Hamburg Airport
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Hamburg Airport is the international airport of Hamburg, Germany.
It originally covered 440,000 square metres. Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to 5.7 square kilometres (Munich International Airport covers 15 square kilometres, making it roughly three times the size). The main apron covers 320,000 square meters.
The Airport is 8.5 km north-west of the centre of the City of Hamburg.
The Airport was opened in 1911. In the 1970s, there were discussions of moving Hamburg airport northward to a site near Kaltenkirchen. This plan was subsequently abandoned, and the airport is completing a major modernization that includes new terminal buildings, new roadside access and a connection to Hamburg's rapid transit system (S-Bahn).
Hamburg Airport (measured by the number of passengers) is the fifth biggest of the 16 German commercial airports (on a level with Tegel International Airport in Berlin).
The shareholders of Hamburg Airport are the City of Hamburg (51%), Hochtief AirPort GmbH and Aer Rianta International plc. (49%).
Airlines
Around 62 airlines fly direct from Hamburg to 120 destinations world-wide. Since 2005 Continental Airlines operates a daily flight to New York. Then, in March, Emirates opened a daily Dubai-Hamburg service. From October 2006 Emirates will also offer a daily Hamburg-New York Flight. Since 2005 Air Transat serves Hamburg seasonally every Summer, nonstop from Toronto.The largest airlines (in terms of passenger figures) are:
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- Air Berlin (Palma de Mallorca, Fuerteventura, Nuremburg, Tenerife South, Vienna, Zürich, Budapest, Manchester (UK), Barcelona, Rome-Fiumicino, Alicante, Málaga)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Transat (Toronto)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- *Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
- Amber Air (Palanga)
- Blue1 (Helsinki)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- * BA Connect (Birmingham (UK), Edinburgh)
- Condor Airlines
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- dba (Düsseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart)
- easyJet (Bristol) (Ends October 29, 2006)
- *easyJet Switzerland (Basel, Geneva (Starts December 1, 2006))
- Emirates (Dubai, New York-JFK (Starts October 29, 2006))
- Estonian Air (Tallinn)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Germanwings (Stockholm-Arlanda, Krakow, Warsaw, Dresden, Munich, Zagreb, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Bologna, Stuttgart, Toulouse, London-Gatwick, Moscow-Vnukovo)
- Hapagfly (Palma de Mallorca and several Destinations in Europe and the canarias)
- Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
- HLX.com (Cologne/Bonn, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Venice)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
- * KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- LTU International (Düsseldorf and several Destinations in Europe and the canarias)
- Lufthansa (Amsterdam, Bergen, Cologne/Bonn, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Manchester (UK), Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Stockholm-Arlanda, Vienna, Madrid, Barcelona, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Rome-Fiumicino, Prague, Budapest, Nice, London-Heathrow, Oslo)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Bergen, Oslo)
- Pulkovo (Moscow-Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Swiss International Air Lines
- *Swiss European Air Lines (Zürich)
- Turkish Airlines (Anakara, Istanbul-Atatürk)
External links
- [Hamburg Airport] (in German and English)
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