Kassel Calden Airport

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The airport Kassel- Calden is a eröffneter on April 4, 2013 Regional airport in the area northwest of the city of Kassel situated in northern Hesse Kassel district municipality Calden. It is located in the vicinity of 1970 to 2013 operated airfield Kassel- Calden.

The paved runway, and the airport runway is 2500 meters (m) long and 45 m wide. You currently operates in both directions of the All Weather Operations Level CAT I. Even in 2014, the CAT III are introduced in the main landing direction 27 as the Federal Ministry of Transport ( BMVI ) agrees.

The airport is operated by Flughafen GmbH Kassel, shareholders are the state of Hesse ( 68%) and the city of Kassel, Kassel administrative district (both 13% each ) and the community Calden ( 6%). In the companies, which are located at the airport, about 142 people are employed.

• 2.1 prehistory
• 2.2 flight operations airfield (since 1970 )
• 2.3 Regional Airport expansion (2005 to 2013) 2.3.1 planning
• 2.3.2 The objective of the training and the new building
• 2.3.3 construction
• 2.3.4 opening
• 2.3.5 financial
• 2.3.6 debate on passenger numbers
• 2.3.7 Managing

• 6.1 Economics
• 6.2 Road Access

• 7.1 Motor Sport
• 7.2 skydiving
• 7.3 Aviation and Flying Schools

Geographical location

Airfield (1970 to 2013)

The remaining grounds of the 1970-2013 existing airfield is located approximately 13 kilometers (direct distance ) north- west of the city center of Kassel in the municipality of Calden. With adjacent commercial areas it is located west of Caldener core location, north of Prince Forest, northeast of Ehrsten and east of Meimbressen; the two villages latter extend in the valley of fog Beeke. A few kilometers north is the village belonging to Grebestein shafts. The airfield was on the Long and Staufenberg plate directly east of the gently rising knoll of 278.3 m above sea level. NN high hill Holle on former arable sites built on 260-277 m in height; the aerodrome reference point (English aerodrome reference point, ARP ) was approximately 276 m. The now locked airstrip - by train ID 04/ 22 and 1500 m in length and 30 m width - is invested in northeast-southwest direction. In addition, there was north-west parallel to the asphalt track an approximately 700 m long and 30 m wide grass runway ( 04L/22R ).

North-north- west of the airfield are the adjacent forest areas Hegeholz and leg forest with around 120 hectares to a maximum of 278.6 m. To the south extends beyond the Gut Klein Calden the forest area Tiergarten, which was formerly fenced hunting area, to a maximum of around 322 m. To the northeast the federal highway 7 runs (see section transport links ).

Regional airport (since 2013)

The 2013 opened Regional Airport is approximately 13.5 kilometers (direct distance ) north- west of the city center of Kassel and 1.5 km northeast of the former airfield in the areas of Calden and Grebestein. It was built - on the Long and Staufenberg plate - between the nucleus and the nearby Caldener Grebensteiner districts shafts in the north- northwest and east-northeast in the castle Uffeln. His start and runway - by train identifier 09/ 27 and 2500 m length and 45 m width - is invested in a west-east direction.

Thus, the forest areas Hegeholz and thighs forest of the airport is located east on former arable sites of Schachter height - an eastward inclined to Grebensteiner height hill between the crests of the Holle hill ( 278.3 m) in the southwest, stone hill ( 268.5 m ) in the northwest and grade level ( 247.7 m) in the northeast. To the east the landscape over the Suderbach and Calde drops into the valley of the forge. The maximum elevation of the airport is located at about 264 m. The airport was built north-east of the aforementioned B 7, which was moved during the airport's construction slightly to the southwest. There are over 750 free parking spaces are available. New commercial space are planned.

Neighboring Airports

Larger neighboring airports (distances depending on distance):

• Paderborn / Lippstadt (approx. 58 km north- west ),
• Hannover -Langenhagen Airport ( 118 km north-northeast ).
• Erfurt -Weimar ( about 122 km south-east ),
• Dortmund ( about 125 miles west),
• Frankfurt am Main (about 165 km south-southwest ).

Of the airports Paderborn / Lippstadt, Erfurt -Weimar and Dortmund are accessible via main roads and motorways and the airports of Hannover- Langenhagen Airport and Frankfurt am Main also has the high-speed line Hannover -Kassel and Würzburg (ICE).

