Erfurt-Weimar Airport

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Erfurt-Weimar Airport
Logo Airport Erfurt-Weimar.svg
Aerial view of Erfurt airport.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code EDDE, until 1995: ETEF
IATA code ERF
Coordinates

50 ° 58 '47 "  N , 10 ° 57' 29"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '47 "  N , 10 ° 57' 29"  E
Height above MSL 315 m (1033  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center approx. 5 km west of Erfurt
Street B7or (junction 11 Erfurt - Bindersleben ) A71
Local transport Tram line 4
to the main station
Basic data
opening 1935
operator Erfurt Airport GmbH
surface 324 ha
Terminals 2 (main and business terminal)
Passengers 156,326 (2019)
Air freight 3,297 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		9,456 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		1,000,000
Employees 137
Start-and runway
09/27 2600 m × 50 m asphalt
website
www.flughafen-erfurt-weimar.de



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An Air Berlin Boeing 737 at Erfurt-Weimar Airport in 2011.

The Erfurt-Weimar Airport (to March 2011 Erfurt Airport , IATA code : ERF , ICAO : EDDE until 1995 even as DDR Airport: ETEF ) is an international commercial airport in Erfurt . It is operated by Flughafen Erfurt GmbH , 95% of which is owned by the Free State of Thuringia and 5% by the City of Erfurt.

Location and transport links

The airport is located about five kilometers west of Erfurt city center in the Bindersleben district . The Erfurt-Bindersleben junction of the federal highway 71 is about three kilometers away, as is the federal highway 7 running south . It is about 30 kilometers to the center of Weimar .

The airport can be reached from the city center and from Erfurt main train station (travel time approx. 20 minutes) by public transport with the Erfurt transport company tram line 4 .

history

Erfurt's first airport on the Roten Berg

Erfurt's first airport was opened in 1925 on the southern edge of the Red Mountain on the northern edge of the city. As was customary for the time, it had a grass runway 730 meters long and 430 meters wide. Air traffic on the Red Mountain reached its peak in 1928. At that time there were 14 take-offs and landings a day, all of which were carried out by Lufthansa . They connected Erfurt with Berlin , Zurich , Frankfurt , Munich , Dresden , Hanover and Essen, among others . Civil air traffic on the Red Mountain ended in August 1939 when the Wehrmacht air force established an air base command. 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 1939 and 1944.

From To unit equipment
May 1939 September 1939 Staff, II./KG 4 Heinkel He 111P
October 1939 November 1939 I./KG 2 Dornier Thu 17M
January 1940 May 1940 II./KG 1 Heinkel He 111H
August 1943 May 1944 Parts of IV./NJG 5 (IV. Group of Night Fighter Squadron 5) Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4
August 1944 September 1944 Staff, II./JG 300 (Staff and II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 300) Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8
September 1944 September 1944 9./ZG 26 (9th Squadron of Destroyer Wing 26) without
October 1944 November 1944 Staff, I./JG 3 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 / AS

After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet armed forces showed no interest in the airport, which is why it initially closed, but was reopened for recreational aviation in 1956.

After the sports pilots moved to Alkersleben , the airport was closed in 1974 and the Roter Berg residential area was built on its premises .

Today's airport in Bindersleben

The first airfield building - advertisement from 1929
An Interflug passenger aircraft in front of the tower and check-in hall at Erfurt Airport, 1979

In 1935, the air base of the Air Force Erfurt-Bindersleben was opened and used as such until 1945. After the Second World War , the Soviet air forces took over the place.

In 1956, Deutsche Lufthansa of the GDR took over the airport, which was incorporated into Interflug in 1963 . There were regular scheduled flights to Berlin-Schönefeld , Dresden, Heringsdorf and Barth . For a while, the old Karl-Marx-Stadt airport was also served , here only the Antonow An-2 was used. However, the domestic flights were gradually and finally stopped on April 10, 1980 after an oil crisis in the GDR. The Interflug then only regularly served the destinations Budapest , Varna , Burgas and Tatry ( Poprad ). At times, the Soviet Aeroflot tried on routes to Moscow and Leningrad . However, these were discontinued after a few weeks due to unprofitability.

