Owned and operated by the state-owned Avinor, Langnes handled 1,910,692 passengers, 43,219 aircraft movements and 2,758 tonnes of cargo in 2014.

Norwegian Air Shuttle has flown from Langnes since 1992 and Lufttransport has its main operating base at Tromsø.

[4] A new seaplane route was established by DNL in 1946 with a daily service to Trondheim, using a Junkers Ju 52, which after a few months was extended northwards to Kirkenes.

[5] Operation of the water aerodrome was taken over from the Royal Norwegian Air Force by the municipalities of Tromsø and Tromsøysund.

This lasted until 1956, when Bardufoss Airport opened and passengers from Tromsø were transported there by bus (around 140 km/85 mi).

[6] The Civil Airport Administration stated in 1950 that Tromsø, as Northern Norway's largest town, should have an airfield.

[8] Scandinavian Airlines System received concession to operate the route from Oslo to Tromsø.

It was organized in such a way that SAS flew direct flights to Troms and then continued onwards to one or more of the three airports in Finnmark.

Widerøe relocated its seaplanes in Tromsø to Langnes, stationed at a small water airport on the fjord, adjacent to the terminal building.

They were given permission to fly a services from Stavanger, Bergen and Ålesund to Bodø and Tromsø using a Fokker F27 Friendship.

Once a week these aircraft continued onwards to Adventdalen's Longyearbyen Airport, as a corporate charter for Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani.

That year Svalbard Airport, Longyear opened and the concession was granted to SAS, with Tromsø as an intermediate stop on the way to Oslo.

These were served with de Havilland Canada Twin Otter aircraft operated by Widerøe, with the western end of the service terminating in Tromsø.

[14] Norving established Tromsø's first international route in June 1979, to Kiruna Airport in Sweden using a Cessna 441 Conquest.

[19] Norving had a requiem on a route to Luleå and Oulu Airport starting 2 September 1991,[20] although it only lasted until April 1992.

[21] Petroleum prospecting in the Barents Sea commenced in 1980 and Tromsø was chosen as the helicopter base for this activity.

SAS then reorganized its routes, so that the Oslo flights terminated at Tromsø instead of continuing onwards to Finnmark.

[23] Busy Bee went bankrupt in 1992 and Norwegian Air Shuttle took over Braathens SAFE's regional routes.

This led Braathens to establish two direct flights per day to Oslo, for the first time competing with SAS on the same route out of Tromsø.

SAS operates Boeing 737 NG services to Oslo and other airports in Norway, including Svalbard.

Norwegian operates eight daily services from Tromsø, both to Oslo and other domestic cities, and also offer seasonal direct flights to London-Gatwick.

[11] Widerøe operates to various regional airports in northern Norway using a fleet of Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft.

Inbound charter flights are often flown from central parts of Europe to Tromsø with tourists.