Hamburg Airport (IATA: HAM, ICAO: EDDH), also known as Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport (German: Flughafen Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel), is an international airport serving Hamburg, Germany. It originally covered 440,000 m2 (4,700,000 sq ft). Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to 5.7 km2 (2.2 sq mi). The main apron covers 320,000 m2 (3,400,000 sq ft). The airport is 8.5 km (5.3 mi) north[1] of the centre of the City of Hamburg in the Fuhlsbüttel quarter. Hamburg airport has 17 jet-ways and 54 apron positions. Runways, taxiways and aprons are able to handle the Airbus A380, although there is no scheduled A380-service expected. Hamburg Airport is the diversion airport for Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport (XFW), the airport of the Airbus plant in Hamburg, where all A380 are being painted and interior fitted. In 2008, Hamburg airport served 12,840,000 passengers and 173,500 aircraft movements.[2] Hamburg Airport (measured by the number of passengers) is the fifth busiest of the 16 German commercial airports (after Berlin Tegel Airport). The shareholders of Hamburg Airport are the City of Hamburg (51%) and Hochtief AirPort GmbH. (49%). [edit] History The airport was opened in January 1911, it is the oldest airport in Germany which is still in operation. 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, a new hotel right across from the terminal, new roadside access and a connection to Hamburg's rapid transit system (S-Bahn). [edit] Services and facilities - Public area: Police station, post office, tourist information, first aid and vaccination service (provided by German Red Cross), pharmacy, wheelchair service, car rental (all major companies), valet parking, currency exchange, left luggage, internet access, big variety of shops and restaurants including two restaurants with apron & runways observation decks, export certifications and tax refund.
- Secured passenger area: Currency exchange, big variety of shops and restaurants, wheelchair service, baggage-tracing, internet access.
- Lounges: Lufthansa Business Lounge and Lufthansa Senator Lounge (Lufthansa and all Star Alliance airlines): Both located in the secured passenger area of Terminal 2, entrance next to Gate A19. Airport Lounge (all other airlines): Located in the secured passenger area of the Plaza-building, entrance right behind the security-check. An Emirates airlines lounge is scheduled to open in summer/fall 2009 and will be located next to the Airport lounge.
- Shops include a print-on-demand service for more than 150 international newspapers.
- Step-free access to all facilities. Several restrooms for disabled, wheelchair accessible, several babycare-rooms.
- Four star business hotel (SAS Radisson) is scheduled to open in late 2009 within a 3-min walking distance of both terminals.
- Provided parking lots: Long-stay 4,000 places (named "Holiday"), short-stay 6,500 places (named "Terminal").
- Car rental facilities
[edit] Transport to/from airport HVV, the Hamburg public transit network, runs the S-Bahn-line (suburban railway) S 1 which links the airport directly to the city centre. Journey time is 25 minutes to the central station (Hauptbahnhof), and about 30 minutes to the inner city centre, townhall and major shopping and business districts. Trains run every 10 minutes, in the very early morning and late evening every 20 minutes. The one-way-fare is €2,70. Passengers travelling in the direction from the city centre to the airport have to pay attention at Ohlsdorf, the last station before reaching the airport, because all trains are split up at this station. The front part-train (carriages 1, 2 and 3) proceeds to the airport, while the rear part-train (carriages 4, 5 and 6) is running to Poppenbüttel, a suburb of Hamburg. There are sufficient signs and announcements in German and English language to inform passengers. In addition the trains stop at Ohlsdorf for about 2 minutes to allow passengers to change to a carriage which runs to their intended destination. The first train in the morning departs from central station at 04:04 a.m. and arrives at the airport at 04:30 a.m. The last train in the evening departs from the airport at 00:14 a.m. During the night-break of the trains a night bus service connects the airport to the city centre. The airport is also linked by some local bus routes to nearby areas as well as regular coach services to the cities of Kiel, Neumünster and Lübeck. Taxi stands are located on the arrival level in front of each terminal. Journey time to the city centre is about 25 minutes, depending on traffic. Prices vary in a range of €18 - €25, depending on the destination. All taxis in Germany are metered taxis. [edit] Airlines and destinations | Airlines | Destinations | Terminal | | Aer Lingus | Dublin [seasonal] | 1 | | Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | 1 | | airBaltic | Riga | 1 | | Air Berlin | Alicante, Antalya [seasonal], Barcelona, Bari [begins 2 May, seasonal], Cologne/Bonn, Corfu [seasonal], Düsseldorf, Faro [seasonal], Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Funchal [ends 24 April], Heraklion [seasonal], Hurghada, Ibiza [seasonal], Innsbruck [seasonal], Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Klagenfurt, Kos [seasonal], Lamezia Terme [seasonal], Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malaga, Memmingen, Monastir [seasonal], Munich, Naples [begins 30 March], Nuremberg, Olbia [begins 30 March], Palma de Mallorca, Rome-Fiumicino, Salzburg, Samos [seasonal], Santa Cruz de la Palma [ends 24 April], Stuttgart, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki [seasonal], Venice-Marco Polo [begins 28 March, seasonal], Vienna, Zürich | 1 | | Air Cairo | Hurghada [begins 1 April; seasonal], Sharm el-Sheikh [begins 29 March; seasonal] | 1 | | Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 1 | | Air France operated by Régional | Lyon | 1 | | Air Malta | Malta | 1 | | Air Transat | Toronto-Pearson [seasonal] | 1 | | Air Via | Burgas, Varna | 1 | | Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna | 2 | | Blue Wings | Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk [begins 25 June], Kiew, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madeira, Marrakech, Monastir, Moscow-Sherermentyevo, Palma de Mallorca | 1 | | British Airways | London-Heathrow | 1 | | Brussels Airlines | Brussels | 2 | | Bulgarian Air Charter | Burgas [seasonal], Varna [seasonal] | 1 | | Cirrus Airlines | Dresden, Mannheim | 2 | | Condor | Agadir, Antalya [ends 31 October], Dalaman [seasonal], Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion [seasonal], Hurghada, Ibiza [seasonal], Jerez de la Frontera [begins 28 March,seasonal], Kos [begins 3 May, seasonal], Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca [ends 31 October], Rhodes [seasonal], Santa Cruz de la Palma [ends 16 April], Santorini [begins 12 May, seasonal], Sharm el-Sheikh [seasonal], Tenerife-South | 2 | | Continental Airlines | Newark | 1 | | Czech Airlines | Prague | 1 | | easyJet | London-Gatwick [begins 2 February], London-Luton | 1 | | easyJet operated by Easyjet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse | 1 | | Emirates | Dubai | 1 | | Eurocypria Airlines | Larnaca | 1 | | Finnair | Helsinki | 1 | | Flybe | Birmingham | 1 | | FlyGotland | Visby | 1 | | Freebird Airlines | Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk | 1 | | Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn, Corfu, Dubrovnik [begins 2 May], Istanbul-Atatürk [begins 10 February], Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen [ends 9 February], Klagenfurt, Palma de Mallorca [begins 2 May], Pristina, Salzburg, Split, Stuttgart, Toulouse, Zagreb | 2 | | Hamburg International | Adana [seasonal], Ankara, Antalya [seasonal], Bodrum [seasonal], Fuertventura, Heraklion, Hurghada, Istanbul-Atatürk [seasonal], Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen [seasonal], Izmir, Marsa Alam, Palermo [begins 17 March], Palma de Mallorca [seasonal], Olbia [begins 24 March], Santa Cruz de la Palma [seasonal], Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South [seasonal] | 1 | | Iberworld | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [seasonal] | 1 | | InterSky | Friedrichshafen | 1 | | Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini | 1 | | KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam | 1 | | KoralBlue Airlines | Hurghada [seasonal] | 1 | | LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw | 2 | | Lufthansa | Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Innsbruck [begins 31 January], London-Heathrow, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Reykjavik-Keflavik [seasonal], Stuttgart, Zürich | 2 | | Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air | Stuttgart | 2 | | Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings | Cologne/Bonn | 2 | | Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Amsterdam, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Reykjavik-Keflavik [seasonal], Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Nuremberg, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Stockholm-Arlanda, Vienna | 2 | | Luxair | Luxemburg, Saarbrücken | 2 | | Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest | 1 | | Norwegian Air Shuttle | Oslo-Gardermoen | 1 | | Nouvelair | Monastir | 1 | | Ostfriesische Lufttransport | Toulouse | 1 | | Pegasus Airlines | Antalya | 1 | | Rossiya | St Petersburg | 1 | | SAS Scandinavian | Copenhagen | 2 | | Sky Airlines | Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk [begins 29 May] | 1 | | SunExpress | Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman [seasonal], Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen, Izmir [seasonal] | 1 | | Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich | 2 | | Sylt Air | Westerland/Sylt | 1 | | Tailwind Airlines | Antalya [seasonal] | 1 | | TAP Portugal | Lisbon | 2 | | transavia.com | Innsbruck | 1 | | Tunis Air | Djerba, Monastir, Tunis | 2 | | Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | 1 | | Turkuaz Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | 1 | | TUIfly | Antalya [seasonal], Corfu [begins 8 May, seasonal], Dalaman [begins 3 May, seasonal], Faro [seasonal], Fuerteventura, Heraklion [seasonal], Hurghada [ends 27 April], Jerez de la Frontera [resumes 18 February], Kos [seasonal], Lanzarote [ends 25 April], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Minorca [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca [seasonal], Rhodes [seasonal], Tel Aviv [ends 27 March], Tenerife-South [ends 29 April] | 1 | | VLM Airlines | Rotterdam | 1 | | XL Airways Germany | Antalya [seasonal], Fuerteventura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca [begins 22 March], Rhodes, Tenerife -outh [seasonal] | 1 | [edit] See also [edit] References [edit] External links
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