Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport Flughafen Hamburg
IATA: HAM – ICAO: EDDH
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Hamburg (51%) AviAlliance (49%)
Operator	Flughafen Hamburg GmbH
Serves	Hamburg, Germany
Hub for	Germanwings Eurowings
Focus city for	Air Berlin Condor easyJet Germania TUIfly
Built	1911
Elevation AMSL	53 ft / 16 m
Coordinates	53°37′49″N 009°59′28″E / 53.63028°N 9.99111°E / 53.63028; 9.99111Coordinates: 53°37′49″N 009°59′28″E / 53.63028°N 9.99111°E / 53.63028; 9.99111
Website	airport.de
Map
EDDH Location of Hamburg Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 05/23 3,250 10,663 Asphalt 15/33 3,666 12,028 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 14,760,280 Passenger change 13–14 9.3% Aircraft movements 153,879 Movements change 13–14 7.0%
Sources: Airport's website [1] German AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]

Hamburg Airport (IATA: HAM, ICAO: EDDH), known in German as Flughafen Hamburg, is the international airport of Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany. It is located 8.5 km (5.3 mi) north^[2] of the city center in the Fuhlsbüttel quarter and serves as a base for Germanwings, Condor, TUIfly and easyJet.^[3] Hamburg Airport is the fifth-busiest of Germany's commercial airports measured by the number of passengers and counted 14,760,280 passengers and 153,879 aircraft movements in 2014.^[4]

History

Early years

The airport was opened in January 1911 from private funding by the Hamburger Luftschiffhallen GmbH (HLG), making it the oldest airport in the world which is still in operation. The original site comprised 45 hectares and was primarily used for airship flights in its early days. In 1913, the site was expanded to 60 hectares, the northern part being used for airship operations, while the southeast area was used for fixed-wing aircraft.^[5]

During the First World War, the airship hangar was used extensively by the military, until it was destroyed by fire in 1916.^[5]

During the British occupation, beginning in 1945, the airport was given its current name, Hamburg Airport. It was used extensively during the Berlin Airlift in 1948 as a staging area, as the northern air corridor went between Hamburg and West Berlin.^[5]

When Lufthansa launched passenger operations in 1955, Hamburg was used as a hub until Frankfurt Airport took over due to growth constraints posed by the location in the city. Lufthansa Technik still maintains a large presence at the airport due to the early activities of the airline at the airport.^[5]

In the 1960s discussions began with the aim of moving the airport to Heidmoor by Kaltenkirchen. Reasons cited were limited expansion possibilities, capacity constraints due to crossing runways, and noise. Lufthansa had introduced the Boeing 707 in 1960, which made more noise than previous piston engined aircraft. The plans were dropped due to bad experiences in other cities with airports being moved far from city centres and Lufthansa's move to Frankfurt.^[5]

Development since the 1990s

In the early 1990s, the airport began an extensive modernization process. The plan, called HAM21, included a new 500 m pier extension, a new terminal (Terminal 1), and the Airport Plaza between Terminals 1 and 2, which includes a consolidated security area.^[5] The airport's shareholders are the City of Hamburg and AviAlliance.

The Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg Airport was added in 2009, combined with new roadside access and a station and connection to the rapid transit system Hamburg S-Bahn.^[5]

Facilities

Hamburg Airport originally covered 440,000 m² (4,700,000 sq ft). Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to 5.7 km² (2.2 sq mi). The main apron covers 320,000 m² (3,400,000 sq ft) and features 54 parking positions, the passenger terminals provide 17 jet-ways.

The runways, taxiways and aprons are able to accommodate large aircraft, up to and including the Airbus A380. Although there is no scheduled A380 service expected, Hamburg Airport is a diversion airport for Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport, the location of the Airbus plant in Hamburg, where all A380s are painted and interior fitted prior to delivery.

Terminals

Hamburg has two terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, connected by the Airport Plaza and the baggage claim area that extends through the lower levels of all three buildings. These three buildings were designed by Gerkan, Marg, und Partner.

The Airport Plaza hosts the central security check as well as shops, restaurants, lounges and other service-facilities. It houses the S-Bahn station (suburban railway) and was completed in December 2008.