History

Prehistory

On August 24, 1924, the airport Kassel -Waldau was opened, which lay on the territory of the municipality Lochmaben then. The airfield was entertained at the expense of the city and furnished in 1926 of scheduled air services of Lufthansa was directly subsidized, up in the Great Depression ran out of funds for it. From 1930 to 1945 he served the Gerhard Fieseler works as a factory airfield and was used for flight days.

In the 1950s, the interest to expand the airfield was low, especially Kassel is good transport connected. It was feared also that an extension could harm the image of the city as a cultural city. At the insistence of Kassel industry and the mayor Lauritz Lauritzen, a new airport was after years of neglect but then planned.

Flight operations as a commercial airport (since 1970 )

On 11 July 1970, the new " Airport Kassel " in Calden was opened. He was 104 hectares with 22 hectares zuzüglichen commercial space. Although the old airfield was quite economically successful, they admitted that the city obviously no airfield, or doubted the meaning of the airfield at. The Mirror ran the headline " Kassel built for 22 million an airfield - which is not used", referring among other things to a deficient infrastructure. Away from the criticism of the 60 kilometers away and the airport opened in 1971 Paderborn / Lippstadt could develop.

In the spring of 1972, the charter airline Aviaction stationed an aircraft on the ground. From 1972 to 1975, the General Air from Kassel- Calden flew in scheduled service to Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Dusseldorf. The East Frisian air transport (OLT ) flew in scheduled service to Dusseldorf and Cologne. As of 1992, the Berlin special flight flew temporarily to Berlin -Tempelhof. 1994 saw the first charter flights to Majorca and Tunisia. In 2000, the first time landed a Boeing 737 at Hamburg International and then flew on to Mallorca. Later, the flights were discontinued. Since the summer of 2005 took place from or to the airport Kassel- Calden, which has four night flight permits, neither lines nor charter flights instead. The transported air cargo volume in 2005 was about 650 tons. In 2008 there were approximately 30,000 aircraft movements, with around 25,000 passengers. Air Sports and leisure transport and helicopter flights make it the largest share. 2013, there were approximately 22,891 aircraft movements, with around 46 557 passengers. The airfield is the base of business Wings.

Had the airfield to get back in 1971 with the 60 km away from the airport Paderborn -Lippstadt competition, so went after the reunification of the expansion of the 130 km east past the airport Erfurt -Weimar. Although their catchment areas were smaller, the ambitions of the local states were larger. When around 2000 won an extension of Kassel- Calden again actuality, the Airport Paderborn- Lippstadt began with an extensive expansion. Its managing director scoffed, "If the Caldener start with the expansion, we have long since finished," and was referring to the resistance, which was exposed to the airport expansion in Kassel.

Expanding regional airport (2005 to 2013)

Planning

Already since the 1970s is discussed on a airfield expansion. But it was only in 2000 began planning that had the airfield expansion to a full-fledged regional airport to the destination. From the long preliminary phase of appraisals, procedures and public participation, a new building was. After this planning this should be completed by 2010, but the start of construction was delayed also due to a pending European Commission decision. The concerns that the cultural heritage of the city of Kassel and the mountain park William height could be devalued, as well as the part of the operators of existing airports in the region (Erfurt, Paderborn ), which presented the utilization and the usable capacity in question were included with.

The construction work required for this regional planning process was completed in December 2003, to July 18, 2007 then ran from January 2006, the plan approval process, which was concluded with the zoning decision. A compiled plan for the plan approval procedure Demand Forecasting has made ​​a number of passengers of 561,000 and a cargo volume of 2500 tons for Kassel- Calden for the year 2015. For 7000, additional aircraft movements per year would be needed.

The Hessian Administrative Court in Kassel declared on 17 June 2008 in a judgment of the zoning decision for res judicata. Since no appeal against the judgment has been filed, could be started with the construction.

In March 2010, the then Finance Minister Hessian Karlheinz Weimar announced in Kassel that the new airport will significantly more expensive than planned. 2003 were estimated as 151 million euros. In particular, due to increased security requirements, the necessary budget has increased to 225 million euros. According to the Minister Weimar Still would stick to the expansion plans of the state government.

26 August 2011 announced Hesse Minister of Finance Thomas Schäfer, that the development costs would rise by another 25 million to now € 248.7 million. The reason for this additional cost has been called by the earthworks, aircraft movement areas and planning. The Land of Hessen had also been scheduled for further cost increases an additional cost buffer in the amount of 22.3 million euros in the budget.

