Düsseldorf Airport
Düsseldorf International Airport Flughafen Düsseldorf International | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Düsseldorf | ||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 44.8 m / 147 ft | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°17′22″N 006°46′00″E / 51.28944°N 6.76667°E | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.duesseldorf-international.de | ||||||||||||||
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Düsseldorf International Airport (German: Flughafen Düsseldorf International) (IATA: DUS, ICAO: EDDL) is the largest airport in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the third largest airport in Germany, handling 18.99 million passengers in 2010.[2]
Düsseldorf International is located in Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) north of downtown Düsseldorf, and some 20 km (12 mi) south-west of Downtown Essen. The airport is accessible via an extensive ground transportation infrastructure, including its own motorway-section - part of the Bundesautobahn 44 (which connects to Bundesautobahn 52, 57 and 3) - and two railway stations - one of which for high-speed, long-distance trains. Düsseldorf SkyTrain operates as an inter-terminal people-mover within the airport.
The airport serves as an airline hub for Air Berlin and Lufthansa, the airport's largest and second-largest airlines - both offering about 300 daily flights to 53 destinations. Turkish Airlines is the largest foreign airline to operate from Düsseldorf International.[4] The airport handles on average 750 takeoffs and landings per day with a total of 70 airlines offering flights to 186 non-stop-destinations.
The airport
Düsseldorf International Airport is the largest and primary airport for the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region — the largest metropolitan region in Germany and among the largest metropolitan areas of the world.[5] The airport is located in Düsseldorf-Lohausen. Largest nearby business centres are Düsseldorf and Essen; other cities within a 20 km radius are Duisburg, Krefeld, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Neuss and Wuppertal. The airport extends over a compact 6.13 km2 (2.37 sq mi) of land - small in comparison to airports of a similar capacity - but also reason for Düsseldorf being known as an airport of short distances. The airport is workplace for more than 18,200 employees.
With 18.99 million passengers passing through in 2010,[2] the airport was the third busiest in Germany, after Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport, and was the 20th busiest airport in Europe. Transfer passengers and those travelling on long-haul flights from the airport accounted for around 13% of all passengers in 2010.[2] Düsseldorf International has two runways, which are 3,000 m and 2,700 m long. There are plans to extend the 3,000 m runway to 3,600 m, but up till now the town of Ratingen is blocking them, as it lies within the approach path of the runway.
107 aircraft parking positions are available. The current terminal building is capable of handling up to 22 million passengers per year. However, due to an agreement with residents in nearby Ratingen (the so called Angerlandvergleich), this capacity may not be reached within the next few years, as aircraft movements are restricted. Düsseldorf International Airport is able to handle the new superjumbo Airbus A380 aircraft. On 12 November 2006, the first A380 landed in Düsseldorf as part of a Lufthansa promotion flight.
Terminals
Düsseldorf International has three terminals connected by a central spine, even though the terminals are really more like concourses within a single terminal building.
Terminal A
Terminal A was opened in 1977 and has 16 gates (A01-A16) used by Lufthansa and Lufthansa Regional, its airline partners (Air Malta, Cimber Air, Cirrus Airlines) and Star Alliance members (Aegean Airlines, Air China, Austrian Airlines, Croatia Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Spanair, EgyptAir, TAP Air Portugal and Swiss International Airlines). Terminal A houses a Lufthansa Business Lounge and a Lufthansa Senator Lounge.
Terminal B
Terminal B was opened in 1973 and has 11 gates (B01-B11) used mainly for domestic and EU-flights by Air Berlin and SkyTeam and Oneworld members (British Airways, KLM, Finnair, Iberia, Air France and Czech Airlines). Also located within the terminal are charter carriers such as TUIfly and Condor Flugdienst. Terminal B houses an observation deck and airline lounges by Air France and British Airways.
Terminal C
Terminal C was opened in 1986 and has 8 gates (C01-C08) used exclusively for non-Schengen-flights by non-Star Alliance airlines. These are long-haul flights - among others - by Air Berlin, Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Mahan Air and Turkish Airlines. Terminal C has a direct access to Airport City's maritim Hotel and houses lounges by airberlin and Emirates.
Executive Terminal
Jet Aviation operates a small terminal, solely for private and corporate customers.
Airport City
Since 2003, an 23 hectare large area south-west of the airport terminal is under redevelopment as Düsseldorf Airport City with an anticipated gross floor area of 250,000 m² to be completed by 2016. Already based at Düsseldorf Airport City are cooperate offices of Siemens and VDI, a large Porsche centre and showroom, a maritim Hotel[6] and Congress Centre, a Sheraton Hotel and a cinema. Messe Düsseldorf is situated in close proximity to Düsseldorf Airport City (some 500 m (1,600 ft)).
