Memmingen Airport

Memmingen Airport Flughafen Memmingen
IATA: FMM – ICAO: EDJA FMM Location of the airport in Bavaria
Summary
Airport type		Public
Serves		Memmingen
Location		Memmingerberg
Elevation AMSL		633 m / 2,077 ft
Coordinates		47°59′33″N 10°14′37″E / 47.9925°N 10.24361°E / 47.9925; 10.24361Coordinates: 47°59′33″N 10°14′37″E / 47.9925°N 10.24361°E / 47.9925; 10.24361
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
06/24	2,981	9,777	asphalt

Memmingen Airport (IATA: FMM, ICAO: EDJA) is a small public airport in the town of Memmingerberg near Memmingen, in the Swabia region of Germany. It is the smallest of three commercial airports in Bavaria and has the highest altitude of any commercial airport in Germany. Until 25 September 2008 it was known as Allgäu Airport/Memmingen.

Located about 3.8 km (2.4 mi) from the centre of Memmingen and 110 km (68 mi) from the city centre of Munich, it serves Memmingen and the Allgäu area and also provides a low-cost alternative to Munich Airport: it is marketed as "Munich-West Airport". The airport is located close to the A96 and A7 motorways. The airport can also be reached by local bus from Memmingen Central Station and express buses from Nuremberg, Ingolstadt, Munich and Ulm. At 110km, "Munich-West Airport" is further than any other airport in Europe from its eponymous city^{[citation needed]}.

Memmingen airport has an Instrument Landing System (ILS) Category 1 for runway 24, NDB/DME, GPS RNAV. It is operated by Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG, a limited partnership of several mostly local, medium-sized companies.

History

A military airfield was built at Memmingerberg in 1935. It was used during World War II. After being rebuilt, it was used for US Air Force training flights from 1956. From 1959 to 2003, it was the home base of German Air Force fighter wing 34 ("Allgäu").

The airport was certified as a regional commercial airport on 20 July 2004 and commenced operation on 5 August 2004, but there were no scheduled or regular chartered flights. Scheduled flights to the 2005 Hanover Fair were cancelled due to lack of demand. In June 2005, the district of Oberallgäu granted initial finance of €480,000. A further sum of €200,000 was granted by the city of Memmingen after a popular vote on 25 September 2005. In 2006, scheduled flights to Dortmund and Rostock were planned but cancelled because the carrier became insolvent. In autumn 2006, the air transport company Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter offered chartered flights to Dortmund for two months, during which only 100 passengers were carried.

In March 2007, a subsidy of €7,500,000 promised by Bavaria was approved by the European Commission.

On 28 June 2007, TUIfly started offering domestic flights and also chartered flights to holiday destinations such as Mallorca, Crete, Naples, Rome, Venice and Antalya.

Current situation

Although the length of the runway of about 3 km would allow larger planes, the airport's certificate only allows planes with wingspans up to 36 m.

Nearly all flights at Memmingen are to or from countries that are members of both the European Union and the Schengen Agreement. These flights do not require immigration or customs controls, and thus there is no permanent customs office at the airport. Weekly flights from Antalya, Turkey and Kyiv, Ukraine were handled by officers from the Bavarian Forest at first and are now, after the airport was granted an exception, handled by customs officers from the region.

In March 2009, Ryanair announced seven new routes to/from Memmingen starting May 2009. They have continued to announce new routes and from May 2010 Ryanair will operate 14 routes.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Berlin	Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
Flybe	Chartered Seasonal: Belfast-City
Hamburg Airways	Seasonal: Antalya
Ryanair	Dublin, Girona, London-Stansted, Malaga, Manchester, Porto, Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm-Skavsta, Valencia Seasonal: Alghero, Alicante, Edinburgh, Faro, Palma de Mallorca, Reus, Rygge, Trapani
Sky Airlines	Antalya
Sun Express	Seasonal: Antalya
TUIfly.com	Seasonal: Antalya [begins 17 May 2012], Heraklion [begins 14 May 2012]
Wizz Air	Belgrade
Wizz Air Ukraine	Kiev-Zhuliany

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

External links

• Memmingen Airport
• Airport information for EDJA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.