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Bremen (BRE)
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| Time zone: |
GMT 1 |
| Country: |
Germany (DE) |
| Latitude / Longitude: |
53°2'59"N / 8°46'59"E |
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| Service telephone: |
+49 (0) 421 / 55 950 |
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| Address: |
Flughafen Bremen GmbH, Flughafenallee 20, D-28199 Bremen |
Passengers: |
0 |
| Operating Company: |
Flughafen Bremen GmbH |
Take-off and landing: |
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| Altitude of runway: |
4 m |
Length of runway: |
2034 m |
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Nearby cities:
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Bremen (3 km), Oldenburg (41 km), Bremerhaven (57 km), Hamburg (98 km), Hannover (99 km)
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Operating airlines:
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Deutsche Lufthansa, TAP Air, airberlin, bmi british midland, Ryanair, United Airlines, Air Canada, TUIfly
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Alternative airports:
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Bremerhaven (BRV) 78 km, Cuxhaven/Nordholz Sea Airport (FCN) 80 km, Hannover (HAJ) 91 km, Hamburg (HAM) 103 km, Emden (EME) 111 km, Heide-Büsum Heide (HEI) 123 km |
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Description:
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Bremen Airport is an international passenger airport in Bremen which was opened in 1913.
The multi-airport Bremen is located approximately 6 km north-west of the city centre and has many flights from well-known airlines on offer for business trips using scheduled flights, as well as for holiday travel in the last minute sector. These include: Air France (Paris - Charles de Gaulle), easyJet (London-Luton), KLM (Amsterdam), Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart), OLT (Brussels, Hamburg, Copenhagen, London-City, Nuremberg, Toulouse, Zurich). Charter flights are also available. Low-cost airlines represented with their own check-in terminals are: Air Berlin, Condor, Flydba, Germanwings and Hapagfly, there are also numerous last-minute travel agents at the airport.
The “Bremer Verein für Luftfahrt” and the Norddeutsche Lloyd, founded in 1909, took over the planning stage of an airport at Bremen Werder. In May 1910, the venture was finally underway, and in 1912, the “Bremen Verein für Luftfahrt” (at that time without a name) was already offering return flights. On 16.05.1913 permission was granted to construct an airbase on the “Neuenlander Feld”, where the airport’s total area was 400 x 400 meters.
On 15.09.1921, the “Bremer Flughafenbetriebsgesellschaft” (Bremer airport operating company) came into being, start-up and share capital was provided by companies such as: A.G. Weser, Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremer Bank, Deutsche Bank (Bremen branch), Kaiserbrauerei Beck & Co. and of course the “Bremer Verein für Luftfahrt”. Together with the senate of Bremen, a financially lucrative lease agreement was concluded so that Lloyd Luftfahrtdienst GmbH and its daughter the Norddeutsche Lloyd were, in 1920, able to provide flights from Bremen to Berlin, Dortmund and Wangerooge. An international flight first landed in Bremen on 18.07.1920, resulting from the cooperation of the Dutch airline KLM.
In 1937, a system of paved runways was finally constructed and, together with the taxiway, the night flight lighting system and the Lorenz Beam (blind landing system developed by Lorenz), the most modern airport in Germany came into being. In the course of the renovation after WW2, the east-west runway (09/27) was lengthened to 2034m towards the east and new radio engineering installations were built that will allow air traffic even in bad weather conditions. This meant that Bremen was once again a fully-fledged airport. Flights from Bremen to New York were provided to cater for US soldiers returning home. First measures to restore the runway were under way in 1979. An ILS (Instrument Landing System) was also constructed. The extension of the runway which was proposed by Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm (MBB, now a part of EADS) in 1987 in order to enable the transportation of airbus wings with the aircraft Super Gruppy was finally accepted in 1988, and the runway was extended to 2634 m. As airport opponents managed to enforce a court order that stipulated that the 300 m extension of the runway be exclusively used by the Super Gruppy, this part of the airport is now not unused since the changeover to using Beluga.
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