Baden Airpark

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Baden Airpark Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
IATA: FKB - ICAO: EDSB
Summary
Airport type		Commercial
Operator		Baden-Airpark GmbH
Serves		Baden-Baden, Germany
Elevation AMSL		408 ft (124 m)
Coordinates		48°46′45.7″N, 08°04′49.8″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
03/21	10,800	3,300	Asphalt

Baden Airpark (IATA: FKB, ICAO: EDSB), or officially Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, is an airport located 40 km south of Karlsruhe and 15 km west of Baden-Baden in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

As of 2004 it is the 2nd-largest airport in Baden-Württemberg (after Stuttgart Airport), and the 19th-largest in Germany with 623,000 passengers per year.

[edit] History

Baden Airpark was a Canadian military base and airport, CFB Baden-Soellingen, from 1953 until 1993. The newly founded Baden Airpark GmbH took over the airport in 1995 and the first commercial flight took place on May 17, 1997 to Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Technically the airport is just a part of Baden Airpark, which also includes facilities for both business and leisure. The latter includes an 18-hole golf course and an enclosed ice rink (both originally part of the Canadian base). From that time stems the name Baden Söllingen, which locals use to denote the airport.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

dba (Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg)
Ryanair (Dublin, Girona, London-Stansted, Marseille, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino)

Other carriers include Tunisair and a number of charter firms including Pegasus Airlines.

[edit] Public ground transportation

The airport can be reached by different public local bus links from the Baden-Baden train station and Rastatt train station. Besides that there are regular long distance bus services from Freiburg, Strasbourg, Mannheim, Heidelberg and the regional airport "Frankfurt-Hahn".

Taxi to Baden-Baden is about 24€.