Only after German reunification was scheduled service resumed on October 3, 1990, initially to Berlin-Tempelhof and Frankfurt.

In the years that followed, the airport received a new terminal building (formerly Terminal B), which allows boarding via a passenger boarding bridge at two gates , a new control tower and new air traffic control technology. An extension of the runway as well as the construction of a new taxiway and a large area of ​​new sealing of the apron were carried out. A large hangar and various cargo halls were also built.

Since 1998, the airport has had a motorway connection via the A71 junction Erfurt-Bindersleben.

Development since 2000

overall view

From 1989 to 2004 around 220 million euros in public funds were invested in Erfurt Airport. In 2005, a state parliament investigation committee was set up, and the state audit office then criticized the granting of subsidies.

The increase in passenger numbers in 2004 was largely due to the daily Ryanair connection to London-Stansted . However, the connection was discontinued in January 2005. After that, for the first time in 2010, the number of passengers increased again significantly, thus exceeding those of 2007.

Since June 21, 2005, the completion of a new tram route has made it faster and more convenient to reach the airport by public transport.

The former managing director of the airport, Gerd Ballentin, was temporarily arrested on January 13, 2006 after having resigned a few days earlier. In the meantime, he has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for falsifying traffic figures.

On June 5, 2009, then President of the United States of America , Barack Obama, landed in Erfurt in Air Force One , a converted Boeing 747-200 , to visit the former Buchenwald concentration camp .

Development since 2010

On March 21, 2011 the airport was renamed Erfurt-Weimar Airport. In a resolution of the Erfurt city council it was said that the classic city of Weimar was known worldwide with Goethe, Schiller, the Bauhaus and the Weimar Republic. Erfurt wants to benefit from this. The entire renaming cost around 180,000 euros.

On August 18, 2011, Air Berlin surprisingly announced that it would withdraw completely from Erfurt Airport for the 2011/2012 winter flight schedule. In December 2011 it was announced that Air Berlin would close its station in Erfurt at the end of October 2012 and relocate the 33 employees working here. A total of around 200 million euros in subsidies were invested in the airport between 1991 and 2011 without it being able to establish itself firmly.

On September 23, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI landed. with a special plane of the federal government (A340-313X " Konrad Adenauer ") at the airport Erfurt-Weimar and was welcomed by the then Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia, Christine Lieberknecht , and a large delegation of ministers and bishops.

The Erfurt-Weimar Airport is increasingly used as a training ground for the Sömmerda flight school and Lufthansa Flight Training, coming from Bremen , due to its low occupancy . The approach directly via the Erfurt city center is also problematic.

On December 23, 2011, the airline Cirrus Airlines suspended scheduled flights to Munich. The reason was that the country had cut subsidies - up to 50% of the price of each ticket sold. In 2012, the number of passengers fell again due to the withdrawal of Air Berlin and the discontinuation of the line connection to Munich. Since then, Erfurt-Weimar Airport has been cut off from scheduled air traffic . Only charter flights take place. For the 2013 summer flight schedule, the Berlin airline Germania had another aircraft ( Boeing 737-700 ) permanently stationed in Erfurt. With this stationing, the number of weekly flights had increased significantly, Germania operated various routes from Erfurt to European airports and to Turkey until its bankruptcy in winter 2018/2019. In spring 2019, almost all air traffic from Erfurt was suspended. In 2019, Erfurt-Weimar Airport is by far the German airport with the fewest passengers and, with a passenger volume of 156,326 passengers, achieved almost 43% of the passenger volume at Saarbrücken's second smallest airport .

Erfurt-Weimar Airport generates € 3.7 million annually from flight operations. The tank business, which is now operated independently, contributes € 5.7 million to sales. Including rental and leasing income and other sales, the airport has an annual turnover of € 13.1 million. This is offset by an annual subsidy from the Free State of Thuringia of around € 5 million. The Thuringian Court of Auditors puts the daily subsidy requirement in 2020 at around € 40,000 per day.

