Stuttgart Airport
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Stuttgart Airport is an international airport
located approximately 13 km (8.1 mi) (10 km (6.2 mi) in a straight line) south of Stuttgart
, Germany
.
The airport lies on the boundary between the nearby town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen
, Filderstadt
and Stuttgart
itself. It is the 7th most important airport in Germany and the main airport of the Bundesland
Baden-Württemberg
with 9,226,546 passengers in 2010.
It is an important hub for the German low cost carriers Germanwings
; and global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking
.
In 2007, the Stuttgart Trade Fair
- the ninth biggest exhibition centre in Germany moved to grounds directly next to the airport, raising the profile of the airport and strengthening calls for a second runway.
. In 1945, the US Air Force took over the airport and the US Army still maintains a helicopter base on the southern side of the airport which it shares with the Baden-Württemberg State Police
helicopter wing. The police helicopter wing falls under the control of Stuttgart Police Department and has six modern helicopters based at Stuttgart and two in Söllingen
. In 1948 the airport was returned to German authorities.
The airport was expanded after World War II
. The runway was extended to 1,800 metres in 1948, then to 2,250 metres in 1961 and finally to 3,345 metres in 1996.
The original 1938 terminal was finally replaced in 2004 and there are now four terminals with a maximum capacity of approximately 12 million passengers.
announced that for the next 8–12 years no second runway will be built and that the restrictions for night operations stay in place.
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right; width:250px;" align="center"
|+ Passengers and Operations
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! style="width:75px"| !! style="width:100px"| Passengers !! style="width:100px"| Operations
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!1999
|7,688,951 || 119,904
|-
!2000
|8,141,020 || 150,451
|-
!2001
|7,642,409 || 146,771
|-
!2002
|7,284,319 || 144,208
|-
!2003
|7,595,286 || 144,903
|-
!2004
|8,831,216 || 156,885
|-
!2005
|9,413,671 || 160,405
|-
!2006
|10,111,346 || 164,735
|-
!2007
|10,328,120 || 164,531
|-
!2008
|9,932,887 || 160,243
|-
!2009
|8,941,990 || 141,572
|-
!2010
||9,226,546 || 135,335
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|+ Busiest Routes out of Stuttgart Airport (2010) (percentage of total passengers)
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Rank||Airport||%
|-
|1||
Berlin Airports (Schönefeld Airport and Tegel Airport)||10,8%
|-
|2|| Hamburg Airport
||8,2%
|-
|3||
Palma de Mallorca Airport
||6,4%
|-
|4|| Hannover Airport||6,2%
|-
|5||
Istanbul Airports (Atatürk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport)||4,5%
|-
|6||
London Airports (Heathrow Airport and Stansted Airport)||4,3%
|-
|7|| Antalya Airport
||4,2%
|-
|8||
Vienna Airport||3,5%
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|9|| Düsseldorf Airport||2,7%
|-
|10|| Frankfurt Airport
||2,4%
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|+ Airlines by Passengers
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Rank||Airline||%
|-
|1|| Germanwings
||22,0%
|-
|2|| Air Berlin
||21,8%
|-
|3|| Lufthansa
||15,2%
|-
|4|| TUIfly
||7,2%
|-
|5|| Condor Flugdienst||5,8%
|-
|6|| SunExpress
||3,7%
|-
|7||
Swiss International Airlines||2,6%
|-
|8|| Turkish Airlines
||2,5%
|-
|9||
Air France
||2,2%
|-
|10|| Austrian Airlines
||2,0%
|}
Condor
serves some destinations in Turkey with Boeing 767-300 during the summer season.
Delta Air Lines
serves its flights with Boeing 767-300.
Turkish Airlines
serves some flights between Stuttgart and Istanbul-Atatürk with A330/A340. Mainly because of the holiday season or during the Hajj.
Stuttgart Airport can be easily reached within 30 minutes from the city's central railway station
using the Stuttgart suburban railway
S2 or S3 from Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe station
. The airport lies right next to the A 8 Autobahn
that connects the cities of Karlsruhe
, Stuttgart
and Munich
.
From the cities of Esslingen am Neckar
, Reutlingen and Tübingen exists a connection by bus.
A large car park belonging to Stuttgart Messe spans the A 8 leading to the airport.
International airport
An international airport is any airport that can accommodate flights from other countries and are typically equipped with customs and immigration facilities to handle these flights to and from other countries...
located approximately 13 km (8.1 mi) (10 km (6.2 mi) in a straight line) south of Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
The airport lies on the boundary between the nearby town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Leinfelden-Echterdingen is a town in the district of Esslingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located approx. 10 km south of Stuttgart, near the Stuttgart Airport...
, Filderstadt
Filderstadt
Filderstadt is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located approximately 13 km south of Stuttgart.Filderstadt is located next to the Stuttgart Airport and the new Trade Fair...
and Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
itself. It is the 7th most important airport in Germany and the main airport of the Bundesland
States of Germany
Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
with 9,226,546 passengers in 2010.
