Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
Vantaa, Finland
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Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (IATA: HEL) is the main airport serving Helsinki, the capital of Finland, and its metropolitan region. It is in the city of Vantaa, about 5 km west of Tikkurila, and is operated by Finavia. It is the main hub of Finnair and its subsidiary Nordic Regional Airlines and a base for Norwegian Air Shuttle.
Travel + Leisure readers ranked Helsinki-Vantaa No. 7 among international airports in the World's Best Awards 2025, with a reader score of 86.18. The magazine notes it was the only airport new to the list that year.
The airport covers 1,800 hectares and has three runways. It is the fourth-busiest airport in the Nordic countries and by far the busiest in Finland, carrying about 90 per cent of the country's international air traffic. In 2025 nearly 17 million passengers used it, and as of October 2025 about 20 airlines flew from it regularly.
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