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Hamburg Airport , known in German as ''Flughafen Hamburg'', is a major
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in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany. Since November 2016 the airport has been christened after the former German chancellor
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. It is located north of the city centre in the Fuhlsbüttel quarter and serves as a hub for Eurowings and focus city for Condor. It was formerly named Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport, a name still sometimes used. Hamburg Airport is the fifth-busiest of Germany's commercial airports measured by the number of passengers and counted 17,231,687 passengers and 156,388 aircraft movements in 2018.Traffic Figures
– Official website
As of July 2017, it featured flights to more than 130 mostly European metropolitan and leisure destinations as well as two long-haul routes to
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and
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. The airport is equipped to handle wide-bodied aircraft including the
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. Hamburg's other airport, Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport where the
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factory is located, is not open to commercial traffic.


History


Early years

The airport was opened in January 1911 from private funding by the ''Hamburger Luftschiffhallen GmbH (HLG)'', making it the oldest international airport in the world to still be in operation and the second oldest airport in the country after
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. The original site comprised 45 hectares, and during its early days was primarily used for
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flights. In 1913 the site was expanded to 60 hectares, the northern part being used for airship operations while the southeast area was used for fixed-wing aircraft. During the First World War, the
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was used extensively by the German military, until it was destroyed by fire in 1916. During the British occupation, beginning in 1945, the airport was given its current name, Hamburg Airport. It was used extensively during the Berlin Airlift in 1948 as a staging area, as the northern air corridor went between Hamburg and
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. When
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launched passenger operations in 1955, Hamburg was used as a hub until Frankfurt Airport took over due to growth constraints posed by the location in the city.
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still maintains a large presence at the airport due to the early activities of the airline at the airport. In October 1959
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was the first Airline to start scheduled service with Jet aircraft to Hamburg, the routing was
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-
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- Hamburg - Copenhagen flown with
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. In the 1960s discussions began with the aim of moving the airport to Heidmoor near Kaltenkirchen. Among the reasons cited were limited expansion possibilities, capacity constraints due to crossing runways, and noise. Lufthansa had introduced the
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in 1960, which made more noise than previous piston-engined aircraft. The plans were dropped, owing to bad experiences in other cities where airports had been moved far from city centres, and to Lufthansa's move to Frankfurt. In 1980
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started flights to Hamburg, originating from
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with a Stop in
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. In 1981 they introduced a second flight from
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via Copenhagen to Hamburg. All flights were operated with
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aircraft. After Northwest Orient received traffic rights to serve Frankfurt they discontinued all flights to Hamburg from early 1985. In April 1985
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started a daily non-stop flight from
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to Hamburg, operated with
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. This was Pan Am's first non-stop service from the US to Hamburg. Starting February 1986 Pan Am also used their new long-range
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on the route which made the New York to Hamburg route becoming one of the first
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routes across the atlantic. In 1988
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suspended their flights from Tokyo to Hamburg after serving the route for 24 years, one year later in 1989 also
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suspended all flights between Hamburg and Tokyo after almost 30 years of service, which was the last flight from Hamburg to the far east. In May 1989
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started a daily service from
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via
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to Hamburg and Delta Air Lines started a daily service from
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via London Gatwick to Hamburg. While American Airlines suspended their flight already after one year, due to aircraft shortage after the purchase of Eastern Air Lines South America routes, Delta upgraded the Atlanta flight to a daily non-stop service with a Tag-On to Berlin-Tegel from May 1991 and also served New York JFK - Hamburg from November 1991 after taking over Pan Am's North Atlantic Route Network.