Ownership
Düsseldorf International is a public–private partnership with the following owners:
- 50% Landeshauptstadt (state capital) Düsseldorf
- 50% Airport Partners GmbH (Ownership of Airport Partners GmbH: 40% Hochtief AirPort GmbH, 20% Hochtief AirPort Capital KGaA, 40% Dublin Airport Authority plc (through its wholly owned subsidiary Aer Rianta International cpt))
History
The first aviation event in the area was the landing of Zeppelin LZ3 on 19 September 1909 about 3 km (1.9 mi) south of the present airport. The present airport was opened on 19 April 1927, after two years of construction. Deutsche Luft Hansa opened routes to Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Geneva. With the start of the Second World War civil use of the airport ceased in September 1939 with the airfield being used by the military.
At the end of the war the airport reopened for civil use in 1948. With the area being under British administration the first flights were operated by British European Airways to London Northolt. In 1950 the main runway was extended to 2475 metres.
In 1964 planning began for the construction of a new terminal, with capacity for 1.4 million passengers, and in 1969 the main runway was lengthened to 3000 metres.
In 1973 the new central building and the Terminal B were opened and in 1975 the railroad connection between Düsseldorf central station and the airport started operation. Terminal A was opened in 1977.
In 1986 Terminal C was opened and 8.22 million passengers used the airport - making it number two in Germany. By 1992 when a second runway was built 12.3 million passengers were using the airport.
Fire caused by welding work and insufficient structural fire protection broke out on the roof of terminal A on 11 April 1996, and 17 people died, mostly due to smoke inhalation, with many more hospitalised. Damage to the airport was estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. At the time, the fire was the biggest public disaster in the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. While repairs were ongoing, passengers were housed in big tents. In November Terminal C was completely redeveloped, with three lightweight construction halls serving as departure areas.
Also in 1997 construction began on the new inter-city railway station at the eastern edge of the airport. In 1998 the rebuilt Terminal A was reopened and the airport changed its name from "Rhine Ruhr airport" to "Düsseldorf International". Reconstruction of the central building and Terminal B began.
The first stage in the "Airport 2000+" programme commenced in 1999 with the laying of a foundation stone for a underground parking garage under the new terminal.
The new Düsseldorf Airport station was opened in May 2000, with the capacity of 300 train departures daily. Sixteen million passengers used the airport that year; Düsseldorf is now the third biggest airport in Germany. The new departures hall and Terminal B were opened in July 2001 after 2½ years of construction time; the rebuilt Gebäude Ost was reopened.
In 2002 the inter-terminal shuttle bus service was replaced by the suspended monorail called the SkyTrain connecting the terminal building with the InterCity train station. The monorail travels the 2.5 kilometres between the terminal and station at a maximum speed of 50 km/h. The system was developed by Siemens and is based on the similar H-Bahn operating with two lines on Dortmund university campus.
Airlines and destinations
Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
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Aegean Airlines | Athens, Thessaloniki | B |
Aer Lingus | Dublin | C |
Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | C |
Aerosvit Airlines | Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil | C |
Air Berlin | Adana, Alicante, Antalya, Arbil, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Basra, Barcelona, Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao [ends 6 November], Cancun, Cagliari, Catania, Copenhagen, Curaçao [begins 15 November], Dalaman, Djerba, Dresden, Faro, Florence, Fort Myers, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hurghada, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Kayseri, Kirkenes, Klagenfurt [ends 30 October], Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, London-Stansted, Luxor, Málaga, Malé, Marsa Alam, Miami, Milan-Malpensa, Montego Bay, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, New York-JFK, Nice, Naples, Nuremberg, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina [ends 30 October], Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rome-Fiumicino, Rhodes, R Salzburg, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el-Sheikh, St Petersburg, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South, Trabzon, Varadero, Varna, Venice-Marco Polo, Verona, Vienna, Westerland/Sylt, Zürich Seasonal: Bodrum, Corfu, Enfidha, Guernsey, Heraklion, Heringsdorf, Jerez de la Frontera, Jersey, Karpathos, Kavala, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Liberia [begins 12 November], Los Angeles, Minorca, Mombasa, Mytilene, Ponta Delgada, Preveza, Reykjavik-Kevlavik, Samos, San Francisco, Skiathos, Skopje, Thessaloniki, Vancouver, Zakynthos | B/C |