The total cost amounted to 271 million euros. The state of Hesse takes over a large part of the financing, the city of Kassel and the county will pay 15.5 million euros, the community Calden around seven million euros. The country will subsidize the operation over several years. The income threshold to be reached in 2020.

The aim of the training and the new building

Given the strong growth in passenger numbers, Germany (2003: 146.7 million, forecast 2015: 255.6 million ) pursue the shareholders with the Flugplatzaus - or - new construction to incorporate the goal of Kassel North Hesse in the European air transport network, so to improve the transport infrastructure of the region and to increase the quality of location. Another goal is the creation of jobs.

The expansion of the airfield was classified as urgent in August 2000 in the airport concept of the federal government. The airfield is also in the " master plan Trans -European Networks - 2020 - Airports " of the European Union in the category "Regional components and access components " and, thus fulfilling the conditions for a financial support from the EU.

For the year 2015 561.000 passengers and 2,500 tons of freight were targeted.

Construction

The construction work included the construction of a completely new airport about one kilometer north of the existing airport with a start and runway with 2500 m length and 45 m width and the air traffic control technology and terminal buildings. In addition, expansion and relocation of the B 7 came including a bypass of Calden and the expansion of the wastewater treatment plant Calden.

In the stage of construction of the airport Kassel- Calden was applied to a size of 168 hectares, with 21 hectares zuzüglichen commercial space; therefrom were 220 ​​ha total area and 9.8 ha commercial space when completed ( 2013). His start and runway should also allow larger aircraft takeoff and landing.

On 30 November 2009 began clearing work to relocate the highway 7 from the future airport away. The preparatory work for the new airport began in late 2010. Beginning of the expansion of several acres of forest land on the territory of the former municipality Meimbressen along the highway were cleared by Westuffeln.

On 10 March 2011 the expansion and construction work began with a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony. While the proponents welcomed the beginning of the expansion, saying critics of a million wasted. Was accompanied the start of protests.

Because the height and Schachter Grebensteiner height between Calden and castle Uffeln has a fairly steep gradient and therefore was not suitable for airport construction, there were about 4.3 million cubic meters of soil and rock material moves. These numerous excavators, bulldozers, trucks and towed by tractors dump trucks were used.

In October 2011, Piper Germany AG signed land sale contracts with the airport operator to operate on an area of ​​more than one hectare of an administration building, a maintenance facility, warehouse space and a warehouse for spare parts for aircraft. The Piper AG was previously based at the airfield.

In May 2012, the airport control tower received its pulpit. The construction of the runway, taxiways and airfields were completed at the end of 2012.

Opening

The flight operations began on April 4, 2013. The Germania landed on opening the first airline to an aircraft on the new regional airport, as it was the first company announced flights from Kassel- Calden. Such an Airbus A319, which in 2013 came as a flight from Frankfurt am Main ST airport dropped, after nearly 18 minutes of flight at 11.11 clock on the tarmac on. In the presence of Prime Minister of Hesse Volker Bouffier (CDU ) found themselves in a marquee opening around 700 guests - including the managing director of the airport, Jörg Ries, who said: "We have done". Among the guests sightseeing flights were raffled off with the aircraft landed on the region of Northern Hesse. The first holiday flight was on the same day ( 16 clock ) as an intermediate landing Dusseldorf Airport coming from Tailwind Airlines carried out and the Turkish Antalya was targeted. The flight the next day was canceled because only six passengers had booked. The passengers were driven in a taxi to Paderborn / Lippstadt nearest airport.

Financial

In August 2013 it was announced that the airport will conclude with a higher loss due to poor passenger numbers in 2013 than expected. Instead of € 2.7 million in provincial grants for this purpose at least 4.5 million euros will be payable expected. In 2014 is expected to be a loss of 8.1 million euros.

Debate on passenger numbers

In October 2013, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Hessian Minister of Finance Thomas Shepherd pulled the interim results for the first three quarters of 2013, and reported that around 30,000 tourists from Kassel -Calden were flown from the south. On 4 November 2013, the Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) issued a internal statistics of the airport authority, stating the that in this period actually started far fewer tourists from Kassel -Calden from. Passenger numbers were " far too high ", according to the tenor of the HR.

