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 / 52.27694, 6.89Coordinates: 52°16′37″N 06°53′24″E / 52.27694, 6.89
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 as a civil airport, though used to be military airport. The military component was shut down in 2007. 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. Up until the end of 2007, charter Airline Transavia operated from the airport, but they have had to stop this service. Some of the destinations served by charters from Twente were Las Palmas, Dalaman, Antalya, Mallorca and Lourdes. In the past, KLM Cityhopper has operated shuttle flights twice daily to Schiphol.

[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. Currently all commercial flights from the airport have been suspended until further notice.