Stuttgart Airport

Stuttgart Airport
Stuttgart Airport; Flughafen Stuttgart
IATA: STR – ICAO: EDDS STR Location of airport in Baden-Württemberg
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH
Location	Stuttgart, Germany
Hub for	* Germanwings
Elevation AMSL	1,276 ft / 389 m
Coordinates	48°41′24″N 009°13′19″E / 48.69°N 9.22194°ECoordinates: 48°41′24″N 009°13′19″E / 48.69°N 9.22194°E
Website	www.stuttgart-airport.com
Map
Runways
Helipads
Statistics (2010)
Passengers	9,226,546
	Source: German AIP at EUROCONTROL

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Stuttgart Airport (in German Flughafen Stuttgart, formerly Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen) (IATA: STR, ICAO: EDDS) is an international airport located approximately 13 km (8.1 mi) (10 km (6.2 mi) in a straight line) south^[1] of Stuttgart, Germany.

The airport lies on the boundary between the nearby town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Filderstadt and Stuttgart itself. It is the 7th most important airport in Germany and the main airport of the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg with 9,226,546 passengers in 2010.

It is an important hub for the German low cost carriers Germanwings; and global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking.

In 2007, the Stuttgart Trade Fair - the ninth biggest exhibition centre in Germany moved to grounds directly next to the airport, raising the profile of the airport and strengthening calls for a second runway.

[edit] History

The airport was built in 1939 to replace Böblingen airport. In 1945, the US Air Force took over the airport and the US Army still maintains a helicopter base on the southern side of the airport which it shares with the Baden-Württemberg State Police helicopter wing. The police helicopter wing falls under the control of Stuttgart Police Department and has six modern helicopters based at Stuttgart and two in Söllingen. In 1948 the airport was returned to German authorities.

The airport was expanded after World War II. The runway was extended to 1,800 metres in 1948, then to 2,250 metres in 1961 and finally to 3,345 metres in 1996.

The original 1938 terminal was finally replaced in 2004 and there are now four terminals with a maximum capacity of approximately 12 million passengers.

[edit] Expansion

Politicians, town planners and nearby residents have been arguing for years about the construction of a second runway. However, on 25 June 2008 Minister-President Günther Oettinger announced that for the next 8–12 years no second runway will be built and that the restrictions for night operations stay in place.^[2]^[3]

