Düsseldorf International Airport
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| Düsseldorf International Airport Flughafen Düsseldorf International |
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| IATA: DUS - ICAO: EDDL | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH | ||
| Serves | Düsseldorf | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 147 ft (44.8 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 05R/23L | 9,842 | 3,000 | Concrete |
| 05L/23R | 8,858 | 2,700 | Concrete |
Düsseldorf International Airport (German: Flughafen Düsseldorf International) (IATA: DUS, ICAO: EDDL), is the third largest airport in Germany with 16.6 million passengers predicted to pass through this year. Only Munich International Airport and Frankfurt International Airport have more passengers. The airport serves an important hub for the airline LTU and an important secondary hub for Lufthansa. Lufthansa has 270 flights per day (43 destinations) from or to Düsseldorf the airport's 70 hosted airlines support flights to 186 non-stop-destinations on all continents (except for Oceania). The airport has up to 700 takeoffs and landings per day. Düsseldorf International Airport is located nine kilometres from the center of Düsseldorf, Germany
Düsseldorf International has two runways, which are 3000 m and 2700 m long. There are plans to extend the 3000 m runway to 3600 m, but the city of Ratingen, which lies in the approach path of the runway, is blocking them.
107 airplane 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. Along with Frankfurt International Airport, Munich International Airport and Cologne Bonn Airport, Düsseldorf International Airport is able to handle the new superjumbo Airbus A380 aircraft. On November 12th, 2006 the first A380 landed in Düsseldorf as part of a Lufthansa promotion flight. Lufthansa is planning to use Düsseldorf International as the diversion airport for A380 in case of bad weather in Frankfurt.
Owners of the airport are:
- 50% Landeshauptstadt (state capital) Düsseldorf
- 50% Airport Partners GmbH (Ownership of Airport Partners GmbH: 40% Hochtief AirPort GmbH, 20% Hochtief AirPort Capital KGaA, 40% Aer Rianta PLC)
Passengers:
- 2002 14.75 Million
- 2003 14.30 Million
- 2004 15.20 Million
- 2005 15.51 Million
- 2006 16.60 Million
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[edit] History
- The airport was opened on April 19, 1927, after two years of construction. However, the first aircraft to land in northern Düsseldorf was the Zeppelin LZ-III in 1909.
- 1950: the main runway is extended to 2475 meters.
- 1964: planning begins for the construction of a new terminal, with the capacity for 1.4 million passengers
- 1969: main runway is lengthened to 3000 meters.
- 1972: to decrease noise pollution, a complete prohibition on landings for jet aircraft between the hours of 23:00 and 6:00 comes into effect. The night-time airmail traffic has been already banned since 1970.
- 1973: the new central building and the Terminal B are opened.
- 1975: the railroad connection between the Düsseldorf central station and the airport starts operation.
- 1977: construction of Terminal A is completed.
- 1986: 8.22 million passengers use the airport - making it number two in Germany. Terminal C is opened.
- 1992: 12.3 million passengers use the airport. A second runway, 2700 meters in length, is constructed.
- 1996 April 11: fire breaks out on the roof of the terminal A, probably caused by welding work. 17 people die, mostly due to smoke inhalation, with many more hospitalized. Damage to the airport is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. At the time, the fire is the biggest public disaster in the history of Northrhine-Westpahlia. While repairs are ongoing, passengers are being housed in big tents. In November Terminal C is completely redeveloped, with three lightweight construction halls serving as departure areas.
- 1997: construction begins on the new inter-city railway station at the eastern edge of the airport.
- 1998: the rebuilt Terminal A is reopened. The airport changes its name from "Rhine Ruhr airport" to "Düsseldorf International". Reconstruction of the central building and Terminal B begins.
- 1999: foundation laid for an underground parking garage under the new terminal, as part of the "Airport 2000+" program
- 2000: in May, the new railway station "Düsseldorf airport" is opened, with the capacity of 300 train departures daily. 16 million passengers use the airport this year; Düsseldorf is the third biggest airport in Germany.
- 2001: in March, the new departures hall and Terminal B are opened after 2 1/2 years of construction time; the rebuilt Gebäude Ost is reopened.
- 2002: shuttle bus service is replaced by the suspended monorail called the SkyTrain connects the terminal building with the InterCity train station. The monorail travels the 2.5 kilometers 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. A variety of tickets are valid for travel, including a VRR, Flight ticket, DB, or parking garage ticket.
- 2006 November 12: Airbus A 380 lands in Düsseldorf.
Düsseldorf International Airport once served as a major destination for flights from the United States. After September 11, Continental Airlines and United Airlines discontinued service at the airport; however, UA continues codeshare arrangements with Lufthansa.
