Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport
Flughafen Hamburg
IATA: HAM – ICAO: EDDH
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Hamburg (51%)
AviAlliance (49%)
Operator Flughafen Hamburg GmbH
Serves Hamburg, Germany
Hub for
Focus city for
Built 1911
Elevation AMSL 53 ft / 16 m
Coordinates 53°37′49″N 009°59′28″E / 53.63028°N 9.99111°E / 53.63028; 9.99111Coordinates: 53°37′49″N 009°59′28″E / 53.63028°N 9.99111°E / 53.63028; 9.99111
Website airport.de
Map
EDDH

Location of Hamburg Airport

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 3,250 10,663 Asphalt
15/33 3,666 12,028 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 15,610,072
Passenger change 14–15 Increase5.8%
Aircraft movements 158,398
Movements change 14–15 Increase2.9%
Sources: Airport's website [1]
German AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]

Hamburg Airport (IATA: HAM, ICAO: EDDH), known in German as Flughafen Hamburg, is the international airport of Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany. It is located 8.5 km (5.3 mi) north[2] of the city center in the Fuhlsbüttel quarter and serves as a base for Germanwings, Condor and easyJet.[3] Hamburg Airport is the fifth-busiest of Germany's commercial airports measured by the number of passengers and counted 15,610,072 passengers and 158,398 aircraft movements in 2015[4] and is named after Helmut Schmidt.[5] As of March 2016, it featured flights to 120 destinations[6] of which three are long-haul routes to Dubai, Newark and Tehran.

History

Early years

The airport was opened in January 1911 from private funding by the Hamburger Luftschiffhallen GmbH (HLG), making it the oldest airport in the world which is still in operation. The original site comprised 45 hectares and was primarily used for airship flights in its early days. In 1913, the site was expanded to 60 hectares, the northern part being used for airship operations, while the southeast area was used for fixed-wing aircraft.[7]

During the First World War, the airship hangar was used extensively by the military, until it was destroyed by fire in 1916.[7]

During the British occupation, beginning in 1945, the airport was given its current name, Hamburg Airport. It was used extensively during the Berlin Airlift in 1948 as a staging area, as the northern air corridor went between Hamburg and West Berlin.[7]

When Lufthansa launched passenger operations in 1955, Hamburg was used as a hub until Frankfurt Airport took over due to growth constraints posed by the location in the city. Lufthansa Technik still maintains a large presence at the airport due to the early activities of the airline at the airport.[7]

In the 1960s discussions began with the aim of moving the airport to Heidmoor by Kaltenkirchen. Reasons cited were limited expansion possibilities, capacity constraints due to crossing runways, and noise. Lufthansa had introduced the Boeing 707 in 1960, which made more noise than previous piston engined aircraft. The plans were dropped due to bad experiences in other cities with airports being moved far from city centres and Lufthansa's move to Frankfurt.[7]

Development since the 1990s

In the early 1990s, the airport began an extensive modernization process. The plan, called HAM21, included a new 500 m pier extension, a new terminal (Terminal 1), and the Airport Plaza between Terminals 1 and 2, which includes a consolidated security area.[7] The airport's shareholders are the City of Hamburg and AviAlliance.

The Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg Airport was added in 2009, combined with new roadside access and a station and connection to the rapid transit system Hamburg S-Bahn.[7]

In January 2016, TUIfly announced to leave Hamburg Airport entirely due to the increasing competition from low-cost carriers. While the summer seasonal routes will not resume, all remaining destinations will be cancelled by March 2016.[8] A few weeks later, the airport has been officially christened after Helmut Schmidt, a former Senator of Hamburg and chancellor of Germany.[5]

Facilities

Hamburg Airport 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) and features 54 parking positions, the passenger terminals provide 17 jet-ways.

The runways, taxiways and aprons are able to accommodate large aircraft, up to and including the Airbus A380. Although there is no scheduled A380 service expected, Hamburg Airport is a diversion airport for Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport, the location of the Airbus plant in Hamburg, where all A380s are painted and interior fitted prior to delivery.

Terminals

Main hall of Terminal 2

Hamburg has two terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, connected by the Airport Plaza and the baggage claim area that extends through the lower levels of all three buildings. These three buildings were designed by Gerkan, Marg, und Partner. Both Terminals have a high, curved ceiling designed to emulate the shape of a wing. In all buildings level 1 is the departure level, while level 0 is arrivals. Hamburg Airport offers 12 baggage claim belts on the arrivals level.

The Airport Plaza hosts the central security check as well as shops, restaurants, lounges and other service-facilities. It houses the S-Bahn station (suburban railway) and was completed in December 2008.

