Stuttgart Airport
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| Stuttgart Airport Flughafen Stuttgart |
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| IATA: STR – ICAO: EDDS | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH | ||
| Location | Stuttgart, Germany | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,276 ft / 389 m | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 07/25 | 10,974 | 3,345 | Concrete |
Stuttgart Airport (in German Flughafen Stuttgart, formerly Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen) (IATA: STR, ICAO: EDDS) is an international airport located approximately 8 miles (13 km) south of Stuttgart city centre, 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 10,109,425 passengers in 2006.
Although it is the only major airport in Germany with only one runway, it is an important hub for the German low cost carriers Germanwings and TUIfly; and global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking.
In 2007 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.
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[edit] History
The airport was built in 1939 to replace Böblingen airport. 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.
[edit] Expansion
Politicians, town planners and nearby residents have been arguing for years about the construction of a second runway. Minister-President Günther Öttinger announced in early 2008 that a decision will be taken later in the same year, by which time a review being conducted by the State of Baden-Württemberg will be completed.
[edit] Public transportation and access
Stuttgart Airport can be easily reached within 30 minutes from the city's central railway station using the Stuttgart suburban railway S2 or S3. The airport lies right next to the Autobahn A8 that connects the cities of Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Munich.
A large car park belonging to Stuttgart Messe spans the A8 Autobahn leading to the airport.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
[edit] Terminal 1
- Aegean Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
- Austrian Airlines
- Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London-Heathrow, Palma de Mallorca)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Munich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Hanover, Munich, Nice, Turin)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Bilbao, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Florence, Hanover, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Olbia, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Vienna, Warsaw [Begins June 10,2008])
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest, Sármellék)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
- Spanair (Palma de Mallorca)
- Swiss International Air Lines
- Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines (Zürich)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir)
[edit] Terminal 2
- Germanwings (Ankara, Athens, Barcelona, Bastia, Beograd, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bucharest-Băneasa, Budapest, Dresden, Hamburg, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Katowice, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Moscow-Vnukovo, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Split, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb)
[edit] Terminal 3
- airberlin (Alicante, Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hurghada, Kos, Lamezia-Terme, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Samos, Westerland/Sylt)
- airberlin operated by Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (Dortmund)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air France operated by Régional (Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Lyon)
- Alitalia
- Alitalia operated by Alitalia Express (Milan-Malpensa)
- Blue Air (Arad, Bucharest-Băneasa, Sibiu)
- Carpatair (Timişoara)
- Cirrus Airlines (Münster/Osnabrück and some Holiday Destinations in Europe and North Africa)
- Cirrus Airlines operated for Lufthansa with Lufthansa flight numbers (Frankfurt)
- Condor (Ankara, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Tenerife-South)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Finnair
- Finnair operated by Finncomm Airlines (Helsinki)
- Flybe (Birmingham)
- Hamburg International (Bodrum, Kos, Lourdes-Tarbes, Pristina)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)
- TUIfly (Agadir, Antalya, Araxos, Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Bodrum, Cagliari, Catania, Chania, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Heraklion, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Kerkyra, Kos, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Leipzig/Halle, Luxor, Mahon, Malaga, Manchester, Marrakech, Marsa Alam, Milan-Bergamo, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallora, Pisa, Porto, Rhodos, Rijeka, Rimini, Sharm el Sheikh, Stockholm-Arlanda, Sylt [restarts July 2008], Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Valencia, Venice)
- Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir)
- XL Airways Germany (Fuerteventura, Pristina)
[edit] Terminal 4
- Air Via (Bourgas, Varna) seasonal
- Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas, Varna) seasonal
- B&H Airlines (Sarajevo,Mostar)
- Eurocypria Airlines (Paphos)
- Freebird Airlines (Antalya,Istanbul-Atatürk, Nevsehir)
- KTHY (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Nouvelair (Monastir)
- Pegasus Airlines (Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir)
- Sky Airlines (Anatalya)
- SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir)
[edit] Former Airlines and Destinations
- Delta Airlines (Budapest, Frankfurt, New York-JFK, Prague)
- Pan American World Airways (Frankfurt, New York-JFK)
[edit] See also
[edit] Gallery
 Airport Interior |
 Terminal 1 |
 Stuttgart tower |
 Waiting for take-off clearance |
[edit] External links
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