[edit] Magazine of the airport
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 subscription for three issues at a current price of €19.00.
[edit] Airlines
Currently, the following airlines operate routes to and from Düsseldorf International Airport:
[edit] Terminal A (Star Alliance/Lufthansa Partners)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- operated by Austrian Arrows (Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Vienna)
- Condor (Antalya, Arrecife, Bergen, Chania, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Izmir, Jerez de la Frontera, Kerkyra, Kirkenes, Las Palmas, Linz, Mahon, Málaga, Palma, Rodos, Santa Cruz, Santorini, Tenerife-South) + Terminal B
- Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Split)
- Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Barcelona, Basel, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Dresden, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Katowice, Kiev-Boryspil, Leipzig/Halle, London-City, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, München, Newcastle, Nice, Nürnberg, Palma, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Toulouse, Turin, Valencia , Vienna, Warsaw, Westerland (Sylt) [starts April 2, 2007], Zürich)
- operated by Privatair (Chicago-O'Hare, Newark)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- SAS Braathens (Oslo)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- operated by Swiss European Air Lines (Zürich)
[edit] Terminal B
- Aegean Airlines (Athens, Heraklion , Thessaloniki)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- Air Berlin (Alicante, Antalya, Arrecife, Barcelona, Fuerteventura, Helsinki, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Las Palmas, London-Stansted, Luxor, Mahon, Málaga, Milan-Bergamo, Moscow-Domodedovo, Nice, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Rhodos, Rome-Fiumicino, Samos, Tenerife-South, Thessoloniki, Vienna, Westerland (Sylt), Zürich)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- operated by Brit Air (Lyon)
- Alitalia
- operated by Alitalia Express (Milan-Malpensa)
- Bestair
- Blue Wings (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Izmir, Kayseri, Samsun, Tehran)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- operated by Sun Air of Scandinavia (Billund)
- Corendon Airlines (Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- dba (Berlin-Tegel, Dresden, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Pristina, Sarajevo, Skopje)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Flybe (Birmingham, Manchester, Southampton)
- Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
- Inter Airlines (Antalya)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- Jet2.com (Leeds/Bradford)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
- operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- Macedonian Airlines (Ohrid, Skopje)
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit) [starts June 6, 2007]
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
- Pegasus Airlines (Adana, Antalya, Bodrum, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Izmir, Kayseri, Samsun, Trabzon)
- Rossiya Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo, St. Petersburg)
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca, Nador)
- Sky Airlines (Antalya)
- Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Kayseri, Samsun, Trabzon)
[edit] Terminal C
- African Safari Airways (Mombasa, Zürich)
- Air Cairo
- Air Malta (Malta)
- Carpatair (Timişoara)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Eurocypria Airlines
- Free Bird Airlines
- Futura International Airways (Feuteventura, Lamezia)
- Hamburg International (Accra, Pristina)
- LTU (Adana, Agadir, Alicante, Almeria, Ankara, Antalya, Arrecife, Athens, Bangkok, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin-Schonefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Bodrum, Brindisi, Cagliari, Calgary, Cancun, Cape Town, Caracas, Catania, Colombo, Dalaman, Djerba, Dubrovnik, Faro, Fort Myers, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Havana, Heraklion, Holguin, Hurghada, Ibiza, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Jeddah, Karpathos, Kavalla, Kerkyra, Kos, La Romana, Las Palmas,Las Vegas (starts July 2007), Lisbon, Los Angeles, Luxor, Madrid, Mahon, Málaga, Male, Miami, Mikonos, Mitilini, Mombasa, Monastir, Montego Bay, Naples, New York-JFK, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reykjavik-Kleflavik, Rimini, Rodos, Rome-Fiumicino, Samos, Santa Cruz, Split, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Tivat, Toronto, Trabzon, Valencia, Vancouver, Varadero, Windhoek, Zakinthos)
- Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (Erfurt)
- Macedonian Airlines (Skopje)
- Mahan Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
- Nouvelair (Monastir)
- S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Istanbul-Atatürk)
- TUIfly (Agadir, Antalya, Arrecife, Bodrum, Calvi, Catania, Chania, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Lamezia, Las Palmas, Leipzig/Halle, Mahon, Málaga, Monastir, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Patras, Rodos, Salou, Santorini, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Venice)
[edit] Cargo Operations
- Atlas Air (Dubai, Sharjah)
- Emirates SkyCargo (Dubai)
- Evergreen International Airlines (Sharjah) (chartered freight flights)
- Polar Air Cargo
- Volga-Dnepr
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