Hanover/Langenhagen International Airport:
Hannover Airport (IATA: HAJ, ICAO: EDDV), also called Langenhagen Airport with reference to the nearby town of Langenhagen, is situated 11km north of the centre of Hannover, the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the ninth largest airport in Germany.
[edit] History
Hannover Airport was opened in 1952 replacing an old airfield within the city limits of Hannover. In 1973 two modern terminals were opened, which became famous because of their compact design. They became the archetype for the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. These terminals A and B, with stands for twelve aircraft in total, are still in service today. In 1998 the larger terminal C was opened to handle more passengers, adding 8 more gates. Up to 33 aircraft can be served simultaneously, of which 20 can receive aircraft stands equipped with a Jetway. All three terminals are capable of taking a Boeing 747. Terminal D is a rebuilt hangar which is exclusively used by the Royal Air Force to supply British troops in the north of Germany.
In 2000 an S-Bahn connection was established between the airport and Hamelin via Hannover Central Station. Trains leave every 30 minutes for a 17 minute journey. This replaced the airport's shuttle bus service which ran every twenty minutes, more frequently than the S-Bahn, but took longer to reach the airport and railway station. The service was extended to run into Paderborn in 2003.
From 1957 to 1990 the airport hosted the Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung, Germany's largest airshow. After a fatal accident in 1988, when a Chinook Helicopter hit a Jetway with its rotor, and the German Reunification two years later, the Airshow moved to Berlin in 1992.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
While in the early years most of the airport's traffic was running through Frankfurt International Airport, today most destinations are served directly. There are services to most European capitals and major cities as well as to major holiday destinations such as Majorca (Spain) or Egypt. In the 1990s trials to establish intercontinental services to the United States and Canada were stopped because of low passenger numbers. Since the end of Cold War Hannover International has become Germany's major airport for services to countries of the former Eastern bloc next to Frankfurt International. There are also a number of no-frills airlines offering service to the airport, the most notable one being TUIfly, which has its base of operations at Hannover Airport.
Langenhagen is one of very few German airports which are open 24 hours a day, but in practice there are very few flights between 11pm and 4am.
[edit] Terminal A
[edit] Terminal B
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Air Via (Burgas, Varna) [seasonal]
- Aurora Airlines (Pristina) [seasonal]
- Belavia (Kostanay, Minsk, Pavlodar) [seasonal]
- Blue Wings (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum [seasonal], Gaziantep [seasonal], Istanbul-Atatürk, Kayseri [seasonal], Samsun [seasonal], Trabzon [seasonal])
- Bulgarian Air Charter (Burgas, Varna) [seasonal]
- Croatia Airlines (Split) [seasonal]
- Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca, Paphos) [seasonal]
- Flybe (Birmingham, Manchester, Southampton)
- Germania (Izmir, Palma de Mallorca) [seasonal]
- Hamburg International (Araxos, Kostanay, Petropavlovsk) [seasonal]
- KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
- Pegasus Airlines (Antalya)
- Rossiya (St. Petersburg)
- S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk [seasonal], Omsk [seasonal])
- Saravia (Saratov) [seasonal]
- Sky Airlines (Antalya)
- SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum [seasonal], Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen, Izmir)
- Tunis Air (Djerba, Monastir)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Wind Rose Aviation (Simferopol) [seasonal]
[edit] Terminal C
- airberlin (Alicante, Antalya [seasonal], Arrecife, Budapest [seasonal], Hurghada, Ibiza [seasonal], Kerkyra [seasonal], Kos [seasonal], Lamezia-Terme, Las Palmas, London-Stansted, Luxor, Málaga, Marsa Alam [seasonal], Munich, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Sharm-El-Sheik [seasonal], Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki [seasonal], Vienna, Zurich)
- Condor (Antalya, Chania [seasonal], Dalaman [seasonal], Fuerteventura, Heraklion [seasonal], Hurghada, Larnaca [seasonal], Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca [seasonal], Rhodes [seasonal], Sharm-El-Sheik [seasonal], Tenerife-South)
- Karthago Airlines (Monastir) [seasonal]
- Nouvelair (Monastir) [seasonal]
- TUIfly (Antalya, Arrecife, Boa Vista [seasonal], Catania, Dalaman [seasonal], Dubrovnik [seasonal], Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal [seasonal], Heraklion [seasonal], Hurghada, Istanbul-Gokcen [seasonal], Jerez de la Frontera, Kerkyra [seasonal], Klagenfurt, Kos [seasonal], Larnaca [seasonal], Las Palmas, Luxor [seasonal], Mahon [seasonal], Milan-Bergamo, Naples, Newcastle, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos [seasonal], Rijeka [seasonal], Rimini [seasonal], Rhodes [seasonal], Sal [seasonal], Sharm-El-Sheik [seasonal], Stuttgart, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki [seasonal], Venice)
- XL Airways Germany (Arvidsjaur) [seasonal]
[edit] Terminal D
[edit] Cargo airlines
[edit] Concessions
In the last years, Hannover Airport increased the number of shops and restaurants.
[edit] Terminal A
- Bar "Cockpit"
- Bar "Meeting Point"
- Travel Value & Duty Free Shops (3x)
[edit] Airport Plaza
- Aviators Outlet (special offers for aviators)
- Bank "Sparkasse Hannover"
- Cosmeticstore "Beauty Port"
- Drugstore "dm"
- Fashionstore "Be 4 U Go"
- Gift Shop "Leonardo"
- Hairdresser "Apel"
- Kerner sunglasses and jewellery
- Restaurant "Mövenpick"
- Supermarket "Edeka Aktiv Markt"
- Virgin Megastore
[edit] Observations Deck
- Aviators Shop (gifts)
- Restaurant "Gate 66"
[edit] Terminal B
- Bar "Arabica"
- Bar "Zigolini"
- Bank "Travelex"
- Eroticshop "Beate Uhse"
- Restaurant "Marche"
- Travel Value & Duty Free (2x)
[edit] Terminal C
- Bar "Bye Bye"
- Bar "Fly Away"
- Bar "Hello"
- Bar "Rafael"
- Casino "Spiel In"
- Cleaningshop "Stichweh"
- Fast-Food-Restaurant "Cindy's Diner"
- Internet-Cafe "Media-Cafe"
- Sportsbar
- Supermarket "Last Minute Supermarkt"
- Travel Value & Duty Free (2x)
[edit] External links
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