“Several changes make it worth examining the future capacity and needs of Oslo Airport, says Transport Minister Jon-Ivar Nygård. It draws attention to new zero- and low-emission solutions in aviation, changes in travel needs and patterns, technological developments in the coming year and the increase in the use of drones and new aircraft.

The main objective of the study is to provide a basis that will enable the government to decide whether there is a need to reserve land for the construction of a third runway on Gardermoen Oslo airport.

Read also: Electricity price 25 percent lower without interconnections

The study must include calculations of future air travel as well as options on how to deal with the expected number of travelers in the future. The Commission will also look at what role non-governmental airports (Rygge and Torp) should play.

– The starting point is that Gardermoen airport should continue to be the main airport Norway and a national transport hub for domestic traffic and international, says Nygård.

The Commission must present its report in the form of a report

The committee's report will be sent for public consultation before the government submits its observations to the Storting. The Commission must submit its report in the form of a report no later than summer 2024

It is up to the state to decide first whether a third runway should be built. If Avinor realizes at some point in the future that there is a need for it and will have to apply to the state for a license to do so.

The committee will be chaired by Siri Pettersen Strandenes, professor emeritus of social economy from Bergen.

Source: regjeringen

Read and learn more: Norwegian investigators at the International Criminal Court