Baden Airpark

Baden Airpark
Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden

IATA: FKB – ICAO: EDSB

FKB
Location of the airport in Baden-Württemberg

Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Baden-Airpark GmbH
Serves Baden-Baden
and Karlsruhe
Location Rheinmünster, Germany
Focus city for Ryanair
Elevation AMSL 408 ft / 124 m
Coordinates 48°46′46″N 008°04′50″E / 48.77944°N 8.08056°ECoordinates: 48°46′46″N 008°04′50″E / 48.77944°N 8.08056°E
Website badenairpark.de
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
03/21 3,060 10,040 Asphalt
Helipads
Number Length Surface
m ft
H1 Asphalt
Sources: German AIP at EUROCONTROL,[1] Baden Airpark[2]

Baden Airpark (IATA: FKB, ICAO: EDSB), or Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden in German (as Baden Airpark refers to the entire area containing other business tennants as well),[3] is a minor international airport located in Rheinmünster in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, 40 km (25 mi) south of Karlsruhe, 12 km (7.5 mi) west[1] of Baden-Baden and 25 km (16 mi) north of Strasbourg, France.

As of 2010, it was the second-largest airport in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart Airport, and the 18th-largest in Germany with 1,192,894 passengers per year[4] and features low-cost and leisure flights.

History

Early years as a military airport

The construction of a military airfield began in December 1951 at a location between the Black Forest and the Rhine River under the supervision of French Air Force. The runway and associated facilities were completed by June 1952. The airfield was granted to Canadian forces and became a military base, RCAF Station Baden–Soellingen, later renamed CFB Baden–Soellingen, from 1953 until 1994.[5]

The newly founded Baden Airpark GmbH took over the former military to develop it into a regional airport.[5] Technically the airport itself today is part of the actual Baden Airpark, which also includes business facilities.[3]

Public operations

The first commercial flight from Hapag-Lloyd Flug (now TUIfly) took place in April 2001. In 2008 the airport counted over one million passengers within a year for the first time.[5]

On 25 October 2011 Ryanair announced it would open its 47th base at Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden in March 2012 with two based aircraft and 20 routes. In addition to Ryanair's then existing 12 routes Ryanair opened seven additional routes to Faro, Málaga, Palma, Riga, Thessaloniki, Vilnius and Zadar.[6]

Facilities

Baden Airpark consists of one passenger terminal building equipped with 20 check-in counters and eight departure gates as well as some shops and restaurants.[7] The apron features eight aircraft stands of which most can be used by mid-sized aircraft such as the Boeing 737. Due to the location of the terminal building busses are used for boarding.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Baden Airpark:[8]

Airlines Destinations
Air Berlin Berlin–Tegel
Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca, Rimini
Corendon Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya
Eurowings Hamburg (begins 25 October 2015)[9]
Express Airways Seasonal charter: Split (begins 17 May 2015)[10]
Freebird Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya
GermaniaTel Aviv–Ben Gurion[11]
Seasonal: Agadir, Funchal
Germanwings
operated by Eurowings 		Hamburg (ends 24 October 2015)[9]
Ryanair Alicante, Bari, Girona, London–Stansted, Porto, Rome–Ciampino
Seasonal: Cagliari, Gran Canaria, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca, Thessaloniki, Trapani, Zadar
SunExpress Seasonal: Antalya
Tailwind Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya
TUIfly Seasonal: Antalya (begins 13 May 2015), Fuerteventura (begins 11 May 2015), Las Palmas (begins 3 May 2015), Heraklion (begins 23 May 2015), Hurghada (begins 2 May 2015), Kayseri (begins 8 July 2015), Kos (begins 23 May 2015), Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes (begins 14 May 2015), Tenerife-South[12]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk (begins 30 June 2015)[13]

The closest other commercial airport is Strasbourg International Airport in France, located approximately 40 km (25 mi) to the southwest.

Statistics

Landside area inside the terminal
Apron overview
Passengers
2008 1,141,070
2009 Decrease 1,087,909
2010 Increase 1,177,201
2011 Decrease 1,114,535
2012 Increase 1,287,382
2013 Decrease 1,059,227
2014 Decrease 983,451
Source: ADV[14]

Ground transportation

The airport can be reached via motorway A5 which leads from Hesse to Switzerland (Exit Baden-Baden). There are local bus connections to Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden and Rastatt as well as their respective train stations.[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "EAD Basic". Ead.eurocontrol.int.
  2. ↑ Baden Airpark, official site
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Business und Gewerbepark". badenairpark.de.
  4. ↑ Traffic statistics Airport Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Unternehmen (in German)". baden-airpark.de.
  6. ↑ "(in German)". airliners.de.
  7. ↑ "Service am FKB". badenairpark.de.
  8. ↑ http://www.baden-airpark.de/tagesaktueller-flugplan.html?&L=1
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://airlineroute.net/2015/03/23/4uew-w15update1/
  10. ↑ "Nonstop-Flüge vom FKB nach Split". aerosieger.de. 1 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Germania Adds New Routes to Tel Aviv from March 2015". Airline Route. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  12. ↑ "Sommerflugplan 2015" (PDF). baden-airpark.de. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  13. ↑ "Turkish Airlines kommt nach Karlsruhe". touristik-aktuell.de. 5 March 2015.
  14. ↑
  15. ↑ "Anreise und Parken". badenairpark.de.

External links

Media related to Baden Airpark at Wikimedia Commons