Hannover-Langenhagen Airport

For other uses, see Hanover Airport (disambiguation).

Hannover-Langenhagen Airport Flughafen Hannover-Langenhagen
IATA: HAJ – ICAO: EDDV HAJ Location of airport in Lower Saxony
Summary
Airport type		public
Operator		Flughafen Hannover-Langenhagen GmbH
Location		Langenhagen, Germany
Elevation AMSL		183 ft / 56 m
Coordinates		52°27′39″N 09°41′06″E
Website		www.hannover-airport.de
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
09L/27R	12,467	3,800	Concrete
09R/27L	7,677	2,340	Concrete
09C/27C	2,559	780	Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Passengers			5,340,264
Source: List of the busiest airports in Europe

Hannover-Langenhagen Airport (IATA: HAJ, ICAO: EDDV) is located in Langenhagen, 11 km north of the centre of Hanover, the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the ninth largest airport in Germany.

History

Hannover Airport was opened in Langenhagen in 1952, replacing an old airfield within the city limits of Hannover. In 1973 two modern terminals were opened, which became famous because of their compact design. They became the archetype for the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. These terminals A and B, with stands for twelve aircraft in total, are still in service today. In 1998 the larger terminal C was opened to handle more passengers, adding 8 more gates. Up to 33 aircraft can be served simultaneously, of which 20 can receive aircraft stands equipped with a Jetway. All three terminals are capable of taking a Boeing 747. Terminal D is a rebuilt hangar which is exclusively used by the Royal Air Force to supply British troops in the north of Germany.

In 2000 an S-Bahn connection was established between the airport and Hamelin via Hannover Central Station. Trains leave every 30 minutes for a 17 minute journey. This replaced the airport's shuttle bus service which ran every twenty minutes, more frequently than the S-Bahn, but took longer to reach the airport and railway station. The service was extended to run into Paderborn in 2003.

From 1957 to 1990 the airport hosted the Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung, Germany's largest airshow. After a fatal accident in 1988, when a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter hit a Jetway with its rotor, and the German Reunification two years later, the Airshow moved to Berlin in 1992.

Langenhagen today

While in the early years most of the airport's traffic was running through Frankfurt Airport, today many European and CIS destinations are served directly. There are services to most European capitals and major cities as well as to major holiday destinations such as Majorca (Spain) or Egypt. In the 1990s trials to establish intercontinental services to the United States and Canada were stopped because of low passenger numbers. Since the end of Cold War Hannover International has become Germany's major airport for services to countries of the former Eastern bloc next to Frankfurt International.

Hannover-Langenhagen Airport is the sixth base of Germanwings in Germany, after Berlin Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Hamburg and Stuttgart. There are also a number of low-cost airlines offering service to the airport, the most notable one being TUIfly, which has its base of operations at Hannover Airport. However, TUIfly has dramatically reduced services in 2008 and 2009, and passed all its non-traditional holiday routes to Air Berlin late in 2009.

Hannover airport has struggled to generate increased demand in recent years, possibly due to an apparent reluctance or inability to entice Europe’s low-cost carriers to serve the airport. Although traffic grew satisfactorily during the late 90s, during the last decade, there has been little growth. In both 2007 and 2008, traffic was down less than 1%, but in 2009 it fell by almost 12%.

Langenhagen is one of very few German airports which are open 24 hours a day, but in practice there are very few flights between 11pm and 4am.

Terminals, airlines and destinations

The airport has four terminals (A, B, C and D) as well as a separate cargo facility.

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo	B
Air Arabia Egypt	Charter:Hurghada	B
Air Astana	Seasonal: Kostanay	B
Air Berlin	Antalya, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Luxor, Málaga, Munich, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart, Vienna Charter: Birmingham Seasonal: Adana, Ankara, Arvidsjaur, Corfu, Djerba, Enfindha, Fuerteventura, Guernsey, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jersey, Kos, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de La Palma [begins 1 May 2012], Teneriffa-South, Thessaloniki, Varna	C
Air France operated by Régional	Paris-Charles de Gaulle	A
Air Via	Seasonal: Varna	B
Belavia	Minsk	B
Belle Air	Seasonal: Pristina [begins 30 June 2012]	B
bmi operated by BMI Regional	London-Heathrow	A
Brussels Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways	Brussels [ends 25 March 2012]	A
Brussels Airlines	Brussels [starts 26 March 2012]	A
Bulgarian Air Charter	Seasonal: Burgas, Varna	B
Condor	Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh Seasonal: Antalya, Dalaman, Heraklion, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife-South	C
Czech Airlines	Prague	A
Estonian Air	Tallinn [begins 2 April 2012]	TBA
Flybe	Birmingham, Manchester, Southampton	B
Flyvate operated by Aerowest	Seasonal: Innsbruck, Palma de Mallorca, Samedan, Sion, Westerland/Sylt	GAT
Germania	Seasonal: Antalya, Burgas, Gazipasa, Varna	B
German Sky Airlines	Seasonal: Burgas	C
Germanwings	Barcelona, Catania, Izmir, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, London-Stansted, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Vnukovo, Naples, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Stuttgart, Venice-Treviso, Vienna Seasonal: Corfu, Dubrovnik, Hurghada, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Split	B
Hamburg Airways	Seasonal: Gazipasa	B
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper	Amsterdam	A
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich	A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Munich	A
Nouvelair	Enfidha	C
Orenair	Omsk	B
Pegasus Airlines	Seasonal: Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen	B
S7 Airlines	Seasonal: Novosibirsk	B
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen	A
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber Sterling	Copenhagen	A
Sky Airlines	Antalya	B
SunExpress	Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen, Izmir Seasonal: Bodrum	B
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich	A
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines	Zürich	A
Tailwind Airlines	Seasonal: Antalya	B
TUIfly	Antalya, Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sal, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Agadir, Burgas, Corfu, Dalaman, Enfidha, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Luxor, Malta, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Patras/Araxos, Rhodes, Sharm el-Sheikh, Varna	C
Tunisair	Djerba, Enfidha	B
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk	B
UTair Aviation	Moscow-Vnukovo	B
XL Airways Germany	Adana, Ankara Seasonal: Elazig, Enfidha, Gaziantep, Izmir, Kayseri, Samsun	B
Yakutia Airlines	Seasonal: Omsk	B

Terminal D

Airlines	Destinations
Luftwaffe	Cologne-Bonn, Termez
Monarch Airlines	Military Charter
Royal Air Force	Akrotiri, Brize Norton, Calgary, Lyneham, Minhad AB

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
Deutsche Post operated by Air Berlin	Munich
Deutsche Post operated by TUIfly	Stuttgart
FedEx Express operated by Swiftair	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Polet Airlines	Beijing

External links

• Hannover Airport Official site, english
• Hanover Airport Fotocommunity (private site, English version)
• Hanover Airport (private site with Information to General Avaiation)
• A-Z World Airports: Hannover Airport (HAJ/EDDV)