Dusseldorf Airport
Dusseldorf Airport |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDDL |
| IATA code | DUS |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 36 m (118 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 6 km north of Düsseldorf, 4 km south-west of Ratingen |
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Long-distance train station :
RE 1 (RRX)
RE 2 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1927 |
| operator | Düsseldorf Airport GmbH |
| surface | 613 ha |
| Terminals | 3 |
| Passengers | 25,489,412 (2019) |
| Air freight | 102,107 t (2017) |
| Flight movements |
225,935 (2019) |
| Capacity ( PAX per year) |
24 million |
| Employees | 22,200 |
| Runways | |
| 05R / 23L | 3000 m × 45 m concrete |
| 05L / 23R | 2700 m × 45 m concrete |
| website | |
| www.dus.com | |
The airport Dusseldorf ( IATA : DUS , ICAO : EDDL ; proper name Dusseldorf Airport ) is the main airport of the country North Rhine-Westphalia . In terms of passenger volume, Düsseldorf Airport ranks third in Germany behind Frankfurt am Main and Munich , and in terms of freight volume it ranks sixth. The airport opened on April 19, 1927.
In 2019 over 25 million passengers used the airport, which is connected by 77 airlines to over 200 destinations in 55 countries. With a turnover of around 400 million euros and a result of 57 million euros, it was one of the six profitable airports in Germany in the 2010 financial year.
Location and transport links
location
The airport is located on the northern outskirts of the state capital, a short distance from the Düsseldorf exhibition center , in the Lohausen district and not far from the city limits of Duisburg , Ratingen and Meerbusch .
Road connection
The Autobahn 44 is part of the Düsseldorf motorway ring . The airport has its own exit (No. 31). The A 44 runs east-west past the airport ( Aachen –Düsseldorf), it offers connections to the A 52 to the northeast ( Essen ) and west ( Roermond ( NL )) as well as to the A 57 (Cologne – Nijmegen), to the A 3 (to Cologne and the Ruhr area) and to the motorway-like B8n , which runs parallel to the runway from the junction of the A 44 " Stockum " via Kaiserswerth to the A 59 to Duisburg .
Light rail connection
So far, Düsseldorf Airport has not been directly connected to the Düsseldorf light rail network (subway). However, there are concrete plans to extend the subway line from the main train station to the Düsseldorf exhibition center to the airport. In a further expansion step, a direct connection to Neuss and possibly also to Ratingen could be created.
Railway connection
In 2000 the new Düsseldorf Airport train station was opened. It is located on the northeastern edge of the airport grounds, just under 2.5 kilometers from the terminals on the Cologne – Duisburg railway line . Up to 300 trains stop here every day. The connection between the terminals and the long-distance train station is provided by the driverless Skytrain suspension railway .
Directly below Terminal C there is the Düsseldorf Airport Terminal S-Bahn station . It is the end of the line S 11 , which does not stop at Düsseldorf Airport long-distance train station . During the day, the S11 runs every 20 minutes via Düsseldorf Central Station and Cologne Central Station to Bergisch Gladbach and connects terminals A, B and C of the airport directly with Düsseldorf Central Station. At night, the Aachen train station is served by the Wupper Express and other regional express trains and individual trips from other S-Bahn lines from Cologne, Essen, Hagen, Aachen and Dortmund. If you consider the alternative - with the Skytrain to the long-distance train station and then with the S 1 in the direction of the main station - there is theoretically a connection every 10 minutes between the airport and Düsseldorf city center, but due to the significantly longer travel time, this alternative is different in the Practice mostly from.
With the increase in the kerosene tank farm also one should siding are built to the Kerosinantransport future be able to handle rather than by truck, by rail. Currently (as of the beginning of 2013) the airport consumes around 750,000 cubic meters of kerosene annually , which means around 100 truck trips per day. By 2032, the consumption should u. a. grow to 1.2 million cubic meters annually due to the increased use of larger aircraft.
history
First years
The first airport was built on the Golzheimer Heide site in the Stockum district . The heather lay on sand drifts from the last ice age . The area had previously been used as a training area for Uhlans and Hussars from Derendorf and Golzheim . A Carthusian monastery stood at the later location of the LTU maintenance hall . The mayor Wilhelm Marx's enthusiasm for airships led in 1909 to the construction of the first urban airship hangar south of today's airport industrial park. This hall was used by the first airline in the world, Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft (DELAG) , in which the city of Düsseldorf was also involved. Here Albert Paul Veeh designed the airship Veeh 1 from 1911 . On June 22, 1911, Graf Zeppelin visited the facilities after the airship Zeppelin 8 Deutschland , stationed here from April 11, 1911, under the command of Hugo Eckener on May 16, 1911 when exiting the airship hangar was pressed against the same by a gust of wind and thereby had been destroyed. On June 28, 1912, the DELAG airship Zeppelin 10 Schwaben had an accident on the airfield. In 1913 the first military airship hangar was built south of Zeppenheim , i.e. in the northwestern area of today's airport area. After the outbreak of the First World War , the Royal Flying Corps attacked this hall on October 8, 1914 , the first aerial warfare event in the Rhineland, in which the airship Zeppelin 25 (Z IX) located in the hall was used for reconnaissance and Bombing missions over northern France and Belgium was destroyed. After the World War, French troops were stationed in the Golzheimer Heide. After their departure in 1925 , Düsseldorf established its airport there, against the Prussian government in Berlin, which preferred Essen and Cologne . Düsseldorf Airport was officially opened on April 19, 1927 by the then Lord Mayor Robert Lehr . On October 5, 1927, the first propeller planes of the Ruhrgebiet Luftverkehrsgesellschaft took off from the Golzheimer Heide airfield in the direction of Berlin , Munich and Malmö . In 1933 storage rooms and workshops were built for Lufthansa. A paved hall apron expanded the handling center by 2200 square meters. In 1936 the German Air Force established an air base on the airport grounds. On September 3, 1939, civil air traffic was stopped and the air force took over the entire airport in order to give the Fighter Squadrons 132 and 26 Schlageter under the command of Eduard von Schleich maximum development opportunities. From 1943 the airport was the target of air raids by the Allies . On December 23, 1944, all the airport hangars were destroyed by the attacks.
