Enschede Airport Twente

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Enschede Airport Twente
IATA: ENS - ICAO: EHTW
Summary
Airport type		Public
Serves		Enschede
Elevation AMSL		13 ft (4 m)
Coordinates		52° 16´ 37" N 06° 53´ 24" E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
06/24	9,799	2,987	Asphalt
11/29	6,558	2,000	Asphalt

Enschede Airport Twente (IATA: ENS, ICAO: EHTW) is located near Enschede, The Netherlands. It serves both as a civil and military airport. The latter is scheduled to be closed completely by 2007 after which it will be a civil airport only. When it was still a military airport it was used mainly as a base for F-16s from the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the last of which left in November 2005.

There are currently no scheduled flights from the airport, but there are a few charter airlines such as Transavia and Thomas Cook operating from the airport flying mainly Boeing 737s. Some of the destinations served by charters from Twente are Las Palmas, Dalaman, Antalya, Mallorca and Lourdes.

1 Airlines and Destinations
- 1.1 Charter Airlines
2 Future
3 External links

[edit] Airlines and Destinations

[edit] Charter Airlines

Transavia (Faro, Mallorca, Las Palmas, Bodrum, Antalya, Dalaman) with a Boeing 737-800
Inter Airlines (Antalya) with an Airbus A321.
Thomas Cook Airlines (Lourdes) with an Airbus A320.
Jetairfly (Lourdes) with a Boeing 737-400.

In the year 2005, the airport carried 65,079 passengers, and there were 1050 aircraft movements.

[edit] Future

The future of the airport is still uncertain, but a study from January 2006 concludes that the airport could grow to become a profitable regional airport with a capacity of three million passengers a year. About five million people live within a radius of 70km of the airport in both the Netherlands and Germany.