Oslo Airport OSL
Cheap flights from Oslo Airport start with one detail worth checking first: Oslo has more than one airport, and your ticket decides which one you use. Oslo Airport, coded OSL, is the gateway most travellers picture when they search for airfare to the Norwegian capital, while Sandefjord handles a separate share of the region's traffic. From OSL the route map leans on European cities — London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Gdansk, Vilnius, Szczecin and Klaipeda/Palanga — with domestic links such as Kristiansand. Fares move by date, so the price calendar matters too.
Oslo Airport at a glance
- Passengers per year
- 22.5 M (2022)
- Hub for
- Norwegian, Scandinavian Airlines, Wider
- Elevation
- 208 m
- Opened
- 1998
- Official website
- osl.no
- Population of Oslo
- 718 k (2024)
Country facts: Wikidata
Getting to the city
Getting between Oslo Airport and the city is a separate decision from your flight, so sort it before you land. The two Oslo-area airports, OSL and Sandefjord, sit in different places, and a transfer that works for one will not work for the other — confirm which code is on your booking first. Build a buffer on the way back: check-in and security queues are the part of the trip you cannot shorten. If you land late, arrange your ride before you fly rather than improvising at the terminal.