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 was completed in 2005 and is highly similar to Terminal 2 in terms of design and size. It has numerous energy and water saving features like rain water collection for use in restrooms and a ThermoLabyrinth, which uses ground temperature to help regulate the building's temperature and reduce loads on the air conditioning systems. Terminal 1 houses most of the airlines including those from the Oneworld and SkyTeam alliances.

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 is, despite its name, the older facility and was completed in 1993. It houses Germanwings and Lufthansa including its Star Alliance partners amongst some others.

Both Terminals have a high, curved ceiling designed to emulate the shape of a wing. In all buildings level 1 is the departure level, while level 0 is arrivals. Hamburg Airport offers 12 baggage claim belts on the arrival level.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Hamburg Airport:^[6]

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aegean Airlines	Athens	1
Aer Lingus	Dublin	1
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo	1
Aeroflot operated by Rossiya	Saint Petersburg	1
airBaltic	Riga	1
Air Berlin	Düsseldorf, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Málaga, Munich, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Tenerife-South, Vienna Seasonal: Antalya, Corfu, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Kos, Reykjavik-Keflavík, Samos, Thessaloniki	1
Air Europa	Charter: Gran Canaria, Tenerife-South	1
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle	1
Air Lituanica	Vilnius	1
Air Malta	Malta	1
Air VIA	Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna	1
AtlasGlobal	Seasonal charter: Antalya[7]	1
Austrian Airlines	Vienna	2
BMI Regional	Bristol	1
British Airways	London-Heathrow	1
British Airways operated by Sun Air of Scandinavia	London-City[8]	1
Brussels Airlines	Brussels	2
Brussels Airlines operated by Flybe	Brussels	2
Bulgarian Air Charter	Seasonal: Burgas, Varna	1
Condor	Antalya, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Corfu, Dalaman, Heraklion, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Larnaca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma	2
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal: Antalya	1
Czech Airlines	Gothenburg-Landvetter,[9] Prague	1
easyJet[10]	Amsterdam, Athens, Basel/Mulhouse, Bologna, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Fuerteventura, Geneva, Kraków, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Pisa, Rome-Fiumicino, Salzburg, Venice-Marco Polo Seasonal: Alicante, Catania, Heraklion (begins 27 June 2015),[11] Ibiza (begins 27 June 2015),[12] Lanzarote, Split, Thessaloniki (begins 29 June 2015)[11]	1
easyJet Switzerland[10]	Basel/Mulhouse	1
Emirates	Dubai-International	1
Eurowings	Birmingham (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Budapest (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Catania (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Cologne/Bonn (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Dresden (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Klagenfurt (begins 27 March 2016)[14] London-Heathrow (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Madrid (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Manchester (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Milan-Malpensa (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Nuremberg (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Oslo-Gardermoen (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Prague (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Stuttgart (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Toulouse (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Vienna (begins 25 October 2015),[13] Zürich (begins 25 October 2015)[13]	2
Finnair	Helsinki	1
Finnair operated by Flybe Nordic	Helsinki	1
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya	1
Germania	Beirut (begins 1 July 2015),[15] Marrakesh, Mashhad[16] Seasonal: Funchal, Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Paphos, Rhodes, Santorini (begins 17 June 2015),[17] Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion,[18] Zakynthos (begins 18 June 2015)[17] Seasonal charter: Adana (begins 17 July 2015),[19] Antalya,[20] Fuerteventura,[21] Gran Canaria,[22] Menorca,[23] Palma de Mallorca[24]	1
Germanwings	Ankara, Barcelona, Catania (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Cologne/Bonn (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Dubrovnik, Düsseldorf, Klagenfurt, London-Heathrow (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Milan-Malpensa (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Nice, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Stuttgart (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Vienna (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Zürich (ends 24 October 2015)[13] Seasonal: Antalya, Bastia, Faro, Heraklion, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir (begins 5 May 2015),[25] Naples, Reykjavik-Keflavík, Rijeka, Split, Thessaloniki, Venice-Marco Polo, Zagreb (begins 22 July 2015)[26]	2
Germanwings operated by Eurowings	Amsterdam, Birmingham (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Budapest (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Catania (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Cologne/Bonn (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Dresden (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Geneva, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (ends 24 October 2015),[13] London-Heathrow (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Madrid (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Manchester (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Nuremberg (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Oslo-Gardermoen (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Prague (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Stockholm-Arlanda, Toulouse (ends 24 October 2015),[13] Venice-Marco Polo Seasonal: Bari,[27] Pula, Verona, Zadar	2
Iberia	Madrid[28]	2
Icelandair	Seasonal: Reykjavik-Keflavík	2
InterSky	Friedrichshafen, Memmingen Seasonal charter: Hévíz-Balaton	1
Iran Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini	1
KLM	Amsterdam	1
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper	Amsterdam	1
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw-Chopin	2
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich	1
Luxair	Luxembourg, Saarbrücken	2
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Alicante, Barcelona, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Málaga, Oslo-Gardermoen, Tenerife-South	1
Nouvelair	Charter: Djerba,[29] Enfidha	1
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen[30] Seasonal charter: Antalya (begins 19 May 2015)[31]	1
Rhein-Neckar Air operated by MHS Aviation	Mannheim[32]	1
Ryanair	Lisbon, Porto	1
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda	2
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Blue1	Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda	2
SkyWork Airlines	Bern	2
SunExpress	Antalya, Izmir Seasonal: Dalaman[33]	1
SunExpress Deutschland	Seasonal Charter: Marrakesh[34]	1
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich	2
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss Global Air Lines	Basel/Mulhouse (ends 31 May 2015)	2
Sylt Air	Seasonal: Sylt	2
Tailwind Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya	1
TAP Portugal	Lisbon	2
TUIfly	Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria Seasonal: Antalya, Boa Vista, Heraklion, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Malta, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Sal, Tenerife-South	1
TUIfly operated by Thomson Airways[35]	Seasonal: Cancun, Punta Cana	1
Tunisair	Djerba, Enfidha	2
Tunisair	Seasonal: Tunis[36]	2
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk Seasonal: Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir	1
United Airlines	Newark	1
VLM Airlines[37]	Antwerp, Rotterdam, Southampton[38]	1
Vueling	Barcelona, Málaga	1

