Memmingen Airport
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| Memmingen Airport Flughafen Memmingen |
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| IATA: FMM – ICAO: EDJA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Serves | Memmingen | ||
| Location | Memmingerberg | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 633 m / 2077 ft | ||
| Coordinates | 47°59′33″N 10°14′37″E / 47.9925°N 10.24361°ECoordinates: 47°59′33″N 10°14′37″E / 47.9925°N 10.24361°E | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 06/24 | 2,981 | 9,777 | asphalt |
Memmingen Airport (IATA: FMM, ICAO: EDJA) is a small public airport located in the town of Memmingerberg in close proximity to the city of Memmingen, Germany, in the Swabia region. It is one of three commercial airports in Bavaria and the has the highest elevation of all of Germany's commercial airports. Prior to 2008-09-25, it was known as Allgäu Airport/Memmingen.
Located about 2.5 km from the city centre of Memmingen and 100 km from the city centre of Munich, it not only serves Memmingen and the Allgäu area but also provides a low-cost alternative to Munich Airport.
It is operated by Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG, a limited partnership of a multitude of mostly local, middle-sized companies.
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[edit] History
In 1935, a military airfield was built at Memmingerberg. It was used during World War II. After being rebuilt, it was used for US Air Force training flights from 1956. From 1959 to 2003, it was the home base of German Air Force fighter wing 34 „Allgäu“.
On 2004-07-20, the airport received a certificate as a regional commercial airport and commenced operation on 2004-08-05; however, at this time, there were no scheduled or regular chartered flights. Scheduled flights to the Hanover Fair 2005 were cancelled due to lack of demand. In June 2005, the district Oberallgäu granted an initial financing of 480,000 €. Further 200,000 € were granted by the city of Memmingen following a popular vote on 2005-09-25. In 2006, scheduled flights to Dortmund and Rostock were planned but cancelled because the carrier became insolvent. In autumn 2006, the air transport company Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter offered chartered flights to Dortmund for two months, in which only 100 passengers were transported.
In March 2007, a subsidy of 7,500,000 € promised by the Free State of Bavaria was approved by the European Commission.
Finally, the airport made the breakthrough when on 2007-06-28, TUIfly started offering chartered flights to holiday destinations such as Mallorca, Crete, Naples, Rome, Venice and Antalya. Further, it offers flights to some domestic targets.
[edit] Current situation
Although the length of the runway of about 3 km would allow for larger planes, the airport's certificate only allows planes with wingspans up to 36 m. However, it is planned to widen runway and taxiways and to install missing ground equipment by 2009.
Although an international airport, nearly all flights at Memmingen are to and from destinations in countries that are both members of the European Union and the Schengen Agreement. Therefore, most flights do not require border controls for immigration and customs and there is no permanent customs office at the airport. Weekly flights from Antalya, Turkey were handled by officers from the Bavarian Forest at first and are now, after the airport was granted an exception, handled by customs officers from the region.
Ryanair announced in March 2009 seven new routes to/from Memmingen starting May 2009.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg |
| Ryanair | Alghero, Alicante, Bremen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Girona, London-Stansted, Oslo-Rygge [begins 31 March], Reus, Stockholm-Skavsta, Trapani [begins 4 May] |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya |
| TUIfly | Antalya [begins 5 May, seasonal], Heraklion [begins 3 May, seasonal], Palma de Mallorca [begins 1 May, seasonal] |
| Wizz Air | Katowice |
| Wizz Air Ukraine | Kiev-Borispol |
[edit] References
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
[edit] External links
- Memmingen Airport
- Airport information for EDJA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
