ENRY
Moss Airport, Rygge
LIFR
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Name
Moss Airport, Rygge
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
ENRY / RYG / ENRY
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- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
12:12 am (CET)
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Municipality
Oslo
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Coordinates
59° 22′ 43″ N 10° 47′ 7″ E
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Elevation
173 ft (53 m MSL)
About Moss Airport, Rygge
Moss Airport, Rygge (Norwegian: Moss lufthavn, 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 kilometres (6.2 mi) outside Moss and 60 kilometres (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 Station, 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 October 2016 and was also served to a much lesser extent by Norwegian Air Shuttle and few charter operators. The airport has been closed to all civilian traffic since 1 November 2016 due to a proposal from its main commercial operator, Ryanair, to shut down its base at the airport on that date after a new Norwegian passenger tax was introduced.