Stuttgart Airport
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| Stuttgart Airport Flughafen Stuttgart |
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| IATA: STR - ICAO: EDDS | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH | ||
| Serves | Stuttgart | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,276 ft (389 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 07/25 | 10,974 | 3,345 | Concrete |
Stuttgart Airport (in German Flughafen Stuttgart, formerly Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen) (IATA: STR, ICAO: EDDS) is an international airport located approximately 8 miles (13 km) south of Stuttgart, Germany.
The airport is situated on the boundary between the three cities Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Stuttgart and Filderstadt. It is the 7th most important airport in Germany and the main airport of the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg with about 9.41 million passengers in 2005.
It is an important hub for the German low cost carriers Germanwings and HLX.com.
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[edit] History
The airport was established in 1939, replacing the old airport in Böblingen. In 1945 the US Air Force took over the airport; it still maintains a base on the southern side of the airport. In 1948 the airport was returned to the German authorities.
The airport was extended after World War II; the airstrip was extended to 1800m in 1948, then to 2250m in 1961 and finally to 3345m in 1996.
After the replacement of the old 1938 terminal was finally finished in 2004, there are four terminals to service passengers with a maximum capacity of approximately 12 million passengers.
[edit] Public transportation and access
Stuttgart Airport can be easily reached within 30 minutes from the city's main train station using the S-Bahn S2 or S3. The airport is located right next to the Autobahn A8 that connects the cities of Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Munich.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
The following airlines fly to Stuttgart Airport:
- Aegean Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
- Air Berlin (Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Régional (Lyon)
- Alitalia
- Alitalia Express (Milan-Malpensa)
- Atlasjet (Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir)
- Austrian Airlines
- Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
- B&H Airlines (Sarajevo)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- BA Connect (Birmingham)
- Carpatair (Timişoara)
- Condor (Bremen, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Málaga, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Tenerife-South)
- Corendon Airlines
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- dba (Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, Nice, Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca)
- European Air Express (Münster-Osnabrück)
- Finnair
- Finncomm Airlines (Helsinki)
- Fly Air
- Futura International Airways
- Germanwings (Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Budapest, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Krakow, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Moscow-Vnukovo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Split, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb)
- Hamburg International (Bodrum, Kos)
- Hapagfly (Agadir, Antalya, Bodrum, Chania, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez, Kerkyra, Kos, Lanzarote, Larnace, Las Palmas, Luxor, Mahon, Marrakech, Monastir, Palma de Mallora, Patras, Rhodos, Sharm el Sheikh, Tenerife, Thessaloniki, Thira)
- HLX.com (Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Hanover, Leipzig, Milan-Malpensa, Manchester, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Pisa, Rijeka, Stockholm-Arlanda, Venice)
- Inter Airlines
- Jat Airways (Belgrade, Niš)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- LGW (Dortmund)
- LTU International (Antalya, Catania, Faro, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kerkyra, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Samos, Thessaloniki, Varna)
- Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt, Hamburg)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Munich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Munich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Geneva, Hanover, London-City, Munich, Turin)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Bilbao, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Paris-Charles De Gaulle)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Paris-Charles De Gaulle, Vienna)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest, Sármellék)
- Nouvelair Tunisia (Monastir)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
- Onur Air (Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir)
- Pegasus Airlines (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Kayseri)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
- Sky Airlines
- Spanair (Madrid)
- SunExpress (Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir)
- Swiss International Air Lines
- Swiss International Air Lines operated by Cirrus Airlines (Zürich)
- Tunisair (Monastir)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir)