The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1936 and 1945.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
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| November 1938 | April 1939 | Staff, II./JG 132 (Staff and II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 132) | Messerschmitt Bf 109D / E |
| May 1939 | August 1939 | Staff, II./JG 26 | Messerschmitt Bf 109E |
| October 1939 | June 1940 | Stab, II., III./KG 77 (Stab, II. And III. Gruppe des Kampfgeschwaders 77) | Dornier Do 17Z |
| December 1939 | December 1939 | I./ZG 2 (I. Group of Destroyer Squadron 2) | Messerschmitt Bf 109D |
| December 1939 | January 1940 | I./ZG 52 | Messerschmitt Bf 109D |
| February 1940 | May 1940 | 7. (F) / LG 2 (7th long-distance reconnaissance squadron of the training squadron 2) | |
| May 1940 | June 1940 | Staff, I., II., III./LG 1 | Heinkel He 111H , Junkers Ju 88A |
| July 1940 | September 1940 | II./NJG 1 (II. Group of Night Fighter Squadron 1) | Junkers Ju 88C |
| July 1940 | December 1940 | III./NJG 1 | Messerschmitt Bf 110 |
| December 1942 | December 1942 | II./JG 27 | Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4 trop |
| August 1944 | September 1944 | III./NJG 3 | Junkers Ju 88G-1 |
| December 1944 | January 1945 | III./JG 77 | Messerschmitt Bf 109K-4 |
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On April 18, 1945, the airport was occupied by US troops and the buildings that had not been destroyed were used as accommodation.
After the Second World War
In March 1949, civil aviation was resumed after repair work on buildings and runways. On December 1, 1950, the British armed forces handed the management of the airport back to the Germans. In 1952 the main runway was extended to 2,475 meters.
The most serious aviation accident to date occurred on November 3, 1957, when a Douglas DC-4 belonging to the Karl Herfurtner Düsseldorf airline crashed into an allotment garden in Düsseldorf-Derendorf shortly after take-off . Seven out of ten inmates and one person on the ground died.
In 1969, construction work began on the new terminal, and the main runway was extended to 3000 meters. Terminal II (today: Terminal B) was opened in 1973. In October 1975 an S-Bahn line ( S 7 ) from Düsseldorf main station to the airport (“Düsseldorf Airport Terminal”) was opened (today as S 11 via Cologne to Bergisch Gladbach ). In 1988 Düsseldorf Airport experienced a brisk increase in passengers, which led to capacity problems due to a single runway.
Angerland comparison
In 1965, the so-called “Angerland Settlement” was concluded between the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the surrounding municipalities before the Higher Administrative Court in Münster. It is still valid today and stipulates, among other things, the capacity of the airport (one-way capacity, final expansion capacity) and the applicable night take-off ban. On June 24, 1986, the Düsseldorf Administrative Court announced the first instance judgment against the planning approval decision for the construction and operation of a parallel runway. This judgment led to the approval of a pure replacement runway, which, however, may only be used at peak times for faster handling of air traffic .
Düsseldorf Airport claimed in 1998 that the settlement had gradually become invalid and unilaterally declared its termination on August 31, 1998. The city of Ratingen then filed a lawsuit.
On September 6, 2002 the 20th Senate of the Higher Administrative Court decided in two rulings from September 5, 2002 that the Angerland settlement on the expansion and operation of Düsseldorf Airport is still legally valid. If the circumstances change, a judicial adjustment may be permissible in individual cases.
After these legal disputes, the airport was allowed to expand to a limited extent, especially the intercontinental and tourism operations, after Lufthansa and Air Berlin , for example, expanded their services.
Fire disaster in 1996
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On April 11, 1996, there was a serious fire accident in Terminal A, in which 17 people died and 88 others were injured. During welding work on an expansion joint in the carriageway above the flower shop on the arrivals level, the false ceiling was set on fire by welding beads, disregarding safety regulations. This contained improperly installed insulation panels made of polystyrene, which ignited with very strong, pitch-black smoke. All fatalities in the disaster were suffocated due to the thick smoke in the terminal building . The Air France lounge on the gallery level became a death trap, and two elevators brought more people directly to the arrivals level, which was already in full fire.
Terminals A and B were severely damaged by the fire and had to be completely refurbished (Terminal A) or demolished (Terminal B) due to severe contamination with dangerous pollutants. Terminal C, on the other hand, was able to reopen in 1996 after cleaning and renovation work a few months after the fire. With the opening of Terminal B in 2001, the fire renovation was completed.
Airport 2000 plus project
After the airport fire in April 1996, the management decided to convert the airport.
The “airport 2000 plus” project included a redesign of Pier A, which was carried out in 1997 and 1998, a new Pier B, which was built between 1999 and 2001, and the connection of the airport to the Deutsche Bahn rail network through the construction of the Skytrain suspension railway 2000 and 2001, the construction of a new underground car park under the central building in 2001, the expansion of the east central building in 2001/2002 and the expansion of Pier C from 2001 to 2003.
