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'Düsseldorf International Airport' () ,
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 as an important hub for the airline LTU and as an important secondary hub for Lufthansa. Lufthansa has about 300 flights per day (53 destinations) from or to Düsseldorf. Lufthansa also announced to inaugurate new longhaul services to Toronto and an aircraft upgrade to Chicago and New York by May 2008. The airport's 70 hosted airlines support flights to 186 non-stop-destinations on all continents (except for Oceania). The airport has up to 750 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. 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

Contents

History

Magazine of the airport

Airlines and destinations

Terminal A (Star Alliance/Lufthansa Partners)

Terminal B

Terminal C

Cargo airlines

See also

External links

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, caused by welding work and insufficient structural fire protection. 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-Westphalia. 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 "Fernbahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen" 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 discontinued service at the airport.United Airlines followed in 2003; however, UA continues codeshare arrangements with Lufthansa. Currently, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines replaced those dropped routes and connect Düsseldorf with Atlanta and Detroit on a daily basis. Also LTU serves Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Miami, Fort Myers, Las Vegas and Los Angeles from Düsseldorf. Lufthansa has announced to inaugurate a five time weekly service to Toronto, and an aircraft upgrade to Chicago and Newark.

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.

Airlines and destinations

★ LTU plans to serve Dehli, Shanghai and Peking ( Summer Schedule 2008 ).

★ Jet Airways plans to serve DUS as a mini-hub. There are plans for flights to the west or to the east to Mumbai or Dehli.
Currently, the following airlines operate routes to and from Düsseldorf International Airport:

Terminal A (Star Alliance/Lufthansa Partners)

★ Austrian Airlines (Vienna)

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★ 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, Chicago-O'Hare [starts May 1st 2008], Dresden, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Kiev-Boryspil, Leipzig/Halle, London-City, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Malaga (starts), Manchester, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Munich, Newcastle, Newark [starts May 1st 2008], Nice, Nürnberg, Palma, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Toronto-Pearson [starts May 1st 2008], Valencia, Vienna)

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★ Lufthansa operated by Privatair (Chicago-O'Hare, Newark)

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★ Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Toulouse, Turin, Warsaw, Westerland/Sylt, Vienna)

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★ Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Katowice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zürich)

★ Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Stockholm-Arlanda, Oslo)

★ Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)

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★ operated by Swiss European Air Lines (Zürich)

Terminal B

★ Aegean Airlines (Athens, Heraklion , Thessaloniki)

★ Aer Lingus (Dublin)

★ Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)

★ airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)

★ Air Berlin (Alicante, Antalya, Arrecife, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Dresden. Fuerteventura, Hamburg, Helsinki, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Las Palmas, London-Stansted, Luxor, Mahon, Málaga, Milan-Bergamo, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Nice, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Pristina, Rhodos, Rimini, Rome-Fiumicino, Samos, Stuttgart, Tenerife-South, Thessoloniki, Vienna, Westerland/Sylt, Zürich)

★ Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)

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★ operated by Brit Air (Lyon)

★ Alitalia

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★ operated by Alitalia Express (Milan-Malpensa)

★ Bestair

★ Blue Wings (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Gaziantep, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Kayseri, Malatya, Samsun, Tehran-Mehrabad)

★ British Airways (London-Heathrow)

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★ operated by Sun Air of Scandinavia (Billund)

★ Czech Airlines (Prague)

★ 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

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★ operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)

★ Macedonian Airlines (Ohrid, Skopje)

★ Northwest Airlines (Detroit)

★ Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)

★ Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)

★ Pegasus Airlines (Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen)

★ Rossiya (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)

Terminal C

★ African Safari Airways (Mombasa, Zürich)

★ Air Malta (Malta)

★ Antrak Air

★
★ Antrak Air operated by LTU International (Accra)

★ Carpatair (Timişoara)

★ EgyptAir (Cairo)

★ Hamburg International (Palma de Mallorca)

★ LTU (Adana, Agadir, Alicante, Almeria, Ankara, Antalya, Arrecife, Athens, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld, 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, Kavala, Kerkyra, Kos, La Romana, Las Palmas, Las Vegas, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Luxor, Mahon, Málaga, Male, Miami, Mykonos, Mytilene, Mombasa, Monastir, Montego Bay, Naples, New York-JFK, North Pole (90°N Sightseeing Flights), Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Rodos, Samos, Santa Cruz, Split, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Tivat, Toronto, Trabzon, Valencia, Vancouver, Varadero, Windhoek, Zakinthos)

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★ LTU operated by WDL Aviation (Lisbon)

★ Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (Erfurt)

★ Macedonian Airlines (Skopje)

★ Mahan Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)

★ Nouvelair (Monastir)

★ Onur Air (Adana, Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Kayseri)

★ S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)

★ SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir)

★ TUIfly (Agadir, Antalya, Arrecife, Bodrum, 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, Rhodos, Santorini, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Venice)

Cargo airlines

★ Atlas Air (Dubai, Sharjah)

★ Emirates SkyCargo (Dubai)

★ Evergreen International Airlines (Sharjah)

★ Polar Air Cargo

★ Volga-Dnepr

See also

★ Airport Weeze, an airport away from Düsseldorf, that is misleadingly advertised by budget airlines as "Airport Düsseldorf Weeze", or "Airport Düsseldorf Niederrhein". A German court decided that naming the airport after Düsseldorf would be misleading to passengers, however some budget airlines still use that name in advertisements outside of Germany.

External links

★ Düsseldorf International Airport Homepage

★ Sky-Train Düsseldorf