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Düsseldorf Airport

Flughafen Düsseldorf

IATA: DUS
ICAO: EDDL

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH

Serves

Düsseldorf, Germany

Location

Düsseldorf-Lohausen, Düsseldorf, Germany

Hub for

Eurowings

Focus city for

Condor
Flybe
Lauda
SunExpress Deutschland
TUI fly Deutschland

Elevation AMSL

44.8 m / 147 ft

Coordinates

51°17′22″N 006°46′00″E / 51.28944°N 6.76667°E

Website

dus.com

Map

DUS

Location in North Rhine-Westphalia

Runway

Runway	Length		Surface
Runway	m	ft	Surface
05R/23L	3,000	9,843	Concrete
05L/23R	2,700	8,859	Concrete

Statistics (2018)

Passengers	24,283,967
Passenger change 17–18	-1,4%
Aircraft movements	218,820
Movements change 17–18	-1,3%

Sources: Flughafenverband ADV
German AIP at EUROCONTROL

Düsseldorf International Airport (German: Flughafen Düsseldorf International; (IATA: DUS, ICAO: EDDL) is an airport in Germany. It is eight kilometres from Düsseldorf. The airport has the IATA Airport Code DUS. There is one other airport named "Düsseldorf Express Airport, Mönchengladbach", but that is only a continental airport and has only a few lines, mostly private jets.

The international airport supports flights to 180 destinations on four continents and hosts 70 airlines. The airport has 800 takeoffs and landings per day.

The airport was opened on April 19, 1927, after two years of construction. However, the first aircraft to land in northern Düsseldorf was the Zeppelin LZ-III in 1909.

On April 11, 1996 there was a fire in the airport, probably caused by welding work on the roof. 17 people were killed, mostly due to smoke inhalation. The terminal building was badly damaged, and was closed for five years. By July 1, 2001 it had been nearly completely re-built and was re-opened.

A suspended monorail connects the terminal building with the InterCity and ICE train station (High speed and extremely high speed trains). The so-called SkyTrain travels the 2.5 kilometers between the terminal and station at a maximum speed of 50 km/h. It started operation in 2002, replacing a shuttle bus service, and is not free of charge to use.

Airlines serving Düsseldorf International Airport

Currently, the following airlines operate routes to and from Düsseldorf International Airport:

Aegean Airlines
Aer Lingus (Dublin)
Aero Lloyd
Aeroflight (Catania, Nador, Tivat)
Aeroflot (Moscow Domodedovo)
Air Adriatic
Air Botnia
Air Europa
Air France (Lyon, Nice, Paris)
Air Malta
Air Via Bulgarian Airways
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome)
AMC Aviation
Atlasjet International (Ankara)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
Balkan Air
BH Airlines
Bluewings (Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir)
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
British Airways Citiexpress (Birmingham, Manchester)
Bulgarian Air Charter (Burgas, Varna)
Cimber Air
Cirrus Airlines
Condor Flugdienst (Arrecife, Heraklion, Las Palmas, Palma)
Croatia Airlines (Split)
Czech Airlines
dba (Berlin-Tegel, Lamezia, Munich, Nürnberg)
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, beginning March 2006)
Denim Airlines
Deutsche BA
Egyptair (Cairo)
El Al
Emirates (Bombay, Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Osaka, Perth, Singapore)
Eurocypria Airlines
Eurowings
Finnair (Helsinki)
Fly Air
Freebird Airlines
Germania Airlines (Lamezia, Zadar)
Germania Express (Sarajevo, Zadar)
German Wings (Berlin-Schonefeld)
Hapag-Lloyd (Bodrum, Catania, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Palma)
Hola Airlines
Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
Islandsflug-Icebird
Karthago Airlines
Kibris Turkish
KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
LOT Polish (Warsaw)
LTE International
Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (Erfert)
Lufthansa (Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Boston, Bucharest, Budapest, Chicago, Denver, Dresdon, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Houston, Jersey, Leipzig-Halle, London-City, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Lyon, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Montreal, Munich, Newark, Nurnberg, Paris, Portland, Prague, Rome, San Francisco, Seattle, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Toronto, Turin, Zürich)
Macedonian Airlines (Ohrid)
Mahan Air (Bangkok, Delhi)
Middle East Airlines Liban
MNG Airlines (Bodrum)
Montenegro Airlines
Nouvelair Tunisie (Monastir)
Onur Air (Ankara)
Pegasus Airlines (Bodrum)
Privatair
Rossiya
Royal Air Maroc (Nador)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
Shorouk Air
Sky Airlines
Styrian Spirit
SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum)
Swiss International Airlines (Geneva, Zürich)
S7
TAROM (Bucharest)
Thomas Cook Airlines
Tunisair
Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir)
Viking Airlines
Vueling Airlines (Barcelona)
White Eagle Airlines
World Focus Airlines (Ankara)

Before September 11 Düsseldorf International Airport had many flights from the United States. Now the only direct flight to the United States is from Privatair. Privatair has a flight going to New York Newark airport, which is codeshared with Lufthansa.