The largest investment project at Düsseldorf Airport to date had a volume of 378 million euros and was officially completed on May 7, 2003. The airport fire disaster had far-reaching consequences for fire protection ordinances and regulations for public buildings. The new construction of Düsseldorf Airport is still one of the pioneers in matters of fire protection at airports.
A non-denominational memorial room is located on level 3 in the public area of the terminal and is open almost around the clock. There are also inscriptions in memory of the victims of the fire disaster of 1996 and the crash of Germanwings flight 9525 in 2015, whose destination was Düsseldorf.
Urban development project Düsseldorf Airport City
Since 2003, an airport-related office and service park has been built on the former barracks site of the British Caernarvon Barracks (location of the Air Force since 1936 , construction of an Air Force barracks in 1939) southwest of the terminal under the title Düsseldorf Airport City . The city of Düsseldorf created the building rights for this in 2004. A Maritime Congress Hotel and an underground car park are already located on the 23 hectare area belonging to the Unterrath district . In addition, the VDI moved into its new headquarters there in August 2008. In addition, Germany's largest Porsche center has been built here. By 2013 the Airport City should be completely built on with a gross floor area of 250,000 m². Düsseldorf Airport City is a pioneer of a new generation of business parks at airports.
Further expansion
The following construction measures to expand the airport capacities were completed by the end of 2009:
- Construction of a new hangar, the so-called Hangar 7, for the maintenance of aircraft of the airberlin Group (laying of the foundation stone in April 2008, the inauguration took place on April 28, 2009)
- Extension of the apron in the western area and construction of further parking positions
- Construction of a transfer corridor between Terminals B and C.
- Construction of a transfer corridor between Terminals A and B.
- Construction of another multi-storey car park (multi-storey car park 7) next to the district heating plant with 3,000 additional parking spaces
- Expansion of the infrastructure for security checks at Terminals B and C (an expansion in Terminal A was completed in March 2008)
- Establishment of further lounges at Terminal C
- Construction of a new rental car center between car park 5 and the DFS control tower .
In January 2014, the airport announced that it would start tendering to adapt the airport to the Airbus A380 . Three passenger boarding bridges were purchased, one of which is 12 meters high, so that parallel handling can be carried out. Construction began at the beginning of September. In addition, the airport's service providers made investments in new ground vehicles. At the end of January 2015, the Emirates airline finally announced that it would be using the Airbus A380 on the afternoon flight of the two daily flights between Düsseldorf and Dubai from July 1 of the same year. The construction work was finally finished on June 1, 2015. Shortly after the connection started on July 1, 2015, a board member of Emirates announced that he would also switch the second daily flight of the same route from the Boeing 777-300 to the Airbus A380. According to the state government, the so-called “ Angerlandvergleich ” should not be shaken in the event of a further expansion .
Plan approval application for capacity expansion
In its meeting on June 18, 2013, the Düsseldorf Airport Supervisory Board decided to apply to the Ministry for Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MBWSV) for planning approval with a change to the operating license. Accordingly, both runways should be able to be used without the current closure regulation. In times of high demand, up to 60 flight movements per hour should therefore be allowed to be coordinated. This corresponds to the full technical capacity of the two slopes. For this purpose, eight additional parking positions (some of which have already been built) are to be approved. For this purpose, the airport would like to be able to use the northern runway without prior individual approval.
Name change
On April 9, 2013, Düsseldorf Airport presented its new logo, consisting of the IATA code DUS, as well as the associated name change to Düsseldorf Airport . The airport itself describes the new design as fresher, more modern and clearer. The reason for the change is an adjustment to the new orientation of the airport as a hub, because from now on the focus will be on Chinese, Arab and US passengers. The logo is intended to establish a connection with many other airports such as Paris CDG , Los Angeles LAX and New York JFK , which can only be recognized by their three-digit IATA code .
Managing directors
The management consists of Thomas Schnalke (spokesman), Michael Hanné and Lars Mosdorf. Thomas Schnalke has been managing director since 2001, spokesman for the management since June 2016 and as of April 1, 2019, he will become chairman of the management. Michael Hanné has been part of the management since June 2016 and Lars Mosdorf since January 2020.
Airport facility
Runways
The airport has two parallel runways . The southern main line is 3000 m long, the replacement line to the north is 2700 m long. Both lanes are 45 m wide and 500 m apart. Due to the short distance between the railways, simultaneous use is not possible from an operational point of view. The former runway 15/33 (“Querwindbahn”) running across it was rarely used due to its short length of 1630 meters and obstacles in the approach / take-off route and is closed. The concrete surfaces of this runway are now used as a taxiway and parking area.
107 parking positions are available for the aircraft .
Düsseldorf Airport can be used as an alternate airport for arriving A380s from Frankfurt Airport and Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport . On November 12, 2006, the first A380 landed in Düsseldorf for test purposes. Scheduled flight operations with the A380 have been taking place since 2015 .
Terminals
Terminal A serves as the base for Lufthansa , Germanwings and Eurowings as well as other members of the Star Alliance ( Air China , All Nippon Airways , Austrian Airlines , Croatia Airlines , LOT Polish Airlines , SAS Scandinavian Airlines , Singapore Airlines , TAP Portugal and Swiss ).
Terminal B is used for domestic and European connections by members of the Oneworld and SkyTeam alliances , including British Airways , KLM , Finnair , Iberia , Air France and Czech Airlines . Numerous charter airlines such as TUIfly and Condor are also represented at Terminal B , but Star Alliance airlines such as Aegean Airlines and partners such as Air Malta also depart from Terminal B.
