Moss Airport, Rygge
Rygge, Norway
Moss Airport, Rygge (IATA: RYG, ICAO: ENRY) was a minor international airport serving Moss, Oslo and Eastern Norway. It was located in Rygge in Moss Municipality, 10 km (6.2 mi) outside Moss and 60 km (37 mi) outside Oslo. It also served as a regional airport for Østfold county and owned and was operated by the private company Rygge Sivile Lufthavn AS. Moss/Rygge shut down to all civilian traffic on 1 November 2016. The airport is however co-located with the still operational Rygge Air Force Base, operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force, which also owns the land and runway. The control tower services (air traffic control) are operated by Avinor. The airport opened on 8 October 2007, but did not officially open until 14 February 2008, when regular scheduled services started. The airport has a capacity for 2 million passengers per year, but could not reach this because of a concession limit of 21,000 annual air movements. The airport handled 1,890,889 passengers in 2013. The airport used to be a major base for Ryanair from March 2010 until its closure to civilian traffic at the end of October 2016 and was also served, to a much lesser extent, by Norwegian Air Shuttle and a few cha
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