Bremen Airport: Difference between revisions
Safdarmarwat (talk | contribs) |
|||
Line 54: | Line 54: | ||
== Ground transportation == |
== Ground transportation == |
||
Tram number 6 departs every 10 minutes (on Sundays up to 30 min) to Bremen City Center. The ride takes |
Tram number 6 departs every 5 to 10 minutes (on Sundays up to 30 min) to Bremen City Center. The ride takes 11 minutes and costs €2.15. |
||
==Airlines and destinations== |
==Airlines and destinations== |
Revision as of 18:04, 26 December 2008
Bremen Airport Flughafen Bremen | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Summary | |||||||||||||||
Airport type | Commercial | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Flughafen Bremen GmbH | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Bremen | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 14 ft / 4 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 53°02′51″N 08°47′12″E / 53.04750°N 8.78667°E | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.airport-bremen.de | ||||||||||||||
Runways | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Source: German AIP at EUROCONTROL |
Bremen Airport or Flughafen Bremen (IATA: BRE, ICAO: EDDW) serves the city of Bremen, Germany.
History
The airport was founded in 1913 when the senate of Bremen granted the Aviation Association an official permission to operate a flight base.
1920 Netherland based airline KLM had a connection from Amsterdam via Bremen and Hamburg to Copenhagen.
1945 the airport was taken over by American troops and handed back to the city in 1949. During the fifties, connections to New York and Rio de Janeiro were added.
1989 was the first year that the airport had more than one million passengers.
The Bremenhalle inside the airport hosts a little aviation and space exploration museum, displaying the Junkers G38 Bremen air plane and the first Spacelab module.
Ground transportation
Tram number 6 departs every 5 to 10 minutes (on Sundays up to 30 min) to Bremen City Center. The ride takes 11 minutes and costs €2.15.
Airlines and destinations
- airberlin (Antalya, Las Palmas, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca)
- Air France
- Air France operated by Régional (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Via (Bourgas, Varna) [seasonal]
- Blue Wings (Antalya)
- Hamburg International (Antalya, Izmir)
- KLM
- KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Frankfurt)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Munich)
- Ostfriesische Lufttransport (Bristol, Brussels, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Palma de Mallorca, Nuremberg, Toulouse, Zurich)
- Ryanair (Alghero, Alicante, Budapest [ends 19 January], Dublin, Edinburgh, Fuerteventura, Girona, Gothenburg-City, Haugesund, London-Stansted, Málaga, Manchester, Marrakesh, Milan-Bergamo, Oslo-Torp, Palma de Mallorca, Riga, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tampere, Tenerife-South, Trapani, Treviso)
- Sky Airlines (Antalya)
- SunExpress (Antalya)
- Tunis Air (Monastir)
- XL Airways Germany (Antalya, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Kos, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife-South)