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 was completed in 2005 and is highly similar to Terminal 2 in terms of design and size. It has numerous energy and water saving features like rain water collection for use in restrooms and a ThermoLabyrinth, which uses ground temperature to help regulate the building's temperature and reduce loads on the air conditioning systems. Terminal 1 houses most of the airlines including those from the Oneworld and SkyTeam alliances.

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 is, despite its name, the older facility and was completed in 1993. It houses Germanwings and Lufthansa including its Star Alliance partners amongst some others.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Hamburg Airport:[9]

AirlinesDestinationsTerminal
Aegean Airlines Athens 1
Aer Lingus Dublin 1
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 1
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya Airlines 		Saint Petersburg 1
airBaltic Riga 1
Air Berlin Düsseldorf, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Málaga, Munich, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Salzburg,[10] Stuttgart, Tenerife-South, Vienna
Seasonal: Corfu, Faro, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Kos, Pristina (begins 22 July 2016),[11] Reykjavik-Keflavík, Samos, Thessaloniki		 1
Air Europa Charter: Gran Canaria, Tenerife-South 1
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 1
Air Greenland Charter: Kangerlussuaq 1
Air Malta Malta 1
Air Serbia
operated by Adria Airways		 Belgrade (begins 15 June 2016, ends 30 September 2016)[12] TBA
Air VIA Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna 1
ASL Airlines France Seasonal: Bordeaux (begins 5 May 2016), Lyon (begins 13 May 2016), Marseille (begins 13 May 2016)[13] 2
AtlasGlobal Seasonal charter: Antalya 1
Austrian Airlines Vienna 2
Blue AirBucharest[14] 1
BMI RegionalBristol 1
British AirwaysLondon-Heathrow 1
British Airways
operated by Eastern Airways for BA CityFlyer 		London-City (begins 5 September 2016) 1
British Airways
operated by MHS Aviation for BA CityFlyer 		London-City (ends 5 September 2016)[15] 1
British Airways
operated by SUN-AIR 		London-City 1
Brussels AirlinesBrussels 2
Brussels Airlines
operated by Flybe 		Brussels 2
Bulgarian Air CharterSeasonal: Burgas, Varna 1
CondorAntalya, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Tenerife-South
Seasonal: Corfu, Dalaman, Heraklion, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santa Cruz de la Palma 		2
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Antalya 1
Czech Airlines Gothenburg-Landvetter, Prague 1
easyJet Amsterdam, Athens, Basel/Mulhouse, Edinburgh, Fuerteventura, Geneva, Kraków, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Pisa, Rome-Fiumicino, Salzburg, Venice-Marco Polo, Zurich[16]
Seasonal: Alicante, Catania, Heraklion, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Olbia (begins 30 June 2016),[17] Pula (begins 29 June 2016),[18] Split, Thessaloniki 		1
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse 1
Emirates Dubai-International 1
Eurowings Birmingham, Budapest, Catania, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden (ends 30 October 2016),[19] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Klagenfurt, London-Heathrow, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Nuremberg, Oslo-Gardermoen, Prague, Stuttgart, Toulouse, Vienna, Zürich
Seasonal: Bastia, Cagliari,[20] Fuerteventura (begins 31 October 2016),[21] Ibiza,[22] Pisa,[21] Rhodes (begins 17 May 2016),[21] Tenerife-South (begins 1 November 2016),[21] Thessaloniki 		2
Eurowings
operated by Germanwings 		Amsterdam, Ankara, Barcelona, Dubrovnik, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Klagenfurt, Nice, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Venice-Marco Polo
Seasonal: Antalya, Bari, Faro, Heraklion, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Kos,[23] Naples, Pula, Reykjavik-Keflavík, Rijeka, Split, Thessaloniki, Verona, Zadar, Zagreb 		2
Finnair Helsinki 1
Finnair
operated by Nordic Regional Airlines 		Helsinki 1
Freebird Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya 1
Germania Beirut, Funchal, Marrakesh, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Seasonal: Bodrum,[24] Gazipaşa (begins 3 June 2016),[24] Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Paphos, Rhodes, Santorini
Seasonal charter: Adana,[25] Antalya,[26] Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca 		1
Iberia Madrid 1
Icelandair Seasonal: Reykjavik-Keflavík 1
Iran Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini 1
KLM Amsterdam 1
KLM
operated by KLM Cityhopper 		Amsterdam 1
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin 2
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich 1
Luxair Luxembourg, Saarbrücken 2
Meridian Air
operated by Hi Fly		 Havana (begins 27 May 2015)[24][27] TBA
Norwegian Air Shuttle Alicante, Barcelona, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Málaga, Oslo-Gardermoen, Tenerife-South 1
Nouvelair Charter: Djerba, Enfidha 1
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Seasonal charter: Antalya 		1
Rhein-Neckar Air
operated by MHS Aviation 		Mannheim 1
Ryanair Alicante, Barcelona, Bergamo (begins 30 October 2016),[28] Brussels (begins 1 November 2016),[29] Dublin (begins 31 October 2016),[30] Gran Canaria (begins 1 November 2016),[31] Lisbon, London-Stansted (begins 1 November 2016),[31] Madrid, Málaga, Manchester (begins 30 October 2016),[31] Palma de Mallorca,[32] Porto, Sofia (begins 1 November 2016) 1
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda 2
Scandinavian Airlines
operated by Cimber 		Copenhagen 2
Scandinavian Airlines
operated by Jet Time 		Copenhagen 2
SkyWork Airlines Bern 2
SunExpress Antalya, Izmir
Seasonal: Dalaman 		1
SunExpress Deutschland Bodrum[33]
Seasonal: Hurghada,[34] Marrakesh,[35] Varna (begins 29 June 2016)[24] 		1
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich 2
Sylt Air Seasonal: Sylt 2
Tailwind Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya 1
TAP Portugal Lisbon 2
TAROM Bucharest[36] 1
Tunisair Djerba, Enfidha
Seasonal: Tunis 		2
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Seasonal: Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir 		1
United Airlines Newark 1
VLM Airlines Antwerp, Friedrichshafen, Southampton 1
Vueling Barcelona, Málaga 1
Wizz Air Gdansk,[37] Kiev-Zhulyany,[37] Skopje [37] 2

