Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport Flughafen Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
File:Hamburg Airport logo.png Departure hall at Hamburg Airport
IATA: HAM ICAO: EDDH Hamburg Airport Location of airport in Germany
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	FHG Flughafen Hamburg GmbH
Location	Hamburg, Germany
Elevation AMSL	53 ft / 16 m
Coordinates	53°37′49″N 009°59′28″E
Website	www.ham.airport.de
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 05/23 3,250 10,663 Asphalt 15/33 3,666 12,028 Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft Movements 173,500 Passengers 12,200,000
Source: German AIP at EUROCONTROL Statistics from Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport (IATA: HAM, ICAO: EDDH), also known as Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport (German: Flughafen Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel), is an international airport serving Hamburg, Germany.

It originally covered 440,000 m² (4,700,000 sq ft). Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to 5.7 km² (2.2 sq mi). The main apron covers 320,000 m² (3,400,000 sq ft). The airport is 8.5 km (5.3 mi) north of the centre of the City of Hamburg in the Fuhlsbüttel quarter. Hamburg airport has 17 jet-ways and 54 apron positions. There are two terminal-buildings with the so-called Plaza-building in the middle of them. The Plaza hosts the central security check as well as shops, restaurants, lounges and other service-facilities. In all buildings level 1 is the departure level, whilst level 0 is arrivals. Hamburg airport offers 14 baggage claims on the arrival level.

Runways, taxiways and aprons are able to handle the Airbus A380, although there is no scheduled A380-service expected. Hamburg Airport is the diversion airport for Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport (XFW), the airport of the Airbus plant in Hamburg, where all A380 are being painted and interior fitted.

In 2008, Hamburg airport served 12,840,000 passengers and 173,500 aircraft movements. Hamburg Airport (measured by the number of passengers) is the fifth busiest of the 16 German commercial airports (after Berlin Tegel Airport). The shareholders of Hamburg Airport are the City of Hamburg (51%) and Hochtief AirPort GmbH. (49%).

History

The airport was opened in January 1911 from private funding by the Hamburger Luftschiffhallen GmbH (HLG), making it the oldest airport in Germany which is still in operation. The original site was comprised of 45 hectares and was primarily used for airship flights in its early days. In 1913, the site was expanded to 60 hectares, the northern part being used for airship operations, while the southeast area was used for fixed-wing aircraft. During the First World War, the airship hangar was used extensively by the military, until it was destroyed by fire in 1916.

During the British occupation, beginning in 1945, the airport was given its current name, Hamburg Airport. It was used extensively during the Berlin Airlift in 1948 as a staging area, as the northern air corridor went between Hamburg and West Berlin. When Lufthansa resumed passenger operations in 1955, Hamburg was used as a hub until Frankfurt took over due to growth constraints posed by the location in the city. Lufthansa Technik still maintains a large presence at the airport due to the early activities of the airline at the airport.

In the 1960s discussions began with the aim of moving the airport to Heidmoor by Kaltenkirchen. Reasons cited were limited expansion possibilities, capacity constraints due to crossing runways, and noise. Lufthansa had introduced the Boeing 707 in 1960, which made more noise than previous piston engined aircraft. The plans were dropped due to bad experiences in other cities with airports being moved far from city centers and Lufthansa's move to Frankfurt. The construction of Berlin Brandenburg International Airport is relieving demand for intercontinental flights, negating the benefits of a move and expansion.

In the early 1990s, the airport began an extensive modernization process. The plan, called HAM21, included a new 500 m pier extension, a new terminal (Terminal 1), and the Airport Plaza between Terminals 1 and 2, which includes a consolidated security area. The Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg Airport was added in 2009, combined with new roadside access and a connection to Hamburg's rapid transit system (S-Bahn).

