Stuttgart Airport

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Stuttgart Airport Flughafen Stuttgart

IATA: STR - ICAO: EDDS
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH
Serves		Stuttgart
Elevation AMSL		1,276 ft (389 m)
Coordinates		48°41′27″N, 009°13′23″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
07/25	10,974	3,345	Concrete

Stuttgart Airport (in German Flughafen Stuttgart, formerly Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen) (IATA: STR, ICAO: EDDS) is an international airport located approximately 8 miles (13 km) south of the city center of Stuttgart, Germany.

The airport is situated on the boundary between the three cities Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Stuttgart and Filderstadt. It is the 7th most important airport in Germany and the main airport of the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg with 10.109.425 million passengers in 2006.

It is an important hub for the German low cost carriers Germanwings and TUIfly.

1 History
2 Public transportation and access
3 Airlines and destinations
4 See also
5 Gallery
6 External links

[edit] History

The airport was established in 1939, replacing the old airport in Böblingen. In 1945 the US Air Force took over the airport and still maintains a base on the southern side of the airport which it shares with the Baden-Württemberg State Police helicopter wing. The helicopter wing falls under the control of Stuttgart Police Department and has six modern choppers based at Stuttgart and two in Söllingen. In 1948 the airport was returned to German authorities.

The airport was expanded after World War II. The runway was extended to 1800m in 1948, then to 2250m in 1961 and finally to 3345m in 1996.

When the replacement of the old 1938 terminal was finally finished in 2004, there are four terminals to service passengers with a maximum capacity of approximately 12 million passengers.

[edit] Public transportation and access

Stuttgart Airport can be easily reached within 30 minutes from the city's main train station using the S-Bahn S2 or S3. The airport is located right next to the Autobahn A8 that connects the cities of Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Munich.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

The following airlines fly to Stuttgart Airport:

[edit] Terminal 1

Aegean Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
Austrian Airlines
- Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- BA Connect (Birmingham)
Jat Airways (Belgrade, Niš)
KrasAir (Moscow-Domodedovo, Krasnoyarsk)
Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt, Hamburg)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Munich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Munich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Geneva, Hanover, London-City, Munich, Turin)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Bilbao, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Paris-Charles De Gaulle)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, London-Heathrow, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Paris-Charles De Gaulle, Vienna)
Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest, Sármellék)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
Spanair (Madrid)
Swiss International Air Lines
- Swiss International Air Lines operated by Cirrus Airlines (Zürich)
Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir)

[edit] Terminal 2

Germanwings (Athens, Barcelona, Bastia, Beograd [starts May 24, 2007], Berlin-Schönefeld, Budapest, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Krakow, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Moscow-Vnukovo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Split, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb)

[edit] Terminal 3

Air Berlin (Alicante, Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, Moscow-Domodedovo, Nice, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Vienna)
Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Régional (Lyon)
Alitalia
- Alitalia Express (Milan-Malpensa)
Carpatair (Timişoara)
Condor (Bremen, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Málaga, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Tenerife-South)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
European Air Express (Münster-Osnabrück)
Finnair
- Finncomm Airlines (Helsinki)
Hamburg International (Bodrum, Kos)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw) [Starts May 21, 2007]
LGW (Dortmund)
LTU International (Antalya, Catania, Faro, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kerkyra, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Samos, Thessaloniki, Varna)
Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
TUIfly (Agadir, Antalya, Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Bodrum, Chania, Dalaman, Djerba, Dubrovnik, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez, Kerkyra, Kos, Lanzarote, Larnace, Las Palmas, Leipzig, Luxor, Mahon, Manchester, Marrakech, Milan-Bergamo, Monastir, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallora, Patras, Pisa, Rhodos, Rijeka, Sharm el Sheikh, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tenerife, Thessaloniki, Thira, Venice)
Tunisair (Monastir)