Dortmund Airport

Geschichte

Dortmund Airport, is a minor international airport located 10km east of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It serves the eastern Rhine-Ruhr area, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany, and is mainly used for low-cost and leisure charter flights. Dortmund Airport served approximately 1.9 million passengers in 2013, the nearest major international airport is Düsseldorf Airport approx. 70km to the southwest. In 2016, the airport served 1,918,843 passengers.HistoryEarly yearsThe airport, originally located in the suburb of Brackel, was first served by commercial flights in 1925 by Aero Lloyd, which operated flights to Paris. By the business year 1927/1928, service had expanded to 2,589 commercial flights annually. During World War II the airport was used as a German air base, and was subsequently used by the British Royal Air Force. Service to Dortmund was not recommenced when German commercial air service was restarted in 1955. In 1960, the civil airfield was relocated to Dortmund-Wickede. The old airport was abandoned and occupied by British forces until the 1990s.Little serviceOver the next decades Düsseldorf Airport and Cologne Bonn Airport were the dominant commercial airports in the Rhine-Ruhr Area. Additionally Hannover Airport and Münster/Osnabrück Airport also covered some of the air travel needs of this region. Furthermore, the 257 km (160mile) Sauerlandlinie opened in the late 1960s, connecting Dortmund with Frankfurt Airport in under two hours by car.

"Der Dortmund Airport – am östlichen Rand des Ruhrgebiets gelegen – ist der drittgrößte Flughafen in NRW und ein wichtiger Wirtschaftsfaktor für die Region. Von hier aus starten Sie zu vielen Zielen in ganz Europa."