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Hamburg Airport ( officially Hamburg Airport, formerly Hamburg airport ) is the international airport of Hamburg. It is Germany's oldest and fifth largest airport. 2012 around 13.7 million passengers used Hamburg Airport, which represents an increase of 1.0 % compared to the previous year. The airport is the home base of Hamburg Airways.

Location and Transport

, Operated by the Hamburg GmbH Airport is located approximately eight kilometers north of the city center of Hamburg and eight kilometers south of the city center of Norderstedt in Hamburg's Fuhlsbüttel, between the towns of Niendorf in the southwest and Fuhlsbiittel to the east, with a small portion of the airport to Norderstedt district Garstedt heard.

The center of Hamburg from the airport by public transport within the HVV be reached by S- Bahn line S1 (stop " Hamburg Airport "). The S1 line connects the airport every ten minutes, among others, the main railway station, the travel time is 25 minutes. At night, the airport on weekdays through the night bus 606 to the center of Hamburg, and at weekends through the bus 274 to the then in continuous night operation moving subway lines U1 and S1 is tied to the Ohlsdorf station. The bus company Autokraft operates a bus service to Hamburg Airport to Kiel ( " Kielius "). The bus service from the airport Hamburg Lübeck ( Trave- Elbe- Express) was August 31, 2013 set without replacement.

From the western and northern state of Schleswig -Holstein and the northern Lower the airport for motorists on the A 7 and the removed ring 3 (B 433 ) is easy to reach, while passengers from Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and eastern Schleswig -Holstein have to drive through the city.

History

On 10 January 1911, established with private funds in the amount of 685 thousand marks, Hamburg Luftschiffhallen GmbH ( HLG). In January 1912, the airship port was taken on approximately 45 acres in operation. First, the airport was therefore primarily used by airships. 1913, the area was expanded to 60 hectares, where the northern area was the airships reserved, and the aircraft were able to use only the southeastern part.

During the First World War, the airship hangar was exclusively used by the military until the airship hangar in 1916 destroyed by fire and was meaningless for military use. The HLG built the facilities, although again, but this had to render it unusable again due to the Versailles Treaty. Nevertheless, started for the airport in February 1919 the new beginning with establishing a connection to Berlin by the German Luft-Reederei (DLR). From 1920 KLM also used the airport as a stopover on a line connection, connecting Rotterdam and Amsterdam Copenhagen. In the same year, the first statistic was created, in which there were 348 takeoffs and landings with 241 passengers. 1929 was the first terminal and the beginning of 1934 was inaugurated at the initiative of the Hamburg Senator Alfred Richter a memorial denounced the Versailles Treaty and the associated limitations. Mid-1930s, the airport was with the Hamburg, Belgrade, Athens, Rhodes, Damascus and Baghdad starting point of the then longest air route in the world. During the Second World War forced laborers were used in the camouflage of the airport since 1942.

His name Hamburg Airport was the airport in 1945 by the British occupying power whose Royal Air Force took over the airfield of the Wehrmacht. In 1946 British European Airways again on the first line connection (London- Amsterdam -Hamburg- Berlin). For the purposes of the Berlin Airlift, the first runway was founded in 1948 as Behelfsbahn. When Lufthansa international flight operations to New York resumed in April 1955 the first domestic flight operations to Munich and again in June, Hamburg was their home airport to Frankfurt took over this role; the headquarters of Lufthansa Technik is now still based in Hamburg.

Mid-1960s, moving the airport after Heidmoor in cold churches was sought. Reasons for this were, among others, in the environmental impact of aircraft noise, which is exposed in Hamburg, Norderstedt, Quick Born and Hasloh the population.

In recent years, the efforts to replace the construction of a major airport cold churches Hamburg Airport, obtained by negative experiences with distant city airports and changes in the distribution of the major airports in Northern Germany also by the sharp economic contradiction. The aligned predominantly services economy in Hamburg is dependent on a fast reach City Airport with European connections. An early realization of ongoing since the 1960s relocation planning is therefore unlikely today.

Beginning of the 1990s began with the expansion program HAM21 a fundamental modernization of the entire airport. First, the old terminal was 4 (now Terminal 2 ) was built. Simultaneously, a 500 meter long pier was built, but which brought far-reaching implications for the terminals 2 and 3 with it. Here no planes were able to dock directly more. The former Terminal 2 was then closed. In the following years it served as a shelter for the path from Terminal 1 to Terminal 3 The latter was used in the subsequent period only for boarding activities in the run area. At the beginning of the new millennium, Terminal 2 was demolished and re- built modern. On 25 May 2005, the terminal was inaugurated and was named Terminal 1 At the same time, the renaming of Terminal 4 was held in Terminal 2. This had hitherto been used for departures building charter airlines Terminal 1 still exists to this day, but let since this moment only for events. It is now known as Terminal Tango. The former Terminal 3 was demolished for the construction of the new Airport Plaza. End of October 2009, the new Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg Airport was opened. It is the last for the expansion program HAM21 belonging subproject and was designed by the Hamburg office K2B.

Passenger terminal building

The passenger handling is done in two terminals. Both are visually difficult to distinguish, as they were planned for similar plans of the same architect's office. From the runway of all three buildings is a nearly 800 m long pier in front with 17 passenger boarding bridges. All the buildings are the result of the expansion program HAM21.