Airlines and destinations

Lufthansa and Air Berlin aircraft parked at the terminal

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aer Lingus	Dublin	1
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo	1
Aerosvit Airlines	Kiev-Boryspil	1
airBaltic	Riga	1
Air Berlin	All Year: Alicante, Arrecife, Barcelona, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hurghada, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Klagenfurt, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Málaga, Munich, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Tenerife-South, Vienna, Zürich Seasonal: Antalya, Corfu, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Innsbruck [resumes 2 December], Kos, Lamezia Terme, Luxor [begins 4 November], Madeira [begins 6 November], Monastir, Olbia, Rimini, Samos, Santa Cruz de la Palma [begins 6 November], Sharm el-Sheikh, Thessaloniki, Venice-Marco Polo	1
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle	1
Air France operated by Brit Air	Lyon, Toulouse [begins 1 November]	1
Air France operated by Cityjet	Rotterdam [ends 19 November]	1
Air Hamburg	Helgoland, Juist [seasonal], Norderney [seasonal], Westerland/Sylt [seasonal]	1
Air Malta	Malta	1
Air Transat	Toronto-Pearson [seasonal]	1
Atlas Jet	Antalya [seasonal], Istanbul-Atatürk	1
Austrian Airlines	Vienna [seasonal]	2
Austrian operated by Tyrolean Airways	Vienna	2
British Airways	London-Heathrow	1
Brussels Airlines	Brussels	2
Bulgarian Air Charter	Burgas [seasonal], Varna [seasonal]	1
Cirrus Airlines	Dresden, Mannheim	2
Condor	Agadir, Antalya, Arrecife, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera [seasonal], Kos, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma [seasonal], Sharm el-Sheikh, Santorini, Tenerife-South	2
Continental Airlines	Newark	1
Corendon Airlines	Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir	1
Croatia Airlines	Split [begins 16 April]	2
Czech Airlines	Prague	1
easyJet	London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester [begins 26 November]	1
easyJet Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse	1
Emirates	Dubai	1
Eurocypria Airlines	Larnaca	1
Finnair	Helsinki	1
Flybe	Birmingham	1
Freebird Airlines	Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk	1
Germania	Ankara, Antalya, Heraklion, Faro	1
German Sky	Antalya, Hurghada [begins 4 November]	1
Icelandair	Reykjavik [seasonal, begins 3 June]	2
InterSky	Friedrichshafen	1
Iran Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini	1
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper	Amsterdam	1
Koral Blue	Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Sharm el-Sheikh	1
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw	2
Lotus Air	Hurghada [begins 1 November], Sharm el-Sheikh [begins 1 November]	1
Lufthansa	Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, London-Heathrow, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Reykjavik-Keflavik [seasonal], Stuttgart, Vienna, Zürich	2
Lufthansa operated by bmi	London-Heathrow	2
Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air	Düsseldorf [begins 2 April], Stuttgart	2
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings	Amsterdam, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa [begins 31 October], Nice, Nuremberg, Paris-Charles de Gaulle [begins 27 March], Stockholm-Arlanda [begins 27 March], Vienna [begins 2 April]	2
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Amsterdam, Bastia, Bergen, Geneva, Madrid [begins 31 October], Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Munich [begins 7 November], Nice, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda,	2
Luxair	Luxemburg, Saarbrücken	2
Malév Hungarian Airlines	Budapest	1
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Oslo-Gardermoen	1
Nouvelair	Monastir	1
Onur Air	Adana, Antalya, Dalaman, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir	1
Pegasus Airlines	Antalya	1
Rossiya	St Petersburg	1
Saga Airlines	Antalya	1
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen	2
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber Sterling	Copenhagen	2
Sky Airlines	Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Hurghada [begins 4 November], Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen, Nevsehir [seasonal]	1
Skyways Express	Jönköping	1
Sky Work Airlines	Bern [begins 8 December]	1
SunExpress	Ankara [begins 5 November], Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman [seasonal], Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen	1
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich	2
Swiss operated by Swiss European Air Lines	Basel/Mulhouse	2
Sylt Air	Westerland/Sylt [seasonal]	1
Tailwind Airlines	Antalya [seasonal]	1
TAP Portugal	Lisbon	2
Tunis Air	Djerba, Enfidha [begins 2 April], Monastir, Tunis	2
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk	1
Turkuaz Airlines	Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk [both seasonal]	1
TUIfly	Antalya, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro [seasonal], Fuerteventura, Heraklion [seasonal], Hurghada [resumes 2 November], Jerez de la Frontera, Kos [seasonal], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Minorca [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes [seasonal]	1
Viking Hellas	Larnaca	1
XL Airways Germany	Antalya [seasonal], Hurghada [begins 1 November], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [seasonal], Sharm el-Sheikh [begins 1 November]	1

Ground transport

See also: Hamburg Airport station

The airport is located ca. 8 km north of Hamburg city centre and 8 km south of Norderstedt in the borough of Fuhlsbüttel. HVV, the Hamburg public transit network, runs the S-Bahn-line (suburban railway) S1 which links the airport directly to the city centre every ten minutes. The trip to the central train station takes approximately 25 minutes. By road, the airport can be reached from the A7 using the B433, which is the third ring road. Motorists from the east of the city must drive through Hamburg, because the A7 travels North/South from Schleswig-Holstein to Lower Saxony.

The airport is also linked by some local bus routes to nearby areas as well as regular coach services to the cities of Kiel, Neumünster and Lübeck.

Taxi stands are located on the arrival level in front of each terminal.

See also

• Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport
• List of airports in Germany

External links

• Template:De icon Template:En icon Hamburg Airport
• Template:De icon Template:En icon Hamburg Airport Aviation Community
• Current weather for EDDH at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for HAM at Aviation Safety Network