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
FedEx Feeder
operated by ASL Airlines Ireland 		Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Statistics

Passengers and movements

Facilities of Lufthansa Technik at Hamburg Airport with the Heinrich-Hertz-Turm in the far distance
View of the apron
Passengers Movements Freight (in t)
2000 9,949,269 164,932 48,669
2001 Decrease 9,490,432 Decrease 158,569 Decrease 43,076
2002 Decrease 8,946,505 Decrease 150,271 Decrease 40,871
2003 Increase 9,529,924 Decrease 149,362 Decrease 36,018
2004 Increase 9,893,700 Increase 151,434 Increase 37,080
2005 Increase 10,676,016 Increase 156,180 Decrease 32,677
2006 Increase 11,954,117 Increase 168,395 Increase 38,211
2007 Increase 12,780,631 Increase 173,516 Increase 44,204
2008 Increase 12,838,350 Decrease 172,067 Decrease 37,266
2009 Decrease 12,229,319 Decrease 157,487 Decrease 31,595
2010 Increase 12,962,429 Decrease 157,180 Decrease 27,330
2011 Increase 13,558,261 Increase 158,076 Increase 27,588
2012 Increase 13,697,402 Decrease 152,890 Increase 28,174
2013 Decrease 13,502,553 Decrease 143,802 Increase 28,302
2014 Increase 14,760,280 Increase 153,879 Increase 28,948
2015 Increase 15,610,072 Increase 158,398 Increase 31,294
Sources: ADV,[38] Hamburg Airport[39]

Busiest routes

Busiest non European routes from Hamburg (2015)[40]
Rank Destination Passengers
1 Turkey Antalya, Turkey 475,806
2 United Arab Emirates Dubai, UAE 129,624
3 Egypt Hurghada, Egypt 96,150
4 Turkey Izmir, Turkey 65,530
5 United States Newark, USA 44,840
Busiest European routes from Hamburg (2015)[40]
Rank Destination Passengers
1 United Kingdom London, United Kingdom 706,844
2 Spain Palma de Mallorca, Spain 694,302
3 Austria Vienna, Austria 479,062
4 Switzerland Zürich, Switzerland 433,252
5 France Paris, France 354,010
Busiest domestic routes from Hamburg (2014)[41]
Rank Destination Passengers
1 Germany Munich 1,347,070
2 Germany Frankfurt 733,060
3 Germany Stuttgart 702,884
4 Germany Düsseldorf 452,750
5 Germany Nuremberg 221,544

Ground transportation

Train

Hamburg Airport station

The airport is located ca. 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Hamburg city centre and 8 km (5.0 mi) south of Norderstedt in the borough of Fuhlsbüttel. HVV, the Hamburg public transit network, runs the S-Bahn-line (suburban railway) S1 which links the airport directly to the city centre every ten minutes. The trip to Hamburg central station takes approximately 25 minutes.