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 is the newer of the two terminal buildings. It was inaugurated in 2005 and designed by architects Gerkan, Marg and Partners. The hall floor space is 6,300 square meters. Of architectural interest is, inter alia, a rainwater harvesting system that supplies the sanitary facilities, and a so-called thermal labyrinth, which relieves the air conditioning through the use of geothermal energy.

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 was put into operation in 1993. Already here the Gerkan, Marg and Partners was responsible for the design. The hall floor space is 5,850 square meters. Architecturally stands first of the curved roof form in the eye. It is modeled on a wing of an airplane taking off. After completion of Terminal 1 also significant innovations have been retrofitted, bring both terminals on the same technical level. So the entire baggage handling system in Terminal 2 was moved to the basement under running airport operations. In addition, the check- in desk were brought to the then latest technology. Here especially the Lufthansa and Star Alliance flights are handled.

Airport Plaza

Also designed by Gerkan, Marg and Partners, the Airport Plaza is the newest of the three terminal buildings. It was opened in December 2008 and forms, between the two terminals lying, a transition between the two. In the Plaza, the central security control has been housed since 2009. Behind it there are numerous shops and dining facilities for the passengers. Moreover, here the baggage handling systems of the two terminals will be merged in the basement. This is also the last stop "Hamburg Airport " Airport S-Bahn Hamburg, which went into operation on 12 December 2008.

Operator

Operator of the airport is Flughafen Hamburg GmbH. The shareholders are 51% of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( the shares are held by HGV, which is fully owned by the city of Hamburg ) and 49% by the Hamburg Airport Partners GmbH. Hamburg Airport Partners holding is 34.8 % owned by Avialliance (formerly Hochtief Airport ), which are calculated, the remaining 14.2% are held by Avialliance Capital GmbH & Co. KGaA (formerly Hochtief Airport Capital) and also from the Avialliance managed.

Capacity and safety

After the opening of the new Terminal 1 of the airport Hamburg has an annual capacity of 15-16 million passengers.

The 13.7 million passengers in 2012 were transported over 152 890 arrivals and departures. At the same time 58 aircraft can be handled. The two intersecting start and runways can be a maximum of 48 take-offs and landings per hour.

From 23-6 clock consist night flight restrictions, 2007, there were 456 special permits for the period at 00:00 bis 6:00 clock, of which about 300 accounted for postal machines. The post office has these flights end of March 2008 set. Overall, the number of counted flights rose 23-0 clock; 2007 found a total of 1438 flights take place during this time, 2006, there were 1365 flights. In 2012 there were in the period from 0 to 6 clock 203 flights (medical relief flights and emergencies as well as 21 individual exemptions in the public interest ) and between 23.00 and 0:00 clock clock 501 flights.

A major criticism of the security of the airport Hamburg are the densely built-up approach paths.

The instrument landing system (ILS ) at the airport even meet the standard, however, has the runway 33 only on a non-precision approach procedures LOC / DME.

As of September 27, 2010 the airport was the first in Germany, were tested on the body scanner. However, this field trial was conducted on 31 July 2011 and will set with a reference to the high frequency of errors again.

For landings of the Airbus A380, the green strips are mounted next two runways with a synthetic resin; Although no scheduled flights from Hamburg are planned, but the airport is an alternative location for the nearby Airbus factory in Hamburg -Finkenwerder airfield.

Airlines and destinations

The international airport of Hamburg joins 115 direct targets with 60 different airlines. Among the long-haul destinations are:

• New York - Newark, which is served by United Airlines daily
• Dubai, which is served by Emirates twice daily
• Cape Verde Islands, the TUIfly during the winter timetable ( October 2013-März/April 2014) on Boa Vista ( Cape Verde) and Sal ( Cape Verde) is approached
• Tehran, which is serviced twice a week by Iran Air
• La Romana, from the winter timetable 2013/2014 TUIfly ( full charter for TUI performed by Arkefly ) is approached
• Cancún, the starting in the winter flight schedule 2013/2014 TUIfly ( full charter for TUI performed by Arkefly ) is approached
• Barbados, from the winter timetable 2013/2014 TUIfly ( full charter for TUI performed by Arkefly ) is approached
• Punta Cana, from the winter timetable 2013/2014 TUIfly ( full charter for TUI performed by Arkefly ) is approached

Locational competition

In the catchment area of ​​the airport Hamburg are also

• Lübeck Airport on the A 1 / A 20, which is mainly used by Ryanair
• Of Bremen Airport, which is also served by Ryanair and this serves as the basis
• Flughafen Hannover -Langenhagen, about 90 minutes drive south of Hamburg is located, because of its good transport links, especially in the tourist traffic as well as for the southern part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region an alternative

Traffic figures

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Award

Hamburg Airport got both 2011 and 2012 awarded by Skytrax the "Best Regional Airport Europe ". In addition, Hamburg Airport has received 2012 and 2013 the ACI ( Airports Council International) Europe Award " Best Airport Europe " in the 10-25 million passengers.

Criticism at the airport

Criticism of the operation of the airport has been around for a long time. Thus, for example, the community of interest Flugschneise North - citizens 'initiative against aircraft noise in Quickborn and Hasloh already eV since 1970 criticism is voiced by various citizens' initiatives, especially at increasing aircraft noise by increasing traffic numbers in air transport.. Again and again, expressing also the assignable unequal distribution of aircraft movements to / from the north. As a measure of the burden in this case is the sheer number of aircraft movements - the number of affected citizens will not affect.