Strasbourg airport

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Aéroport de Strasbourg
Strasbourg airport terminal
Characteristics
ICAO code LFST
IATA code SXB
Coordinates

48 ° 32 '18 "  N , 7 ° 37' 42"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '18 "  N , 7 ° 37' 42"  E
Height above MSL 154 m (505  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km southwest of Strasbourg
Street D 221
Local transport TER
Basic data
opening 1935
operator Aéroport de Strasbourg Entzheim SA
surface 270 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 1,301,886 (2019)
Air freight 65 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		30,066 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		2.5 - 3 million
Employees over 1,000 (2015)
Start-and runway
05/23 2400 m × 45 m asphalt
website
www.strasbourg.aeroport.fr



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The Strasbourg Airport ( IATA : SXB , ICAO : LFST , French Aéroport de Strasbourg ) is the international passenger airport to the French city of Strasbourg in Alsace . The airfield Strasbourg-Neuhof (ICAO: LFGC) is 11 km to the east.

As base aérienne 124 Strasbourg-Entzheim , it served the French air forces as a military airfield until 1994 .

Location and transport links

The airport is in the district of Entzheim ( German  Enzheim ). The Entzheim-Aéroport station is less than 200 meters from the terminal and on a covered way accessible reach.

history

The original location of the Strasbourg airfield was in Neuhof near the Rhine , on an old military site that during the First World War housed a flight school for the aviation troops of the German Army Air Force . After the end of the war, Neuhof became home to a French fighter pilot school, where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry acquired his pilot's license. In addition, civil air traffic began on the airfield still in existence today, known as the Aérodrome de Strasbourg Neuhof - Polygone .

Today's Strasbourg airport in Entzheim has existed since 1935. During the Second World War , the airport was used by the German Air Force . Among other things, the I. Group of Luftlandegeschwader 1 (I./LLG 1), equipped with Do 17 and DFS 230, was located here between September 1943 and the beginning of September 1944 . After the war it was used both civilly and militarily. Between May and October 1945 the 3rd Fighter Squadron , 3e escadre de chasse , was stationed here, but then until 1959 military aviation was limited to a flight school.

In the 1950s, however, the airport was already being expanded into a jetted NATO base that shared taxiways and runways with the civilian area. The base was inaugurated in November 1959 and was named Base Aérienne d'Opérations n ° 124 the following February .

The main aviation user was the 33e escadre de reconnaissance from late 1959 until the military base was closed in September 1994 . The reconnaissance squadron consisted of various reconnaissance groups. These included the escadron de reconnaissance 1/33 “Belfort” and the escadron de reconnaissance 2/33 “Savoie”, which were added in March 1960 , between the end of 1959 and June 1961 and from January 1967 until the base was closed in 1994 . Also in 1959 the escadron de reconnaissance 3/33 “Moselle” had already arrived in Strasbourg. The latter was here until it was dissolved at the end of July 1993 and the two remaining groups moved to base 112 near Reims in the spring of 1994 . Initially, the squadron flew the RF-84F . Between January 1963 and 1966 it was converted to the Mirage IIIR (from April 1968 RD) and between July 1983 and June 1988 to the Mirage F1CR .

The civil area of ​​the airport, which until then was only 18 hectares in size, was enlarged to 270 hectares by the closure of base 124 to include the area previously used by the military. The airport was expanded in the following period. The existing passenger terminal was expanded between 1996 and 1999, a new cargo area was created in 1999/2000 and the runway was renewed in summer 2000.

In May 2017, the general aviation facilities at the airport were expanded to include a 1200 m² hangar at an investment of four million euros, and the reception building for business travelers was modernized and additional aircraft parking spaces were created in this area.

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in France, which initially had a particularly high number of sick people in Alsace, patients were flown out via Strasbourg Airport to relieve the hospitals there. On March 29, 2020, two intensive care patients were transported to Stuttgart in an Airbus A400M from Lufttransportgeschwader 62 to take them from there to the Bundeswehr hospital in Ulm .

Scheduled flight operations at the airport were suspended on March 20, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and are scheduled to resume on June 15, 2020.

