Friedrichshafen Airport

Friedrichshafen Airport
Flughafen Friedrichshafen
IATA: FDH – ICAO: EDNY
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Friedrichshafen GmbH
Serves Friedrichshafen, Germany and Lake Constance
Hub for InterSky
Elevation AMSL 1,358 ft / 414 m
Coordinates 47°40′17″N 009°30′41″E / 47.67139°N 9.51139°ECoordinates: 47°40′17″N 009°30′41″E / 47.67139°N 9.51139°E
Website fly-away.de
Map
FDH

Location of airport in Baden-Württemberg

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06/24 2,356 7,729 Asphalt
Sources:[1][2]

Friedrichshafen Airport (German: Flughafen Friedrichshafen, IATA: FDH, ICAO: EDNY; also known as Bodensee Airport Friedrichshafen) is a minor international airport 1.9 miles (3 km) north of Friedrichshafen, Germany, directly beside Lake Constance. It is the third biggest airport in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and served 545,121 passengers in 2012.[3] Friedrichshafen features flights to some European metropolitan and leisure destinations and also serves as the home base for Austrian regional airline InterSky.

The convention center Messe Friedrichshafen is right north of the airport's runway where, besides others, the yearly European general aviation conference AERO Friedrichshafen is hosted.[4]

History

This airport was established in 1915 with the construction of the first hangars.[5] The first scheduled passenger flights with the Zeppelin started from here, long before they were relocated to Frankfurt/Zeppelinheim.

Friedrichshafen saw its first scheduled passenger flights in 1929 with Deutsche Luft Hansa services to Stuttgart. After World War II, there were no successful attempts to reestablish regional flights until 1978, when Delta Air started flights to Stuttgart and Zürich.[5]

Between 1988 and 1994, the airport saw the construction of a new infrastructure, including a new terminal building and runway. Another new terminal has been inaugurated in 2010.[5]

Friedrichshafen's home carrier InterSky announced to shut down their key route to Cologne Bonn Airport, which it operated for seven years, by October 2010 due to the tough competition by Germanwings that started the same route a few months earlier in spring 2010.[6]

Facilities

Lufthansa CityLine Bombardier CRJ700 in Friedrichshafen

The airport consists of one passenger terminal building that features seven departure gates (A-G) as well as some shops and restaurants. The apron consists of seven aircraft stands which feature walk-boarding and bus-boarding as there are no jet bridges. The terminal building also features office space and an observation deck.

Right next to the terminal there is a museum dedicated to the former German aircraft manufacturer Dornier Flugzeugwerke. The airport also is home to the maintenance facilities of InterSky.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Friedrichshafen Airport:[7]

Airlines Destinations
Aer Lingus Seasonal charter: London-Gatwick
Air Berlin Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
British Airways Seasonal: London-Gatwick
Germania Hurghada
Seasonal: Ankara (begins 3 July 2015), Antalya (begins 22 May 2015), Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Heraklion (begins 4 May 2015), Kos (begins 23 May 2015), Palma de Mallorca (begins 8 May 2015), Rhodes (begins 19 May 2015)
Germanwings Cologne/Bonn (ends 4 October 2015)[8]
InterSky Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg
Seasonal: Marina di Campo,[9] Menorca, Pula, Olbia, Zadar
Seasonal charter: Hévíz-Balaton[10]
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine 		Frankfurt
Monarch Airlines Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester
SunExpress Seasonal charter: Antalya
Tailwind Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya
Transavia Seasonal: Rotterdam
Tunisair Seasonal charter: Djerba
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Wizz Air Skopje (begins 29 June 2015)[11]

Statistics

Aerial view of Friedrichshafen Airport
Passengers
2008 649,646
2009 Decrease 578,484
2010 Increase 590,640
2011 Decrease 571,709
2012 Decrease 545,121
2013 Decrease 536,029
2014[12] Increase 596,000
Source: ADV[13]

Ground transportation

Car

Friedrichshafen can be reached from all directions via federal highways B30 and B31 which are connected to several motorways like the A96 from Munich or the A13/A14 from Austria and Switzerland. The airport is signposted throughout the city. Taxis and rental car agencies are available at the terminal building.[14]

Train

Friedrichshafen Airport has its own small railway station named Friedrichshafen Flughafen directly across from the terminal building. It is regularly served by local trains of DB Regio and the Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn, a local train operator, which continue to the city center of Friedrichshafen or the nearest major city, Ulm.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Airport information for EDNY from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  2. ↑ Airport information for FDH at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
  3. ↑ http://www.anna.aero/wp-content/uploads/european-airports-2012.xls
  4. ↑ Sport Aviation, issue June 2012, page 14
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 http://www.fly-away.de/uploads/media/Sommerflugplan_2015.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.aero.de/news-20591/Intersky-Kuenftig-Duesseldorf-statt-Koeln.html
  7. ↑ http://www.fly-away.de/en/travelinformation/flight-plan/
  8. ↑ https://www.germanwings.com/de/informieren/flugplan.html
  9. ↑ Intersky Elba flights
  10. ↑ InterSky - timetable
  11. ↑ "Wizz Air continues to expand in Macedonia – 3rd aircraft in Skopje, 1 new airport and 6 new routes". Wizz Air. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  12. ↑ http://www.travelink.de/europa/mitteleuropa/deutschland/baden-wuerttemberg/bodensee/friedrichshafen-bodensee-airport-legt-be
  13. ↑
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 fly-away.de – Ground transportation

External links

Media related to Friedrichshafen Airport at Wikimedia Commons