Stuttgart Airport

Stuttgart Airport
Flughafen Stuttgart
IATA: STRICAO: EDDS
STR
Location of airport in Baden-Württemberg
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH
Location Stuttgart, Germany
Hub for * Germanwings
Elevation AMSL 1,276 ft / 389 m
Website www.stuttgart-airport.com
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,345 10,974 Concrete
Helipads
Number Length Surface
m ft
H1 30 98 Concrete
Statistics (2010)
Passengers 9,226,546
Source: German AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]

Stuttgart Airport (in German Flughafen Stuttgart, formerly Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen) (IATA: STRICAO: EDDS) is an international airport located approximately 13 km (8.1 mi) (10 km (6.2 mi) in a straight line) south[1] of Stuttgart, Germany.

The airport lies on the boundary between the nearby town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Filderstadt and Stuttgart itself. It is the 7th most important airport in Germany and the main airport of the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg with 9,226,546 passengers in 2010.

It is an important hub for the German low cost carriers Germanwings; and global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking.

In 2007, the Stuttgart Trade Fair - the ninth biggest exhibition centre in Germany moved to grounds directly next to the airport, raising the profile of the airport and strengthening calls for a second runway.

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History

The airport was built in 1939 to replace Böblingen airport. In 1945, the US Air Force took over the airport and the US Army still maintains a helicopter base on the southern side of the airport which it shares with the Baden-Württemberg State Police helicopter wing. The police helicopter wing falls under the control of Stuttgart Police Department and has six modern helicopters based at Stuttgart and two in Söllingen. In 1948 the airport was returned to German authorities.

The airport was expanded after World War II. The runway was extended to 1,800 metres in 1948, then to 2,250 metres in 1961 and finally to 3,345 metres in 1996.

The original 1938 terminal was finally replaced in 2004 and there are now four terminals with a maximum capacity of approximately 12 million passengers.

Expansion

Politicians, town planners and nearby residents have been arguing for years about the construction of a second runway. However, on 25 June 2008 Minister-President Günther Oettinger announced that for the next 8–12 years no second runway will be built and that the restrictions for night operations stay in place.[2][3]

Terminals, airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations Terminal
Aegean Airlines Athens, Thessaloniki 3
Aer Lingus Dublin 3
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo [begins 27 April] 3
Aerosvit Airlines Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil 3
Air Berlin Antalya, Berlin-Tegel, Catania, Düsseldorf, Florence, Hamburg, Hanover, Hurghada, Malaga, Malta, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Naples, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Thessaloniki, Venice-Marco Polo
Seasonal: Alicante, Barcelona, Bodrum, Dubrovnik, Fuerteventura, Heringsdorf, Ibiza, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Nice, Olbia, Preveza, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Rijeka, Rimini, Tenerife-South, Westerland/Sylt
3
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 3
Air France operated by Régional Lyon 3
Air Malta Seasonal: Malta 1
Air Via Seasonal: Burgas, Varna 4
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways Graz, Vienna 1
Blue Air Bucharest-Băneasa, Sibiu 1
British Airways London-Heathrow 1
Bulgarian Air Charter Seasonal: Burgas, Varna 4
Carpatair Timişoara 3
Cirrus Airlines Münster/Osnabrück 1
Condor Antalya, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South
Seasonal: Burgas, Chania, Dalaman, Djerba, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Larnaca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santorini
3
Corendon Airlines Antalya 4
Czech Airlines Prague 1
Delta Air Lines Atlanta 3
Finnair Helsinki 3
Finnair operated by Flybe Nordic Helsinki 1
Flybe Birmingham 3
Freebird Airlines Seasonal: Antalya 4
Germania Seasonal: Pristina 4
Germanwings Barcelona, Bari, Belgrade, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bilbao [begins 03 June], Bremen [begins 29 July], Brussels [begins 03 June], Bucharest-Băneasa, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania [begins 27 March], Dresden, Dubrovnik [begins 07 April], Hanover, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Kraków, Leipzig/Halle, Malaga, Milan- Malpensa [begins 16 September], Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostock-Laage, Split, Thessaloniki, Venice (Treviso) [begins 25 March], Vienna, Zagreb
Seasonal: Ankara, Antalya, Athens, Bastia, Corfu, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Izmir, Kavala, Lamezia Terme, Lisbon, Palma de Mallorca, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Zadar
2
Germanwings London-Heathrow [begins 20 February], London-Stansted, Manchester [begins 29 July], Moscow-Vnukovo
Seasonal: Sarajevo
1
Hamburg Airways Seasonal: Antalya, Heraklion, Hurghada, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes 3
Jat Airways Belgrade 1
KLM Amsterdam 3
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper Amsterdam 3
Lufthansa Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt, Hamburg
Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways Munich 1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air Bilbao, Bremen, Hamburg, London-Heathrow, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa 1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings Düsseldorf, Frankfurt 1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Manchester, Munich 1
Malév Hungarian Airlines Budapest 1
Nouvelair Monastir 4
Pegasus Airlines Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen 3
Pegasus operated by IZair Izmir 3
Qatar Airways Doha 1
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen 1
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber Sterling Copenhagen 1
Sky Airlines Antalya 4
SunExpress Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir 4
SunExpress operated by SunExpress Deutschland Adana, Ankara, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Samsun, Trabzon 4
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines Zürich 1
Swiss operated by Contact Air Zürich 1
Tailwind Airlines Antalya 3
TUIfly Boa Vista (Cape Verde), Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Marsa Alam, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South
Seasonal: Agadir, Antalya, Araxos/Patras, Corfu, Dalaman, Enfidha, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza , Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Luxor, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Patras, Rhodes, Sal (Cape Verde)
3
Tunisair Djerba, Enfidha, Monastir 4
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk 1
United Airlines Newark 3
XL Airways Germany Pristina 4

