Rostock-Laage Airport
Rostock-Laage Airport |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | ETNL |
IATA code | RLG |
Coordinates | |
Height above MSL | 43 m (141 ft ) |
Transport links | |
Distance from the city center | 28 km southeast of Rostock |
Street | |
Local transport | Bus connection to scheduled flights, shuttle buses to the holiday regions of Rügen, Lake District, Baltic Sea Coast, West Mecklenburg, Fischland-Darß-Zingst |
Basic data | |
opening | 1984 (military) 1992 (civil) |
operator | Rostock-Laage-Güstrow Airport GmbH |
surface | 500 ha |
Terminals | 1 |
Passengers | 148,000 (2019) |
Air freight | 15.7 t (2017) |
Flight movements |
15,888 (2018) |
Capacity ( PAX per year) |
1 million |
Employees | 107 permanent employees, 69 marginal part-time employees, 4 trainees |
Start-and runway | |
09/27 | 2520 m × 45 m concrete |
The Rostock-Laage Airport is a regional commercial airport in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . It is located in the Rostock district between the Laager districts Kronskamp and Weitendorf and is used both militarily by the air force and civilly by Rostock-Laage-Güstrow Airport GmbH .
Location and transport links
Private transport
The airport can be reached by car via federal road 103 or Autobahn 19 .
Transportation
There is no direct connection to the railway network. The closest transport stop, Kronskamp, is around 7 kilometers from the airport.
A public transport -control of the airport from / to Rostock done with the rebus -Buslinie 127, the schedule is matched to the flight plan of the airport. The cities of Güstrow and Laage are connected to the airport with the Rebus bus line 200. There is also a shuttle service from / to the ZOB Greifswald in cooperation with Taxi and Rental Car Wedow and the Greifswald transport company .
history
The beginnings of aviation in Rostock go back to the beginning of the 20th century.
prehistory
Even before the First World War , the city had a combined land and sea airfield built near Hohe Düne .
Used for military purposes in World War I, civilian use began after the war. At the airport, which has been declared a customs sea and land airport of the first order, bathing air traffic and the training of pilots at the German Aviation School played an important role. In addition, the Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke had their first company headquarters in Rostock. Military use took place again in the 1930s and was continued in World War II . In addition to this airport, there were in Rostock the works airfields of the Arado Flugzeugwerke at Groß Klein and the Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in Marienehe since around 1935 .
From the Rostock Hohe Düne airport, Deutsche Lufthansa carried out its last scheduled flights to Scandinavia in April 1945 before the end of the war. After the Second World War, the Rostock airfields and the aircraft works were dismantled. The city no longer had an airport.
Plans from the 1950s to build a new airport east of the city did not materialize.
Military aviators and civil aviation at Laage airfield
In 1984 the Laage military airfield was opened by the East German NVA . The Jagdbombenfliegergeschwader 77 and the Marinefliegergeschwader 28 were stationed at this place .
With German reunification, the Luftwaffe became the host of the airfield.
Civil air traffic began in 1992. This was made possible by a joint-use agreement with the Bundeswehr from January 1992. This states that the airport, which was previously used exclusively for military purposes, was also released for civil use.
The Rostock-Laage-Güstrow GmbH airport built a first terminal and other necessary for civilian air traffic systems. The civil airport was named Rostock-Laage Airport .
While the focus of air traffic was initially on domestic German scheduled connections, holiday air traffic increasingly became the mainstay of the airport. There the focus was initially on connections to southern holiday areas, but now connections for arriving tourists with the holiday destination Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have also become important.
From 1994 to 2005 Rostock was part of the night airmail system of the Deutsche Post and was flown to nightly with a chartered Boeing 737 of the Deutsche Lufthansa AG for the purpose of night airmail handling. Until 2009, the Munich route was still operated by OLT as part of an airline subsidy from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
In the terminal there is an exhibition on the history of aviation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which also includes a replica of the Heinkel He 178 , the world's first jet aircraft.
In January 2008, the new entrance to the airport went into operation. Vehicles that want to drive to the airport no longer have to drive through Weitendorf.