Car

By road, the airport can be reached from motorway A7 using the state highway B433, which is the third ring road. Motorists from the east of the city must drive through Hamburg.

Bus

The airport is also linked by some local bus routes to nearby areas as well as regular coach services to the cities of Kiel and Neumünster

Trivia

See also

References

  1. ↑ Flughafen Hamburg. "Passenger statistics and aircraft movements". Ham-airport.de.
  2. 1 2 "EAD Basic". Ead.eurocontrol.int.
  3. ↑ "Latest news – easyJet plc". Corporate.easyjet.com. 25 September 2013.
  4. ↑ (English) Traffic Figures – Official website
  5. 1 2 ndr.de - Flughafen "Helmut Schmidt" beschlossene Sache (German) 21 January 2016
  6. ↑ - "The news in Hamburg Airport's summer schedule" (German) 28 March 2016
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Flughafen Hamburg - 404 - Inhalt nicht gefunden". Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  8. ↑ ch-aviation.com - TUIfly to end Hamburg operations over LCC threat 13 January 2016
  9. ↑ "Flughafen Hamburg - Destinations & airlines". Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  10. ↑ http://airberlin.com; GDS Reservation closed
  11. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/03/15/ab-europe-s16/
  12. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/03/17/ju-jpcr9-s16/
  13. ↑ http://www.air-journal.fr/2016-01-08-asl-airlines-trois-routes-francaises-vers-hambourg-5156244.html
  14. ↑ "Blue Air fliegt zwischen Hamburg und Bucharest". airlinestravel.ro.
  15. ↑ Book Flights, Holidays & Check In Online | British Airways
  16. ↑ http://www.aerotelegraph.com/easyjet-baut-mit-neuer-destination-ab-zuerich-aus
  17. ↑ http://www.easyjet.com/de/billigfluege/hamburg/olbia-sardinien
  18. ↑ http://www.easyjet.com/de/billigfluege/hamburg/pula
  19. ↑ eurowings.com
  20. ↑ https://www.eurowings.com/de/buchen/angebote/fluege-ab/DE/HAM/nach/IT/CAG.html
  21. 1 2 3 4 https://www.eurowings.com/en/booking/new-routes.html
  22. ↑ http://www.airliners.de/eurowings-sommer-strecke-hamburg/37071
  23. ↑ http://www.hamburg-airport.de/media/FlugplanSommer2016.pdf#page=31&zoom=180,-4,353
  24. 1 2 3 4 http://www.haminfo-terminal.com/route_news.php
  25. ↑ http://www.hamburg-airport.de/media/HAM_E15_web.pdf#page=19&zoom=auto,-63,494
  26. ↑ http://www.hamburg-airport.de/media/HAM_E15_web.pdf#page=20&zoom=auto,-63,532
  27. ↑ http://www.flymeridianair.com/fluginformationen/
  28. ↑ "Ryanair W16 Milan / Rome Operation Changes". airlineroute. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  29. ↑ http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1901/reisnieuws/article/detail/2598015/2016/01/27/Ryanair-kondigt-acht-nieuwe-bestemmingen-vanuit-Belgie-aan-vanaf-november-2016.dhtml
  30. ↑ "Ryanair Flight Timetable". Ryanair. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  31. 1 2 3 http://www.airliners.de/ryanair-basis-nuernberg/37855
  32. ↑ http://biztravel.fvw.de/ryanair-fuenf-strecken-fuer-hamburg/393/147036/4070
  33. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/03/18/xg-s16update2/
  34. ↑ http://www.hamburg-airport.de/Winterflugplan_2015.pdf#page=27&zoom=auto,-136,191
  35. ↑ http://www.airliners.de/sunexpress-winterflugplan/36141
  36. ↑ "NEW TAROM Adds Hamburg Service from May 2016". airlineroute. January 11, 2016.
  37. 1 2 3 http://www.aerotelegraph.com/wizzair-startet-fluege-ab-hamburg-laesst-luebeck-fallen-insolvenz-pleite
  38. ↑ Flughafenverband ADV. "Flughafenverband ADV – Unsere Flughäfen: Regionale Stärke, Globaler Anschluss". Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  39. ↑ "Flughafen Hamburg - 404 - Inhalt nicht gefunden". Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  40. 1 2 MARKET SIZE AT HAMBURG AIRPORT JAN 2015 - DEC 2015, Hamburg Airport
  41. ↑ MARKET SIZE AT HAMBURG AIRPORT JAN 2014 - DEC 2014, Hamburg Airport
  42. ↑ "world's largest miniature airport opens". The USA Today. 16 July 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

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