Regional airport
Regional airport (also “regional commercial airport”) are all airports that have not been defined as international airports by the Federal Ministry of Transport in accordance with Section 27d of the Aviation Act .
Conceptual blur
The term is not clearly defined legally. The German aviation authorities use the designation purely after approval. The 16 airports at which air traffic control services are provided by Deutsche Flugsicherung are considered to be international airports. The other places with a control zone ( airspace D) or an airspace G with a radio mandatory zone (RMZ) are so-called regional airports.
The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV) focuses on the number of passengers and the take-offs and landings at an airport. In terms of this, Dortmund and Frankfurt-Hahn are also considered to be international airports. A regional airport can have a license as a commercial airfield or as an airport .
Subsidized structural policy
Because the planning authority for airport projects lies with the federal states, state politicians can pursue the expansion of regional airports as an investment for structurally weak regions, although critics criticize the fact that prestige thinking often plays a bigger role than supra-regional infrastructure planning.
The major airports in Frankfurt and Munich have joined forces to counter subsidized competition from regional airports in the Air Transport Initiative .
In general, EU aid has been considered to be a "contribution to the achievement of an objective of common interest" since 2014 - and thus as worthy of support for a maximum of 10 years - if it
- Create "access points" to intra-European air traffic
- counteract the congestion of the airspace at the major European aviation hub airports or
- favor regional development
An analysis commissioned by the environmental organization BUND on German regional airports under the title "Economically and climate-politically irresponsible subsidies" by the Ecological-Social Market Economy Forum (FÖS) shows that only three of the 14 locations examined have a transport policy benefit from the connection to their region to international air traffic. The remaining connections offered are almost without exception vacation flights. The investigation therefore calls for the immediate closure of half of the 14 regional airports. Selected regional airports in Germany were examined. The study deals with the economic efficiency, the importance for the traffic connection and the development of the passenger numbers of airports with 200,000 to three million passengers per year.
Web links
- FAZ.net June 23, 2016: The regional airport mistake
- Forum Ecological-Social Market Economy (Werner Reh, Matthias Runkel, Lea Paoli): Regional airports. Economically and climate-politically irresponsible subsidies. July / August 2020 (PDF)
See also
- List of commercial airports in Germany
- Low cost airline
- Joint task to improve the regional economic structure
Footnotes
- ↑ Eric Heymann and Jan Vollenkemper: “ Expansion of regional airports, misallocation of resources (PDF; 587 kB)”. Deutsche Bank Research November 3, 2005.
- ↑ http://www.initiative-luftverkehr.de/positionen/index.html
- ↑ n-tv news television: deficit runways in the province: Brussels cuts the airport support. In: teleboerse.de. February 20, 2014, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- ↑ These regional airports are superfluous according to environmentalists. SPON Wirtschaft, August 19, 2020
- ↑ The list can be sorted by the number of passengers by clicking in the "Passengers" column header