Furnishing

Inside view of the terminal

Strasbourg-Entzheim, as the airport is also called, has several ILS tours, two VOR stations and a DME station . The runway allows precision approaches of ILS category III in approach direction 23 and ILS category I in approach direction 05 . Several of the aircraft parking positions are suitable for self-maneuvering , i.e. leaving the position by means of the aircraft's own drive without the need for a pushback .

The construction of the terminal building from the 1970s consists of a distinctive hipped roof that is set off several times and is based on the traditional Alsatian architectural style. There are 23 check-in counters as well as six Air France check-in machines , twelve gates with four passenger boarding bridges in the departure area and three baggage carousels in the arrivals area. There are also two CTS ticket machines at the exit towards the train station . Free WiFi access is available throughout the terminal .

Operators and handling companies

View of the terminal from the apron

The concession as airport operator received with a term until December 31, 2050, Aéroport de Strasbourg Entzheim SA a joint stock company in public ownership (60% French government , 25% Chamber of Commerce CCI , 5% Region Grand Est , 5% the Bas -Rhin , 5% Strasbourg City Council ). The operating company generated sales of around 22 million euros in 2015 .

The operating company's CEO from March 2010 to December 2019 was Thomas Dubus. He was succeeded in this position on May 1, 2020 by Renaud Paubelle.

On handling companies are represented Air France as a self-handler for Air France-hop as well as third party handlers Strasbourg handling SAS (until January 2017 as Aviapartner Strasbourg SAS corporate name) for all other airlines. At times, Onet Airport Services was also present at the site as a handler for Volotea.

Airlines and Destinations

Scheduled flights

As of May 2020 (summer flight schedule), the following airlines are flying to Strasbourg:

airline aims
Scheduled flights
Air Arabia Maroc Fez
Air France operated by WDL Aviation Amsterdam
Air France operated by Air France HOP Ajaccio , Calvi , Figari , Lyon , Marseille , Nice , Toulon , Toulouse
Arkia Israeli Airlines Tel Aviv
ASL Airlines France Oujda
Brussels Airlines Brussels (only Monday to Thursday in the session of the European Parliament)
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum Madrid
Lufthansa operated by Lufthansa CityLine Munich
Nouvelair Tunisie Djerba , Tunis
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Tassili Airlines Algiers , Constantine , Oran
Tunisair Djerba , Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Twin jet Lille
Volotea Ajaccio , Athens , Barcelona , Bastia , Bordeaux , Cagliari , Dubrovnik , Figari , Corfu , Marseille , Montpellier , Nantes , Nice , Olbia , Palermo , Palma de Mallorca , Toulouse

Special flights European Parliament

During the twelve weeks of the European Parliament's annual session , there is a special flight every Monday from Aegean Airlines from Athens , from Iberia / Air Nostrum from Madrid, from Lufthansa from Frankfurt (until October 2016 also from Munich ) and from TAROM from Bucharest to Strasbourg and on Thursdays the corresponding return flights. These flights are not reserved for MEPs and their entourage , but can also be booked by the public.

In addition, a Thalys special train and special flights between Strasbourg and Brussels also operate on Mondays and Thursdays in the week of session, exclusively for parliamentarians and employees . These are carried out with an ATR 72-200 from Sprintair .

Flight replacement by land

Display board in Strasbourg train station: TGV5420 to Paris with flight number AF7102 in code sharing

Air France offers travelers with connecting flights from Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport the option of using the TGV from Strasbourg train station as a feeder to Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV train station . Luggage can already be checked in in Strasbourg at counters in the southern area of ​​the station, from where it is processed through to the destination. When booking, Strasbourg appears with the IATA code XWG Gare de Strasbourg and the up to six train pairs available every day have Air France flight numbers.

Lufthansa offers a shuttle bus service from Strasbourg train station to Frankfurt Airport to make it easier for passengers to fly from Frankfurt. The IATA code XER Strasbourg Bus Station is used to book. The six daily trips in each direction have the Lufthansa flight numbers LH3751 to LH3762. Checked baggage is only checked in at the AIRail terminal in Frankfurt or is already handed over there.

Development of flight connections

The Spanish low-cost airline Volotea opened its third French base in Strasbourg in April 2015 and has two Boeing 717-200s permanently stationed.

In October 2015, Air France announced that Hop! flights between Strasbourg and Paris-Orly for the change of flight plan in spring 2016. The reason given was a likely decline in demand due to the planned opening of the last section of the LGV Est européenne high-speed line .

