Mannheim City Airport
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The City Airport Mannheim, Mannheim formerly Aerodrome ( ICAO code EDFM, IATA code MHG ) is a commercial airport in the Baden-Württemberg Mannheim. Operator is the Rhine -Neckar GmbH airfield. In 2010, approximately 130,000 passengers were recorded, of which 51,000 in scheduled air. Since March 2014 is on the airfield again line traffic through the Rhine -Neckar Air place after Cirrus Airlines ceased flight operations to Mannheim in December 2011. Otherwise, the air traffic from sports or private pilots as well as the work of air traffic several companies.
Specifications
The airfield with two start and runways located approximately 3.5 miles east of the Mannheim Centre in the district of Mannheim- Neuostheim at an altitude of 93 meters (305 ft) and is approved for instrument approaches (27 - LOC / DME, 09 - Circling ). When the two tracks is an asphalt runway 1066 meters long (09 /27) and a grass runway (09 Gras/27 grass) of 795 m length.
The City Airport Mannheim in years got as already in the 2011 published list of defects Vereinigung Cockpit, the worst rating Deficient - Red Star because of the restrictions in the arrival and departure area due to the difficult obstacle situation, incomplete runway lighting and the lack of stop bars, approach lights and a instrument approach procedure for runway 09
The airstrip was renewed in summer 2009. Besides the pure blacktop runway touchdown zone has been installed and a new partially renewed the marks.
Line traffic
Scheduled flights from Mannheim City Airport was settled by the airline Cirrus Airlines, which, moreover, had a maintenance base with its own hangar for their airplanes on the ground. To 22 December 2011, the Berlin-Tegel airport was several times a day served. From October 2008 to January 2009 there was also a connection to Munich, which, however, was discontinued due to lack of encouragement on the part of the passengers again. End of the 2000s there was also briefly a line connection to Dresden, which was also set again immediately. The connection to Hamburg accounted for in November 2010 also. By December 2008, the airline also operated from Monday to Friday each twice-daily route in the network traffic for a pharmaceutical company to Geneva.
The flights were carried out with modern turboprop aircraft Dornier 328, which can accommodate a maximum of 33 passengers. It was this to be a classic niche market as the short (and not expandable ) train did not allow much larger aircraft. The largest used in regular services aircraft was to Ausflottung Cirrus Airlines in early 2008, the Dash 8-300 with 50 seats.
After setting the connection to Berlin in December 2011 to March 2014 there were no scheduled flights.
Since March 10, 2014, are again two weeks daily scheduled flights between the City Airport Mannheim and Berlin- Tegel. As an airline acts which, at the instigation of various business around Mannheim (including SAP, HeidelbergCement and Südzucker ) newly founded Rhein- Neckar Air, which perform the flights on wet lease with two Dornier 328-110 from Munich charter airline MHS Aviation leaves.
Gliding
The gliding club Mannheim is one of the most active haul flight clubs in Germany. It flies in the first glider - Bundesliga and has repeatedly asked German and international champions.
Other Terms
The software company SAP and the company Bauhaus have stationed several business jets at the Mannheim airport. A significant proportion of aircraft movements in Mannheim is generated by training flights. In addition to several smaller clubs is especially the LGM ( airline Mannheim), a flight school that offers, among other courses for aspiring airline transport pilot license and professional helicopter pilots, one of the main users of the airport. The rescue helicopter Christoph 53 of the German Air Rescue is also stationed at the City Airport Mannheim. Two companies offer sightseeing flights and training on gyrocopters ( gyroplanes ). In addition, Aero Business Charter offered on charter flights from Mannheim.
Gastronomy
In the main building of the airport there is a small bar where drinks and snacks are available. Directly opposite the main building there is a larger restaurant with beer garden.
Transport links
300 meters from the airport is the stop Neuostheim the rnv. From there, the tram line 5 to Weinheim via the Mannheim Centre or to Heidelberg, the line 6 to Ludwigshafen on the Mannheim Centre as well as the line 9 to Mannheim main station. Moreover, there operate from the number 50 bus in the northern and southern parts of the city and the bus line 45 to the south Rheinau.
The nearest motorway junction is Mannheim- Neckarau the A656.
There is ample parking for cars at the airport there in the car park next to the terminal (additional fee ) and free of charge on the large open area between the two restaurants and the terminal, so that one of his car entering the airport building just a few steps.
History
The airfield was opened in Mannheim in 1926 with a start and runway of grass in Mannheim- Neuostheim. Founded in 1924 the Baden - Palatinate air traffic AG, headquartered in Mannheim, which was renamed in the Baden - Palatinate Lufthansa in 1926, offered regular services to, the Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Baden -Baden, Villingen, Freiburg and Basel had approached. After a co-operation with Lufthansa was received, were added Hamburg and Berlin in 1927. 1927 Mannheim counted among the most frequently flown to airfields Lufthansa. After the air traffic rapidly from 2,024 passengers in 1930 increased to 11,600 in 1937 and the place in the meantime Airport Mannheim - Ludwigshafen - Heidelberg was renamed, the flight operations during the Second World War came to a standstill.
The place in 1945 was occupied by the U.S. Army and in 1953 released for gliding operation. 1957 Sport powered aircraft have been approved and a year later Mannheim again received the official status of the landing site with two grass runways with 460 and 615 meters in length. The number of aircraft movements rose rapidly. 1962 While 1959 still 6,236 gliders and motor 11,421 aircraft movements were counted, this rose to 6,220 or 21,854. 1973 extended to 1000 meters runway was built with solid lining. A year later there were 44,000 passengers. In parallel, the city planned a regional airport in Mannheim- Sandhofen. After this was too large resistors are not built because, you invested in the 1990s, again in Neuostheim. 1991 paved runway was extended to 1186 meters, three halls renovated, new targeted six halls and built a new terminal. As part of this investment also a new parking garage was built next to the new terminal. In addition, an instrument approach ( localizer / DME ) has been installed. The number of passengers increased from 78,000 in 1988 to almost 200,000 in 2006. In 2007 another larger aircraft hangar on the eastern edge of the airfield was rebuilt and demolished an old building in the center of the airfield and replaced by a new, more modern and larger, .
Discussion about the future of the City Airport Mannheim
On the political and economic level of the Rhine -Neckar a discussion on the future of the City Airport is out for some time. The main argument against a future continued operation is the safety deficiencies and the related incident on 19 March 2008, in which a Dornier 328 from Cirrus Airlines on landing overshot the runway. As possible alternatives not currently freely passed for civil aviation runway in the Coleman Barracks and, where appropriate, to be extended Speyer airfield be called again and again.