Widerøe with Dash 8 aircraft connecting the community to Bodø, Trondheim, and other communities in Nordland and Nord-Trøndelag counties. The routes are operated on public service obligation with the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications. The runway is too short for flights with enough fuel to reach Oslo.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Widerøe	Bodø, Brønnøysund, Oslo-Gardermoen (begins 3 April 2017),[3] Sandnessjøen, Rørvik, Trondheim[4]

Ground transportation

The airport is located in Røssvoll about 20 minutes north-east of the town along the E6. There are no buses to the airport, but taxis are available. Rental cars are available in the town of Mo i Rana.

Future

In 2002 the Ministry of Transport launched an idea of merging the three airports serving Northern Helgeland, Mosjøen Airport, Sandnessjøen Airport and Mo i Rana Airport into one new airport with a large enough runway to fly jet aircraft like Airbus A320 or Boeing 737 aircraft directly to Oslo, and make it unnecessary to operate subsidied regional aircraft to Helgeland. There are also doubts about the future availability of large enough aircraft for 800 m runways. Better roads between the areas including two long tunnels (Korgfjell Tunnel opened in 2005 and Toven Tunnel) opened 2014) have also been built. A location was selected at Drevjadalen in Vefsn, 15 km north of Mosjøen (55 km from Sandnessjøen, 70 from Mo i Rana). Meteorological tests showed that the location was too foggy, so a new location was searched for.

In June 2013 the parliament decided to build the new airport a few km south of Røssvoll airport.

References

1. "Airport information for ENRA" (PDF). Avinor. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
2. "Månedsrapport" (XLS). Avinor. 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
3. http://www.wideroe.no/Nyhetsarkiv/Tidenes-storsatsning-p-direkteruter-til-Lofoten-og-Helgeland/FECB24C1-8926-4669-921E-CB6BD2B86293/1
4. wideroe.no