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Airport Stuttgart-Echterdingen (STR)
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Stuttgart-Echterdingen Airport
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Stuttgart-Echterdingen (STR)
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| Time zone: |
GMT 1 |
| Country: |
Germany (DE) |
| Latitude / Longitude: |
48°40'59"N / 9°11'59"E |
| Alternative spelling: |
Stuttgart-Echterdingen |
| Service telephone: |
+49 1805 948444 (14ct/Min. aus dem dt. Festznetz) |
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| Address: |
Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH, Flughafenstrasse 43, 70629 Stuttgart, Deutschland |
Passengers: |
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| Operating Company: |
Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH |
Take-off and landing: |
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| Altitude of runway: |
396 m |
Length of runway: |
2550 m |
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Nearby cities:
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Stuttgart (9 km), Reutlingen (22 km), Pforzheim (43 km), Heilbronn (51 km), Ulm (67 km), Karlsruhe (70 km), Heidelberg (89 km)
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Operating airlines:
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airberlin, Deutsche Lufthansa, TUIfly, TAP Air, Germanwings, Condor, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Air France
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Alternative airports:
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Karlsruhe-Baden (FKB) 83 km, Mannheim-Neuostheim (MHG) 103 km, Memmingen (FMM) 109 km, Friedrichshafen (FDH) 116 km, Strasbourg (SXB) 116 km, Würzburg (QWU) 134 km |
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Description:
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Stuttgart Airport is at the border of Stuttgart and the district of Esslington, on the boundary of the towns Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Stuttgart and Filderstadt. Baden-Württemberg’s regional airport takes up place 7 of the most important airports in Germany and is the hub of the low-cost airlines Germanwings and TUIfly. Since 2003 (now partly with extra flights), these have contributed to the steady growth of the airport.
The airport, which was opened in 1936, is operated by „Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH“ on an area of 400 ha. Until the year 2000, it bore the name Stuttgart-Echterdingen.
After WW2, it was handed over to the regional capital Stuttgart in 1948, and civil air traffic was resumed. After numerous extensions during the following decades, the largest aeroplanes using the airport on a regular basis since August 2006 are a Boeing 767 of Delta Air Lines, providing daily flights between Stuttgart and Atlanta in the USA, and a Boeing 757 of Condor Airlines, which serves several destinations in the Mediterranean area and the Atlantic Ocean (e.g. Portugal, Madeira and the Canary Islands).
Stuttgart Airport is 13 km south of Stuttgart directly on the A8, which links the cities Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, Ulm and Munich. The airport can be approached via the A8 as well as the B27 and B312, it’s position by the major road B27, links the airport with Stuttgart’s city centre as well as Tubingen and Reutlingen. Several bus routes provide direct links between the region and the airport. A rail link is being planned in the form of "Stuttgart 21", a project in association with the new ICE railway line due for construction between Stuttgart and Ulm. The central railway station in Stuttgart linked to the ICE, EC, IC und IR networks has connections with the airport via the S-Bahn S2 and S3 (duration of travel approximately 27 minutes) and level 1 of Terminal 1 can be reached without having to change.
The low-cost airline Germanwings boasts the largest number of passengers at the airport, followed by Lufthansa at place 2. In January 2006, noticeable growth took place, so that by the end of 2007 the number of air passengers is expected to exceed the 10 million mark.
in 2005, around 60 charter and scheduled airlines flew from Stuttgart, amongst them the low-cost airlines Germanwings, SkyEurope as well as Snowflake Airlines, which are based at the airport.
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