Oslo Airport

Oslo Airport Gardermoen

The Main Gateway to Norway

Oslo Airport Gardermoen overview

Oslo Airport Gardermoen is the main airport in Norway, and appr. 13.000 people has their work here, representing more than 100 companies.

The airport has two runways, both in a North-South direction. The Eastern runway is 2.950 meters, and the Western runway is 3.600 meters.

The airport ATC tower is 92 meters high.

The Airport Parking house has capacity of 6.800 vehicles.

Close to the airport is the Radisson SAS Airport Hotel, with 500 rooms, and excellent fascilities for meetings and conferences. There are also several other excellent hotels close to the airport.

Oslo Gardermoen Duty Free shops The terminal building is the biggest of it's kind in Norway, has a total of 144.000 m², and is designed to be as easy as possible for the passengers to navigate.

The airport is offering ahuge number of shops and restaurants, for any taste and wallet, so to speak.

Transport and accessibility

The airport has been awarded as the most efficient airport in Europe both in 2007 and in 2010, and the Assosiation of European Airline (AEA) has four times named Oslo Airport to be the most punctual one.

Gardermoen is situated in Ullensaker municipality, about 47 km north of Oslo, and has a strong focus on effective and environmental transportation of passengers to and from Oslo.

Both buses and taxies are easy accessable from the Airport terminal, and bus transport to Oslo is expected to take 45 minutes.

However, the fastest way, and most popular, is The Airport Express Train (Flytoget).

The Express Train runs between the stations in Drammen, Asker, Sandvika, Lysaker, Skøyen, National Theatre in the city centre of Oslo, Oslo S (Oslo Central Station) and Lillestrøm.

The Airport Express Train goes every 10 minutes, and takes 19 minutes from the Airport to Oslo Central Station.

Architecture and Art

Ever heard about a Sound Shower?

In the Main terminal in Oslo Airport you will be able to experience 11 Sound Showers, designed by the artist Anna Karin Rynander.

The art will be audible when you step inside a circle marked on the floor.

Oslo Airport Gardermoen is a main gateway to Norway, and the airport policy is to give it's passengers and guests an image of quality, presented through art and architecture.

From the beginning, and implemented in the Parliaments approvement from 1992, this airport was ment to be a high-standard presentation of the best of Norwegian building traditions and architectural quality.

OSL is proud of the airport, and from their website we quote:

"The decoration is intended to display a desire to focus on art and decoration of a scope and with a quality that reflects the airport’s national significance.

The purpose is to show a large and international audience the diversity of Norwegian art.

The Norwegian characteristic should emerge as a reflection of the site’s landscape and architecture."

Extencion plans

Oslo Airport is about to exceed it's capacity.

In 2009 the airport served 18.1 million passengers, which is expected to exceed 28 mill. passengers in the near future.

The extencion, by planning the building of a Terminal II has started, after beeing finally approved in 2011. The work is expected to be finished in 2017.

The building is to be a further development of Norwegian building traditions, and will follow up the success of today, by being an airport that is effective, and easy to navigate.