In the 2019 state election campaign, with the exception of the Greens, all parties represented in the state parliament committed to the continued preservation of Erfurt-Weimar Airport. In the medium and long term, the airport's portfolio can be increased by the new ICE routes Erfurt-Leipzig / Halle and Erfurt-Nuremberg as well as the expansion of the Erfurt-Frankfurt connection, through which the Leipzig / Halle international airports (approx. 0:52 h from Erfurt main station ), Nuremberg (approx. 1:32 h), Berlin (approx. 2:14 h ( Berlin-Tegel ) or approx. 2:18 h ( Berlin-Schönefeld )), Frankfurt (approx. 2:27 h) and Munich (approx. 3:08 h) can be reached very cheaply in some cases without changing connections. There are currently considerations to redirect the state subsidies in order to set up a stop for the ICE , which runs every hour from Erfurt to Leipzig, at Leipzig / Halle airport station, which can then be reached in around 30 minutes from Erfurt main station. The President of the Thuringian Court of Auditors advocates closing the airport if no additional use can be found for pure charter air traffic.

Traffic figures

Views of the airport
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Reception hall 2011
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Tower
Erfurt-Weimar Airport - traffic figures
Year of operation Passenger volume Air freight incl. Air mail ( t ) Flight movements
1997 353.018 ? 17,604
1998 324.266 ? 17,268
1999 366.793 117 18,628
2000 481.573 389 17,355
2001 471.624 1,593 17,604
2002 445.504 3,369 16,877
2003 464,681 3,934 16,148
2004 526.241 4,039 15,839
2005 438,912 4,855 14,017
2006 356.378 4,817 13,119
2007 315,769 4,438 12,992
2008 308.228 3,468 13,299
2009 270.267 2,794 11.208
2010 322.073 2,628 9,494
2011 280.918 2,543 10,552
2012 183,999 2,592 9,372
2013 214,948 2,695 9,079
2014 226,586 3,075 9,259
2015 230,436 3,395 9,620
2016 235.331 3,450 8,593
2017 282,731 3,421 10.153
2018 262,530 3,724 9.412
2019 156.326 3,297 9,456
2020 (1st half year) 13,369 2.114 3,205

Military flight operations

In addition to civil air traffic, military flights of the Bundeswehr are occasionally handled via the airport.

Furnishing

The runway is 2600 meters long. In the main approach direction 28, an approach procedure according to all-weather flight operation level CAT IIIb is available, in secondary approach direction 10 an approach procedure according to all-weather flight operation level CAT I. Due to the prevailing wind conditions in Germany, take-offs on the runway running in east-west direction are mostly in the west ( Gotha ) and the landings from the east ( Weimar ). At night, however, approaches are carried out up to a certain wind strength with a tailwind in the east (coming from Gotha) onto runway 10 in order to protect the population of Erfurt from aircraft noise . The runway is oriented directly towards the city center in an easterly direction, so that greater utilization of the airport would lead to considerable noise pollution for the city center.

An airfield fire engine at Erfurt-Weimar Airport

The airport has an airport fire brigade with a total of 55 employees (20 of them full-time ) with, among other things, three Ziegler Z8 airfield fire engines. It is classified in ICAO fire protection category 7; this can be increased to category 9 on request.

An industrial park called Büropark Airfurt was attached to the airport .

Since December 2014 there has been a maintenance company at the airport , the company Haitec, with headquarters at Hahn Airport . Various types of aircraft are maintained in a 4300 m² hangar. The company Haitec has so far invested 3 million euros in the Erfurt-Weimar location and is planning to have 100 employees by 2017.

