Ostend-Bruges Airport

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Ostend-Bruges International Airport
Ostend - Airport 1.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code EBOS
IATA code EAST
Coordinates

51 ° 11 '56 "  N , 2 ° 51' 44"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '56 "  N , 2 ° 51' 44"  E
Height above MSL 4 m (13  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 4 km southwest of Ostend ,
25 km west of Bruges
Street N318, N341
Local transport Bus line 6 of De Lijn
Basic data
operator LEM Ostend-Brugge
surface 350 ha
Passengers 457,423 (2019)
Air freight 24,757 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		25,461 (2019)
Employees 416 (2013)
Start-and runway
08/26 3200 m × 45 m concrete / asphalt



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The Ostend-Bruges International Airport ( Dutch International Luchthaven Oostende-Brugge ) is the airport of the Belgian port city of Ostend , the city center is five kilometers away. The city of Bruges , which is approximately 25 kilometers from the airport, is also served.

Location and transport links

Ostend-Bruges Airport can be reached by car via the A10 and A187 / E40.

From the Ostend train station , the airport can be reached with the De Lijn city ​​bus 6 in the direction of Raversijde.

history

During the Second World War , the German occupation forces moved the Ostend airfield from Stene to an area near Middelkerke . During the Battle of Britain it was an important base of the Air Force .

After the end of the war, the Raversijde-Middelkerke airfield was converted into an international airport, which has belonged to the Flanders region since 1992 and has had its current name since 2003.

The airport operator license was granted to LEM (Luchthaven Exploitatie Maatschappij) Oostend-Brugge , a subsidiary of the French infrastructure company Egis , on July 19, 2013 for twenty-five years .

Airlines and Destinations

In the summer timetable 2015, the destinations are Alicante , Antalya , Barcelona , Bodrum , Djerba , Enfidha , Heraklion , Izmir , Kos , Las Palmas , Malaga , Palma de Mallorca , Rhodes , Tenerife on Jetairfly served, Antalya, Bodrum and Izmir also of Freebird Airlines .

Otherwise the airport is mainly used for private and cargo flights.

Traffic figures

The apron of the airport
year Passenger volume freight Flight movements
2019 457.423
00+ 8.9%
 24,757
00- 10.7%
 25,461
0+ 4.5%
2018 419.865
00+ 14.9%
 27,719
00+ 18.6%
 24,374
0+ 7.3%
2017 365.345
00- 16.0%
 23,369
00+ 5.2%
 22,708
0- 6.1%
2016 434.970
00+ 57.6%
 22,224
00+ 32.0%
 24,183
0- 8.4%
2015 276.027
00+ 9.1%
 16,842
00- 32.2%
 26,412
0- 3.5%
2014 253.044 24,885 27,378
Source:

Web links

Commons : Ostend-Bruges airport  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AIP Belgium AD 2.EBOS ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belgocontrol.be
  2. ↑ a b c d Figures and statistics. OstendAirport.aero, accessed on May 23, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ ost.aero: Werklantheidscijfers ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch) Retrieved March 22, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ost.aero
  4. ↑ egis-group.com: Egis awarded concession for Ostend-Bruges and Antwerp airports in Belgium (English) accessed on March 22, 2015