| Luxembourg-Findel International Airport Fluchhafe Lëtzebuerg-Findel Aéroport de Luxembourg-Findel Flughafen Luxemburg-Findel |
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| IATA: LUX – ICAO: ELLX
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Luxembourg Airport Authority | ||
| Serves | Luxembourg City | ||
| Location | Sandweiler, Luxembourg | ||
| Hub for | Cargolux Luxair |
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| Elevation AMSL | 1,234 ft / 376 m | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 06/24 | 4,000 | 13,123 | Concrete/Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Aircraft movements | 57,537 | ||
| Passengers | 1,630,027 | ||
| Cargo (tonnes) | 705,079 | ||
| Source: Belgian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1] Statistics from [1] |
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Findel Airport (IATA: LUX, ICAO: ELLX) is the main airport in Luxembourg.
It is Luxembourg's only international airport and is the only airport in the country with a paved runway. It is located 3.25 NM (6.02 km; 3.74 mi) away from Luxembourg City.
The airport is completely international as there are no other commercial airports in the country. In 2010, it handled over 1.6 million passengers, an increase of 5.1% over the previous year.[2]
Luxair, Luxembourg's international airline and Cargolux, a cargo-only airline, have their head offices on the airport property.[3][4]
By cargo tonnage, Findel ranked as Europe’s 5th and the world’s 28th busiest in 2010.
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| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Berlin | Charter: Palma de Mallorca |
| Air France operated by CityJet | London-City |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow |
| Darwin Airline | Geneva [begins 30 January 2012] |
| Hahn Air | Düsseldorf |
| Iceland Express | Keflavík |
| KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Munich |
| Luxair | Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Djerba, Florence, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Geneva, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Heraklion, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Larnaca, London-City, Madeira, Madrid, Malaga, Marrakech, Milan-Malpensa, Monastir, Munich, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Rome-Fiumicino, Saarbrucken, Tenerife-South, Turin, Vienna Seasonal: Agadir, Ajaccio, Almeria, Antalya, Bastia, Boa Vista, Bodrum, Burgas, Cagliari, Catania, Chania, Constanta, Corfu, Faro, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Malta, Naples, Palermo, Paphos, Rhodes, Rimini, Sal, Varna, Venice |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen |
| Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber Sterling | Copenhagen |
| SunExpress | Antalya, Izmir |
| Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines | Zürich |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon, Porto |
| TAP Portugal operated by Portugalia | Lisbon, Porto |
| Tunisair | Enfidha |
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Cargolux | Scheduled: Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Accra, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Bogotá, Brazzaville, Budapest, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Calgary, Campinas-Viracopos, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Damamm, Damascus, Doha, Dubai, Fortaleza, Glasgow-Prestwick, Guadalajara, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental, Huntsville, Indianapolis, Istanbul-Sabiha Ĝokçen, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kinshasa, Komatsu, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Latacunga, Libreville, Los Angeles, Lusaka, Maastricht, Manchester, Manston/Canterbury, Mexico City, Miami, Milan-Malpensa, N'Djamena, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Panama City, Petrolina, Quito, Recife, Santiago de Chile, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Sharjah, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei-Taoyuan, Tbilisi, Toronto-Pearson |
| China Airlines Cargo | Delhi, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Manchester, Taipei-Taoyuan |
| Jett8 Airlines Cargo | Singapore |
| Qatar Airways Cargo | Atlanta, Doha, Houston-Intercontinental, Toronto-Pearson |
| Silk Way Airlines | Baku |
The airport was originally known as "Sandweiler Airport", and was opened in the 1930s as a small grass airfield with a relatively short, 3400' (1000m) runway.
Neutral Luxembourg was invaded by Germany on 10 May 1940, and on 21 May, the Luftwaffe assigned Jagdgeschwader 53 (JG 53), a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter unit to the airport. JG 53 was engaged in combat against the French and British Expeditionary Force in France during the Battle of France in May and June. In additive, Jagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52) also operated Bf 109s from Sandweiler during the Blitzkrieg. JG 52 moved into France on 29 May, however JG 53 remained in Luxembourg until 18 August until moving closer to the English Channel to take part in the Battle of Britain.[5]
Sandweiler Airport remained unused by the Luftwaffe until September 1944, when a reconnaissance unit, Aufklärungsgruppe 123 (AKG 123) was assigned to the airport which flew the Henschel Hs 126, a two-seat reconnaissance and observation aircraft. AKG 123 moved east into Germany after only a few days when the United States Army moved through Luxembourg and cleared the country of the occupying German forces.[5]
United States Army combat engineers arrived at Sandweiler in mid September 1944 and performed some minor reconstruction to prepare the airfield for Ninth Air Force combat aircraft. The airfield was designated as Advanced Landing Ground "A-97" Sandweiler and was opened on 18 September. The Ninth Air Force 363d Tactical Reconnaissance Group operated a variety of photo-reconnaissance aircraft until 29 October 1944 when they also moved east into Germany.[6][7] Sandweiler Airport was used by the Americans for the rest of the war as a transport supply airfield and also to evacuate combat casualties to England. It was returned to Luxembourg control on 15 August 1945.[8]
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
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