Groningen Airport Eelde

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Groningen Airport Eelde
IATA: GRQ - ICAO: EHGG
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Groningen Airport Eelde NV
Serves		Groningen
Elevation AMSL		16 ft (5 m)
Coordinates		53°07′11″N, 06°34′46″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
05/23	5,905	1,800	Asphalt
01/19	4,921	1,500	Asphalt

Groningen Airport Eelde (IATA: GRQ, ICAO: EHGG) is a civilian airport near Eelde, The Netherlands just south of Groningen.

There are several scheduled passenger services to Groningen, but the airport is mostly used for charter flights to holiday destinations in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. In 2005, the airport handled 163 000 passengers. The airport is also the homebase of the KLM Flight Academy and the Dutch Flight Academy (DFA).

Contents 1 Airlines and destinations 1.1 Scheduled 1.2 Charter 2 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Scheduled

• bmi
  • bmi regional (Aberdeen)
• VLM Airlines (Amsterdam, London-City)

[edit] Charter

• Sky Airlines (Antalya)
• transavia.com (Antalya, Bodrum, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Heraklion, Kos, Las Palmas, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodos, Tenerife-South)

[edit] External links

• Groningen Airport Eelde (official site)
• Airliners.net - photos taken at Groningen Airport Eelde
• Airport information for EHGG at World Aero Data
• Dutch Flight Academy (DFA)