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Harstad/Narvik Airport, Evenes (IATA: EVE, ICAO: ENEV) (Norwegian: Harstad/Narvik lufthavn, Evenes) is located in Evenes municipality in Nordland, North Norway. A smaller part of the runway is in Skånland municipality in Troms. The airport serves the cities of Harstad and Narvik with the surrounding areas. Narvik is also served by Narvik Airport, Framnes. The airport had 486 000 passengers in 2006. There have been discussions about the name of the airport. The city of Narvik have its own airport in Narvik Airport, Framnes, and this confuses many passengers.

There are mostly domestic flights from the airport, including non-stop flights to Oslo, Trondheim, Bodø and Tromsø. There are also charter flights to Southern Europe and the Canary Islands. In addition, there have been cargo flights with salmon to Japan. The small airline Kato Air is based at the airport.

The airport is now almost exclusively for civilian use, but there are extensive military infrastructure as this was an air station for the Royal Norwegian Air Force, and was partly funded by NATO. Even though the airport opened in 1972, the runway was later lengthened, and investments in the military infrastructure continued almost until the cold war ended. Some of the infrastructure are still in use for training purposes. The large C-5 Galaxy has used the airport several times during winter exercises. The largest airplane operating at Evenes, is the Antonov 124

There are bus connections to both Harstad, Narvik and Sortland from the airport; one way ticket is approx 100 NOK. Taxi to Harstad costs 600 NOK and 1100 NOK to Narvik (prices and exchange rate 2006). The road distance is 45 km to Harstad, and 79 km to Narvik.

• Hamburg International (Hamburg, Munich)
• Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
• Novair (charter)
• Scandinavian Airlines (Oslo)
• Spanair (charter)
• Widerøe (Bodø, Tromsø, Trondheim)

• Avinor: Harstad/Narvik Airport incl picture