Weeze Airport

Weeze Airport
Flughafen Weeze/Niederrhein
IATA: NRN – ICAO: EDLV
NRN
Location of the airport in North Rhine-Westphalia
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Niederrhein GmbH
Serves Kreis Kleve
Nijmegen
Duisburg
Elevation AMSL 106 ft / 32 m
Website www.airport-weeze.de
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 2,440 8,005 Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers 2.9 mil.UNIQ2f3ec7,831,515fe3a-ref-0,177F703-QINU
Source:German AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]

Weeze Airport or Niederrhein Airport (IATA: NRN, ICAO: EDLV) is an airport situated 3.7 km (2.3 mi) southwest[2] of the small municipality of Weeze in the Niederrhein of western Germany. It is 7 km (4.3 mi) northwest[2] of Kevelaer, about 33 km (21 mi) southeast of Nijmegen, Netherlands, and 48 km (30 mi) northwest of Duisburg. It uses the facilities of the former military airbase RAF Laarbruch, and began operations as a civil airport in 2003.

Weeze Airport is used mostly by low-cost carriers, mainly Ryanair. Its IATA-Code is NRN because of its official name Flughafen Niederrhein.

The airport has undergone several name changes. The operators originally wanted to name it after the city of Düsseldorf, but the significant distance (70 km (43 mi)) to that city, which already had three closer international airports (Düsseldorf International, Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach and Cologne/Bonn), resulted in the name being blocked by a court ruling that it was likely to mislead passengers. However, airlines which use the airport, particularly Ryanair, still refer to it as 'Düsseldorf (Weeze)'.

The airport actually serves better the closer Dutch cities of Venlo, Nijmegen and Arnhem, the German city of Duisburg and the immediate Weeze area.

There is a big firebrigade training centre at the grounds of the airport. There are 9 direct public buses to Düsseldorf per day. There are also buses to Weeze, Kevelaer, Duisburg and Essen in Germany and to the Dutch cities Nijmegen, Venlo and Arnhem every hour.

In 2008, with 1.52 mil. passengers, which represented growth of 80% on the previous year, it was among Europe’s fastest-growing airports.

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Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air Berlin Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
Ryanair Alicante, Ancona, Barcelona [ends 24 March], Bari, Bologna, Bydgoszcz , Cagliari, Edinburgh, Faro, Fèz, Girona [resumes 25 March], Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lappeenranta, Leeds Bradford, London-Stansted, Madrid, Málaga, Marrakech, Milan-Orio al Serio, Pisa, Porto, Riga, Rome-Ciampino, Seville, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tallinn, Tenerife-South, Treviso, Trieste, Valladolid, Vaxjo-smaland
Seasonal: Agadir, Alghero, Almeria, Béziers, Ibiza, Lamezia Terme, Marseille, Palma de Mallorca, Reus, Rhodes, Trapani, Valencia, Zadar
Sky Airlines Antalya
SunExpress Antalya
Transavia.com Seasonal: Burgas, Corfu, Faro, Girona
Wizz Air Budapest [ends 9 January]
XL Airways Germany Seasonal: Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes

Cargo airlines

Airlines Destinations
SkyWings Cargo Airlines Coventry

References

  1. ^ "ADV Monthly Traffic Report" (Press release). German Airports Association. 2010-12. http://www.adv.aero/fileadmin/pdf/statistiken/2010/ADV_Monatsstatistik_Dez_2010_final.pdf. Retrieved 2011-02-17. 
  2. ^ a b c EAD Basic

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