Leipzig/Halle Airport
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51°25′26″N 012°14′11″E / 51.42389°N 12.23639°E
Leipzig/Halle Airport Flughafen Leipzig/Halle | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Flughafen Leipzig/Halle GmbH | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Leipzig and Halle | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Schkeuditz | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 470 ft / 143 m | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.leipzig-halle-airport.de | ||||||||||||||
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Leipzig/Halle Airport, sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport (IATA: LEJ, ICAO: EDDP), is located in Schkeuditz, Saxony and serves both Leipzig, Saxony and Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
It has more than two million passengers per year.
The modern airport terminal structure extends over the adjacent motorway and railway. The terminal access is south of the railway while the runway 08L/26R parallels the driveway north of the railway, requiring aircraft to taxi on a bridge over the tracks and roads. The airport was modernized with the 2012 Olympic Games hosting bid for Leipzig in mind but the city lost out to London. The recent DHL move in early 2008 from Brussels Airport to Leipzig as its European hub will dramatically increase the cargo traffic in the coming months. One of the most unusual aspects of Leipzig/Halle is the large number of tour operators sales offices within the airport building. This is apparently the result of regulations that permit discount operations within airport terminals. Another feature of the airport is the adjoining modern Porsche factory, with special facilities for visitors and conventions.
Ground transport
Leipzig/Halle Airport railway station has national connections to cities like Magdeburg, Hanover, Cologne and Dresden. There is a fast train directly to Leipzig inner city and Halle (Saale) city. Furthermore, the airport is connected to two motorways: the A14 connecting to Dresden (130 km), Halle (Saale, 40 km) and Magdeburg (130 km), and the A9 connecting to Munich (430 km), Nuremberg (280 km), and Berlin (180 km).
Ground ownership
Although the airport is called "Leipzig/Halle", the airport ground property tax goes to the county of Delitzsch. A deal between the city of Leipzig and Delitzsch led to an exchange of area. Leipzig got ground property outside the airport and Delitzsch got in 2007 100% of the grounds of the airport. The county of Delitzsch now owns and claim taxes from the grounds and commercial interest (Gewerbesteuer) from the airport.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Berlin | Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Antalya, Corfu, Djerba, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luxor, Monastir, Nuremberg, Sharm el-Sheikh, Thessaloniki |
| Air Cairo | Seasonal: Hurghada |
| Air France operated by Régional | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air Malta | Malta |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna |
| Bulgarian Air Charter | Seasonal: Burgas, Varna |
| Condor | Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Munich, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Antalya, Dalaman, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Larnaca, Malaga, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Sharm-el-Sheikh |
| Corendon Airlines | Antalya |
| Central Connect Airlines | Brussels, Prague |
| Czech Airlines] operated by Central Connect Airlines | Prague [begins 3 January] |
| Freebird Airlines | Seasonal: Antalya, Istanbul |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart |
| Germania | Seasonal: Antalya, Heraklion, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways | Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings | Düsseldorf |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Düsseldorf, Munich |
| Nouvelair | Seasonal: Monastir |
| Pegasus Airlines | Antalya |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya |
| SunExpress | Antalya |
| TUIfly | Antalya Seasonal: Heraklion, Rhodes |
| Tunis Air | Djerba, Monastir |
| XL Airways Germany | Seasonal: Burgas, Heraklion, Monastir, Varna |
Cargo airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aerologic | Almaty, Bangkok, Bahrain, Brussels, Chicago, Cincinnaty, New Delhi, Dubai, East Midlands, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Seoul-Incheon, Los Angeles, Shanghai-Pudong, Sharjah, Singapore, Tashkent |
| Antonov Airlines | Military Charter |
| DHL Aviation operated by ABX Air | Brussels, Lagos |
| DHL Aviation operated by Aero Charter | Kiev-Boryspil |
| DHL Aviation operated by Air Contractors | Amsterdam, Athens, Brussels, East Midlands, Frankfurt, London-Heathrow, London-Luton, Madrid, Milan-Orio al Serio |
| DHL Aviation operated by Aviastar-TU | Moscow-Sheremetyewo |
| DHL Aviation operated by Aviavilsa | Vilnius |
| DHL Aviation operated by Bluebird Cargo | Geneva, Turku |
| DHL Aviation operated by DHL Air UK | Amsterdam, Athens, Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky, Cologne-Bonn, East Midlands, Hong Kong, Lyon, Marseille, Milan-Bergamo, Munich, New York JFK, Oslo, Paris CDG, Rome-Ciampino, Stuttgart, Venice-Treviso, Vitoria, Warsaw |
| DHL Aviation operated by European Air Transport | Barcelona, Bratislava, Brussels, Copenhagen, East Midlands, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Linz, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Milan-Bergamo, Nantes, Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Vitoria |
| DHL Aviation operated by Exin | Gdansk, Katowice |
| DHL Aviation operated by MNG Cargo | Istanbul Ataturk |
| DHL Aviation operated by RAF-Avia | Ostrava, Riga |
| DHL Aviation operated by Swiftair | Brussels, Geneva, Linz, Ljubljana, Turku, Vitoria |
| DHL Aviation operated by Westair Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| Kalitta Air | Bahrain |
| Polar Air Cargo | Cincinnati Northern Kentucky, Hong Kong, Sharjah, Seoul-Incheon |
| Volga-Dnepr | Military Charter |
| World Airways | Military Charter |
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