Air Cairo | Seasonal charter: Hurghada | C |
Air China | Beijing-Capital | A |
Air France | Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle | B |
Air France operated by Brit Air | Lyon | B |
Air France operated by Régional | Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse | B |
Air Malta | Malta | B |
Air Via | Burgas, Varna | C |
airBaltic | Riga | B |
Al-Naser Airlines | Baghdad, Sulaymaniyah | C |
Atlasjet | Seasonal charter: Antalya | C |
Austrian Airlines | Vienna | A |
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Graz, Linz Seasonal: Vienna | A |
Belle Air | Pristina, Skopje | C |
British Airways | London-Heathrow | B |
British Airways operated by Sun Air Scandinavia | Billund | B |
Bulgarian Air Charter | Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna | C |
Carpatair | Timisoara | C |
Condor Flugdienst | Antalya, Dubai, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Agadir, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Heraklion, Ibiza, Klagenfurt [begins 16 December], Kos, Malta, Menorca, Rhodes, Santorini | B / C |
Corendon Airlines | Antalya | C |
Croatia Airlines | Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Split | A |
Czech Airlines | Prague | B |
Delta Air Lines | Atlanta | C |
EasyJet | London-Gatwick, Rome-Fiumicino | B |
EasyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse | B |
Emirates | Dubai | C |
Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi [begins 16 December] | C |
Finnair | Helsinki | B |
Flybe | Birmingham, Exeter, Manchester, Southampton | C |
Germania | Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Beirut, Bursa, Bodrum, Damascus, Gaziantep, Hatay, Hurghada, Samsun, Sivas, Sulaymaniyah, Tekirdağ, Zonguldak Seasonal: Pristina, Trabzon | C |
Germanwings | Pristina [begins 2 November] | C |
German Sky Airlines | Antalya, Gaziantep, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca | C |
Hahn Air | Luxembourg | B |
Hamburg Airways | Hurghada Seasonal: Antalya, Aqaba, Burgas, Pristina, Varna | C |
Iberia Airlines | Madrid | B |
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Madrid | B |
InterSky | Friedrichshafen | B |
Jat Airways | Belgrade | C |
Jet2.com | Leeds/Bradford | C |
Jet4you | Charter: Agadir | C |
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam | B |
LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw | A |
Lufthansa | Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Chicago-O'Hare, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London-Heathrow, Manchester, Miami, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Newark, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, St Petersburg, Toronto-Pearson, Vienna Seasonal: Antalya, Jersey, Newquay, Palma de Mallorca, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Tokyo-Narita [begins 1 June], Zürich | A |
Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air | Birmingham, Dresden, Hamburg, Paris-Charles de Gaulle | A |
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings | Athens, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Dresden, Gdańsk [ends 29 October], Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Katowice, Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nuremberg, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Turin, Valencia, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zürich Seasonal: Bari [begins 5 May], Catania [begins 25 March], Dubrovnik, Ireland West Knock [begins 7 May][7], Newquay, Olbia, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Zadar [begins 26 May] | A |
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Berlin-Tegel, Edinburgh, Kiev-Boryspil, Leipzig/Halle, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Oslo-Gardermoen, Prague, St Petersburg, Venice-Marco Polo, Warsaw Seasonal: Inverness | A |
MAT Airways | Ohrid, Skopje | C |
Middle East Airlines | Seasonal: Beirut | C |
Norwegian Air Shuttle | Oslo-Gardermoen | B |
Nouvelair | Enfidha | C |
Orenair | Seasonal: Barnaul , Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Orenburg | C |
Pegasus Airlines | Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Kayseri | C |
Pegasus Airlines operated by IZair | Izmir | C |
RAK Airways | Ras Al-Khaimah | C |
Rossiya | St Petersburg | C |
Royal Air Maroc | Nador | C |
Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda, Oslo-Gardermoen | A |
Sky Airlines | Antalya | C |
Sun d'Or operated by El Al | Seasonal: Tel Aviv | B |
SunExpress | Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen, Izmir | C |
SunExpress operated by SunExpress Deutschland | Adana [begins 1 November], Ankara [begins 1 November], Gaziantep [begins 2 November], Hurghada [begins 2 November], Kayseri [begins 31 October] | C |
Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich | A |
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines | Zürich | A |
