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Ivalo airport is the northernmost airport in Finland, and also the oldest passenger airport in Lapland. The Saariselkä fells, Lake Inarijärvi and the world-famous salmon rivers attract nature-lovers from all over the world. Ivalo airport has good connections to northern Norway and Murmansk. The only scheduled services are twice daily flights to Helsinki on Finnair, although there are many charter flights from all over Europe during the Christmas and New Year peak tourism season. At Christmas time, works of luminous art, sculpted of snow, ice and candles, are set up outside the airport building to greet the charter planes arriving from abroad. Ivalo airport caters for about 120,000 passengers a year, most of them tourists. For some, Ivalo is a halting-piace on the way to Nordkapp about 450 kilometers to the north, but for most arrivals, Ivalo and its surrounding landscape is the place to be. Here, after all, is where you stop for the Saariselkä recreation centre, a popular resort for skiing, hiking and generally having a good time. Here too, is Tankavaara, where you can go gold panning; and Lake Inari, sparkling in the wilderness, among the fells and sheer-sided canyons. If you want, you can take off for a snowmobile safari, a hiking trip, fishing or hunting expedition straight from the airport. After landing you have the possibility to rent a car at Ivalo airport for you personal use. The airport passenger terminal was expanded in 1999 to provide extra space for both arriving and departing passengers. Thanks to their new conveyor system, baggage-handling is now more efficient. Shopping is available at the airport’s two gift shops. The restaurant in the departure hall offers light meals and coffee for you to enjoy by the crackling fire in the grate.