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Airport type
  
Public

Location
  
Jomala, Åland, Finland

Website
  
www.finavia.fi

Code
  
MHQ

Phone
  
+358 20 708000

Serves
  
Mariehamn

Elevation AMSL
  
17 ft / 5 m

03/21
  
1,903

Elevation
  
17 m

Owner
  
Finavia

Mariehamn Airport

Address
  
Flygfältsvägen 67, 22120 Mariehamn, Finland

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Mariehamn airport departure runway 21 with atr 72 flybe nordic


Mariehamn Airport (Swedish: Mariehamns flygplats, Finnish: Maarianhaminan lentoasema) (IATA: MHQ, ICAO: EFMA) is located in Jomala, Åland, Finland, some 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Mariehamn town centre. It served 48,672 passengers in 2010 and is operated by the state owned Finavia.

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The airport has a duty-free shop. Passengers can buy goods, e.g. alcohol, without VAT and other taxes. This is allowed before flying to any destination outside Åland, even to Finland. Normally local taxes must be paid in airport shops before travelling inside the EU, but Åland is outside the EU VAT area, for the very reason to allow tax-free sales onboard ferries and at the airport. Åland is in other respects a part of the EU.

The Aero Flight 217 aviation accident that resulted in 22 deaths occurred near the airport in 1963.

Atr 72 flybe take off mariehamn airport


References

Mariehamn Airport Wikipedia