Düsseldorf International Airport

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Düsseldorf International Airport Flughafen Düsseldorf International
IATA: DUS – ICAO: EDDL DUS Location of airport in North Rhine-Westphalia
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH
Serves		Düsseldorf
Hub for		Air Berlin Eurowings Lufthansa[1]
Elevation AMSL		44.8 m / 147 ft
Coordinates		51°17′22″N 006°46′00″E / 51.28944°N 6.7666667°E / 51.28944; 6.7666667Coordinates: 51°17′22″N 006°46′00″E / 51.28944°N 6.7666667°E / 51.28944; 6.7666667
Website		www.duesseldorf-international.de
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
05R/23L	3,192	10,474	Concrete
05L/23R	3,294	10,809	Concrete
Statistics (2010)
Passengers			18,988,149
Passenger change 09-10			6.7%
Aircraft Movements			215,544
Movements change 09-10			0.7%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, ADV[2] German AIP at EUROCONTROL[3]

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

terminal building

inside the airport terminal, 2005

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.

The Departures hall of DUS

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

Düsseldorf 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.

LTU Airbus A330-200 aircraft at DUS (now flying for Air Berlin)

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

an Emirates Airbus A330-200 in 2004

a Ghana Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in 2002

a Lufthansa Boeing 737-300 in 2010

a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 in 2008

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
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, Cancun, Cagliari, Catania, Copenhagen, Dalaman, Djerba, Dresden, Faro, Florence, Fort Myers, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hurghada, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Kayseri, Kirkenes, 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, 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, Curaçao, Enfidha, Guernsey, Heraklion, Heringsdorf, Jerez de la Frontera, Jersey, Karpathos, Kavala, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Liberia, 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	B
Air Malta	Malta	B
Air Via	Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna	C
airBaltic	Riga	B
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, 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, Manchester, Southampton Seasonal: Exeter	C
Germania	Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Beirut, Bursa, Bodrum, Erbil, Gaziantep, Hatay, Hurghada, Samsun, Sivas, Sulaymaniyah, Tekirdağ, Zonguldak Seasonal: Pristina, Trabzon	C
Germanwings	Pristina	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, Istanbul-Ataturk, London-Heathrow, Málaga [begins 28 April 2012], Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Newark, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, St Petersburg, Tokyo-Narita [begins 1 June 2012][7], Toronto-Pearson, Vienna Seasonal: Ibiza [begins 26 May 2012], Jersey, Miami, Newquay, Palma de Mallorca, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Zürich	A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air	Birmingham, Dresden, Hamburg, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Dublin [begins 9 May 2012]	A
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings	Athens, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Dresden, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Katowice, Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Naples [begins 14 April 2012], Newcastle upon Tyne, Nuremberg, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Turin, Valencia, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Warsaw, Westerland [begins 28 April 2012], Wroclaw, Zürich Seasonal: Bari [begins 5 May], Catania [begins 25 March 2012], Dublin [begins 6 May 2012], Dubrovnik, Knock [begins 12 May 2012][8], Newquay, Olbia, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Zadar [begins 26 May 2012]	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
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	Charter: Ras Al-Khaimah	C
Rossiya	St Petersburg	C
Royal Air Maroc	Seasonal: Nador	C
S7 Airlines	Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo	C
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda, Oslo-Gardermoen	A
Sky Airlines	Antalya	C
SunExpress	Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen, Izmir	C
SunExpress operated by SunExpress Deutschland	Adana, Ankara, Gaziantep, Hurghada, Kayseri	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	Seasonal: Ankara	C
XL Airways Germany	Pristina, Skopje Seasonal: Antalya, Gaziantep, Hurghada	B/C

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
Emirates SkyCargo	Dubai

Operations and statistics

Passenger numbers

	Number of Passengers [9]	Number of Movements [10]	Freight (Tonnes)
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[11]

Busiest routes

Busiest Domestic and International Routes from Düsseldorf (2010)

Rank	City	Passengers	Top Carriers
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

Düsseldorf Airport S-Bahn service
Duisburg Hbf Duisburg-Rahm Düsseldorf-Angermund Düsseldorf Airport SkyTrain Parkhaus 4 SkyTrain Terminal A/B SkyTrain Terminal C Düsseldorf Airport Terminal C Düsseldorf-Unterrath Düsseldorf-Derendorf Düsseldorf Zoo Düsseldorf-Wehrhahn Düsseldorf Hbf

Monorail "Sky Train"

Düsseldorf Airport station (Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen)

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.

Preceding station		Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn		Following station
Terminus		S11		Düsseldorf-Unterrath toward Bergisch Gladbach

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

	North Rhine-Westphalia portal
	Aviation portal

• 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

1. ^ Lufthansa: Our hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf and Zurich
2. ^ ^{a b c d} ADV passenger statistics and aircraft movements
3. ^ EAD Basic
4. ^ "Facts and Figures, 2009". Düsseldorf International Airport. http://www.duesseldorf-international.de/dus_en/daten_zahlen. Retrieved 7 January 2011. 
5. ^ 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
6. ^ maritim Hotel Düsseldorf
7. ^ http://presse.lufthansa.com/en/news-releases/singleview/archive/2011/october/14/article/2017.html
8. ^ http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0914/knock-business.html
9. ^ Number of Passengers including both domestic and international.
10. ^ Number of Movements represents total commercial air transport takeoffs and landings during that year.
11. ^ "German Airport Statistics". http://www.adv.aero/statistiken.html. 

External links

• Düsseldorf International Airport Homepage (German) (English) (Dutch)
• Sky-Train Düsseldorf