Stuttgart Airport

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Stuttgart Airport
Flughafen Stuttgart

IATA: STR – ICAO: EDDS
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH
Location Stuttgart, Germany
Elevation AMSL 1,276 ft / 389 m
Coordinates 48°41′27″N 009°13′23″E / 48.69083, 9.22306
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07/25 10,974 3,345 Concrete

Stuttgart Airport (in German Flughafen Stuttgart, formerly Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen) (IATA: STR, ICAO: EDDS) is an international airport located approximately 8 miles (13 km) south of the Stuttgart city centre, Germany.

The airport is situated on the boundary between the three cities Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Stuttgart and Filderstadt. It is the 7th most important airport in Germany and the main airport of the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg with 10,109,425 passengers in 2006.

It is an important hub for the German low cost carriers Germanwings and TUIfly; and global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking.

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The airport was built in 1939 to replace Böblingen airport. In 1945 the US Air Force took over the airport and the US Army still maintains a helicopter base on the southern side of the airport which it shares with the Baden-Württemberg State Police helicopter wing. The police helicopter wing falls under the control of Stuttgart Police Department and has six modern helicopters based at Stuttgart and two in Söllingen. In 1948 the airport was returned to German authorities.

The airport was expanded after World War II. The runway was extended to 1,800 metres in 1948, then to 2,250 metres in 1961 and finally to 3,345 metres in 1996.

The original 1938 terminal was finally replaced in 2004 and there are now four terminals with a maximum capacity of approximately 12 million passengers.

Stuttgart Airport can be easily reached within 30 minutes from the city's central railway station using the Stuttgart S-Bahn S2 or S3. The airport is located right next to the Autobahn A8 that connects the cities of Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Munich.

  • Germanwings (Ankara, Athens, Barcelona, Bastia, Beograd, Berlin-Schönefeld, Budapest, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Krakow, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Moscow-Vnukovo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Split, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb)(A319)

  • Air Berlin (Alicante, Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg,Hurghada, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Vienna)(A319; A320; BAe146-200/300; B737-300/700/800
  • Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)(A318; A319; A320; B737-500; F70/100)
  • Alitalia
  • Blue Air (Arad, Bucharest-Aurel Vlaicu)(B737-300/400)
  • Carpatair (Timişoara)(SAAB2000)
  • Cirrus Airlines (Münster/Osnabrück and some Holiday Destinations in Europe and Northafrica)(B737-800; DO328)
  • Condor (Ankara, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Tenerife-South)(A320; B757-300; B767-300)
  • Czech Airlines (Prague)(ATR42/72; B737-500)
  • Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)(B767-300)
  • Finnair
  • Flybe (Birmingham)(ERJ145)
  • Hamburg International (Bodrum, Kos,Pristina [starts 3 November 2007])(B737-700)
  • Jat Airways (Belgrade)(ATR42/72; B737-300)
  • KLM (Amsterdam)(B737-300/400)
  • LTU International (Antalya, Catania, Faro, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kerkyra, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Samos, Thessaloniki, Varna)(A320; A321)
  • Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki)(B737-300/400)
  • TUIfly (Agadir, Antalya, Araxos, Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Bodrum, Cagliari, Catania, Chania, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Heraklion, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Kerkyra, Kos, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Leipzig/Halle, Luxor, Mahon, Malaga, Manchester, Marrakech, Marsa Alam, Milan-Bergamo, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallora, Pisa, Porto, Rhodos, Rijeka, Rimini, Sharm el Sheikh, Stockholm-Arlanda, Sylt [restarts July 2008], Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Valencia, Venice)(B737-300/500/700/800)
  • Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir)(A319; A320; B737-500/600)
  • XL Airways Germany (Fuertevemtura, Pristina)(A320, B737-800)

Airport Interior

Terminal 1

Stuttgart tower

Waiting for take-off clearance

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