Hanover/Langenhagen International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Hanover Airport
nativename = Flughafen Hannover
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IATA = HAJ
ICAO = EDDV
type = Commercial
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operator = Flughafen Hannover-Langenhagen GmbH
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location = Hanover, Germany
elevation-f = 183
elevation-m = 56
coordinates = Coord|52|27|39|N|09|41|06|E|type:airport_region:DE
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r1-number = 09L/27R
r1-length-f = 12,467
r1-length-m = 3,800
r1-surface = Concrete
r2-number = 09R/27L
r2-length-f = 7,677
r2-length-m = 2,340
r2-surface = Concrete
r3-number = 09C/27C
r3-length-f = 2,559
r3-length-m = 780
r3-surface = Asphalt
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Hanover Airport Airport codes|HAJ|EDDV, also called Langenhagen Airport with reference to the nearby town of Langenhagen, is situated 11km north of the centre of Hanover, the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the ninth largest airport in Germany.

History

Hanover Airport was opened in 1952 replacing an old airfield within the city limits of Hanover. 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 Hanover 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.

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 Hanover 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 Hanover 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.

Terminal A

*Air Baltic (Riga) [starts in December]
*Air France
**Air France operated by Régional (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
*Austrian Airlines
**Austrian Airlines operated by Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
*bmi
**bmi operated by BMI Regional (London-Heathrow)
*Czech Airlines (Prague)
*KLM
**KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
*Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Brussels, Guernsey [seasonal] , Jersey [seasonal] , Stuttgart)
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Frankfurt, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
**Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Munich)
*Scandinavian Airlines
**Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber Air (Copenhagen)
*Swiss International Air Lines
**Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines (Zurich)
*Welcome Air (Gothenburg-Landvetter, Graz, Innsbruck, Kristiansand, Stavanger)

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 (Paphos)
*Flybe (Birmingham, Manchester, Southampton)
*Germania (Izmir, Palma de Mallorca)
*Hamburg International (Araxos, Kostanay, Petropavlovsk) [seasonal]
*Inter Airlines (Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk)
*KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
*KrasAir (Moscow-Domodedovo, Omsk [seasonal] )
*Pegasus Airlines (Antalya)
*Rossiya (St. Petersburg)
*S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk [seasonal] , Omsk [seasonal] )
*Saravia (Saratov)
*Sky Airlines (Antalya)
*SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum [seasonal] , Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen, Izmir)
*Tunis Air (Djerba, Monastir)
*Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk)
*Wind Rose Aviation (Simferopol) [seasonal]

Terminal C

*Air Alps (Bolzano)
*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)
**airberlin operated by Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (Westerland/Sylt) [seasonal]
*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 [starts in November] , Catania, Dalaman [seasonal] , Dubrovnik [seasonal] , Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal [seasonal] , Heraklion [seasonal] , Hurghada, Istanbul-Gokcen [seasonal] , Jerez de la Frontera, Kerkyra [seasonal] , Klagenfurt, Kos [seasonal] , Las Palmas, Mahon [seasonal] , Manchester, Milan-Bergamo, Naples, Newcastle, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly [ends 29-OCT-2008] , Pisa [seasonal] , Rijeka [seasonal] , Rimini [seasonal] , Rhodes [seasonal] , Rome-Ciampino, Sal [starts in November] , Salzburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki [seasonal] , Valencia [seasonal] , Venice)
*XL Airways Germany (Arvidsjaur) [seasonal]

Terminal D

*Omni Air International (Military Charter)
*Royal Air Force

Cargo airlines

*FedEx
** FedEx operated by Farnair Switzerland (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
*TNT Airways (Liège)
*TUIfly (Munich, Stuttgart)

External links

* [http://www.hannover-airport.de/index.php?id=5&L=1 Hannover Airport Official site, english]
* [http://www.airport-hannover.com Hanover International Airport Fotocommunity] (private site, English version)
* [http://www.gat-haj.de Hanover Airport] (private site with Information to General Avaiation)
* [http://azworldairports.com/airports/p1600haj.htm A-Z World Airports: Hannover Airport (HAJ/EDDV)]