Terminal C is mainly used for flights outside the Schengen area by airlines that are not part of the Star Alliance. Flights from Delta Air Lines , Emirates , Etihad and Mahan Air, among others , are handled there. With Turkish Airlines , a Star Alliance member uses this terminal. There has been a prayer room for Muslims in Terminal C since 2013. There is direct access to the Maritim Hotel .
Airport-Arkaden shopping center
The Airport-Arkaden shopping center is located in the main building . The shops offer clothing, groceries and travel supplies and are open 365 days a year. Some bars, restaurants and cafes allow a view of the apron. There is a supermarket on the publicly accessible arrival level of Pier C.
Medical supplies
Injured or sick air passengers are transported to the “ Florence Nightingale Hospital” in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth , which is the first point of contact due to its short distance. A dental practice and a pharmacy are located in the arcades of the airport; another was opened in 2009 in the security area of Pier C. Düsseldorf does not have its own airport hospital, even if such a hospital was already the subject of the television series Adventure Airport, which was filmed on the airport grounds .
operator
Ownership
The operating company Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH has share capital of € 25,564,594.06 (previously DM 50 million). The shareholders are:
- 50% state capital Düsseldorf
- 50% Airport Partners GmbH
- 40% AviAlliance GmbH
- 20% AviAlliance Capital KGaA
- 40% Aer Rianta plc (this is a 100% Irish state-owned company indirectly through the parent company Dublin Airport Authority plc)
Subsidiaries and holdings
- Düsseldorf Airport Ground Handling GmbH
- Airport Düsseldorf Cargo GmbH
- Düsseldorf Airport Security GmbH
- Düsseldorf Airport Immobilien GmbH
- Düsseldorf Airport Administration GmbH
- Düsseldorf Airport Object Eins GmbH
- Airport company Mönchengladbach GmbH
- Airport Düsseldorf Energie GmbH
Participations:
- BISAWA Objects Airport-Düsseldorf GmbH & Co. KG
- SITA Airport IT GmbH (30% capital share)
- DLG Personalservice GmbH (49% capital share)
Air traffic
Destinations and Airlines
- Germany: Lufthansa - with its partner and subsidiaries - connects Düsseldorf Airport with the central hubs in Frankfurt am Main and Munich as well as other major airports in Germany. To Frankfurt, Lufthansa, in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn, also offers connections with the AirRail Service from Düsseldorf Central Station (QDU), which limits the number of passengers.
- In the intercontinental area, destinations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and North America as well as the Middle East are offered as direct connections.
In the summer of 2014, a total of 62 airlines flew to 188 different destinations worldwide. Air Berlin had the most passengers in 2014 (7,145,126), followed by Lufthansa (3,528,027) and Germanwings (2,178,817).
Air traffic numbers
Düsseldorf Airport takes third place behind Frankfurt and Munich Airports in terms of the number of passengers and the number of flight movements. In the air freight sector, Düsseldorf ranks fifth (as of 2015).
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Left: Ranking of international airports in Germany. Right: German domestic air traffic by number of flight movements.
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| year | Passengers in millions | Air freight ( t ) | Plane movements |
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| 1991 | 11.31 | 45.108 | 153,068 |
| 1992 | 12.27 | 49,329 | 162.156 |
| 1993 | 13.05 | 47,466 | 166.601 |
| 1994 | 14.00 | 101,575 | 175,528 |
| 1995 | 15.15 | 111.908 | 184.021 |
| 1996 | 14.42 | 109,048 | 177.881 |
| 1997 | 15.53 | 112,648 | 183,979 |
| 1998 | 15.75 | 101,236 | 187.712 |
| 1999 | 15.93 | 61.264 | 194.065 |
| 2000 | 16.03 | 59,361 | 194.016 |
| 2001 | 15.40 | 51,441 | 193,514 |
| 2002 | 14.75 | 46,085 | 190,300 |
| 2003 | 14.30 | 48,419 | 186.159 |
| 2004 | 15.26 | 86,267 | 200,584 |
| 2005 | 15.51 | 88.058 | 200,619 |
| 2006 | 16.59 | 97,000 | 215,481 |
| 2007 | 17.83 | 89.281 | 227,899 |
| 2008 | 18.15 | 90,100 | 228,531 |
| 2009 | 17.79 | 76,916 | 214.024 |
| 2010 | 18.98 | 100,398 | 215,544 |
| 2011 | 20.34 | 97.220 | 221,671 |
| 2012 | 20.83 | 101,588 | 217.219 |
| 2013 | 21.23 | 115.024 | 210,828 |
| 2014 | 21.85 | 114.180 | 210.732 |
| 2015 | 22.46 | 90,867 | 205.049 |
| 2016 | 23.51 | 93,580 | 211,666 |
| 2017 | 24.62 | 102.107 | 214.714 |
| 2018 | 24.28 | 74,524 | 218.818 |
The day with the highest number of passengers in the history of the airport to date was October 14, 2018, when 92,834 passengers were counted.
