Kuusamo Airport

ICAO EFKS65.9876°N 29.2394°E264 m / 866 ftMedium airport

Kuusamo Airport (IATA: KAO, ICAO: EFKS) is a medium airport in Kuusamo, North Ostrobothnia Region, Finland. It opened in 1969. It has one runway, 2,500 m (8,202 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Finavia. In 2025 it handled 130 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1969–1969

1969

OpenedKuusamo Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

12/30132° / 312° · LIT

LENGTH2,500 m8,202 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

73K

69K

77K

88K

115K

72K

75K

118K

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130K

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Routes

11 destinations · 6 countries

Most destinationsAirBaltic 5TUI Airways 3Eurowings 2Finnair 1Transavia 1Lufthansa 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KAO. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Kuusamo Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers130K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,722of 3,974 · #364 Europe · #10 FI Longest runway2,500 m8,202 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,332of 29,823 · =387 Europe · =11 FI Elevation264 m866 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=20,101of 43,341 · =1,705 Europe · #2 FI AgeOpened 19692026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,016of 15,079 · =1,088 Europe · #26 FI Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =17 FI

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels

AFISAFIS118.650

ATISATIS114.400