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Hamburg Airport

Flughafen Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
Departure hall at Hamburg Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorFHG Flughafen Hamburg GmbH
LocationHamburg, Germany
Elevation AMSL22 ft / 6.7 m
Coordinates53°37′55″N 009°59′22″E / 53.63194°N 9.98944°E / 53.63194; 9.98944
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 3,250 10,663 Asphalt
15/33 3,666 12,028 Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

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 square metres. Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to 5.7 square kilometres. The main apron covers 320,000 square meters. The Airport is 8.5 km north-west of the centre of the City of Hamburg in the Fuhlsbüttel quarter.

The Airport was opened in January 1911, it is the oldest Airport in Germany which is still in operation. In the 1970s, there were discussions of moving Hamburg airport northward to a site near Kaltenkirchen. This plan was subsequently abandoned, and the airport is completing a major modernization that includes new terminal buildings, a new hotel right across from the terminal, new roadside access and a connection to Hamburg's rapid transit system (S-Bahn).

Hamburg Airport (measured by the number of passengers) is the fifth biggest of the 16 German commercial airports (after Tegel International Airport in Berlin).

The shareholders of Hamburg Airport are the City of Hamburg (51%) and Hochtief AirPort GmbH. (49%).

In 2007, Hamburg airport served 12,780,000 passengers, a new record, and 173,500 aircraft movements.[3]

Hamburg airport has 17 jet-ways.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal 1

Terminal 2

Transport to/from airport

HVV, the Hamburg public transit company, runs bus line 110 "Airport Express" from the airport to the Ohlsdorf station. An extension of the S1 city train line to the airport is projected to be complete in December 2008.[4]

The company Jasper offers a non-stop "Airport Express" bus from the airport to the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (main train station).[5] This bus is not part of the HVV fare system.

See also

References

  1. ^ Template:WAD
  2. ^ Airport information for HAM at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. ^ Hamburg Airport Passenger and Aircraft Movement Numbers
  4. ^ S-Bahn website
  5. ^ Jasper website
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