Statistics

Passengers and Operations
Passengers Operations
1999 7,688,951 119,904
2000 8,141,020 150,451
2001 7,642,409 146,771
2002 7,284,319 144,208
2003 7,595,286 144,903
2004 8,831,216 156,885
2005 9,413,671 160,405
2006 10,111,346 164,735
2007 10,328,120 164,531
2008 9,932,887 160,243
2009 8,941,990 141,572
2010 9,226,546 135,335
[4]
Busiest Routes out of Stuttgart Airport (2010) (percentage of total passengers)[4]
Rank Airport %
1 Berlin Airports (Schönefeld Airport and Tegel Airport) 10,8%
2 Hamburg Airport 8,2%
3 Palma de Mallorca Airport 6,4%
4 Hannover Airport 6,2%
5 Istanbul Airports (Atatürk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport) 4,5%
6 London Airports (Heathrow Airport and Stansted Airport) 4,3%
7 Antalya Airport 4,2%
8 Vienna Airport 3,5%
9 Düsseldorf Airport 2,7%
10 Frankfurt Airport 2,4%

Top 10 Airlines by Passengers

Airlines by Passengers[4]
Rank Airline %
1 Germanwings 22,0%
2 Air Berlin 21,8%
3 Lufthansa 15,2%
4 TUIfly 7,2%
5 Condor Flugdienst 5,8%
6 SunExpress 3,7%
7 Swiss International Airlines 2,6%
8 Turkish Airlines 2,5%
9 Air France 2,2%
10 Austrian Airlines 2,0%

Wide-body aircraft in Stuttgart

Airberlin has a daily service to Palma de Mallorca flown with A330-200 or -300. Condor serves some destinations in Turkey with Boeing 767-300 during the summer season. Delta Air Lines serves its flights with Boeing 767-300. Turkish Airlines serves some flights between Stuttgart and Istanbul-Atatürk with A330/A340. Mainly because of the holiday season or during the Hajj.

Public transportation and access

Stuttgart Airport can be easily reached within 30 minutes from the city's central railway station using the Stuttgart suburban railway S2 or S3 from Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe station. The airport lies right next to the A 8 Autobahn that connects the cities of Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Munich.

From the cities of Esslingen am Neckar, Reutlingen and Tübingen exists a connection by bus.

A large car park belonging to Stuttgart Messe spans the A 8 leading to the airport.

Accidents and incidents

See also

Gallery

References

External links

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