Tailwind Airlines | Antalya | C |
TAP Portugal | Lisbon | A |
TUIfly | Antalya, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Agadir, Corfu, Dalaman, Enfidha, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Luxor, Marsa Alam, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Patras/Araxos, Rhodes | B/C |
Tunisair | Djerba, Enfidha, Tunis | C |
Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk Seasonal: Adana, Trabzon | C |
Turkish Airlines operated by Anadolujet | Ankara | C |
XL Airways Germany | Pristina, Skopje Seasonal: Antalya, Gaziantep, Hurghada | B/C |
Cargo airlines
Airlines | Destinations |
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Emirates SkyCargo | Dubai |
Operations and statistics
Passenger numbers
Number of Passengers [8] | Number of Movements [9] | Freight (Tonnes) | ||
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2000 | 16,03 million | 194,016 | 59,361 | |
2001 | 15,40 million | 193,514 | 51,441 | |
2002 | 14,75 million | 190,300 | 46,085 | |
2003 | 14,30 million | 186,159 | 48,419 | |
2004 | 15,26 million | 200,584 | 86,267 | |
2005 | 15,51 million | 200,619 | 88,058 | |
2006 | 16,59 million | 215,481 | 97,000 | |
2007 | 17,83 million | 227,899 | 89,281 | |
2008 | 18,15 million | 228,531 | 90,100 | |
2009 | 17,79 million | 214,024 | 76,916 | |
2010 | 18,98 million | 215,540 | 87,995 | |
Source: ADV German Airports Association[10] |
Busiest routes
Rank | City | Passengers | Top Carriers |
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1 | Munich, Germany | 1,532,121 | Air Berlin, Lufthansa |
2 | Berlin-Tegel | 930,315 | Air Berlin, Eurowings, Lufthansa, Lufthansa CityLine |
3 | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | 899,499 | Air Berlin, Condor, Lufthansa, TUIfly |
4 | London (all), United Kingdom | 812,334 | Air Berlin, British Airways, EasyJet, Lufthansa |
5 | Antalya, Turkey | 691,381 | Air Berlin, Condor, Germania, German Sky Airlines, Lufthansa, Pegasus Airlines, Sky Airlines, SunExpress, TUIfly, XL Airways Germany |
Ground transportation
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The airport is connected to the Autobahn via the A44. Two railway stations serve the airport. The Long distance station is located 2.5 km from the terminal and is serviced by all categories of German rail types, including ICE trains. A fully automatic, suspended monorail called SkyTrain connects the long distance station to the park houses and terminals. this service also connects the terminal to the outerlieing parking garages.
The airport also has its own S-Bahn station, Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station located below the terminal. It is serviced by the S11, which has its northern terminus there.
Airline lounges
- Terminal A: Lufthansa Business Lounge & Lufthansa Senator Lounge
- Terminal B: Air France Lounge, British Airways Terrace Lounge, Hugo Junkers Lounge (general)
- Terminal C: airberlin Lounge, Emirates Lounge, Open Sky Lounge
Airport magazine
Das Magazin is a magazine available for visitors and passengers travelling through Düsseldorf airport. It contains information about new airlines serving Düsseldorf, new destinations and routes, and other information about the airport itself and surrounding facilities. Das Magazin is available at many shops and newsstands at the airport for free or via a paid subscription.
See also
- Cologne Bonn Airport, an airport 45 km (28 mi) south from Düsseldorf, between the cities of Cologne and Bonn
- Dortmund Airport, an airport 50 km (31 mi) north-east from Düsseldorf, near the city of Dortmund
- Weeze Airport, an airport 80 km (50 mi) north-west from Düsseldorf, that is advertised by budget airlines as "Airport Düsseldorf Weeze", or "Airport Düsseldorf Niederrhein". A German court ruled the naming the airport after Düsseldorf would be misleading to passengers, however some budget airlines still use that name in advertisements outside of Germany.
- Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, commuter rail service within the Rhine-Ruhr region
- List of the busiest airports in Europe, based on annual passenger traffic
References
- ^ Lufthansa: Our hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf and Zurich
- ^ a b c d ADV passenger statistics and aircraft movements
- ^ EAD Basic
- ^ "Facts and Figures, 2009". Düsseldorf International Airport. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- ^ http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-4&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=a&va=&srt=pnan
- ^ maritim Hotel Düsseldorf
- ^ http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0914/knock-business.html
- ^ Number of Passengers including both domestic and international.
- ^ Number of Movements represents total commercial air transport takeoffs and landings during that year.
- ^ "German Airport Statistics".
External links
- Düsseldorf International Airport Homepage Template:De icon Template:En icon Template:Nl icon
- Sky-Train Düsseldorf
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