Saarbrücken Airport
| Saarbrücken Airport Flughafen Saarbrücken Ensheim Airport |
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IATA: SCN – ICAO: EDDR
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Location | Saarbrücken | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,058 ft / 322 m | ||
| Coordinates | 49°12′52″N 07°06′34″E / 49.21444°N 7.10944°ECoordinates: 49°12′52″N 07°06′34″E / 49.21444°N 7.10944°E | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 09/27 | 6,562 | 2,000 | Asphalt |
| 09L/27R | 1,788 | 545 | Grass/Soil |
Saarbrücken Airport (IATA: SCN, ICAO: EDDR), or Flughafen Saarbrücken or Ensheim Airport in German, is an airport in Saarbrücken, Germany. The airport handled 350,592 passengers in 2007 and 517,920 in 2008.
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[edit] History
The history of aviation in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German federal state Saarland, began on 17 September 1928 in the district of St. Arnual. Flights operated from Saarbrücken-St. Arnual Airport until 1939. The first plane to use the airport was a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt stopping en-route for Paris. In 1929 routes to Frankfurt and onto Berlin and Karlsruhe onto Munich, Vienna and Budapest were opened.
The airport's suboptimal location meant winter flights were not possible and bad weather and poor flying conditions caused frequent problems. Thus Saarbrücken-St. Arnual was closed in 1939. A new airport was built in the district of Ensheim, where Saarbrücken Airport has been located until today. However, the outbreak of the Second World War made opening the airport impossible.
It wasn't until 1964 and several years of reconstruction work that the airport in Ensheim could finally open. In 1972, Saarbrücken Airport became one of 17 airports in Germany to offer international flights. Since 1975 Lufthansa and many other airlines have resumed flights out of Saarbrücken. In 2005, a record year, nearly 500,000 passengers used Saarbrücken Airport.
In 2006/2007, Saarbrücken Airport suffered difficulties caused by the opening of the former military airport of Zweibrücken just 40km away. German airline HapagFly relocated from Saarbrücken and opened domestic routes in direct competition with Saarbrücken. In 2006, one day when HapagFly flew from Heraklion to Saarbrücken, there was a bad weather at the airport. They tried twice to land on this short and wet runway. After that, they decided to land on the Zweibrücken airport. After this incident, HapagFly decided to relocate all his flights from Saarbrücken to Zweibrücken. However Air Berlin, Germany's second largest airline, has since opened routes from Saarbrücken Airport to Palma de Mallorca and Berlin-Tegel. Luxair has made Saarbrücken Airport its second hub. Thus passengers numbers have steadily increased. In June 2008, more than 54,504 passengers used Saarbrücken Airport
[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Gran Canaria |
| Luxair | Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, Luxembourg |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya |
| Sun Express | Antalya |
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View inside Terminal 1
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Air Berlin plane in front of Terminal 1
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Parking site at Saarbrücken Airport
[edit] Other facilities
When Cirrus Airlines was in business, its head office was on the airport property.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "Imprint." ([http://www.webcitation.org/64sVL9Cwz Archive) Cirrus Airlines. Retrieved on January 22, 2012. "Cirrus Airlines Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH Balthasar-Goldstein-Str. 31 Flughafen Saarbruecken 66131 Saarbruecken"
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Saarbrücken Airport |
- Saarbrücken Airport (English)
- Airport information for EDDR at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
