Eindhoven Airport

Eindhoven Airport Air Base Eindhoven
Characteristics
ICAO code	MARRIAGE
IATA code	A
Coordinates	51 ° 27 '1 "  N , 5 ° 22' 28"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '1 "  N , 5 ° 22' 28"  E
Height above MSL	23 m (75  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	7 km west of Eindhoven
Street
Local transport	bus
Basic data
opening	1932
operator	Eindhoven Airport NV
Terminals	1
Passengers	6,780,796 (2019)
Air freight	0 t (2019)
Flight movements	41,441 (2019)
Start-and runway
03/21	3000 m × 45 m asphalt

Eindhoven Airport ( IATA code : EIN , ICAO code : EHEH ) was the most frequently used regional airport in the Netherlands in 2019 with over 6.7 million travelers .

The airport is located between Best and Veldhoven on the western edge of Eindhoven in the province of Noord-Brabant . Originally it was just a military airfield . It is now also used extensively for civil aviation.

Location and transport links

Eindhoven Airport is 7 kilometers west of Eindhoven, not far from exit 29 (Eindhoven Airport) of the N2 local traffic parallel road on the A2 Amsterdam-Maastricht motorway . It has not been directly connected to the A2 since 2010.

Bus lines 400 and 401 run between Eindhoven Central Station and the airport. The journey time is approximately 20 minutes.

history

In 1932, an airfield with a grass runway was founded under the name Welschap .

During World War II , the airport Eindhoven was from 1940 to 1944 by the Air Force of the Armed Forces occupied.

In the 1980s, part of the airfield was handed over to civil traffic and then converted for civil aviation. This project was completed in 2005 with the commissioning of the new dispatch hall. By the way, civil traffic uses military traffic control, fire brigade and other auxiliary services.

Civil use

Terminal, apron

Terminal, interior view

Eindhoven Airport is 51% owned by the Schiphol Group . The city of Eindhoven and the province of Noord-Brabant each have a share of 24.5%.

Eindhoven is mainly served by low-cost and charter airlines. Ryanair , Wizz Air and Transavia are the most important airlines and fly from here to numerous European cities and holiday destinations. In addition, there are other airlines and destinations seasonally. Long-haul flights are not offered.

Military use

The Dutch Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu) uses the facility as a military airfield and calls it Vliegbasis Eindhoven , but the old name Welschap is still in use. There are two flying squadrons here, the 334th and 336th Squadron . The latter operates the C-130, the former various types of aircraft.

There are also two multinational units, the European Air Transport Command (EATC) and the Multinational MRTT Unit (MMU).

Traffic figures

Eindhoven Airport traffic figures 2000–2019

year	Passengers	Freight in t	Flight movements
2000	340.606	65	23,294
2001	278,517	198	17,524
2002	363.373	511	16,313
2003	427,696	649	14,804
2004	706.469	674	16,168
2005	972.834	605	15,778
2006	1,170,521	571	15,843
2007	1,442,576	473	16,704
2008	1,666,417	663	18,360
2009	1,739,053	1,031	16,292
2010	2,182,783	351	19,486
2011	2,664,078	-	22,655
2012	3,004,938	-	24,636
2013	3,425,485	-	26,739
2014	3,956,364	-	29,133
2015	4,373,882	-	30,585
2016	4,780,197	-	32,659
2017	5,701,220	-	36,487
2018	6.237.755	-	38,647
2019	6,780,796	-	41,441

Incidents

• On July 15, 1996, a Lockheed C-130H Hercules of the Belgian Air Force ( aircraft registration CH-06 ) had an accident while landing at Eindhoven Airport. The machine had been chartered by the Dutch Air Force . After several bird strikes , the left engines 1 and 2 lost power, but the crew switched off engine 3. The plane crashed next to the runway. However, the fire brigade at Eindhoven Airport only noticed after 23 minutes that there were passengers in the cabin. Of the 41 occupants, 34 were killed, including all 4 crew members and 30 passengers; only 7 passengers survived.

Web links

Commons : Eindhoven Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Airport website (English, Dutch)
• Eindhoven Air Base website (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Aviation; monthly figures of Dutch airports. StatLine.CBS.nl , accessed June 25, 2020 (English). 
2. ^ Accident report C-130H Hercules CH-06 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 10, 2020.