Enschede Airport Twente
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Enschede Airport Twente is located near Enschede, The Netherlands. It serves both as a civil and military airport. The latter is scheduled to be closed completely by 2007 after which it will be a civil airport only. When it was still a military airport it was used mainly as a base for F-16s from the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the last of which left in November 2005.
There are currently no scheduled flights from the airport, but there are a few charter airlines such as Transavia and Thomas Cook operating from the airport flying mainly Boeing 737s. Some of the destinations served by charters from Twente are Las Palmas, Dalaman, Antalya, Mallorca and Lourdes.
Airlines and Destinations
Charter Airlines
- Transavia (Faro, Mallorca, Las Palmas, Bodrum, Antalya, Dalaman) with a Boeing 737-800
- Inter Airlines (Antalya) with an Airbus A321.
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Lourdes) with an Airbus A320.
- Jetairfly (Lourdes) with a Boeing 737-400.
Future
The future of the airport is still uncertain, but a study from January 2006 concludes that the airport could grow to become a profitable regional airport with a capacity of three million passengers a year. About five million people live within a radius of 70km of the airport in both the Netherlands and Germany.External links
- [Enschede Airport Twente] (official site)
- [World Aero Data on this airport (EHTW)]
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