More pictures

  • Panoramic view of the airport area 2016

  • Tower and reception building from the taxiway

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d ADV monthly statistics December 2019. In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on February 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ {Annual financial statements 2018: Management report, Section 5. Personnel development; accessible from the company register }
  3. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-1945 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp 160-161 , accessed on January 20, 2020
  4. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp 160-161 , accessed on September 14, 2014
  5. ^ Motion [...] Establishment of an investigative committee: Possible misconduct by the Free State of Thuringia as the majority shareholder of Flughafen Erfurt GmbH, in the context of the supervision of Flughafen Erfurt GmbH and Erfurt Airport as well as in dealing with public funds for its expansion. (PDF) Printed matter 4/1388. In: parldok.thueringen.de. Thuringian Parliament, November 30, 2005, accessed July 31, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Airliners.de: [1] September 30, 2009
  7. ↑ Land der Pisten , article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 17, 2006 on the development of the airport and the Ballentin affair
  8. ↑ http://www.insuedthueringen.de/nachrichten/thueringen/seite3thueringenfw/art2402,727334 (link not available)
  9. ↑ airliners.de: Erfurt Airport is to be renamed June 4, 2010
  10. ↑ airliners.de - Erfurt Airport receives the addition "Weimar" March 21, 2011
  11. ↑ airliners.de - Air Berlin closes stations in Erfurt and Dortmund December 7, 2011
  12. ↑ Erfurt-Weimar Airport surprised by Air Berlin decision. Retrieved August 20, 2011 .
  13. ^ The expensive problem child of the state government - MDR.de ( Memento from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ thueringen.de - Review of the Pope's visit in 2011
  15. ↑ On average when approaching 600 m above the old town of Erfurt , article in the Thüringer Allgemeine from 23 May 2015
  16. ↑ Flughafen Erfurt GmbH annual financial statements for 2018
  17. ↑ Thuringia prefers financial aid for Erfurt Airport , article by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from February 26, 2019
  18. ↑ mdr.de: "Shut down in an emergency": The President of the Court of Auditors questions Erfurt-Weimar Airport | MDR.DE. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
  19. ↑ https://www.airliners.de/thueringer-wahlkampf-luftverkehr/52342 Thuringian election campaign almost without air traffic , article on airlines.de from October 25, 2019]
  20. ↑ Why only ICE and now Flixtrain travel on the high-speed Erfurt-Halle railway line , article by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from December 17, 2019
  21. ↑ mdr.de: "Shut down in an emergency": The President of the Court of Auditors questions Erfurt-Weimar Airport | MDR.DE. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Regional Statistics 1997. (PDF; 31 kB) (No longer available online.) In: adv.aero. Airport Association ADV, p. 2 , archived from the original on September 5, 2014 ; Retrieved July 31, 2013 .
  23. ↑ Regional Statistics 1998. (PDF; 30 kB) (No longer available online.) In: adv.aero. Airport Association ADV, p. 2 , archived from the original on September 5, 2014 ; Retrieved July 31, 2013 .
  24. ↑ Regional statistics 1999. (PDF; 23 kB) (No longer available online.) In: adv.aero. Airport Association ADV, p. 1 , archived from the original on September 5, 2014 ; Retrieved July 31, 2013 .
  25. ↑ Regional Statistics 2000. (PDF; 19 kB) (No longer available online.) In: adv.aero. Airport Association ADV, p. 1 , archived from the original on September 4, 2014 ; Retrieved July 31, 2013 .
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  32. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2007. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  33. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2008. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on October 26, 2017 .
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  35. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2010. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  36. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2011. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  37. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2012. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  38. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2013. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  39. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2014. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  40. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2015. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  41. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2016. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  42. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2017. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on July 8, 2019 .
  43. ↑ ADV monthly statistics December 2018. (PDF) In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on July 8, 2019 .
  44. ↑ ADV monthly statistics June 2020. In: adv.aero. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), accessed on 23 August 2020 .
  45. ^ The fire brigade at Erfurt-Weimar Airport. In: flughafen-erfurt-weimar.de. Flughafen Erfurt GmbH, accessed on May 1, 2013 .
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Barth  | Berlin-Tegel  | Berlin-Schönefeld  | Braunschweig-Wolfsburg  | Bremen  | Cuxhaven / Nordholz * | Dortmund  | Dresden  | Düsseldorf  | Erfurt-Weimar  | Frankfurt  | Frankfurt-Hahn  | Friedrichshafen  | Hamburg  | Hanover-Langenhagen  | Heringsdorf  | Ingolstadt / Manching * | Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden  | Kassel-Calden  | Cologne / Bonn  | Leipzig / Halle  | Lübeck  | Magdeburg-Cochstedt  | Memmingen  | Munich  | Münster / Osnabrück  | Neubrandenburg  | Lower Rhine  | Nuremberg  | Paderborn / Lippstadt  | Rostock-Laage  | Saarbrücken  | Schwerin-Parchim  | Siegerland  | Stuttgart  | Sylt

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