Dresden Airport
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Coordinates | 51°08′04″N 13°46′05″E / 51.13444°N 13.76806°E | ||||||||||
Website | dresden-airport.de | ||||||||||
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Dresden Airport (IATA: DRS, ICAO: EDDC) is the international airport of Dresden, the state capital of Saxony, Germany. It is located in Klotzsche, a district of Dresden 9 km (5.6 mi) north[2] of the city centre. It was formerly also known in German as Flughafen Dresden-Klotzsche. Destinations from the airport include a few European cities and several holiday destinations.
Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), a subsidiary of ST Engineering Aerospace and Airbus, is based at the airport. EFW is mainly tasked with freighter conversions.
History
Early years
The airport was opened to commercial traffic on 11 July 1935.
During the following years, the airport was used as an education centre for the Soviet army. It was reopened for commercial traffic on 16 June 1957. In 1959 international air traffic resumed, primarily to Eastern Bloc countries.
Between 1955 and 1961, the East German government decided to develop its own aviation industry centred on Dresden, with the VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden ("Publicly-owned Aircraft Factories Dresden") as the main plant. Although this development ultimately failed, it increased the importance of Klotzsche Airport considerably, and still shapes the design and atmosphere of the airport today.[3] With the end of aircraft manufacturing in 1961, the plant became the VEB Flugzeugwerft Dresden ("Publicly-owned Aircraft Maintenance Dresden"), a maintenance facility for Eastern Bloc fighter aircraft and helicopters. From 1963, the airport was also home of an East German military transport squadron with Ilyushin Il-14 and later Antonov An-26, designated as Transportfliegerstaffel 27 (TFS-27) and later Transportfliegerstaffel 24 (TFS-24, TS-24). Passenger traffic was limited to domestic routes and to a few destinations in other Eastern Bloc countries.
Development after German reunification
After German reunification, the airport was expanded and flights to western European capitals were added. Traffic increased sevenfold during the first half of the 1990s and a second terminal was opened in 1995.
In 2001 the current terminal was added. It was rebuilt from a hangar formerly used as an assembly hall by the aircraft industry.[3]
In 2008, 1,860,364 passengers passed through the airport, an increase of 0.3% over the previous year and a record for the airport. In the same year, there were 36,968 takeoffs and landings, an increase of 2.3% over the previous year.[4] The airport rebranded itself as "Dresden International" in September of the same year.
In February 2015,
Facilities
The airport has one modern passenger terminal building with several shops, restaurants and service agencies as well as seven aircraft parking positions equipped with
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Dresden Airport:[8]
Airlines | Destinations |
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Corendon Airlines | Antalya |
European Air Charter | Seasonal charter: Burgas[9] |
Eurowings | Düsseldorf Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca |
Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich |
Pegasus Airlines[10] | Seasonal: Antalya |
Ryanair | Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca |
Tenerife–South, Varna
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SunExpress | Seasonal: Antalya[12] |
Zürich
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Tailwind Airlines | Seasonal charter: Antalya |
Statistics
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Passengers | ||||
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2000 | 1,759,638 | |||
2001 | 1,642,736 | |||
2002 | 1,518,784 | |||
2003 | 1,553,774 | |||
2004 | 1,620,781 | |||
2005 | 1,782,901 | |||
2006 | 1,836,068 | |||
2007 | 1,849,836 | |||
2008 | 1,856,390 | |||
2009 | 1,718,923 | |||
2010 | 1,843,113 | |||
2011 | 1,917,915 | |||
2012 | 1,886,425 | |||
2013 | 1,754,139 | |||
2014[13] | 1,760,480 | |||
2015[14] | 1,726,471 | |||
2016 | 1,667,880 | |||
2017 | 1,702,572 | |||
2018 | 1,762,175 | |||
2019 | 1,595,565 | |||
2020 | 383,568 | |||
2021 | 331,384 | |||
2022 | 838,387 | |||
Source: ADV[15] |
Ground transportation
Public transport
Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) bus route 77 links the airport to DVB tram route 7, providing an alternative route to central Dresden. DVB bus route 80 links the airport to the districts of Klotzsche, Wilder Mann, Trachau and Cotta as well as the town of Boxdorf and also tram route 7.[16] In 2020 DVB published plans for a new tram line 17 to branch off of tram line 7 serving the airport [17]
The airport is in the
Road transport
Dresden Airport is around 9 km (5.6 mi) north[2] of the centre of Dresden. The direct journey, on city streets, takes about 20 minutes.[18]
The airport is served by an adjacent junction on the A4 Autobahn, which by-passes central Dresden on its route from Aachen, on the Dutch border, to Görlitz, on the Polish border. Junctions in the Dresden area connect the A4 to the A13, to Berlin, and the A17, to the Czech border and Prague.[18]
The airport has a
See also
References
- ^ "ADV Monthly Traffic Report 12/2022" (PDF; 919 KB). adv.aero (in German). Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen e.V. 2023-02-13. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ^ a b c "AIP VFR online". dfs.de. DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b c "Flughaven Dresden - History of the airport". Flughafen Dresden GmbH. Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
- ^ "Flughaven Dresden - Press release - 2008 traffic report". Flughafen Dresden GmbH. 2009-01-19. Archived from the original on 2012-05-30. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
- ^ "Etihad Regional zieht sich aus Leipzig und Dresden zurück - airliners.de".
- ^ aero.de - "Cityjet cancels Dresden route" (German) retrieved 5 June 2015
- ^ aerotelegraph.com - "Sundair and TUIfly help at Dresden and Nuremberg" 7 Februar 2019
- ^ dresden-airport.de - Destinations and timetable retrieved 1 December 2021
- ^ "Summer 2023 schedule - Dresden and Leipzig" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
- ^ "Pegasus NS24 Antalya Network Expansion – 08NOV23".
- ^ sundair.com - Flightplan retrieved 21 February 2022
- ^ "Herbst 2023: SunExpress legt Antalya-Flüge ab Dresden auf". 25 April 2023.
- ^ "Flughafen Dresden: Fluggastzahl stagniert". 17 January 2015.
- ^ http://www.austrianaviation.net/news-international/news-detail/datum/2016/01/18/leichter-passagierschwund-in-dresden-und-leipzig.html[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Unsere Flughäfen – Regionale Stärke, Globaler Anschluss".
- ^ a b c "Flughaven Dresden - Public transport". Flughafen Dresden GmbH. Archived from the original on 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
- ^ Mobilität für Dresden Strategiepapier zum zukünftigen ÖPNV in Dresden
- ^ a b "Flughaven Dresden - Car and taxi". Flughafen Dresden GmbH. Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ "Flughaven Dresden - Parking". Flughafen Dresden GmbH. Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
External links
Media related to Flughafen Dresden at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Current weather for EDDC at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for DRS at Aviation Safety Network