Busiest flight routes
All in all
| rank | target | Passengers 2018 |
change | Passengers 2017 |
Starts 2018 |
change | Starts 2017 |
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| 1 |
 Palma de Mallorca
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754.528 | 18.59% | 636.238 | 4,691 | 27.3% | 3,685 |
| 2 |
 Munich
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712.417 | -8.34% | 777.277 | 6.344 | -3.82% | 6,596 |
| 3 |
Berlin Tegel
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599.301 | 4.86% | 571,533 | 5,555 | 16.21% | 4,780 |
| 4th |
 Antalya
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423.011 | 44.49% | 292,758 | 2,336 | 43.23% | 1,631 |
| 5 |
 London Heathrow
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367.799 | -1.84% | 374.697 | 3,387 | -1.54% | 3,440 |
| 6th |
 Vienna
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365.987 | -12.6% | 418,755 | 3,095 | -4.92% | 3,255 |
| 7th |
 Zurich
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365.497 | -8.31% | 398.623 | 3,631 | -4.14% | 3,788 |
| 8th |
Istanbul
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351,401 | 0.09% | 351.090 | 2,075 | -4.64% | 2.176 |
| 9 |
Hamburg
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266,699 | -11.49% | 301,323 | 2,725 | -17.45% | 3,301 |
| 10 |
 Dubai
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263.810 | -2.2% | 269.736 | 731 | 0.14% | 730 |
| These statistics only include take-offs (no landings). | |||||||
National
| rank | Start finish | Passengers 2018 |
change | Passengers 2017 |
Flight movements in 2018 |
change | Flight movements in 2017 |
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| 1 |
Munich
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1,422,715 | -8.48% | 1,554,605 | 12,717 | -3.78% | 13,216 |
| 2 |
Berlin Tegel
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1,198,377 | 4.68% | 1,144,793 | 11,095 | 16.12% | 9,555 |
| 3 |
Hamburg
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525.779 | -13.4% | 607.141 | 5,413 | -17.51% | 6,562 |
| 4th |
Frankfurt / Main
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430,879 | 1.37% | 425.076 | 4,934 | 10.06% | 4,483 |
| 5 |
Dresden
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154,723 | -22.96% | 200,838 | 2,087 | -16.59% | 2,502 |
| 6th |
Nuremberg
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154.423 | -33.84% | 233,399 | 2,528 | -34.25% | 3,845 |
| 7th |
Stuttgart
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147.387 | 21.37% | 121,440 | 2,704 | 4.68% | 2,583 |
| 8th |
Leipzig / Halle
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104,748 | -8% | 113,859 | 1.965 | 27.1% | 1,546 |
| 9 |
Friedrichshafen
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10,869 | 18,968.42% | 57 | 607 | 1,923.33% | 30th |
| 10 |
Cologne / Bonn
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1,759 | -47.05% | 3,322 | 63 | -12.5% | 72 |
| This statistic includes take-offs and landings. | |||||||
Continental
| rank | target | Passengers 2018 |
change | Passengers 2017 |
Starts 2018 |
change | Starts 2017 |
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| 1 |
Palma de Mallorca
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754.528 | 18.59% | 636.238 | 4,691 | 27.3% | 3,685 |
| 2 |
Antalya
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423.011 | 44.49% | 292,758 | 2,336 | 43.23% | 1,631 |
| 3 |
London Heathrow
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367.799 | -1.84% | 374.697 | 3,387 | -1.54% | 3,440 |
| 4th |
Vienna
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365.987 | -12.6% | 418,755 | 3,095 | -4.92% | 3,255 |
| 5 |
Zurich
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365.497 | -8.31% | 398.623 | 3,631 | -4.14% | 3,788 |
| 6th |
Istanbul
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351,401 | 0.09% | 351.090 | 2,075 | -4.64% | 2.176 |
| 7th |
 Paris Charles de Gaulle
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230,688 | 1.59% | 227.084 | 2,892 | -0.86% | 2,917 |
| 8th |
Madrid
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210.096 | 25.15% | 167,878 | 1,591 | 38.83% | 1,146 |
| 9 |
Las Palmas
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193,224 | 7.78% | 179,280 | 1,145 | 14.16% | 1.003 |
| 10 |
 Moscow Sheremetyevo
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186,789 | 3.1% | 181.178 | 1,524 | 3.53% | 1,472 |
| 11 |
Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen
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175,571 | 11.19% | 157.903 | 1,162 | 8.8% | 1,068 |
| 12 |
Barcelona
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170,447 | -30.58% | 245,525 | 1,129 | -36.29% | 1,772 |
| 13 |
Tenerife South
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156,551 | 24.72% | 125,517 | 881 | 26.04% | 699 |
| 14th |
Fuerteventura
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147,542 | -1.75% | 150.172 | 788 | 0.13% | 787 |
| 15th |
 Heraklion
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138.354 | 16.85% | 118.401 | 843 | 21.47% | 694 |
| 16 |
Birmingham
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137.904 | 0.36% | 137.408 | 2,043 | -3.08% | 2,108 |
| 17th |
Manchester
