Tallinn Airport was built in 1932 and officially opened to traffic on September 20th. 1936. Before the airport was officially opened, it operated well. Before World War II, Lufthansa, Polish Airlines and Finnair were connected to foreign countries from Tallinn Airport. From 1945 to 1989, Aeroflot is the only airline serving Tallinn Airport. Starting from 1962, regular flights began to use jets. In the late 1970s, Tallinn Airport built a new passenger terminal and expanded its runway. After World War II, Nordic Airlines started regular flights to Tallinn in the autumn of 1989, becoming the first foreign airline to start Tallinn flights, and greatly increased the modernization of passenger buildings in 1999 and 2008. Tallinn Airport underwent a large-scale expansion project in June 2006 and September 2008. Airport expansion is divided into three directions.

1. Renovation of 14 boarding gate;

The second is to separate the waiting rooms of Schengen convention countries and non-Schengen convention countries, build 10 check-in counters and new restaurants and cafes, and rebuild and expand the apron and taxiway outside the airport terminal. The renovated airport passenger terminal can handle twice as many passengers as the original airport passenger terminal. On March 14, 2006, after the death of former Estonian President Lennart Meri, Estonian Daily reporter Argo Ideon proposed adding the name of honorary former President Lennart Meri in front of Tallinn International Airport. Tallinna Lennart Meri Rahvusvaheline Lennujaam (Lennart Meri International Airport), with names like john fitzgerald kennedy International Airport and Charles de Gaulle International Airport, are all named after a great man. Ideon's article also mentioned the fact that Meili himself was concerned about the situation, when the Soviet-era architecture was in a memorable case. A reporter from Japan led a group of reporters to say that he had expected to interview the toilets in the airport in order to point out the inferior facilities and conditions. )

On March 29th, 2006, the Board of Directors discussed the renaming of Tallinn Airport. On September 19, 2008, the opening day of the new terminal, Estonian Prime Minister andrus ansip officially announced that Tallinn Airport was named Lennart Meritalin International Airport on March 29th, 2009.