[edit] Terminals, airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aegean Airlines	Athens, Thessaloniki	3
Aer Lingus	Dublin	3
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo [begins 27 April 2012]	3
Aerosvit Airlines	Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil	3
Air Berlin	Antalya, Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June 2012], Catania, Düsseldorf, Florence, Hamburg, Hanover, Hurghada, Malaga, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Thessaloniki, Venice-Marco Polo Seasonal: Alicante, Arrecife, Barcelona, Bodrum, Fuerteventura, Heringsdorf, Ibiza, Lamezia Terme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malta, Nice, Olbia, Preveza, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Rimini, Tenerife-South, Westerland/Sylt	3
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle	3
Air France operated by Régional	Lyon	3
Air Malta	Seasonal: Malta	1
Air Via	Seasonal: Burgas, Varna	4
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways	Graz, Vienna	1
Austrian Airlines	Charter Arvidsjaur	1
Blue Air	Bucharest-Băneasa [ends 24 March], Bucharest-Henri Coandă [begins 25 March], Sibiu	1
British Airways	London-Heathrow	1
Bulgarian Air Charter	Seasonal: Burgas, Varna	4
Carpatair	Timişoara	3
Condor	Antalya, Arrecife, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hurghada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Burgas, Chania, Dalaman, Djerba, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Larnaca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santorini	3
Czech Airlines	Prague	1
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta	3
Flybe	Birmingham	3
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal: Antalya	4
Germania	Seasonal: Pristina	4
Germanwings	Barcelona, Bari, Belgrade, Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Berlin-Schönefeld [ends 2 June 2012], Bilbao [begins 3 June 2012], Bremen [begins 29 July 2012], Brussels [begins 20 May 2012], Bucharest-Băneasa, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania [begins 27 March 2012], Dresden, Dubrovnik [begins 7 April 2012], Hanover, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Kraków, Leipzig/Halle, Malaga, Milan-Malpensa [begins 16 September 2012], Pristina, Rijeka [begins 30 July 2012], Rome-Fiumicino, Rostock-Laage, Split, Thessaloniki, Treviso [begins 25 March 2012], Vienna, Zagreb Seasonal: Ankara, Antalya, Athens, Bastia, Corfu, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Izmir, Kavala, Lamezia Terme, Lisbon, Palma de Mallorca, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Zadar	2
Germanwings	London-Heathrow, London-Stansted, Manchester [begins 15 July 2012], Moscow-Vnukovo Seasonal: Sarajevo	1
Hamburg Airways	Seasonal: Antalya, Heraklion, Hurghada, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes	3
Jat Airways	Belgrade	1
KLM	Amsterdam	3
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper	Amsterdam	3
Lufthansa	Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June 2012], Frankfurt, Hamburg Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca	1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways	Munich	1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air	Bilbao [ends 2 June 2012], Bremen [ends 28 July 2012], Manchester [ends 14 July 2012], Milan-Malpensa [ends 15 September 2012]	1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings	Düsseldorf, Frankfurt	1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Manchester, Munich	1
Pegasus Airlines	Ankara, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen	3
Pegasus operated by IZair	Izmir	3
Qatar Airways	Doha	1
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen	1
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber Sterling	Copenhagen	1
Sky Airlines	Antalya	4
SunExpress	Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir	4
SunExpress operated by SunExpress Deutschland	Adana, Ankara, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Samsun, Trabzon	4
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines	Zürich	1
Swiss operated by Contact Air	Zürich	1
Tailwind Airlines	Antalya	3
TUIfly	Arrecife, Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Marsa Alam, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Agadir, Antalya, Araxos/Patras, Corfu, Dalaman, Enfidha, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza , Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Luxor, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Patras, Rhodes, Sal, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	3
Tunisair	Djerba, Enfidha, Monastir	4
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk	1
United Airlines	Newark	3
XL Airways Germany	Pristina	4

[edit] Statistics

**Passengers and Operations**
	Passengers	Operations
1999	7,688,951	119,904
2000	8,141,020	150,451
2001	7,642,409	146,771
2002	7,284,319	144,208
2003	7,595,286	144,903
2004	8,831,216	156,885
2005	9,413,671	160,405
2006	10,111,346	164,735
2007	10,328,120	164,531
2008	9,932,887	160,243
2009	8,941,990	141,572
2010	9,226,546	135,335
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**Busiest Routes out of Stuttgart Airport (2010) (percentage of total passengers)^[4]**
Rank	Airport	%
1	Berlin Airports (Schönefeld Airport and Tegel Airport)	10,8%
2	Hamburg Airport	8,2%
3	Palma de Mallorca Airport	6,4%
4	Hannover Airport	6,2%
5	Istanbul Airports (Atatürk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport)	4,5%
6	London Airports (Heathrow Airport and Stansted Airport)	4,3%
7	Antalya Airport	4,2%
8	Vienna Airport	3,5%
9	Düsseldorf Airport	2,7%
10	Frankfurt Airport	2,4%

[edit] Top 10 Airlines by Passengers

**Airlines by Passengers^[4]**
Rank	Airline	%
1	Germanwings	22,0%
2	Air Berlin	21,8%
3	Lufthansa	15,2%
4	TUIfly	7,2%
5	Condor Flugdienst	5,8%
6	SunExpress	3,7%
7	Swiss International Airlines	2,6%
8	Turkish Airlines	2,5%
9	Air France	2,2%
10	Austrian Airlines	2,0%

[edit] Wide-body aircraft in Stuttgart

Airberlin has a daily service to Palma de Mallorca flown with A330-200 or -300 and Condor serves some destinations in Turkey with Boeing 767-300, both during the summer season.

Delta Air Lines serves its daily flights to Atlanta with Boeing 767-300ER.

Turkish Airlines occasionally serves some flights between Stuttgart and Istanbul-Atatürk with A330/A340, which are mainly because of the holiday season or during the Hajj.

Starting March 26th, 2012 Qatar Airways serves flights to and from Doha with A330 airplanes instead of A319. The route will be served three times a week (monday, wednesday and friday) with stops in Zurich.