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136,492 | 8.75% | 125,510 | 1,842 | 4.42% | 1,764 |
| 18th |
 Amsterdam
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132,592 | 8.93% | 121,722 | 1,770 | 1.9% | 1,737 |
| 19th |
 Prague
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123.373 | 6.71% | 115,611 | 1,503 | 0.8% | 1,491 |
| 20th |
 Copenhagen
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123.258 | -21.78% | 157.586 | 1,610 | -23.55% | 2,106 |
| These statistics only include take-offs (no landings). | |||||||
Intercontinental
| rank | target | Passengers 2018 |
change | Passengers 2017 |
Starts 2018 |
change | Starts 2017 |
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| 1 |
Dubai
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263.810 | -2.2% | 269.736 | 731 | 0.14% | 730 |
| 2 |
 Hurghada
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253,691 | 59.31% | 159.241 | 1,262 | 48.47% | 850 |
| 3 |
Abu Dhabi
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130,686 | -19.44% | 162,224 | 736 | 1.24% | 727 |
| 4th |
 Atlanta
|
66,768 | 14.75% | 58,186 | 340 | 18.47% | 287 |
| 5 |
 Tokyo Narita
|
64,584 | 7.98% | 59,813 | 365 | 1.11% | 361 |
| 6th |
Newark
|
54,484 | -16.7% | 65,409 | 260 | -13.91% | 302 |
| 7th |
 Punta Cana
|
50,438 | -9.36% | 55,647 | 186 | -11.85% | 211 |
| 8th |
New York-JFK
|
47.097 | -56.15% | 107.394 | 198 | -58.32% | 475 |
| 9 |
Marsa Alam
|
39,837 | 0.35% | 39,698 | 228 | 6.54% | 214 |
| 10 |
 Singapore
|
37,355 | 34.36% | 27.802 | 196 | 25.64% | 156 |
| 11 |
 Monastir
|
33,824 | Route new | 0 | 223 | Route new | 0 |
| 12 |
 Beijing
|
33,423 | -1.27% | 33,853 | 154 | -3.75% | 160 |
| 13 |
 Cancun
|
31,789 | 22.67% | 25,914 | 117 | 12.5% | 104 |
| 14th |
Miami
|
31,254 | -52.58% | 65,913 | 150 | -50.82% | 305 |
| 15th |
 Tehran
|
29,336 | -14.23% | 34.204 | 172 | -11.79% | 195 |
| 16 |
Djerba
|
26,992 | 38.12% | 19,542 | 202 | 46.38% | 138 |
| 17th |
 Tel Aviv
|
25,929 | 18.66% | 21,852 | 215 | 26.47% | 170 |
| 18th |
Fort Myers
|
22,346 | -29% | 31,474 | 111 | -27.92% | 154 |
| 19th |
Sharm el Sheikh
|
22,254 | 36.4% | 16,315 | 146 | 36.45% | 107 |
| 20th |
 Agadir
|
20,965 | 40.13% | 14,961 | 140 | 48.94% | 94 |
| These statistics only include take-offs (no landings). | |||||||
By country
| rank | target | Passengers 2018 |
change | Passengers 2017 |
Starts 2018 |
change | Starts 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Spain
|
2,164,535 | 8.99% | 1,985,986 | 13,789 | 12.57% | 12,249 |
| 2 |
Germany
|
2,113,474 | -6.13% | 2,251,601 | 23,136 | -0.8% | 23,323 |
| 3 |
Turkey
|
1,333,354 | 20.45% | 1,107,003 | 8,054 | 17.1% | 6,878 |
| 4th |
Great Britain
|
824.009 | -0.52% | 828.352 | 10,933 | -0.23% | 10,958 |
| 5 |
Greece
|
539.163 | 19.91% | 449,655 | 3,534 | 25.94% | 2,806 |
| 6th |
Austria
|
487,518 | -9.83% | 540,678 | 5,292 | -3.87% | 5,505 |
| 7th |
 Italy
|
455,543 | -29.25% | 643,892 | 4,235 | -40.45% | 7.112 |
| 8th |
Switzerland
|
430.854 | -16.61% | 516,674 | 5,159 | -14.13% | 6.008 |
| 9 |
United Arab Emirates
|
397.705 | -8.54% | 434.820 | 1,483 | 0.75% | 1,472 |
| 10 |
France
|
345.503 | -2.62% | 354,807 | 4,938 | -0.82% | 4,979 |
| 11 |
Egypt
|
320.002 | 45.77% | 219,522 | 1,663 | 38.7% | 1,199 |
| 12 |
Russia
|
277.942 | 1.89% | 272,796 | 2,305 | 1.95% | 2,261 |
| 13 |
United States
|
222,462 | -51.6% | 459,642 | 1,067 | -50.12% | 2.139 |
| 14th |
 Portugal
|
205.815 | 4.88% | 196.236 | 1,688 | 14.83% | 1,470 |
| 15th |
 Poland
|
167.929 | -10.8% | 188.258 | 1,868 | -15.21% | 2,203 |
| 16 |
 Sweden
|
153.272 | -25.4% | 205,460 | 1,800 | -12.07% | 2,047 |
| 17th |
Netherlands
|
132.608 | 8.94% | 121,728 | 1,790 | 1.82% | 1,758 |
| 18th |
Denmark
|
129,814 | -20.84% | 163.984 | 1.994 | -19.92% | 2,490 |
| 19th |
Czech Republic
|
123.411 | 6.56% | 115,811 | 1,516 | 0.2% | 1,513 |
| 20th |
 Ireland
|
119,490 | 8.95% | 109,679 | 948 | 7.12% | 885 |
| These statistics only include take-offs (no landings). | |||||||
Noise pollution
Permitted flight movements
According to the aviation law approval of the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Transport , the following flight movements are currently permitted for Düsseldorf Airport:
- 6:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. local time 38 slots per hour
- 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. local time 35 slots per hour and
- 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. local time 25 slots per hour in summer and 15 slots per hour in winter.
- 23:00 - 06:00 local time 2 flight movements per hour as ad hoc or transfer flights according to instrument flight rules (IFR).
Scheduled starts are not permitted between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. local time. Scheduled landings are not permitted between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. local time.
Noise Protection Commission
A noise protection commission, the chairman of which is currently (2017) the mayor of Tönisvorst, was set up in 2003. She advises the licensing authorities. The members of the Aircraft Noise Commission include representatives from cities and municipalities, German air traffic control, the airlines, the Ministry of Environment and Economics, the State Chancellery, the Federal Association against Aircraft Noise and the airport.