The airline FlyKiss served the destinations Brest , Clermont-Ferrand and London Luton (via Brest) with an ERJ 145 from November 2016 until it was discontinued due to lack of profitability in May 2017 .

The connection to Prague offered by Czech Airlines since March 31, 2008 with an ATR 42 / ATR 72 was discontinued on April 8, 2019.

The Brussels Airlines flights to Brussels were recently partially operated by Flybmi with an ERJ 145 . Since its insolvency and cessation of operations in February 2019, Brussels Airlines has been operating the flights on this route itself again, but only during the weeks of the European Parliament.

Incidents

On January 20, 1992 at 7:20 p.m., an Air Inter Airbus A320 -111 ( aircraft registration F-GGED ) collided with Mount Odile ( Vosges ) in Alsace while approaching Strasbourg airport . Of the 96 occupants, only 9 survived. The reasons were the cockpit design, incorrect displays of the VOR antenna, a navigation error by the pilots, the lack of a ground proximity warning system (for cost reasons) and several hours of delays in the rescue measures.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ceser-alsace.eu: Préconisations pour l'avenir de l'aéroport de Strasbourg-Entzheim (page 6 or 15, PDF, 168 kB, French), accessed on June 9, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c Results d'activité des aéroports français 2019 - Statistiques de trafic. (PDF; 4.75 MB) In: aeroport.fr. Union des Aéroports Français (UAF), pp. 12, 57, 78 , accessed on April 10, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ a b strasbourg.aeroport.fr: Communiqués de presse (PDF, 552 kB, French), accessed on February 23, 2016
  4. ^ Strasbourg. L'aéroport veut faire décoller l'aviation d'affaires (French), article from May 11, 2017 on lejournaldesentreprises.com, accessed on June 22, 2017
  5. ↑ Karl Schwarz: A400M brings corona patients to Stuttgart. In: Flight Revue . March 29, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Evacuation depuis Strasbourg de deux patients par un avion militaire allemand. In: DNA . March 29, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 (French).
  7. ↑ Flash info: Coronavirus. Archived from the original on May 9, 2020 ; accessed on May 30, 2020 (text display on the airport website).
  8. ↑ strasbourg.aeroport.fr: Information for pilots , accessed on July 4, 2015
  9. ↑ strasbourg.aeroport.fr: Gestion de l'Aéroport (French), accessed on May 2, 2015
  10. ^ Aéroport de Strasbourg: Renaud Paubelle, nouveau président du directoire. In: tourmag.com. February 21, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 (French).
  11. ↑ Plan de vols Été 2020 (PDF; 2.7 MB) Retrieved on May 30, 2020 (French, 2020 summer flight schedule).
  12. ↑ European Parliament - Plenary Session: Calendar of Sessions. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  13. ^ Miquel Ros: Meet the European Parliament Shuttle: How MEPs Fly. In: The Points Guy UK. May 23, 2019, accessed September 26, 2019 .
  14. ^ Air France flights and trains
  15. ↑ Lufthansa Express Bus
  16. ↑ airinfo.org: Volotea inaugure sa 3e base française à Strasbourg (French), accessed on May 19, 2015
  17. ↑ TGV section in Alsace will be put into operation later in : baden online from December 3, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2016
  18. ↑ Fly Kiss - France receives new regional airline articles from September 18, 2016 in aeroTELEGRAPH, accessed on November 7, 2016
  19. ↑ Regional airline - Fly Kiss gives after seven months on article from May 11, 2017 in aeroTELEGRAPH, accessed on May 13, 2017
  20. ↑ CSA: nouvelle liaison Strasbourg-Prague. In: tourmag.com. January 21, 2008, accessed April 9, 2019 (French).
  21. ↑ Thierry Blanc Mont: Lufthansa relie à Strasbourg Munich. In: air-journal.fr. March 21, 2019, accessed April 9, 2019 (French).
  22. ↑ Report de la commission d'enquête sur l'accident survenu le 20 janvier 1992 près du Mont Sainte-Odile (Bas Rhin) à l'Airbus A 320 immatriculé F-GGED exploité par la compagnie Air Inter. BEA , accessed on February 8, 2018 (French, report of the commission of inquiry).