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Dusseldorf Airport
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Dusseldorf (DUS)
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| Time zone: |
GMT 1 |
| Country: |
Germany (DE) |
| Latitude / Longitude: |
51°16'59"N / 6°45'0"E |
| Alternative spelling: |
Deuselldorf, Duseldorf, Dusseldorf, Dusselldorf, Dueselldorf, Duesselldorf, Duesseldorf |
| Service telephone: |
+49 (0) 211 / 42 -11, -10 |
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| Address: |
Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH, Postfach 30 03 63, D-40403 Düsseldorf |
Passengers: |
0 |
| Operating Company: |
Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH |
Take-off and landing: |
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| Altitude of runway: |
45 m |
Length of runway: |
3000 m |
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Nearby cities:
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Düsseldorf (8 km), Neuss (10 km), Krefeld (14 km), Duisburg (17 km), Mülheim (19 km), Moers (20 km), Oberhausen (22 km), Mönchengladbach (24 km), Solingen (26 km), Essen (26 km)
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Operating airlines:
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airberlin, Deutsche Lufthansa, LTU, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, TUIfly, United Airlines, bmi british midland, TAP Air
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Alternative airports:
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Moenchengladbach (MGL) 18 km, Cologne (Koeln)-Bonn (CGN) 54 km, Weeze (Niederrhein/Weeze) (NRN) 54 km, Dortmund (DTM) 56 km, Maastricht-Aachen (MST) 80 km, Muenster-Osnabrueck (FMO) 95 km |
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Description:
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Dusseldorf Airport is the international airport of the regional capital of North Rhine Westphalia, on the banks of the Rhine. It was opened on 19.04.1927 and is situated 9 km north of Dusseldorf’s city centre. Dusseldorf International Airport has its own motorway exit on the autobahn A44. Using local public transport, the airport may be reached using the following train services: 1, 3, 5, 6 and 11, the S-Bahn S1 and S7 as well as with the bus routes 721, 729, 759, 760 and 776. SkyTrain, the fully automatic airport service also provides a link between the airports own train station and the terminal and car park 4. The long-distance railway station Dusseldorf Airport, opened in the year 2000, is situated directly on one of Europe’s main rail transport axes, where a total of 350 ICE, IC-, EC-, and local trains as well as the S1 S-Bahn stop every day.
70% of all North Rhine Westphalia’s air passengers today take off and land in Dusseldorf. According to passenger numbers, Dusseldorf is Germany’s third largest airport, smaller than Frankfurt and Munich airports, and larger than Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg and Cologne/Bonn. Until into the 1990’s, it was the second largest airport in Germany. However, in the meantime, due to legal and political restraints on development as well as a runway (3000 m) which is too short for unrestricted use by wide-bodied aircraft (Boeing 747 and Airbus A380), Dusseldorf Airport has noticeably lost shares of the market to the newly built Munich Airport, which is still in the process of development.
The S-Bahn (S7) route from Dusseldorf’s central station to the airport (Dusseldorf’s airport terminal) was opened in October 1975. It now also runs to Solingen-Ohligs, but the „Angerland-Vergleich", which was concluded between the region NRW and the surrounding communes in 1965, is still valid today and stipulates that the airport’s capacity does not exceed the level reached at that time. After a fire on 11.04.1996, Terminals A and B were completely destroyed or had to consequently be demolished or entirely refurbished. Terminal C was reopened only several months later, after cleaning work was completed. However, temporary tents and halls were in use during the years of reconstruction, which was given the name „airport 2000 plus". In 1998, the newly built Terminal A was opened and the Rhein-Ruhr- Flughafen was renamed Flughafen Düsseldorf International. Terminals A and B have been ready for use since 2002 along with the elevated train Skytrain. The construction project "airport 2000 plus" was officially completed on 07.05.2003. Today, the low-budget airlines Aer Lingus, Air Berlin, Condor, Germania Express (GEXX) and Windjet are to be found at Düsseldorf Airport.
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