Incidents
- On April 8, 1955, six minutes after the start of an Airspeed Ambassador of British European Airways ( aircraft registration G-AMAB ) an engine failed, which caused the pilots to return and make an emergency landing at the airport. The go-around due to insufficient visibility ended in a crash landing 9 kilometers outside the airport. All 53 people on board survived the accident.
- On December 22, 1955, a Douglas DC-3 (G-AMZC) operated by Manx Airlines (operated from 1947 to 1958) had an accident on a transfer flight from Ronaldsway Airport (Isle of Man) to Düsseldorf . Despite poor visibility and sudden clouds of fog, the pilots continued the flight under visual flight conditions (VFR). The machine got under the glide path , collided with trees 5 kilometers northeast of the runway threshold of Düsseldorf-Lohausen Airport near Ratingen and crashed. The three-person crew was killed.
- On November 3, 1957, the Douglas DC-4 D-ALAF of the charter airline Karl Herfurtner Düsseldorf with 10 people on board crashed into an allotment garden in Düsseldorf-Derendorf shortly after taking off from Düsseldorf Airport . Seven of the ten inmates and one person on the ground were killed. The captain (chief pilot of the company) had a habit of turning off both left engines immediately after take-off in order to test the other pilot (see plane crash in Düsseldorf ).
- On February 4, 1961, a Vickers Viking 1B of the LTU ( aircraft registration D-BALI ) skidded at the start of a cargo flight at Düsseldorf Airport and grazed the hut of the ILS transmitter. The three crew members survived, with two pilots being slightly injured. However, the aircraft suffered a total loss.
- On February 8, 1988, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner III (D-CABB) crashed on the Nürnberger Flugdienst flight 108 coming from Hanover . The aircraft crashed on approach to Düsseldorf as a result of a lightning strike about two kilometers north of Kettwig . All 21 people on board were killed.
- On June 28, 1991 a Lockheed TriStar 1 from LTU (D-AERI) burned out while cleaning after maintenance work. There were no injuries, but the machine was completely destroyed.
- On January 24, 2005, a Boeing 747-200 F (cargo plane) of the US Atlas Air coming from Dubai rolled over the runway when landing in Düsseldorf. The left inner engine burned out and the machine suffered severe structural damage. 15 months after the accident, the plane - also in Düsseldorf - was scrapped. The final investigation report by the BFU found no defects in the aircraft and no misconduct by the pilots. A sudden icing over of the runway may have been the cause of the accident.
criticism
On November 8, 2005, the Ministry of Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia issued the so-called connection permit to Düsseldorf Airport. The neighboring municipalities took legal action against this permit to protect the health of their own citizens. Many private individuals had also decided to take legal action against the approval in order to protect their property and health. In the legally relevant observation period of the "six busiest months", around 15 percent more take-offs and landings should be carried out in scheduled and charter traffic. In particular, the number of landings after 10 p.m. has increased significantly. This part of the approval was initially suspended by the OVG Münster, but ultimately approved. At the same time it was decided that the airport should improve the passive noise protection for residents.
On May 16, 2007, the Higher Administrative Court in Münster dismissed some of the lawsuits against the State Ministry of Transport, which granted the airport the so-called connection permit in November 2005. The approval on which the decision was based to change the operating regulations of November 9, 2005 became final on June 11, 2008 with the decision of the Leipzig Federal Administrative Court .
The airport management is aware of the noise problem. She points out that the noise pollution from more modern aircraft has decreased. The Airbus A320N, for example, is one of the quietest and most modern aircraft in the world. So far, however, it is hardly widespread in Düsseldorf, only one percent of all flights are handled by it.
Punctuality: The independent aviation ranking service OAG determined a punctuality rate of 73.28% for Düsseldorf in 2016, placing DUS in last place of all 9 main airports in Germany.
Users of the airport have often criticized the above-average fees for parking their cars compared to other major German airports. In April 2015, the airport therefore announced a reduction in the fees for the cheapest parking category of the long-term parking spaces not directly next to the airport building and intended for vacationers. However, these long-term parking spaces were already heavily frequented before the price reduction and therefore mostly fully occupied during the school holidays.
Since summer 2017 there have been capacity bottlenecks at the security controls, which are due to a lack of staff at the security company commissioned by the Federal Police and which, despite the increased diversion of travelers to other airports and means of transport, have negative effects on the economy in the Düsseldorf area and the operation at the trade fair are connected. Since numerous passengers missed their flights due to the waiting times of several hours in front of the security checkpoints and the queues several hundred meters long in front of these checks, there were occasional "tumultuous scenes".
Trivia
With a height of 87 meters, the airport has the highest control tower in Germany.
The airport was the backdrop for various film and television productions. Among other things, various scenes for the films Satte Farben vor Schwarz and A friend of mine were shot on location. The Adventure Airport and Turnstile Airport series mainly take place on the airport grounds.
Web links
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Traffic year 2019 , Düsseldorf Airport, January 3, 2020, accessed on January 7, 2020
- ↑ ADV monthly statistics 06/2019. Association of German Commercial Airports , accessed on August 15, 2019.
- ↑ Association of German Airports : Traffic Figures 2010 (PDF; 130 kB) ( Memento from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 7, 2011
- ↑ RP ONLINE: 90 years of Düsseldorf Airport: A journey through time through airport history. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Ulf Meinke, Thomas Wels: One million more guests - annually. Article in the online portal DerWesten , June 27, 2011, archived from the original on August 9, 2011 ; Retrieved May 17, 2014 .
