<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Tampere&ndash;Pirkkala International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Tampere Airport was founded in 1936 in H&auml;rm&auml;l&auml; neighbourhood, located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the centre of Tampere. At that time the airport was connected to Helsinki, Vaasa, Oulu and Kemi by Aero O/Y (now Finnair). The first terminal building was built in 1941. Karhum&auml;ki Airways began to fly to Stockholm in the 1950s. The runway was paved in 1958. Between 1936 and 1979 H&auml;rm&auml;l&auml; airport served 1.5 million passengers. In 1979, H&auml;rm&auml;l&auml; airport was closed and the new Tampere&ndash;Pirkkala Airport was opened. The current terminal 1 building was completed in 1996. Ryanair started flights to Tampere&ndash;Pirkkala in April 2003. Its first destinations were Stockholm-Skavsta, London-Stansted, Frankfurt-Hahn and Riga. This made the airport one of Finland's fastest-growing airports and increased its annual passenger numbers from 256,380 to 709,356 between 2000 and 2008. In 2011, Ryanair had 13 destinations from Tampere&ndash;Pirkkala. Wizz Air flew to Gdańsk during summers 2010 and 2011. airBaltic resumed flights to Riga in March 2017.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The low-cost airline terminal 2 was renovated in 2014&ndash;2015. However, in April 2015, Ryanair announced that it would cancel all the routes from Tampere for the winter season 2015&ndash;16 due to a plane shortage. Then, only routes to Bremen and Budapest resumed in spring 2016. As of 2022, Ryanair only offers flight to London-Stansted.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On 14 December 2021, AirBaltic announced that its first secondary hub outside of the Baltic countries will be founded in Tampere Airport in May 2022. In March 2023, Finnair announced to terminate their flights between Tampere and Helsinki Airport in favor of a coach service due to low demand and the short distance.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3">Ground Transportation Tampere&ndash;Pirkkala International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport is connected to the city centre of Tampere (25 minutes) by bus route 103, which runs a few times a day just after planes land. The bus fare for a single ticket to Tampere is &euro;5.50 (zones A+B+C). One can change to any other bus, tram or commuter train going anywhere within Tampere and parts of neighbouring municipalities within 90 minutes from the purchase of the ticket.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Bus route 39A goes to central Pirkkala, where one can transfer to a number of buses that go to Tampere or Nokia.</p>
<p class="blog-para">There are long-distance connections to Helsinki and other cities via the Tampere Bus Station. The timetables and fares can be found at the Matkahuolto web site.</p>
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