It is an important hub for the German low cost carriers Germanwings
Germanwings
Germanwings GmbH is a low-cost airline based in Cologne, Germany, and is wholly owned by Lufthansa. Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport and Berlin-Schönefeld Airport are the important hubs in the airline's network of approximately 70 destinations...
; and global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking
APCOA Parking
APCOA Parking AG is Europe's longest-established full service parking management company, managing over 860,000 parking spaces, across 15 countries and with around 4,500 employees...
.
In 2007, the Stuttgart Trade Fair
Stuttgart Trade Fair
Messe Stuttgart is an exhibition centre and trade fair next to Stuttgart Airport, 7 miles south of Stuttgart, Germany. It is the ninth biggest trade fair in Germany....
- the ninth biggest exhibition centre in Germany moved to grounds directly next to the airport, raising the profile of the airport and strengthening calls for a second runway.
History
The airport was built in 1939 to replace Böblingen airportBöblingen airport
Böblingen Airport was built in the mid-1920s for the city of Stuttgart in Germany. Bordered by Calwer Straße and the E41, it lies northwest of Böblingen and south of the Daimler factory in Sindelfingen. An aircraft industry developed around this airfield, which was used by the military during...
. In 1945, the US Air Force took over the airport and the US Army still maintains a helicopter base on the southern side of the airport which it shares with the Baden-Württemberg State Police
Baden-Württemberg Police
Baden-Württemberg Police numbers approx. 25,000 police officers and 7,000 civilian employees.The four regional police authorities are headquartered in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Freiburg and Tübingen. There is also a separate police authority for the city of Stuttgart...
helicopter wing. The police helicopter wing falls under the control of Stuttgart Police Department and has six modern helicopters based at Stuttgart and two in Söllingen
Baden Airpark
Baden Airpark , or officially Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, is an international airport located in Rheinmünster in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, south of Karlsruhe, west of Baden-Baden and north of Strasbourg, France....
. In 1948 the airport was returned to German authorities.
The airport was expanded after World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. The runway was extended to 1,800 metres in 1948, then to 2,250 metres in 1961 and finally to 3,345 metres in 1996.
The original 1938 terminal was finally replaced in 2004 and there are now four terminals with a maximum capacity of approximately 12 million passengers.
Expansion
Politicians, town planners and nearby residents have been arguing for years about the construction of a second runway. However, on 25 June 2008 Minister-President Günther OettingerGünther Oettinger
Günther Hermann Oettinger is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union . He became European Commissioner for Energy in the European Commission on 10 February 2010 and is affiliated with the European People's Party...
announced that for the next 8–12 years no second runway will be built and that the restrictions for night operations stay in place.
Terminals, airlines and destinations
Statistics
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right; width:250px;" align="center"
|+ Passengers and Operations
|-
! style="width:75px"| !! style="width:100px"| Passengers !! style="width:100px"| Operations
|-
!1999
|7,688,951 || 119,904
|-
!2000
|8,141,020 || 150,451
|-
!2001
|7,642,409 || 146,771
|-
!2002
|7,284,319 || 144,208
|-
!2003
|7,595,286 || 144,903
|-
!2004
|8,831,216 || 156,885
|-
!2005
|9,413,671 || 160,405
|-
!2006
|10,111,346 || 164,735
|-
!2007
|10,328,120 || 164,531
|-
!2008
|9,932,887 || 160,243
|-
!2009
|8,941,990 || 141,572
|-
!2010
||9,226,546 || 135,335
|-
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|+ Busiest Routes out of Stuttgart Airport (2010) (percentage of total passengers)
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Rank||Airport||%
|-
|1||
Berlin Airports (Schönefeld Airport and Tegel Airport)||10,8%|-
|2||
Hamburg AirportHamburg Airport
Hamburg Airport , also known as Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport , is an international airport serving Hamburg, Germany.It originally covered . Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to . The main apron covers . The airport is north of the centre of the city of Hamburg in the Fuhlsbüttel...
||8,2%
|-
|3||
Palma de Mallorca AirportPalma de Mallorca Airport
Palma de Mallorca Airport is an airport located east of Palma, Majorca, adjacent to the village of Can Pastilla. Also known as Son Sant Joan Airport or Aeroport de Son Sant Joan, it is the third largest airport in Spain, after Madrid's Barajas Airport and Barcelona Airport...
||6,4%
|-
|4||
Hannover Airport||6,2%|-
|5||
Istanbul Airports (Atatürk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport)||4,5%|-
|6||
London Airports (Heathrow Airport and Stansted Airport)||4,3%|-
|7||
Antalya AirportAntalya Airport
Antalya Airport is northeast of the city center of Antalya, Turkey. The airport is operated in Turkey's primary holiday destination located on the country's Mediterranean coast. The airport is big and modern, built to accommodate the millions of passengers who come to Turkey's Mediterranean...
