Saarbrücken Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Saarbrücken Airport
nativename = Flughafen Saarbrücken
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location = Saarbrücken
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r1-number = 09/27
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Saarbrücken Airport airport codes|SCN|EDDR, or "Flughafen Saarbrücken" in German, is an airport in Saarbrücken, Germany.The airport handled 350,592 passengers in 2007. The number is expected to increase to 600,000 by the end of 2008.

Airlines and destinations

*airberlin (Berlin-Tegel, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Zürich [begins 1 November] )
*Air Via (Bourgas, Varna) "seasonal"
*Blue Wings
*Cirrus Airlines (Hamburg, Mannheim)
*Hamburg International (Ankara, Antalya, Arrecife, Burgas, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodos, Sharm el Sheikh, Tenerife-South)
*Luxair (Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Munich, London-City, Rome)
*Nouvelair (Monastir)
*Sky Airlines (Antalya)
*SunExpress (Antalya)
*Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir)

History

The history of aviation in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German federal state Saarland, began on 17 September 1928 in the district of St. Arnual. Flights operated from Saarbrücken-St. Arnual Airport until 1939. The first plane to use the airport was a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt stopping en-route for Paris. In 1929 routes to Frankfurt and onto Berlin and Karlsruhe onto Munich, Vienna and Budapest were opened.

The airport's suboptimal location meant winter flights were not possible and bad weather and poor flying conditions caused frequent problems. Thus Saarbrücken-St. Arnual was closed in 1939. A new airport was built in the district of Ensheim, where Saarbrücken Airport has been located until today. However, the outbreak of the Second World War made opening the airport impossible.

It wasn't until 1964 and several years of reconstruction work that the airport in Ensheim could finally open. In 1972, Saarbrücken Airport became one of 17 airports in Germany to offer international flights. Since 1975 Lufthansa and many other airlines have resumed flights out of Saarbrücken. In 2005, a record year, nearly 500,000 passengers used Saarbrücken Airport.

In 2006/2007, Saarbrücken Airport suffered difficulties caused by the opening of the former military airport of Zweibrücken just 40km away. German airlines Germanwings and TuiFly relocated from Saabrücken and opened domestic routes in direct competition with Saarbrücken. However Air Berlin, Germany's second largest airline, has since opened routes from Saarbrücken Airport to dozens of destinations and Luxair has made Saarbrücken Airport its second hub. Thus passengers numbers have steadily increased. In June 2008, 54,504 passengers used Saarbrücken Airport.

External links

* [http://www.flughafen-saarbruecken.de/index_start.php?lang=en Saarbrücken Airport] en icon
*WAD|EDDR