Statistics

Passengers and movements

	Passengers	Movements
2000	9,949,269	164,932
2001	9,490,432
2002	8,946,505
2003	9,529,924
2004	9,893,700
2005	10,676,016
2006	11,954,117
2007	12,780,631
2008	12,838,350
2009	12,229,319
2010	12,962,429	157,180
2011	13,558,261	158,076
2012	13,697,402	152,890
2013	13,502,553	143,802
2014	14,760,280	153,879
Sources: ADV,[39] Hamburg Airport[40]

Busiest routes

Busiest international routes from Hamburg (2009)^[41]

Rank	Destination	Passengers	Operating airlines
1	Zürich, Switzerland	605,246	Air Berlin, Eurowings, Lufthansa, Swiss
2	Palma de Mallorca, Spain	561,349	Air Berlin, Condor, Lufthansa, TUIfly
3	London-Heathrow, United Kingdom	547,723	British Airways, Lufthansa

Busiest domestic routes from Hamburg (2009)^[41]

Rank	Destination	Passengers	Operating airlines
1	Munich, Germany	1,628,459	Air Berlin, Lufthansa
2	Frankfurt, Germany	1,202,861	Air Berlin, Lufthansa
3	Stuttgart, Germany	776,721	Air Berlin, Lufthansa, Lufthansa CityLine

Ground transportation

Train

The airport is located ca. 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Hamburg city centre and 8 km (5.0 mi) south of Norderstedt in the borough of Fuhlsbüttel. HVV, the Hamburg public transit network, runs the S-Bahn-line (suburban railway) S1 which links the airport directly to the city centre every ten minutes. The trip to Hamburg central station takes approximately 25 minutes.

Car

By road, the airport can be reached from motorway A7 using the state highway B433, which is the third ring road. Motorists from the east of the city must drive through Hamburg.

Bus

The airport is also linked by some local bus routes to nearby areas as well as regular coach services to the cities of Kiel and Neumünster

Trivia

• Hamburg Airport is the inspiration for Miniatur Wunderland's world's largest miniature airport named Knuffingen Airport.^[42]

See also

• Transport in Germany
• List of airports in Germany
• Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport

References

External links

Media related to Hamburg Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Current weather for EDDH at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for HAM at Aviation Safety Network

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