Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport () , is a major international airport in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany. Since November 2016 the airport has been named after the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt. It is located north As of July 2017, it featured flights to more than 130 mostly European metropolitan and leisure destinations as well as two long-haul routes to Dubai and Doha. The airport is equipped to handle wide-bodied aircraft including the Airbus A380.

Hamburg's other airport, Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport where the Airbus factory is located, is not open to commercial traffic.

History

Early years

thumb|Hamburg Airport in 1968

thumb|A [[Japan Airlines Douglas DC-8 at Hamburg Airport in 1965]]

thumb|A [[Condor (airline)|Condor Boeing 727-30 at Hamburg Airport in 1979]]

thumb|Aerial view of the airport and its surrounding area

The airport was opened in January 1911 from private funding by the Hamburger Luftschiffhallen GmbH (HLG), making it the oldest international airport in the world to still be in operation and the second oldest airport in the country after Tempelhof Airport. The original site comprised 45 hectares, and during its early days was primarily used for airship flights. 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.

During the First World War, the airship hangar was used extensively by the German military, until it was destroyed by fire in 1916. A few weeks later, it was officially announced that the airport was to be named after Helmut Schmidt, a former senator of Hamburg and chancellor of West Germany. On 10 November 2016, the airport was renamed Hamburg Airport Helmut Schmidt.

In October 2016, Air Berlin announced the closure of its maintenance facilities at the airport, due to cost-cutting and restructuring measures.

In June 2017, easyJet announced it would close its base at Hamburg by March 2018 as part of a refocus on other base airports. While over half of the former services were cut, several routes remained in place as they are served from other easyJet bases. In October 2018, United Airlines announced the end of its seasonal service to Newark, leaving the airport with only three long-haul routes, all to the Middle East, and no direct services to North America. The route was inaugurated by Continental Airlines back in 2005 and switched from year-round to seasonal in 2017 Also in October 2018 Emirates switched one of the two daily flights from Dubai to A380-service. This was the first ever commercial A380 service to Hamburg. The second daily flight remains operated by Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

In January 2020, Ryanair also closed its Hamburg base due to airport operating costs, late delivery of the Boeing 737-Max aircraft, and its general downsizing of its German operations.

Facilities

thumb|Terminal 1 interior

thumb|Terminal exterior

Overview

Hamburg Airport originally covered . Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to . The main apron covers and features 54 parking positions; the passenger terminals provide 17 jet bridges. As of July 2016, the airport had only three routes served with wide-body aircraft; however, during that year three gates were upgraded with double-jet bridges to provide faster boarding and de-boarding for large planes like the Airbus A380. The runways, taxiways and aprons can accommodate large aircraft, including the Airbus A380. Emirates replaced one Boeing 777 with A380 aircraft on the route.

Terminals

Hamburg has two interconnected terminals, Terminal 1 (used by most airlines including those of Oneworld and SkyTeam) and Terminal 2 (Star Alliance), connected by the Airport Plaza and the baggage claim area that extends through the lower levels of all three buildings. In all buildings level 1 is the departure level with overall 44 departure gates, while level 0 is arrivals and also features ten additional bus gates.

Terminal 2 (despite its name, the older facility) was completed in 1993, Terminal 1 was completed in 2005 and is highly similar to Terminal 2 in terms of design and size. The main buildings were designed by Gerkan, Marg and Partners. Both terminals have a high, curved ceiling designed to emulate the shape of a wing.

Airlines and destinations

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

Statistics

Passengers and movements

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; width:225px; margin:auto;"

! !! !! !!

!2000

| 9,949,269

| 164,932

| 48,669

!2001

| 9,490,432

| 158,569

| 43,076

!2002

| 8,946,505

| 150,271

| 40,871

!2003

| 9,529,924

| 149,362

| 36,018

!2004

| 9,893,700

| 151,434

| 37,080

!2005

| 156,180

| 32,677

!2006

| 11,954,117

| 168,395

| 38,211

!2007

| 12,780,631

| 173,516

| 44,204

!2008

| 12,838,350

| 172,067

| 37,266

!2009

| 12,229,319

| 157,487

| 31,595

!2010

| 12,962,429

| 157,180

| 27,330

!2011

| 13,558,261

| 158,076

| 27,588

!2012

| 13,697,402

| 152,890

| 28,174

!2013

| 13,502,553

| 143,802

| 28,302

!2014

| 14,760,280

| 153,879

| 28,948

!2015

| 15,610,072

| 158,398

| 31,294

!2016

| 16,223,968

| 160,904

| 35,284

!2017

| 17,622,997

| 159,780

| 36,863

!2018

| 17,231,687

| 156,388

| 33,473

!2019

| 17,308,773

| 160,146

| -

!2020

|5,632,367

| 55,261

| -

!2021

|6,109,402

| 60,402

| -

!2022

|11,097,688

| 109,856

| -

!2023

|13,599,732

| 122,315

| -

!2024

|14,830,000

| 120,300

| -

| colspan="6" style="text-align:right;"| <small>Sources: ADV, Hamburg Airport</small>

</div>

Busiest routes

{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto;"

|+ Busiest routes from Hamburg (2019)

! Rank

! Destination

! Passengers

! Operating Airlines

| 1

| Munich

| 1,750,284

| Eurowings, Lufthansa

| 2

| Frankfurt

| 1,422,950

| Condor,Lufthansa

| 3

| London (all airports)

| 978,500

| British Airways, easyJet, Eurowings, Ryanair

| 4

| Palma de Mallorca

| 882,830

| Condor, Eurowings, Ryanair

| 5

| Stuttgart

| 737,285

| Eurowings

| 6

| Vienna

| 710,162

| Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, LEVEL

| 7

| Zürich

| 699,800

| Eurowings, Swiss

| 8

| Düsseldorf

| 524,114

| Eurowings

| 9

| Antalya

| 498,966

| Condor, Corendon Airlines, Freebird Airlines, SunExpress

| 10

| Amsterdam

| 477,618

| Eurowings, KLM

! colspan="8" class="hintergrundfarbe2"| Total number of passengers embarking direct flights doubled (no connecting passengers).

Ground transportation

The airport is around north of Hamburg city centre and south of Norderstedt in the borough of Fuhlsbüttel.

Rail

thumb|Hamburg Airport station

The S-Bahn Hamburg service S1 departs every ten minutes and connects the airport with Ohlsdorf, Wandsbek, Hamburg central station, Altona, Blankenese, and Wedel. It is part of the Hamburg transport association (abbreviated as HVV) which is a fare organisation offering tickets for all modes of public transportation in Hamburg. Going towards the airport, the S1 S-Bahn operates as dividing train and splits at Ohlsdorf station, with one part of the train going to the airport and the other going to Poppenbüttel.

Car

By road, the airport can be reached from Federal Motorway A7 via Exit Schnelsen using the state motorway B433, which is Hamburg's third ring road. temporarily halted flights at the airport. He parked under a Turkish Airlines aircraft demanding to be allowed on board to fly to Turkey with his daughter. He fired a weapon twice in the air and threw two incendiary devices from his car. Authorities said the commercial flight was preparing to take off, forcing the evacuation of everyone on board through a gangway. The authorities believe the cause was a "custody dispute". The incident came three weeks after German federal police received an emailed threat of an attack on an Iran Air flight arriving at the airport. The perpetrator was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by a Hamburg court.

References

External links

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Official website
Accident history for HAM at Aviation Safety Network