Development since the 1990s

In March 1990
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launched a daily flight from Hamburg to Newark and added another non-stop flight to
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in 1992, which was only served for one summer season and then suspended together with the Newark flight in late 1992, which left Delta Air Lines alone in this market with their
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and
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flights. From early 1993 to late 1994 South African Airways operated flights from Cape Town via Johannesburg and
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to Hamburg. In the mid 90s Delta Air Lines experienced financial troubles and had to consolidate their fleet and route network, Hamburg was among the cities in Europe that were cut completely in late 1995. From 1996
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started summer seasonal flights to Hamburg, until their bankruptcy in late 2001 they served
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to Hamburg via Halifax and
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to Hamburg via Calgary. In May 1998 Delta Air Lines relaunched daily non-stop flights between Atlanta and Hamburg, however this flight only operated until early 2000. A combination of a then too large Business Class in their
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aircraft and the foundation of the
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alliance made Delta cancel this service again. Already in the early 1990s, the airport began an extensive modernisation process. The plan, called ''HAM21'', included a new 500m pier extension, a new terminal (Terminal 1), and the Airport Plaza between Terminals 1 and 2, which includes a consolidated security area. The airport's shareholders are the City of Hamburg and
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. In May 2005 airTransat started a seasonal flight between
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and Hamburg. In June the same year
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started a daily non-stop flight between Newark and Hamburg,
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started its then daily
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to Hamburg service in March 2006. In 2011
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added Hamburg to their route network. However, due to the lack of traffic rights they could only add a Tag-On to existing
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to Frankfurt flights. The flight initially operated once a week only, was then increased to twice a week later. The stop in Frankfurt and the low frequency did not appeal to business travelers enough so China Eastern suspended the flight in 2013. The
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Hotel Hamburg Airport was added in 2009, combined with new roadside access and a station and connection to the city's rapid transit system ( Hamburg S-Bahn). In January 2016,
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announced it was leaving Hamburg Airport entirely due to increasing competition from low-cost carriers. While the summer seasonal routes would not resume, all remaining destinations were cancelled by March 2016. A few weeks later, it was officially announced that the airport was to be named after
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, a former Senator of Hamburg and
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of West Germany. On 10 November 2016, the airport was renamed ''Hamburg Airport Helmut Schmidt''. In October 2016,
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announced the closure of its maintenance facilities at the airport, due to cost-cutting and restructuring measures. In June 2017, easyjet announced it would close its base at Hamburg by March 2018 as part of a refocus on other base airports. While over half of the former services were cut, several routes remained in place as they are served from other easyJet bases. In October 2018,
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announced the end of its seasonal service to Newark, leaving the airport with only three long-haul routes, all to the
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and no direct services to
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. The route was inaugurated by
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back in 2005 and switched from year-round to seasonal in 2017 Also in October 2018
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switched one of the two daily flights from Dubai to
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-service. This was the first ever commercial A380-service to Hamburg. The second daily flight remains operated by
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aircraft. In January 2020,
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also closed its Hamburg base due to airport operating costs, late delivery of the Boeing 737-Max aircraft and its general downsizing of its German operations.


Facilities

Hamburg Airport originally covered . Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to . The main
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covers and features 54 parking positions; the passenger terminals provide 17 jet bridges. As of July 2016, the airport had only three routes served with Wide-body aircraft; however, during that year three gates were upgraded with double-jet bridges to provide faster boarding and de-boarding for large planes like the
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. The runways, taxiways and aprons can accommodate large aircraft, including the Airbus A380.
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replaced one
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with A380 aircraft on the route. On 28 May 2018, Emirates announced it would commence services from Dubai International Airport to Hamburg with the A380.


Terminals

Hamburg has two terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, connected by the Airport Plaza and the baggage claim area that extends through the lower levels of all three buildings. These three buildings were designed by Gerkan, Marg and Partners. Both terminals have a high, curved ceiling designed to emulate the shape of a wing. In all buildings level 1 is the departure level, while level 0 is arrivals. Hamburg Airport offers 12 baggage claim belts on the arrivals level. The Airport Plaza hosts the central security check as well as shops, restaurants, lounges and other service facilities. It houses the S-Bahn station (suburban railway) and was completed in December 2008.


Terminal 1

Terminal 1 was completed in 2005 and is highly similar to Terminal 2 in terms of design and size. It has numerous energy and water saving features like rain water collection for use in restrooms and a ''ThermoLabyrinth'', which uses ground temperature to help regulate the building's temperature and reduce loads on the air conditioning systems. Terminal 1 houses most of the airlines including those from the
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alliances.


Terminal 2

Terminal 2 (despite its name, the older facility) was completed in 1993. It houses
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with its
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partners, amongst others.


Airlines and destinations

The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Hamburg Airport:


Statistics


Passengers and movements


Busiest routes


Ground transportation


Train

The airport is around north of Hamburg city centre and south of Norderstedt in the borough of Fuhlsbüttel.
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service S1, operated by
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operates every ten minutes between the airport, Ohlsdorf, Wandsbek,
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, Altona, Blankenese and Wedel. It is part of the
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fare organisation offering tickets for all modes of public transportation in Hamburg. Going towards the airport, S1 trains
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at Ohlsdorf station, with one portion going to the airport and the other going to Poppenbüttel.


Car

By road, the airport can be reached from Federal Motorway A7 using the state motorway B433, which is the third ring road. Motorists from the east of the city must drive through Hamburg.


Bus

The airport is also linked by some local bus routes to nearby areas as well as regular coach services to the cities of Kiel and Neumünster.


Trivia

* Hamburg Airport is the inspiration for the world's largest miniature airport, named ''Knuffingen Airport'', part of
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. * From 1999 until 2021, a former
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was on public display on the airport's grounds. In February 2021, the airport authority announced its demolition due to cost cutting measures. It was originally operated by Lufthansa from 1960 to 1975 and gifted to the airport after being used as a training aircraft.


See also

*
Transport in Germany As a densely populated country in a central location in Europe and with a developed economy, Germany has a dense transport infrastructure. One of the first limited-access highway systems in the world to have been built, the extensive German A ...
*
List of airports in Germany This is a list of airports in Germany, sorted by location. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east ...
* Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport


References


External links



Official website
* * {{Authority control Airports established in 1911 Airports in Hamburg Buildings and structures in Hamburg-Nord Gerkan, Marg and Partners buildings 1911 establishments in Germany Helmut Schmidt