From March 26, 2011, Lufthansa connected the airport to Frankfurt am Main airport for the first time , but the flights have since been suspended.
Since January 2015 there has been a cooperation with the cruise company Costa Crociere . This includes feeder flights for the cruise terminal in Warnemünde. This enabled significant increases in the number of passengers to be achieved. The cooperation developed positively, which is why the companies involved announced in November 2015 that they wanted to handle more flights via the airport. Another partner for cruise feeder flights was added in January 2016 with the shipping company Pullmantur Cruises . The flights are operated by Wamos Air , so that the airport was first served by a regular Boeing 747 on June 20, 2016 , after a VC-25A landed as Air Force One in 2007 as part of a G8 summit . Most recently, in April 2016, there was a cooperation with another cruise company, MSC Cruises . This includes feeder flights for the MSC Opera , which will be calling at Rostock in the 2016 summer season.
After having stationed an Airbus A319 at Rostock Airport in the winter of 2015/2016 , Germania announced in June 2016 that it would be stationing an aircraft at the airport all year round for the first time from 2017. The number of targets has also been increased. On June 4, 2018, VLM Airlines started flights to Cologne / Bonn , but announced two months later that it would discontinue them on September 16, 2018. On August 31, 2018, it was decided to liquidate VLM Airlines, so the flights were terminated early. For January 6, 2019 also was the connection after Stuttgart from Flybmi set.
On February 4, 2019, Germania filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations the following night. Until then, Germania was by far the most important airline for Rostock-Laage Airport. On February 17, 2019, Flybmi also filed for bankruptcy and suspended the remaining scheduled flights to Munich . As a result, there are no more scheduled flights in Rostock-Laage.
Subsequently, the airlines Corendon Airlines , Laudamotion and Fly Egypt announced that they would use Rostock-Laage Airport. Furthermore, Lufthansa announced on March 14, 2019 that it would again be flying between Munich and Rostock-Laage itself from May 1, 2019. There are currently scheduled flights to and from Munich several times a day, with connections to Vienna twice a week and also to Crete and Antalya in summer .
Civil flight operations
use
The airport is used in the civil sector for scheduled and charter flights as well as general aviation. In addition, pilots are trained at the airport, including a. by the Lufthansa flight school .
The passenger terminal with two passenger boarding bridges and a capacity of 1 million passengers per year was opened on September 9, 2005. It is located with other facilities (cargo hall, administration, location of the helicopter squadron of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania police ) south of the runway .
After the bankruptcies of the airlines Germania and Flybmi in early February 2019, there were no more scheduled flights at the airport.
Lufthansa has resumed scheduled operations to Munich since May 2019.
Since the opening of the passenger terminal, the airport has been making losses that have been offset by the public sector.
Shareholder
The shareholders of the operator Rostock-Laage-Güstrow GmbH are with 54.1% the Rostocker Versorgungs- und Verkehrsholding GmbH (owned by the city of Rostock), with 35.6% the district of Rostock and with 10.3% the city of Laage. The annual losses of the airport operations - as in 2011 2.6 million euros - are compensated by the three shareholders and by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 2013 the airport again had a deficit of around 2.8 million euros. The airport has been criticized for years because of its deficient operations. Furthermore, the official passenger statistics are criticized, because they also include flight students from the local flight schools, for example.
terminal
The new passenger terminal named after Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain went into operation on September 9, 2005. It has an area of 90 × 60 meters and has two passenger boarding bridges , eight check-in counters and two baggage claim belts. Two control lines with an X-ray inspection device and metal detector are available for security checks. Counters for border and passport control are available. In the passenger area there is a duty-free shop, a mocha bar, a smoking area and a children's playground. There are ticket counters for all airlines operating from the airport. Rental car and travel agencies are available in the terminal.
The apron of the terminal offers five parking positions, e.g. for smaller machines. Machines in the apron position can be reached by passengers on foot (walk boarding ). The regular buses to and from Rostock stop right in front of the terminal. 1000 parking spaces are available for cars.
