Press release, Finavia 11.4.2019
- The airport bus and taxi routes will change and the platforms will be moved to new locations by early June. These arrangements are being made as the expansion of Terminal 2 at Helsinki Airport is underway. Among other things, the airport will become a multi-modal travel centre, which will allow us to develop travel chains and plan smoother public transport connections," says Helsinki Airport's Director of Ground Transport. Jukka Isomäki From Finavia.
The three-phase bus and taxi arrangements will apply to traffic at Terminal 2. The rearrangements will last for a couple of years until the completion of Helsinki Airport's magnificent entrance with its new arrivals and departures halls in 2021. The new car park will be completed as early as next year.
The current changes have no impact on parking or train customers, nor on vehicle traffic in Terminal 1.
- Before arriving at the airport, it is a good idea to check the current news at Helsinki Airport on Finavia's website. It is also a good idea to arrive at the airport early. You should allow enough time to get to the terminal and board the plane, Isomäki reminds.
The taxi rank at Terminal 2 will change on 15.4.
The first change is the taxi rank. The current taxi rank, located in front of Terminal 2 on the arrivals level, will move to the ground floor of the terminal on 15 April. Passengers will go from the terminal to the new taxi rank via the escalator in Arrivals 2A and the lift to the P floor below.
The bus station and Invataks will move on 15.5.
A month later, on 15 May, the bus drop-off and pick-up facilities and the Invataxi waiting area in Terminal 2 will move. They will move from their current location about 100 metres towards the airport office buildings in front of the Scandic Hotel.
At the same time, hotel and parking buses will also move to the new bus station. The pick-up and drop-off points are located in front of the P5 car park on Lentäjänti Road.
The bus route in the airport area will change. Buses will now drive to the Terminal 2 bus station via Teletien-Lentäjäntien, and no longer from the Terminal Road as before.
By the end of May, an escalator link to the Terminal 2 check-in floor will be completed at the bus station.
Passenger drop-off at the main doors of Terminal 2 will end on 23 May.
The ramp leading to the main doors of Terminal 2 will be dismantled during the summer. As a result, there will no longer be any access to the check-in area, and taxis and private cars will drop passengers off one level lower, at the arrivals level. This change will take place on 23 May.
For passenger drop-off, a new convoy courtyard will be opened with a taxiway to the check-in area. The convoy yard will be fully completed in early June.
You can continue to stop in front of the terminal for a short while and disembark passengers, but parking is prohibited.
Escorts, and in particular those receiving passengers, can park in the P3 express car park. Parking costs one euro per 10 minutes, or six euros per hour. You can drive out of the hall for free if less than 10 minutes have elapsed since you entered.
Why are there changes in front of Terminal 2?
The route and platform changes in April and May are part of the Terminal 2 expansion project and are related to Finavia's billion investment programme at Helsinki Airport.
The current restructuring will be largely completed by the end of June, and construction will move to a more permanent phase. No major changes are expected for the rest of the year.
Finavia's investment programme in a nutshell
- Additional area for the Helsinki Airport terminal complex: + 45 % (103 000 m2), which is equivalent to the area of Linnanmäki amusement park. The total area of the terminal in the early 2020s will be over 250 000 m2.
- Additional new aircraft bridge positions: 8 for wide-body aircraft + 100 %, 4 for narrow-body aircraft + 15 %
- More capacity for baggage handling: +50 %
- More capacity for passport control: +50 %
- Renewed apron (aircraft parking and taxiways): 450 000 m2 or about 90 football pitches.
- Extension of car park P5 (3 000 parking spaces) and new car park (1 800 parking spaces)
- A new multimodal travel centre linking different modes of transport.
- Finavia's investment: approx. €1 billion
- Employment impact of the investment programme during construction 14 000 jobs
- Growth in air transport brings 5 000 new permanent jobs
Read more about the changes to Terminal 2
How the Helsinki Airport development programme is progressing
Download the Helsinki-Vantaa outdoor map here , showing parking areas, bus station and taxi stations