||4,2%
|-
|8||
Vienna Airport||3,5%|-
|9||
Düsseldorf Airport||2,7%|-
|10||
Frankfurt AirportFrankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport may refer to:Airports of Frankfurt, Germany:*Frankfurt Airport , the largest airport in Germany*Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport, a general aviation airport*Frankfurt-Hahn Airport , a converted U.S...
||2,4%
|}
Top 10 Airlines by Passengers
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 90%" width= align=|+ Airlines by Passengers
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Rank||Airline||%
|-
|1||
GermanwingsGermanwings
Germanwings GmbH is a low-cost airline based in Cologne, Germany, and is wholly owned by Lufthansa. Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport and Berlin-Schönefeld Airport are the important hubs in the airline's network of approximately 70 destinations...
||22,0%
|-
|2||
Air BerlinAir Berlin
Air Berlin PLC & Co. Luftverkehrs KG is Germany's second largest airline, after Lufthansa, and Europe's sixth largest airline in terms of passengers....
||21,8%
|-
|3||
LufthansaLufthansa
Deutsche Lufthansa AG is the flag carrier of Germany and the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried. The name of the company is derived from Luft , and Hansa .The airline is the world's fourth-largest airline in terms of overall passengers carried, operating...
||15,2%
|-
|4||
TUIflyTUIfly
TUIfly Vermarktungs GmbH is an airline based at Hannover Airport in Langenhagen, Lower Saxony, Germany. The airline offers both charter and scheduled low-cost flights. About 60% of all seats are sold directly, 30% as a part of a TUI holiday package and 10% by other agencies...
||7,2%
|-
|5||
Condor Flugdienst||5,8%|-
|6||
SunExpressSunExpress
SunExpress is an airline based in Antalya, Turkey. It operates scheduled and charter flights to destinations in Europe. Its main base is Antalya International Airport .-History:...
||3,7%
|-
|7||
Swiss International Airlines||2,6%|-
|8||
Turkish AirlinesTurkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey, headquartered in the Turkish Airlines General Management Building on the grounds of Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy, Bakirköy district, Istanbul...
||2,5%
|-
|9||
Air FranceAir France
Air France , stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France, , and is one of the world's largest airlines. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance...
||2,2%
|-
|10||
Austrian AirlinesAustrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines is the flag carrier airline of Austria, headquartered in Office Park 2 on the grounds of Vienna International Airport in Schwechat, Wien-Umgebung and a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG. Together with regional subsidiary Tyrolean Airways and charter arm Lauda Air, it operates...
||2,0%
|}
Wide-body aircraft in Stuttgart
Airberlin has a daily service to Palma de Mallorca flown with A330-200 or -300.Condor
Condor
Condor is the name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere.They are:* The Andean Condor which inhabits the Andean mountains....
serves some destinations in Turkey with Boeing 767-300 during the summer season.
Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines, Inc. is a major airline based in the United States and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline operates an extensive domestic and international network serving all continents except Antarctica. Delta and its subsidiaries operate over 4,000 flights every day...
serves its flights with Boeing 767-300.
Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey, headquartered in the Turkish Airlines General Management Building on the grounds of Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy, Bakirköy district, Istanbul...
serves some flights between Stuttgart and Istanbul-Atatürk with A330/A340. Mainly because of the holiday season or during the Hajj.
Public transportation and access
Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof
is the Hauptbahnhof of the city of Stuttgart, the capital of the Land of Baden-Württemberg, in southwestern Germany. It is the largest regional and long-distance railway station in Stuttgart, the main node of the Stuttgart S-Bahn network, and, together with the halt at Charlottenplatz, the main...
using the Stuttgart suburban railway
Stuttgart S-Bahn
The Stuttgart S-Bahn is a suburban railway system serving the Stuttgart Region, an agglomeration of around 2.6 million people, consisting of the city of Stuttgart and the adjacent districts of Esslingen, Böblingen, Ludwigsburg and Rems-Murr. It consists of seven lines numbered S1 through S6 and...
S2 or S3 from Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe station
Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe station
Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe station is a station on the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. Despite its name the station is not in the city of Stuttgart, rather it is in Leinfelden-Echterdingen.-History :...
. The airport lies right next to the A 8 Autobahn
Bundesautobahn 8
is an autobahn in southern Germany that runs 497 km from the Luxembourg A13 motorway at Schengen via Neunkirchen, Pirmasens, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich to the Austrian West Autobahn near Salzburg....
that connects the cities of Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe
The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
, Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
and Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
.
From the cities of Esslingen am Neckar
Esslingen am Neckar
Esslingen am Neckar is a city in the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, capital of the District of Esslingen as well as the largest city in the district....
, Reutlingen and Tübingen exists a connection by bus.
A large car park belonging to Stuttgart Messe spans the A 8 leading to the airport.
Accidents and incidents
- On 19 January 2010, BinAir Swearingen SA-227-C MetroFairchild Swearingen MetrolinerThe Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner or the Fairchild Aerospace Metro is a 19-seat, pressurised, twin turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, United States....
D-CKPP was damaged when the right main undercarriage collapsed on landing.