Feeder flights are offered for the passenger changes on the cruise ships in Warnemünde harbor .
Traffic figures
Year of operation | Passenger volume | Freight in tons | Flight movements |
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2000 | 99,845 | - | 11,686 |
2001 | 109.964 | - | 10,439 |
2002 | 135.129 | 276.9 | 9,421 |
2003 | 140.920 | 142.4 | 10,483 |
2004 | 157,643 | 776.2 | 8,971 |
2005 | 175,888 | 922.5 | 9,489 |
2006 | 170.084 | 471.1 | 9,354 |
2007 | 192.744 | 555.3 | 9,855 |
2008 | 175.411 | 1,134.0 | 8,845 |
2009 | 161,812 | 3,044.6 | 8,085 |
2010 | 219,489 | 1,091.7 | 19,342 |
2011 | 223,516 | 59.4 | 23,766 |
2012 | 203,990 | 94.1 | 22,715 |
2013 | 177.464 | 30.2 | 23,716 |
2014 | 169.945 | 4.2 | 22,749 |
2015 | 190,869 | 69.1 | 19,489 |
2016 | 250.199 | 1.3 | 14,321 |
2017 | 290,654 | 15.7 | 13,972 |
2018 | 296.027 | - | 15,888 |
2019 | 148.165 |
rank | target | Passengers 2018 |
change | Passengers 2017 |
Starts 2018 |
change | Starts 2017 |
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1 | Munich | 19,353 | +5.01% | 18,429 | 601 | + 8.29% | 555 |
2 | Madrid | 14,079 | -21.14% | 17,854 | 65 | -30.85% | 94 |
3 | Antalya | 15,372 | + 26.60% | 12,142 | 127 | + 25.74% | 101 |
4th | Hurghada | 12,704 | + 100.60% | 6.333 | 97 | + 9.57% | 49 |
5 | Palma de Mallorca | 10,794 | -3.44% | 11,178 | 103 | + 9.57% | 94 |
6th | Stuttgart | 8,341 | -11.86% | 9,463 | 313 | + 125.18% | 139 |
This statistic only includes starts. (No landings) |
rank | target | Passengers 2018 |
change | Passengers 2017 |
Starts 2018 |
change | Starts 2017 |
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1 | Spain | 40,564 | -12.94% | 46,592 | 298 | -10.51% | 333 |
2 | Germany | 31,338 | + 5.38% | 29,739 | 5,175 | + 9.78% | 4,714 |
3 | Turkey | 15,372 | +26.33% | 12,168 | 127 | + 24.51% | 102 |
4th | Italy | 15,069 | + 2.95% | 14,637 | 78 | –7.14% | 84 |
5 | Egypt | 12,704 | + 100.60% | 6.333 | 97 | +97.96% | 49 |
6th | Greece | 8,294 | + 7.66% | 7,704 | 78 | + 5.41% | 74 |
7th | Austria | 3,890 | -1.44% | 3,947 | 44 | -4.35% | 46 |
8th | Bulgaria | 3,553 | + 5.65% | 3,363 | 37 | + 12.12% | 33 |
9 | Switzerland | 2,462 | -37.70% | 3,952 | 47 | + 6.82% | 44 |
10 | France | 1,261 | -8.89% | 1,384 | 23 | +130.00% | 10 |
This statistic only includes starts. (No landings) |
Military use
The investments of the airbase Laage and the associated barracks are located mostly north of the runway and taxiway north . The military area is used by two associations.
- Tactical Air Force Squadron 73 “Steinhoff” : It was the first fighter squadron in Germany to be equipped with Eurofighter Typhoon from 2004 ; previously it took, from 1994 at the site Laage, the only squadron of the German Air Force aircraft Soviet type MiG-29 , which in 1990 by the National People's Army of the GDR had been taken.
- Luftwaffe weapons school : This association was newly established in Laage in 2019.