Manager

On March 15, 2014 it was announced that the current contract since 2012 the Managing Director Maria Anna Muller, who previously headed the airport Rostock- Laage, is dissolved with immediate effect. Muller had a five -year contract, but it was only one and a half years in office. As the successor Ralf Schustereder was nominated, the Airport was previously at Fraport Cairo Responsible and takes up his post on 1 April.

Gallery

New Tower, September 2012

New Fire Station, September 2012

New start and runway with taxiway, September 2012

Start and runway with taxiway three days before the opening

Airlines and destinations

Kassel- Calden was flown start of operations in the summer timetable 2013 by only a few companies. These included the German airline Germania, the Turkish Tailwind Airlines and Croatia Airlines. There are several failed originally scheduled flights to Antalya due to the insolvency of Sky Airlines. Other flights were canceled since the opening due to lack of bookings. The former last scheduled flight from Kassel- Calden lifted on 29 October 2013. Until the spring of 2014 no further scheduled flight movements are expected, the airport will however still continue to be held ready for use.

Figures, data and facts

Selection of numbers, facts and figures of the airport Kassel- Calden:

Infrastructure

Economy

In 2005 had 15 companies with a total of around 600 employees their location at the former country transport space with its industrial park. The production and maintenance of helicopter components has a high work - share (for example, the Airbus Helicopters plant in Kassel ). As part of the reopening of the airport business park Kassel- Calden has emerged in the immediate vicinity, the developing rapidly, according to Supervisory Shepherd.

Transport links

Southwest Regional Airport runs the main road 7, on the one hand southeastward through Calden and then from Espenau - Schäferberg together with the B 83 by Vellmar to Kassel and on the other hand northwestward toward Warburg from Low Listingen on the country roads 3080 (Lower Listingen top Listingen - Breuna ) and 3312 ( Breuna - Niederelsungen ) achievable junction Breuna the Federal highway 44 leads.

The airport link to the rail network via an express bus from the train station Kassel- Wilhelm height. Since April 2013 to drive it every hour on two buses (on weekends two lines each in two- hour intervals ), from December 2013, it will be five.

Sports

Motorsport

From 1971 to June 1987 numerous auto races were held at the airport Kassel- Calden that were widely known as airfield race. For example, won the seventh round of the German Racing Championship 1978 in the Division I Bob Wollek (F; Porsche 935 ) and in the Division II Harald Ertl (D; BMW 320 Turbo), who secured the championship this year; in these championships started, among others, Klaus Ludwig, Hans -Joachim Stuck and Manfred Winkelhock. In addition, two rounds of the European Formula 3 Championship took place, with riders like Riccardo Patrese and Nelson Piquet. By 1988, there were also many national and international motorcycle racing, among others, Toni Mang, Reinhold Roth and Martin Wimmer.

Skydiving

The Aero skydiving GmbH has its headquarters at the airfield. It found AFF training instead (Accelerated Free Fall ), taster and tandem jumps complement the athletic program around the skydiving.

Aviation and Flying Schools

At Kassel- Calden airport the flight FLYNOW GmbH Kassel is located. In addition to the chartering of single-engine aircraft, scenic flights and introductory flights, the flight school also offers training for private pilot's license in accordance with JAR - FCL.

In addition, the light -wings flight school at the airport has its headquarters. She trains for sports aircraft. In addition to the training program, it offers introductory lessons, taster courses and scenic flights by ultralight aircraft over northern Hesse. Even planes can be chartered. In the flight school aircraft of the Italian manufacturer Tecnam be used.

Tourism

While visitors can see a panoramic terrace on the tower of the former airfield, an info point was at that time located in the making airport furnished with versions on its rooftop observation deck on 3 June 2011 where you can learn about construction and Ataturk International Airport beginning on the former site and now can overlook the airport.

Criticism

Main criticisms are on the one hand a lack of utilization, on the other hand, a high noise levels. Also, it means that the airport is conveniently technically poorly connected. Thus, there is no zoning approval for the bypass of Calden. On the other hand, the city of Kassel Concerning operative already has a good transport connections, which makes unnecessary an airport. In addition, passengers at airports from neighboring states would move, built with high subsidies.

A citizens' initiative from the Lower Saxony Hann. Munden filed a complaint with the European Commission. The expansion has also been criticized by Lufthansa.