LYR

Svalbard Airport, Longyear

ICAO ENSB78.2461°N 15.4656°E27 m / 88 ftMedium airport
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Svalbard Airport, Longyear (IATA: LYR, ICAO: ENSB) is a medium airport in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. It opened in 1975. It has one runway, 2,319 m (7,608 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Avinor. In 2025 it handled 200 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1975–1996
1975
OpenedSvalbard Airport, Longyear opens.
29 AUG 1996
DisasterVnukovo Airlines Flight 2801.141 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
09/27105° / 285° · LIT
LENGTH2,319 m7,608 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
161K
166K
170K
164K
181K
185K
68K
82K
170K
151K
184K
200K
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Routes

5 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsScandinavian Airlines 2Norwegian Air Shuttle 2Lufttransport 2Arktikugol 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LYR. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Svalbard Airport” (revision of 12 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers200K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,535of 3,974 · #330 Europe · #17 NOLongest runway2,319 m7,608 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,014of 29,823 · #583 Europe · #16 NOElevation27 m88 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=37,352of 43,341 · =4,987 Europe · #92 NOAgeOpened 19752026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,196of 15,079 · =1,192 Europe · =47 NORunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =5 NO
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
AFISINFO118.100
AFISINFO884.000