- ↑ The U81 from the city to the airport picks up speed ; WZ Online, accessed July 12, 2013
- ↑ Airport relies on large jets . In: Rheinische Post , January 28, 2013. Accessed February 9, 2013.
- ↑ Picture of the first airship hangar ( memento from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in the Düsseldorf-Stockum area : Below you can see the Stockumer Kirchweg / Kaiserswerther Straße settlement approach .
- ^ Airships: The Hindenburg and other Zeppelins: Hugo Eckener . Article in the blog airships.net (2009) with a picture of the accident on May 16, 1911, accessed on August 6, 2013
- ^ Chronicle of the city archive of the state capital Düsseldorf: 1911 , accessed on August 5, 2013
- ↑ 1911 Zeppelin LZ 8 DELAG Airship Deutschland II ( memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed in the portal earlyaeroplanes.com on December 30, 2013
- ↑ See also article in the English language Wikipedia LZ 10 Schwaben
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-1945 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp. 147-148 , accessed on September 13, 2014
- ↑ The pilot's rehearsal . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1957, pp. 54 ( online - Nov. 27, 1957 ).
- ↑ Double fracture test . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1960, pp. 42 ( online - September 21, 1960 ).
- ^ Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf , Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, object no. 90
- ↑ skydaddy.wordpress.com to the memorial room
- ↑ Annex to the Council draft No. 61/10/2004 - Rationale for the development plan draft No. 5382/29 , PDF document of the city of Düsseldorf, accessed on December 31, 2011
- ^ Car rental center , duesseldorf-international.de, accessed on May 26, 2010
- ↑ Emirates Announces Two New A380 Destinations in Europe , The Emirates Group press release, accessed January 28, 2015
- ↑ Düsseldorf opens handling position for Airbus A380 , aero.de, accessed on June 5, 2015
- ↑ Emirates wants second A380 for Düsseldorf , aerotelegraph.com, article from July 2, 2015
- ↑ NRW state government: No political influence on airport applications. In: airliners.de. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Key points of the project ( Memento from July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Imprint. Accessed April 21, 2020 (German).
- ^ Düsseldorf Airport: Thomas Schnalke Chairman of the Management Board. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
- ↑ vCard: Lars Mosdorf becomes commercial director at Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH. Accessed April 21, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Change of personnel: from the foreman to the labor director | Crosswater Job Guide. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
- ^ RP ONLINE: Düsseldorf: Thomas Geisel brings old friends for the airport. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Information on the infrastructure of the airport on www.dus.com ; accessed on May 6, 2014
- ↑ Spokesman for the management: Thomas Schnalke ( 1.4 million compensation for airport boss Dohm )
- ↑ https://www.dus.com/de-de/konzern/unternehmen/zahlen-und-ffekten/verkehrszahlen
- ↑ Düsseldorf International Airport: data and figures
- ↑ ADV monthly statistics 2016. (PDF) adv, accessed on February 11, 2017 .
- ↑ ADV monthly statistics 2017 In: adv.aero
- ↑ Data, figures, facts Traffic figures 2008 - 2018 (PDF) Düsseldorf Airport, February 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019 .
- ↑ With 1.4 million passengers during the autumn holidays: Düsseldorf Airport takes positive stock of the holiday report in the daily newspaper Rheinische Post of October 29, 2018, accessed on October 29, 2018
- ↑ a b c d e publication - Transport & Verkehr - Air traffic at major airports - Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Retrieved on March 28, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Accident report Ambassador G-AMAB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 28, 2016.
- ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 66 (English), September 1997, pp. 97/83.
- ^ Accident report DC-3 G-AMZC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2017.
- ↑ Josef Krauthäuser and Ulrich Kappner: Flying is there for everyone: From the Vickers Viking to the Airbus A 330. The history of LTU . NARA-Verlag, Allershausen 1996. ISBN 3-925671-21-8 , p. 18 and p. 145.
- ^ Accident report Viking 1B D-BALI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 8, 2017.
- ^ Accident report Metro III D-CABB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 28, 2016.
- ↑ What a hissing sound . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein, Hamburg February 15, 1988, p. 107 f . ( available online ).
- ↑ Joseph Terhünte, Axel H. Wirth, Hermann Geng, Peter Schlegel (Commission of Inquiry) report on the investigation of the accident flight by plane SA 227-AC, Metro 111, D-CABB, on 8 February 1988 with Kettwig. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Aircraft Accident Investigation Center at the Federal Aviation Office, June 26, 1989, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved on December 12, 2017 (AZ 1 X 0001/88, the aircraft accident investigation center is the predecessor of today's BFU).
- ↑ Accident report Tristar D-AERI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 28, 2016.
- ↑ Crash landing in DUS: BFU absolves Atlas Air pilots of guilt. aero.de, February 3, 2014, accessed on February 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Development of the approval situation at Düsseldorf Airport and the aircraft noise problem in Mülheim at a glance. In: muelheim-ruhr.de. January 1, 1970. Retrieved November 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Düsseldorf Airport: This is how residents suffer from nocturnal aircraft noise. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
- ↑ On-time performance results for airlines and airports
- ↑ Permanent annoyance: Düsseldorf Airport offers cheaper parking. Reported in the daily newspaper Rheinische Post on April 2, 2015
- ↑ Companies complain about airport chaos report by the daily newspaper Rheinische Post on September 15, 2017
- ↑ Chaos at Düsseldorf Airport Report by the daily newspaper Handelsblatt on September 16, 2017
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