Leipzig/Halle Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Leipzig/Halle Airport
nativename = Flughafen Leipzig/Halle
nativename-a =
nativename-r =


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IATA = LEJ
ICAO = EDDP
type = Public
owner =
operator = Flughafen Leipzig/Halle GmbH
city-served = Saxony
location = Leipzig and Halle
elevation-f = 470
elevation-m = 143
website = [http://www.leipzig-halle-airport.de/en/home/ www.leipzig-halle-airport.de]
metric-elev =
metric-rwy = Yes
r1-number = 08L/26R
r1-length-f = 11,811
r1-length-m = 3,600
r1-surface = Concrete
r2-number = 08R/26L
r2-length-f = 11,811
r2-length-m = 3,600
r2-surface = Concrete
footnotes = Source: AIP from Eurocontrol

Leipzig/Halle Airport sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport Airport codes|LEJ|EDDP 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. While passengers traffic is currently low compared to major airports in Germany, there are plans to make Leipzig-Halle one of the Berlin area airports along with Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport which is northeast of Leipzig. Berlin-Tegel International Airport is within the city limits of Berlin and has very limited space, not to mention the outdated Tempelhof International Airport which will be decommissioned in October 2008. 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

The airport has a railway station with national connections to cities like Magdeburg, Hanover, Cologne and Dresden. There is a fast train directly to Leipzig inner city and Halle (Saale) city.

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

*airberlin (Antalya, Arrecife, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Korfu, Kos, Lametia-Terme, Las Palmas, Luxor, Palma de Mallorca, Monastir, Sharm-El-Sheik, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki)
*Air France
**Air France operated by Régional (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
*Air Malta (Malta) "seasonal"
*Air Via (Burgas, Varna) "seasonal"
*Austrian Airlines
**Austrian Airlines operated by Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
*Blue Wings (Antalya)
*Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas, Varna) "seasonal"
*Condor Airlines (Antalya, Chania, Heraklion, Hurghada, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Marsa Alam, Rhodes, Sharm-El-Sheik, Tenerife-South)
*Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Split) "seasonal"
*Eurocypria Airlines (Paphos)
*Germania (airline) (Antalya) "seasonal"
*Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
*Hamburg International (Agadir, Ibiza, Larnaca, Varna)
*Karthago Airlines (Monastir) "seasonal"
*LTU International (Punta Cana)
*Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
**Lufthansa operated by Cirrus Airlines (Frankfurt)
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Düsseldorf)
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Frankfurt)
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Frankfurt, Munich)
*Nouvelair (Monastir)
*Pegasus Airlines (Antalya)
*Sky Airlines (Antalya)
*SunExpress (Antalya, Dalaman)
*TUIfly (Antalya, Heraklion, Rhodes)
*Tunis Air (Monastir)

Cargo airlines

*Aeroflot Cargo (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
*Antonov Airlines
*Atlas Air
*ATRAN Cargo Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
*DHL Aviation (Athens, Basle/Mulhouse, Brussels, Cologne, Copenhagen, East Midlands, Hamburg, Kiev, Ljubljana-Brnik, Madrid, Milan Bergamo, Prague, Sofia, Warsaw)
**DHL Aviation operated by ACT Airlines
**DHL Aviation operated by Atlantic Airlines (United Kingdom) (Linz)
**DHL Aviation operated by Aviastar-TU
**DHL Aviation operated by Bluebird Cargo (Geneva)
**DHL Aviation operated by Exin Co. Ltd of Poland (Balaton, Gdansk, Katowice)
**DHL Aviation operated by RAF-Avia (Ostrava)
*Lufthansa Cargo (Atlanta, Bahrain, Delhi, East Midlands, Hong Kong, Istanbul, New York, Seoul, Sharjah, Singapore, Wilmington/Ohio)
*Singapore Airlines Cargo (Singapore)
*Tesis Aviation Enterprise (Moscow, Nanking)
*Volga-Dnepr
*World Airways

External links

* [http://www.leipzig-halle-airport.de/en/index.html Official (English) Website of the LEJ Airport]