See also
Web links
- Rostock-Laage Airport (German, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Number of passengers in Rostock-Laage halved . North German Broadcasting . January 11, 2020. Accessed February 25, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d Traffic figures at Rostock-Laage Airport. (PDF) Rostock Airport, accessed on April 9, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Business & General Aviation. Rostock-Airport.de, accessed on June 30, 2018 .
- ↑ a b The company. Rostock-Airport.de, accessed on June 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Timetable Rostock - Rostock Laage Airport. In: www.rebus.de. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Airport shuttle Greifswald - Rostock-Laage. Stadtwerke Greifswald, accessed on June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Aviation Report 2007 (PDF; 3.6 MB) German Aerospace Center, December 10, 2018, accessed on June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Rostock-Laage Airport cooperates with Costa Crociere. In: airliners.de. January 22, 2015, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Rostock-Laage Airport expands cooperation with cruise companies. In: airliners.de. November 17, 2015, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Rostock Airport enters into partnership with another shipping company. In: airliners.de. January 26, 2016, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ A jumbo jet as a sign of the upward trend at Rostock Airport. In: airliners.de. June 20, 2016, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Another cruise company cooperates with Rostock-Laage Airport. In: airliners.de. April 7, 2016, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Germania and Rostock-Laage Airport expand cooperation. airliners.de, June 13, 2016, accessed April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ a b Germania insolvency - crisis mood at Rostock-Laage airport. Deutschlandfunk .de, February 8, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Airline VLM landed at Rostock-Laage Airport for the first time. Rostock-Airport.de, June 8, 2018, accessed April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ VLM surrenders the Fokker 50 aircraft - route cancellations throughout Europe. Rostock-Airport.de, September 1, 2018, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Airline cancels lines: Rostock Airport in Brexit turbulence. Ostsee-Zeitung .de, December 6, 2018, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ^ Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH, Germania Technik Brandenburg GmbH and Germania Flugdienste GmbH: application for insolvency filed, flight operations ceased. FlyGermania.com , February 5, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ^ Germania episode: Rostock-Laage plans short-time work. airliners.de, February 8, 2019, accessed April 9, 2019 (German).
- ^ Concern about Rostock-Laage Airport. Nordkurier .de, February 5, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ British airline insolvent: Flybmi meets Rostock Airport. Ostsee-Zeitung .de, February 17, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ^ According to Germania and Fly BMI: No more regular services in Rostock. airliners.de, February 18, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ New airline in Rostock-Laage for vacation flights to Turkey. Rostock-Airport.de, February 19, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ New Rostock - Mallorca: Laudamotion will be flying three times a week from the Baltic Sea airport to Palma de Mallorca from June. Rostock-Airport.de, February 20, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ From the Baltic Sea non-stop to the Red Sea - FlyEgypt flies from Rostock-Laage to Hurghada from July. Rostock-Airport.de, February 20, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Lufthansa takes over Flybmi route. aero.de, March 14, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Lufthansa invests millions in Rostock flight school. In: airliners.de. January 11, 2018, accessed June 11, 2019 .
- ↑ British airline Flybmi cancels all flights. In: Spiegel Online . February 17, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Rostock-Laage: Lufthansa flies to Munich. In: ndr.de. March 14, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual reports published in the Federal Gazette since 2006 (here information on the results of ordinary business activities)
- ↑ Donations for Rostock-Laage Airport, reports and advertising measures - a small request from the Member of Parliament Udo Pastörs. In: dokumentation.landtag-mv.de. December 22, 2008, accessed June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Where is Rostock-Laage Airport heading? In: ndr.de. April 8, 2013, archived from the original ; Retrieved April 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Rostock-Laage Airport remains deep in the red. In: airliners.de. December 20, 2013, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Greens: Statistics glossed over passenger numbers at Rostock Airport. February 18, 2014, accessed June 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Faster to the Rostock cruise port · Costa Crociere shipping company and Laage airport establish cooperation. In: Daily port report from January 23, 2015, p. 3
- ↑ a b Rostock-Laage Airport closes 2018 with an increase in passengers. Rostock Airport, January 9, 2019, accessed on January 10, 2019 .
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