Zweibrücken Airport

Zweibrücken Airport Flughafen Zweibrücken
IATA: ZQW – ICAO: EDRZ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Location		Zweibrücken
Hub for		TUIfly
Elevation AMSL		1,133 ft / 345 m
Coordinates		49°12′34″N 07°24′02″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
03/21	9,448	2,880	Concrete

Zweibrücken Airport (IATA: ZQW, ICAO: EDRZ), or Flughafen Zweibrücken in German, is an airport in Zweibrücken, Germany. After Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, it is the second biggest airport in Rhineland-Palatinate. It is on the site of the former Zweibrücken Air Base.

In 2010 264,247 passengers used the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Berlin	Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
Air VIA	Seasonal: Burgas (resumes 10 July 2013)
Germania	Seasonal: Antalya (begins 18 May 2013)
Hamburg Airways	Seasonal: Antalya
Pegasus Airlines	Seasonal: Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen (resumes 26 June 2013)
Sky Airlines	Seasonal: Antalya
TUIfly	Fuerteventura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Antalya, Heraklion, Kos (resumes 10 June 2013), Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes (resumes 30 May 2013)
Tunisair	Enfidha (resumes 18 May 2013)

TUIfly flies also some freight flights for Deutsche Post to Stuttgart or Hanover. The airport also used to have regular scheduled service operated by Ryanair to London Stansted Airport. The service was announced on 27 May 2008, but was suspended in May 2009. In 2006, Germanwings began a new twice-daily service to Berlin-Schönefeld, but it stopped in 2011, due to expensive airports taxes.

External links

• Zweibrücken Airport (German)
• Airport information for EDRZ at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
• Airport information for EDRZ at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
• Current weather for EDRZ at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for ZQW at Aviation Safety Network